Stop that^, I wanna buy coilovers this year.... you bastige, with your good ideas.... *sigh, HAHA
AWESOME!! Thtas just simply amazing bro!! Congrats on finally getting the Cavy where you want and then some!!!
Looks great, and I agree. I like the wheels from the side, but from an angle. not sure.
Still great though.
PRND321 Till I DIE
Old Motor: 160whp & 152ft/lbs, 1/4 Mile 15.4 @88.2
M45 + LD9 + 4T40-E, GO GO GO
damn i can get over how clean this j is
It isnt clean, it is mean. Clean would be a stock LSS exterior with a nice set of wheels.
But i digress. In a few hours i leave for one of the biggest auto-x's of the year in PA. 2 whole days of beating the piss out of the cav at an airport. And i mean beating the piss out of it. The beating a redheaded step child gets after talking back to the drunk alcoholic dad is going to look tame compared to what i am going to do to the cav.
dude this car is clean mean all the above
Would someone post the rear bracket dimensions? I saw that there was discussion about it however no one ever posted it.
Tinkles(KGM) wrote:It isnt clean, it is mean. Clean would be a stock LSS exterior with a nice set of wheels.
But i digress. In a few hours i leave for one of the biggest auto-x's of the year in PA. 2 whole days of beating the piss out of the cav at an airport. And i mean beating the piss out of it. The beating a redheaded step child gets after talking back to the drunk alcoholic dad is going to look tame compared to what i am going to do to the cav.
Lol, now i understand why you wanted to be somewhat conservative!
Sorry i missed this thread - I put all the log/tune info in
THIS thread.
Neat! Glad to see things are coming together, looks like a fun ride!
Tinkles(KGM) wrote:It isnt clean, it is mean. Clean would be a stock LSS exterior with a nice set of wheels.
But i digress. In a few hours i leave for one of the biggest auto-x's of the year in PA. 2 whole days of beating the piss out of the cav at an airport. And i mean beating the piss out of it. The beating a redheaded step child gets after talking back to the drunk alcoholic dad is going to look tame compared to what i am going to do to the cav.
Sad im missing cone killer this year. Good luck!
Well i just got home about an hour ago. I had stopped to see ^^^^^this guy^^^^^ for a bit since i was passing threw his town and havent seen him in a bit. But some highlights from the weekend:
- I won my class both days, but it was a hollow victory because my only opponent for Saturday was a no show and yesterday(Sunday) i only had a lowly Civic in my class.
- The car made some new sounds that i *should* look into. Im pretty sure i know what is going on and it is nothing that affects street driving it.
- It didnt blow up.
- It seems to drive easier on "B" roads than highway, probably because of the camber.
- I defiantly didnt bring a big enough set of balls to drive it. I should have been going WOT threw a few of the slaloms that i was only ~75% throttle in.
- The brakes are epic. I was braking ALOT later and harder. A few times the car would start to slide, but it was very controllable.
- Oh and it didnt blow up.
I have vids that i'll go threw tomorrow.
Saw the news on FB - congrats man!!
So are the noises from the drive train or the suspension? Were you concerned that it would blow up? It ran so damned clean while tuning it
nice updates.....glad to hear you are enjoying it
RIP JESSE GERARD.....Youll always be in my thoughts and prayers...
oldskool wrote:
So are the noises from the drive train or the suspension? Were you concerned that it would blow up? It ran so damned clean while tuning it
One is a squeal in the HARD right hand corners and i am seeing different wear patterns on my Left front rotor(where the sound is coming from). Im going to try to re-torquing the wheels since i should anyway. My thought is that the wheel might be alittle loose and causing the wheel/rotor to skew and touch the caliper bracket under extreme conditions.
The 2nd initially sounded like extremely loud rod knock, but didnt travel with the RPMs. But when i was trying to listen to it i had shifter carts warming up, cars running on the track, and a open header L67 powered Lotus kit car idling next to me. The car made it home just fine with no issues or weird sounds, so i am not THAT worried. I am not worried about the tune, i have confidence in your abilities. But i would not be surprised if the wrist pins/rods/pistons threw in the towel this year.
Probably a good time to just double check all your suspension and mounts are torqued down.
Paying someone to install parts and bragging about it being fast, is like watching someone bang your wife and being proud to raise their kids.
Hopefully she's ok - rod knock usually doesn't just go away right? It's a good sign that the noise didn't persist on the way home.
My 1st thought was rod knock, but now im starting to think it is just something else rattling with my exhaust.
Ok, i finally got ONE video uploaded. Youtube is being dumb.
Day one of the Cone Killer Classic. My 3rd run which was my fastest for the day. You'll hear a yell during the video. That's me, the rear of the cav was alittle soft and i did a 4 wheel slide by accident. I enjoyed it.
I stiffened the dampeners in the rear 2 clicks for Sunday and that helped out quite a bit.
Damn that looks like fun man! I REALLY wish I could have done some auto-xing prior to taking my car off the road.
I feel like I would get lost in the cones auto x ing! Lol.
Man I'd love to have an event with a layout that big. Looks like a hell of a good time.
Finally the 2nd video.
Cone Killer Classic - 2nd day. My personal FTD, but i hit a cone in the beginning so they added 2 seconds. 10th run of the weekend, 5th run for the day, last run.
The smoke is just tire smoke. The brakes are amazing.
Mrs Jazer wrote:I feel like I would get lost in the cones auto x ing! Lol.
The region that runs this event is notorious for over-coning the course. Usually there is a much clearer path with fewer cones.
Awesome, great runs, definitely favorit-ing those on youtube for car club nights at my house! Always need badass eco's to shove in other car owners faces.
