1965 falcon

[Flash68]

Yeah boy! Sounds sweet.

[Bryce]

the other car

[Bryce]

dialed in the car today, trying to get ready for a SCCA event on Feb2.

It weighed in at 2715 without me and had a 50.4% crossweight with me in it.

[Tomswheels]

Does it run and shift?

[Bryce]

Originally Posted by Tomswheels

Does it run and shift?

I still have to mount the hood, I am going full pin on, and mount the grille then test drive. nut and bolt check everything. adjust the valve lash then drive it and drive to get comfortable

[FETorino]

Originally Posted by Bryce

dialed in the car today, trying to get ready for a SCCA event on Feb2.

It weighed in at 2715 without me and had a 50.4% crossweight with me in it.

Pretty impressive weight and weight balance. I can only dream of getting near 3000lbs with my car.

I'm still enamored with your PS and Alt bracket you built. Did you do a CAD drawing of it first or just go freestlye on the bandsaw with some manilla templates. I'm publicly admitting right now I plan on copying it. Please forgive me for the patent infringement in advance.

Do you have any details of the fab process on it? It's a pretty sweet piece of fabrication.

[Bryce]

Originally Posted by FETorino

Pretty impressive weight and weight balance. I can only dream of getting near 3000lbs with my car.

I'm still enamored with your PS and Alt bracket you built. Did you do a CAD drawing of it first or just go freestlye on the bandsaw with some manilla templates. I'm publicly admitting right now I plan on copying it. Please forgive me for the patent infringement in advance.

Do you have any details of the fab process on it? It's a pretty sweet piece of fabrication.

thanks Rob, I bet you would be excited to see the front end less than 3000lbs. haha

No CAD on that one. I built templates then cut it out on the band saw. I will add some more pictures later.

[Bryce]

I had a blast yesterday, I think I am more hooked than before.

The car did pretty good. I got 7 laps.

Lap 1 68.990
Lap 2 66.987
Lap 3 66.017
Lap 4 65.820
Lap 5 65.472
Lap 6 65.745
Lap 7 65.499

The transmission was getting a little to hot so I had to skip a few laps and let it cool down. But it was not slipping so no damage! The steering was great and on a bigger course there was no need for power steering. The falcon loves the slaloms and was pushing on the long left hand sweepers. On the last run I stiffened up the front shocks compression and rebound 4 clicks and the rear two clicks on comp and rebound. The car was completly different. Stiffing up the suspension helped control body roll and remove the tendancy to push in the long sweepers. If I had a few more runs I could have really dialed in the car. I am uploading the videos now. I will post them later today.
here are some pics that my wife took.














Didnt hit those cones!

[Bryce]

run 7


run 6

[lhkustoms]

Originally Posted by Bryce

here are some pics that my wife took.

Car is looking good Bryce and what a great way to spend the day with the fam. Love the pics but This is the best pic the wifey took.