It works!!

It's here! My new Rankin Dog Box! well, almost new. This thing is heavy, way heavy. It better be as strong as it appears. Going in the car this weekend if I can find an assistant to help me bench press it in the car. Went by the shop to find the status of my blown up trans, well the found out that they left a shim out that keeps the front set of needle bearings in check, well without that shim they checked themselves right apart. they are gonna eat it and in a big way, but that cant fix the fact that I missed the whole rest of the weekend at the track. It's gonna cost them about $600 in parts plus the labor to put it back together. oh well, that's racin

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Glad the splitter seems to be working out for you.

I don't know if it works or not, it def took some top speed away, I didn't get enough laps with it to see if I could pic up speed in the corners. At least it didn't hit anything and it didn't fall off at speed!

So Grassroots Motorsports offered a wear your helment to work challenge today I took a few pics. Since I don't work on Fridays I took a short stroll on my Beach Cruiser down to the Beach.

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Well I decided to pull the motor before I go to Daytona in Nov to change out the lower end bearings for insurance. So I was talking to Improved Racing about Oil Control as they just released an new trap door insert for the CTSV Pan. Guess what? They want to come on board and sponsor me to promote that new product! My first "real" sponsor! so I'll be doing a write up along the way on how it works out for me, stay tuned...

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Got the motor out this weekend and set up in the garage for the tear down. Good thing I decided to do this because I found a lot of metalish stuff in the oil when I drained it. Got the new stuff in from http://www.improvedracing.com/ on Friday :ups: Here's a few updates:

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How does the Improving Racing bit adhere to the V pan?

Are there bolt holes in the pan for it?

Well I got the most of the motor disassembled now, I'm not really happy with what I found inside. The rods have a lot of "slop" in them, I mean I can turn the crank a couple of degrees before the rods move and you can see the crank moving inside the rod caps. I'm pretty sure it's toast and needs a complete rebuild other than me just slapping some bearings in it putting it back together. I did find a very well priced LS6 shortblock close by that only has 40K miles on it, so if it checks out I'm going to use that. After I pulled the pan and saw what was swirling around in there It was an easy call! I can't believe this thing was still running and not making any knocking noise!

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I'm gonna take a little time and clean up some of this too while It easy to get to.

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As for the Baffle, here it is beside the Oilpan, you remove the factory tray and bolt the baffled insert back in it's place. the second shot is upside down with all the trap doors opened. Nice little piece! I also got a crank scraper to go with it. I'll post pics when I do the install.

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Nice little set up. Congrats on the sponsorship. :thumbsup: