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Old 11-27-2009, 02:15 PM
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Todd how much room do you have left by the fuel lines. Are you making your own end links?
Who painted your car?
Not much, I have two 1/2 hard lines plumbed through that area. The plan is to use brackets on the bottom side of the frame and a corvette c5 style end link or similar. I'll post it up when I have it all figured out. Prodigy Customs painted my car. It's a really good driver. Nice enough to where people say it's super straight and nice and deep. It's not as nice as Rodgers truck but it's perfect for me. It's driven really hard and looks great.
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Old 11-30-2009, 07:55 PM
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Not much, I have two 1/2 hard lines plumbed through that area. The plan is to use brackets on the bottom side of the frame and a corvette c5 style end link or similar. I'll post it up when I have it all figured out. Prodigy Customs painted my car. It's a really good driver. Nice enough to where people say it's super straight and nice and deep. It's not as nice as Rodgers truck but it's perfect for me. It's driven really hard and looks great.
Todd did you look into Hotchkis end links for C5, Maybe Im wrong but I do believe there shorter. If your looking into an offset type let me know.

From the video it looks like you had a blast over the holiday. Next time Im there for the International Builders Show Ill have to look you up.
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Todd did you look into Hotchkis end links for C5, Maybe Im wrong but I do believe there shorter. If your looking into an offset type let me know.

From the video it looks like you had a blast over the holiday. Next time Im there for the International Builders Show Ill have to look you up.
I did notice the hotchkis ends but won't know what I need length wise until I get my bracket mounted. I bet they end up working just fine. Give me a hollar next time you're in town.
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I did notice the hotchkis ends but won't know what I need length wise until I get my bracket mounted. I bet they end up working just fine. Give me a hollar next time you're in town.
Builders show is 2nd week in Jan already. Considering I was just out that way it may not happen unless the little lady is looking for a mini vac.

Whats up with the knock back issues. Seems like you have tried to correct a ton of items already and it still isnt all good. What were Paytons suggestions.

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Just lucky I guess. It's not as rare are you think. There are 4 fixed calipers and 275mm/335mm of R compound that will pull more G's than most sports cars. It stresses everything. I bet a 10 psi residual out back will fix it, I'm just worried about excess heat. I've also considered doing springs behind the caliper pistons like they did in the old days. Wilwood claims it won't work, but I don't think they want the liability of telling me to mod my calipers. The other alternative is a floating rear end. Power brakes with a larger piston would help dramatically but I don't make enough vaccum. A hydraboost unit would also allow a bigger piston and would help dramtically but I like manual brakes on the race track. I know how to fix it, it's just at what compromise and how much money I want to spend.
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Well I decided the engine needed torn down and inspected after an oil filter examination. For those of you that have been following along, I lost a bronze distributor gear at around 1800 miles on the engine. The engine builder made a mistake. The camshaft has a cast gear and you can't use a bronze gear.....Anyway, all that debris went through the motor from day 1. I changed the oil twice within 500 miles and found bronze and silver metallics. I've put about 1500 miles on the car since the last oil change. This time it was no different. The engine clearly was slowly hurting itself. Every pleet had some bronze and silver.




I started at about 9 and Aj showed up at around 10:30. We had it on the stand by 1:30 or so. Thanks for the help. You talk about a flippin mess!!!!!

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Old 12-06-2009, 03:17 PM
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I ripped into it yesterday afternoon but ran out of steam and needed a 7/16 12 point 3/8 to loosen the rod bolts. I have done a brief inspection and here are some of the biggest findings.







Most bearings had distributor gear debris embedded. The worst were the bearings that had actually started coming apart and had deep pits. Number 3 main and number 4 cam bearing were the worst. I also found 2 pushrods with excess wear.
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Bummer man... where do you go from here? Anything happening with the engine builder about this?
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OUCH!! That sucks Todd! But at least you caught it before it went south on you and tossed a rod into orbit.

What is the rebuild plan? No time like the present to make a little more power right?
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Old 12-06-2009, 03:19 PM
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Oh man that sucks! At least you had Aj there to lend a hand. That guy doesn't mess around when it comes to taking stuff apart!
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