nobody really “reacts” how you’d think…the majority of folks are just interested in the technical details. When the cutouts are open the exhaust note raises a lot of eyebrows as well.
Such a great car.
LOL - Go pick one up from autozone. On the bright side you can reuse that bolt!
Did it flying off do any damage?
Yikes.
If it cracked all the way through hopefully it will slide right off when you pull the bolt out. Setting up a puller on that would not be fun. Mini sledge
The hub fell right off after making some nasty noises. I don’t think anything was damaged, it may have scratched the pan cosmetically. These are a press fit so I don’t see it sliding right off 
ok, there is a happy ending to the story (not that kind of happy ending)
overnighted a balancer from Summit, but because it was ordered after the evening shipping deadline it wasn’t going to make it in time. There was just one left locally, so I snagged that and a 3 jaw puller. Unfortunately it was the same aftermarket brand as the one that failed, so I have to install the ACDelco that showed up too late. After scratching my head for a while figuring out how to pull her off, I came up with this:
Started here
Took a lot of wiggling to get everything lined up right
and off
I just so happened to have a spare Goodyear belt laying around so popped that on and buttoned it up:
just in time for this
and this
and most importantly this
The End
Nice! :tup:
Track Friday?
thinking about it. The insides of my rear tires are starting to cord though
And they all lived happily ever after…
Congrats man!
anyone else? I’m meeting @cougarspeed and @LZ1 at 430, gates open at 530
@EvoMR is meeting us and @fggnirish w/ @jt76 to watch/video. I think a certain turbotaxi will be up there tonight I heard.
visited the track Friday, had a great time.
Leisurely ride
Crisp, cool fall evening. I wanna say it was in the high 50s
First pass of the evening. I basically sidestepped the clutch at around 2000 rpm - this usually results in the least amount of wheelspin but some significant wheel hop. Once it hooks up it takes a second to come up into the powerband of the cam which kills my 60’
2nd pass, gave it a lot more revs (3200ish?) and slipped the clutch a bit. Still hopped but not as bad. Best pass yet since the motor swap. Back in June I ran 13.5 @ 111 in 95F ambient with 3.62 gears and a 27.25" tall tire, trapping at the top of 3rd! Since then I put shorter tires on it (25.7" tall) and swapped gears. I was expecting the gear swap from 3.62 to 3.91 to make it spin even more off the line and kill my trap speed but it looks like the motor doesn’t need to be spun to the moon to make power - the shift to 4th picked up a few mph. Not fast by modern car standards but fun enough for an old boat
I’m sure we can make some improvements here
Nothing broke, home in 1 piece
Always a good feeling driving to the track, having fun and driving it home. :tup:
I finished reassembling the coilovers last night. Sure enough, I had somehow accidentally assembled the driver’s side rear wrong the first time, placing the load bearing washer underneath the mount rather than on top. The mount had its brains beat in by the concentrated force and failed spectacularly. Brain fart I guess, but oh well. The symptoms were total lack of damping and that wheel bouncing so hard on large bumps that the wheel would leave the pavement (verified by GoPro under the car).
The brain fart washer:
This is supposed to be one pressed in piece, haha. Fell apart when removing from the unibody.
Permanently deformed on top from being smashed around
I took a quick peek at the driveshaft support bearing and it’s pretty beat up as well. Since there’s nothing stopping the shaft moving front to back, the soft rubber of the bearing has to hold the whole damn shaft…so, even with the quart of Window Weld that I gooped on there, it still separated. I’ll have to throw some pics up when I remove it.
Nice times. :tup: