RebekahsZ

How hard would it be to do a cowl-induction hood scoop in plexi (or whatever your material is)? I've always felt like it was a waste to put a hood over a beautiful engine...

Great video. When we get to the track next weekend, I hope you can spend some time teaching me how to deal with a spin as gracefully as possible. We may want to do that someplace with lots of room, like a skid pad if one is available. I want to start SUPER fundamental. You did a great job-can't wait for our session. I'm gonna try to turn down the sensitivity of my throttle pedal between now and then-I spent a lot of time going backwards at this weekend's autocross-seems it is set up like a hair-trigger currently. Pray for dry weather.

Good. Consider posting both motor and spray passes separately (so little weenie boys like me won't feel so bad)! I've got this work week (basically Thurs and Fri afternoons) to get my car ready for a trip to Atlanta Motorsports Park for a one-on-one day track day with Matt Isbell (CobraMatt). Gonna try to limit car work to a new (seatbelt) harness, mounting some Hoosier R6s and some clutch adjustment. My wife separated me from my car the following week for a trip to the beach-I'll just have time to load the car and get on the road to Atlanta on the day we get back. On the way to Atlanta, gonna try to stop by my tuner and get the sensitivity of my DBW pedal reduced-autocrossing was a nightmare this Saturday with the hair-trigger set up I have right now. The pedal is set on 100% fast and I can't keep the back of the car underneath me exiting corners. Shouldn't bother drag racing because I only use two pedal positions there (on and off). Super anxious to cheer you on!

Is that the RT mount area? I need to check that area myself. I still have a bang on slow turns that I have been blaming on the LSD. I may send my next set of axles to DSS. It may be from rebuilt but worn CVs. I think it was ZFan that put that idea in my head. ETs????

Any passes? I hope you make lots!

This is autocross. The LS swap has transformed this car from an autocross/street that drag races some to a drag/street car that autocrosses some. I had a lot less trouble keeping the car on course last month. The changes that have been made since then were just in the tune to allow more compression braking. I'm not sure if the tuner also increased my throttle pedal linearity-he did comment to me that it is set at 100% fast. That combination of changes may be making car more abrupt and harder for me (pretty novice autocrosser) to handle. This was an asphalt course, the last one was concrete. Maybe I just had too much coffee or got too cocky.

I'm so sorry. Even though I'm not at your level, I know the feeling. You have so much time invested.....best machine on the forum.

I also had a problem years ago when I bought my front pads from one company and my shoes from another. The rears had a much higher coefficient of friction and the car wanted to swap ends when the rears locked earlier than the front. But pumping up the pedal wouldn't affect that so that's probably not your problem. Just trying to help.

Fluid shoots out of my reservoirs if the little strainer basket is not in-that's normal. Make sure you didn't leave them out. Did you bleed the master? Sounds like air in front brakes portion of master. Also, I think the front and back portions of the master cylinder swapped locations at some point in the production years. Make sure that didn't change from you're old MC to your new MC. There should be a F and R stamped on the side of the MCs. Haven't talked about check valves. You want no check valve in the front. You want one in back if drums, none if discs. I bleed the MC by routing a clear tube from the bleeder to the reservoir so it doesn't consume fluid except that volume replacing any air. If you keep the hose under water(fluid), you dont have to open and close the bleeder as your friend pumps. This is still a 2-person job. Bleed the master again if all else looks good. Then go back to each wheel. Purists will disagree, but if this is a daily driver, you can reuse your fluid if it is clean from the multiple bleedings. I hate brakes too. The backs are still drums, right? Subscribed. I feel your pain.

Holy shift! This thing is a handful. Still on street tires and the car is super tail happy (used to push like a dozer). Had a national champion drive it and he had me soften rear shocks to 2 and drop tire pressure to 24. Front shocks are on 3 and 30 psi in front tires. I can at least keep it on the track now. I'm running in third gear in order to keep car pointed straight ahead. Got a noise warning when pro drove it. He was in 2d and was good enough to wrap it up on the straights. Thired gear is helping with the sound too. It was not this twitchy last month but I had some compression braking programmed in and that may be inducing lots of trailing oversteer. With the L24 I used to floor this thing regularly without concern. Not anymore. Next tune change is to slow the go pedal down some.

No, sorry, I don't have anything to trade except money. I'm ready if you want to do a sale. I'm about to pull the trigger on new tonight or tomorrow, so let me know quick.

Swappin' tires is all it takes to change from drag to autocross. Racin' in the rain AGAIN!

Everytime something like this happens to me (like everytime I work on it) I want so sell my car or take a hammer to it. Then I drive it.......hang in there, I'm right there with you!

Try 8X1.25 with a length of 3/4". I'm not totally positive. I usually go to the hardware store and buy a one bolt of a couple of different sizes then go back for the rest of them when I find the one that fits. I'd buy a 8X1.25 and an 8X1.50. I don't think it is big enough to be a 10M.

Trying to post my latest 1/8-mile timeslip and I can't seem to get it done. The error message first said I had to post an image of my timeslip. I shot a photo of it with my phone and sent it to myself with my email, then used MS Office to reduce the size to 25%, but hybridz still says it is too big. Usually, in a regular post, I can post pictures without reducing them any-I haven't had any problems with that. Any pointers?

One day of autocross = 1/2 tank of gas. 15 passes at strip = 1/2 tank of gas. I just keep it full of 93. I'm more bothered about how the mileage of my truck doubles (twice as bad) when I'm towing. And that flickering check engine light...

Yeah, I might if I knew of anybody else close by that was so well equipped. Maybe he's just shy.

No that would be wheels only. I am tripping over tires. I have street, autox, roadrace and drag tires.My garage looks like my wifes closet:lots of shoes. You will see me selling some 15" wheels and/or roadrace tires soon.

PM me.

Is you rear suspension toed-in or toed-out?

This is only my opinion, so check with somebody like johnc, but I think progressive springs are a gimmick. At least with every progressive spring I have seen, the weak end is so weak that they collapse with just the weight of the car as if they aren't even there. Then, you have fewer active coils, so the spring coil binds and you lose total suspension travel. Perhaps if the soft end of the spring wasn't SO soft, but they all are. That is why one poster suggested just cutting them off. I had some and they sucked. Went to a standard style spring and it was great.

Oops! I'm on the road traveling, I thought perhaps my last reply was lost in cyberspace!

They look nice, but I would hate to be responsible for cleaning them. Use ceramic pads for sure.

I dunno. I think he is kind of stealth on his craft. For example, we talked a little about cams and who's cam he likes. He says he gets everything done custom from a cam grinder and wouldn't discuss any specs. He said he could save me a lot of money that way. If I ever do a cam, I'm gonna do something pretty aggressive rather than fooling around with something mild. Perhaps he will be different when I schedule an appointment and have cash in hand.

They don't look like they would do the job, but they do. I have never seen or heard of anybody breaking or bending them. Jnjdragracing carries his front end half way down the track on them!