Finishing the racecar blog. Yes?

[Horsewidower]

Well, Shad must have figured out the problem. He left me a message that he'd run out of injector (35s) and to bring back the 96s. Hopefully I can give everyone a great report tomorrow.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Well it's coming home on Friday. Fix the transmission, mount the harness, nut and bolt and away we go. Anyone know where I can buy input shaft preload shims?

Bob

[Pat_in_L.A.]

Hanlon?

[Horsewidower]

Mike: Thanks for the offer, I don't know what I need yet in thickness because the transmission is still in the car. It works in 1st and 3rd gear, pops out of 2nd and 4th. I didn't set the preload when I changed to the Tilton bearing retainer.

Shad is using 1st and 3rd on the dyno. Hopefully its not killing the rest of the tranny.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Will do. No bad noises yet so cross your fingers.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Not even some crocodile tongues? Man you are tough, but right on.

Ordered the shims from the site you referred. Thanks.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Well, after many delays, the car ran around under its own power in the parking lot of Shad's place.

Looks like we are finally back on track. Now to fix the tranny problem and finish preparing the car.

Bob

[8T6 SVO]

[Horsewidower]

My sentiments exactly!! Thanks.

[Raven855]

Well, after many delays, the car ran around under its own power in the parking lot of Shad's place.
Bob

Is that w/ the 96s and the individual coils? Fantastic work by the way!

[Horsewidower]

Its with the 96s and the msd box, we burnt up the individual coils when the battery charger charged the system to 19v. We'll go back to the individual coils after we run it on the track and get set to do the race tune. Fitz sent me some chevy coils that he uses and told me about the '95 ranger cam sensor. We'll use that system eventually. It currently has a safe mild tune and we are running on the wastegate. Pretty mild at the moment.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Down to the nits.

Well, our goal is to get on the track in the next 60 days. Roger is coming over tomorrow and we'll survey the pick-up work that needs to get done. I picked up a nasty chest cold and threw out my back with all the coughing so things have slowed down.

I picked up a bigger odyssey battery in order to make sure we can fire this cold-blooded beast. We've got a lot of heat shielding to place and safety wiring to do. Rog might take the time to mount the rear wing, a G-stream airfoil that is supposed to be good for 600 lbs of downforce at 100 mph.

Of course we still have the tranny problem, until we get that taken care of we won't be on track anywhere.

We've lined up a private airfield for initial runs, we'll probably setup a slalom course just to check the dynamic transitions.

This is the year we get on track, I can't wait.

Bob

[Horsewidower]

Sorry Mike, no don't have an inside camera mount.

Well, had a good day yesterday. Changed out the smaller Oydessey Battery for the next larger size. Roger dropped the tranny on the ground in record time. Geoff changed out the brake bias from the hydraulic knob type to the cable bias bar type. I hacked and coughed my way through repacking the front wheel bearings and we started nutting and bolting and rearranging the wiring to avoid heat and rub points. We set the car to ride height and hooked up the front sway bar. We'll get the tranny sorted this week and hopefully back in the car by Saturday.

Sunday Rog and I are going to Sears Point to watch the season opener for the Western States Endurance Series' 2 1/2 hour race. We'll grab a set of tires from AIM to put on the spare rims. We won't shave them, they'll be used for running around the airstrip and as wet tires.

Misc. pictures.

1&2 the boys in the jungle gym

3. spindle shot.

[Pat_in_L.A.]

We'll grab a set of tires from AIM to put on the spare rims.

Tell Ron that I said hello. Ask him to tell you some of our old racing stories.

Hey I recognize that front spindle. It's actually the stub of a floater rear axle tube. I have those on the front of my IS car.

[Horsewidower]

Will do Pat.

The spindles are probably overkill, but circle track stuff is cheap, and readily available. After waiting for 4-5 months for Griggs to send us our pre-paid dropped spindles, we canceled the order and redesigned with Sweet Spindles. That change rippled through the entire front suspension geometry, but we think it'll be better in the end.

Bob