Hackster's Need for Swede 😁

[hackster]

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[SSLance]

Sounds like a good time, happy the trip turned out successful. I'm sure your car got a lot of attention there and opened some eyes.

[rustomatic]

Glad to hear most things worked okay! A big part of the track day experience for me has been getting away with the dumb ideas that I've applied to the car over the years. If they worked, there was success. For a new build and three days of beating, you've got a pretty good result!

[WSSix]

Congrats on the successful trip and performance of the car!

[WILWAXU]

This thing is even better in person!

Great build!

[DBasher]

First picture I’ve seen where the carpet doesn’t look like a soiled diaper, it actually looks good.

Looking forward to seeing this thing whiz past me in a few weeks!

[hackster]

Originally Posted by SSLance

Sounds like a good time, happy the trip turned out successful. I'm sure your car got a lot of attention there and opened some eyes.

It was a killer time, lots of people commented on the quality of the build on the car.

Originally Posted by rustomatic

Glad to hear most things worked okay! A big part of the track day experience for me has been getting away with the dumb ideas that I've applied to the car over the years. If they worked, there was success. For a new build and three days of beating, you've got a pretty good result!

Hahah, yeah I was pretty impressed so far. Going to have to spend some time working on the driver now =)

Originally Posted by WSSix

Congrats on the successful trip and performance of the car!

Thanks man!!

Originally Posted by WILWAXU

This thing is even better in person!

Great build!

Thats awesome, and some nice pics. Thank you for the props.

Originally Posted by DBasher

First picture I’ve seen where the carpet doesn’t look like a soiled diaper, it actually looks good.

Looking forward to seeing this thing whiz past me in a few weeks!

I should rename it the soiled diaper =)

Track day here on the 17th...if its still together after that Ill be up on the 24th.

Back home now, had been planning this trip for quite some time and it didnt dissapoint. All in all I did a little under 3,000 miles in 11 days. Portland to Davis, Thousand Oaks, El Segundo, Fontana, Vegas, Twin Falls, Boise and home. This is my first road trip with this tow rig. It did awesome. Comfortable, awesome sound system and one of the last 6 speed manual trucks to ever roll off a Ram assembly line.



For building a car from just a shell I think it did pretty good for the little shakedown time I had.

Couple issues I did run into.

I had a coolant leak under the dash the entire time. I tightened up the hose clamps in Davis at the Motel 6 Parking Lot but that didnt cure it so I just dealt with it. Once I got home I tore it apart (That afternoon) and found that I didnt quite have the hose pushed on all the way, and also didnt have the hose clamp all the way on the hose. So pushed the hose on all the way, got the clamp on properly and it seems as though I fixed the leak.

I have a gas leak somewhere. The filler neck is all messed up where the nozzle goes, so that is part of it. On hard left turns it would spill fuel out of the filler neck and down the side of the car. Ill replace the filler neck with a good one (round opening instead of an egg shape). But there is still a fuel vapor inside the car all the time. I believe that something is leaking at the fuel tank so we are going to put the smoke machine on it and see what happens. Hope to mess with that this week or weekend.

It needs an alignment badly. The frontend has settled down quite a bit, it has a lot of toe and more negative camber than I think it should have. Will get ride height set again and go from there.

Steering wheel shake. At freeway speeds I have a shake in the steering wheel. I dont believe that its wheel and tire so I need to put a dial indicator on it and see what the runout is on the rotors and hubs. I am suspecting hubs as that is what was wrong on my last blue car.

All in all I had a killer time, I met some great new people, got to see some super cool cars and scenery along the way.







This one is for any of you that are curious about the handling. The car feels very, very planted, turn in is phenomenal even on the 275's. It is not super stiff on the road course or the auto cross but is quite stiff on the roads around town.

The front springs are 650 with a tender, rear springs are 450 with a tender. Front struts are JRZ RSOne's set to 5 clicks in from full soft in the front. Rear shocks are Ride tech Coilovers with 8 clicks in from full soft. I am running no rear bar, running a 25mm (I Believe) V8 drop bar in the front.

I think the only change I am going to make before my next track day is to try a 28mm non drop front bar. I would like to lower the back of the car a little more as well, but going to have to do even more rear fender work back there to do that.






Even used it to tow my buddy Scott back after his truck broke down on the poker run.



One last image just cause I love this shot!!

[SSLance]

Inside front looks pretty good for a strut car... I'd like to see less front roll (overall roll) and my prescription is a much stiffer front sway bar.

I'm also wondering if you are on the bumpstops there? Maybe put some O-rings or even slide the shock bumpers down if you have them, run it and see if it's bottoming out. Nothing wrong with hitting bottom as long as it's doing it softly and not shocking the tires when it does.

[hackster]

Originally Posted by SSLance

Inside front looks pretty good for a strut car... I'd like to see less front roll (overall roll) and my prescription is a much stiffer front sway bar.

I'm also wondering if you are on the bumpstops there? Maybe put some O-rings or even slide the shock bumpers down if you have them, run it and see if it's bottoming out. Nothing wrong with hitting bottom as long as it's doing it softly and not shocking the tires when it does.

Exactly my thoughts!!! Stiffer front bar is the only thing I really want to change at this point. I am a long ways away from bump stops or bottoming out the shock. We shortened the struts and I have a lot of uptravel in them before either coil bind or bottoming out, like 5" of travel in the fronts.

Appreciate the input from you Lance.

Sean

[DBasher]

The event on the 17th, is it at PIR or ORP? I’ll be heading south to Thunderhill...or maybe Sonoma...not real sure yet. Either way I’m coming through Friday on my way south.