Project "Payback"

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by awr68

Matt, can't you go with a 1" or so taller coilover....or just a longer spring alone if you are running out of adjustment? It too me a couple trys to get it right with the desired ride height when I modded the stock frame with a DSE kit. If I remeber right I had three sets of springs before I nailed it!

Are your lower control arms level at your current ride height?

Now back to PB!!

Yeah, I might end up going with a taller spring. I don't think we took the wheels off last time we tried it, which sounds stupid in retrospect, so we'll try that first.

Now, as you said, back to Payback. I don't want to clutter Todd's thread with too much irrelevant info... a little bit is fine though

Matt

[Vegas69]

Nothing to earth shattering to report but I figured I'd update the thread. It's no secret it's a little hot around here this time of year. I've had the A/C plumbed and wired for months, I just haven't got around to charging it. I have an old buddy that has a shop close to the new house with a 134 machine. I drove it over early one morning and sucked it down for 45 minutes and it held vaccum. Sweet, we put the 1.8lbs of refrigerant in and one of the hose crimps didn't hold at the compressor high side. Thanks for letting me borrow your crimper Weld! So I need to redo that hose. Like I told my buddy John, if it took the first time something had to be wrong with the world that day. I just laughed and drove it to work since I was a little behind schedule that day. Which leads me to my next tall tale. I forgot I had a hair cut before going to the office. It's about 105 degrees at 10 AM and I come out with my new ICE MAN haircut and my Ray Bans of course. Why won't my car start? Oh ya, it's flooded out. It decided to heat soak. I finally got it fired after about 10 minutes with my phone ringing off the hook thinking why did I drive this car to work? Of course it never was a problem before. This was really the first time in the sweltering heat with the new engine. I dropped the floats 4 flats and it will start now right away.

I went out and ran an autocross Saturday night at the Silverton hotel. This autocross made Good Guys look like the Daytona 500. I'm not kidding when I say my car wouldn't turn sharp enough to even think about competing in this deal. In fact I got DNF's the first 2 runs for not making a turn. Me being the Chad Knaus of the household, I decided to make some "set up" changes because I knew it was going to be tight. I changed the sway bar and the front shock settings. It was also my first race on the street BFG's. I'm not going to sugar coat it, the car was looser than Greg Weld's mouth. It would've been a great drift car. Wait, I was sideways pretty much the whole run every run. I got my but handed to me by about half the carsin the field. I'll tell you what I learned, I won't take my car back to the Silverton to run an autocross. Maybe I'll buy a go kart for the next go around. I could probably make that 15 foot hair pin turn that way. I almost forgot, I didn't need to pump the brakes with the new 1" master cylinder. Knockback is still present but it was managable without any pumping. We'll see how she does on the faster tracks and road course.

I had more fun on the way home, the car is running great. I really don't feel any forward bite differences with the new tires. They hook pretty good. I'll reserve my judgement when I get my old setup back under the car and I run a real Autocross at Las Vegas motor speedway with turns for real cars.

THE END

[GregWeld]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Thanks for letting me borrow your crimper Weld! So I need to redo that hose.THE END

You'll need to read my "signature line".... part of it might apply.

[tones2SS]

Very cool Todd! No pun intended.
(Did you say ICE MAN haircut and Ray Ban's?! )

[Flash68]

[ProdigyCustoms]

Big difference from the R888 to street tires! Biggest difference is once it gets loose it won't recover like it did on R888, with street tires, once they are loose, they are loose. Those R888s keep looking for traction. kinda fun to drift it though!

[Vegas69]

I'll reserve my judgement until I get to a venue where I can test the car. They warn with a squeal where I don't every remember the R888's doing that.

[Ron Fox]

Originally Posted by ProdigyCustoms

Big difference from the R888 to street tires! Biggest difference is once it gets loose it won't recover like it did on R888, with street tires, once they are loose, they are loose. Those R888s keep looking for traction. kinda fun to drift it though!

Frank, do you recomment the R888's over anything else?

[ProdigyCustoms]

R888 are real soft and last only a few miles. They are sticky. For a street tire the KDW is a bargain.

[Vegas69]

For as few miles as we do, I think they are a great choice. I had a couple thousand miles on mine and 6-8 races and they had great tread left until my race at El Toro. The burnout I did really cinged them and I flat spotted them a little in the speed stop challenge. I bet they will last a good 10k in street only use. The only reason I switched was due to all the events being 200 treadwears. Ideally I'd like to have a spare set of wheels with Hoosier A6's for autocross. Those babies are like bubble gum.