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rwd4evr · #**132** 09-11-2017, 04:41 AM

Yes that's fine, thanks a bunch!!

I worked pretty much non stop(when not at one of my jobs) for the last week until Saturday morning. I got the car on all four wheels running at about 3 something in the morning. Brakes we're all rebuilt or scavenge from good driving cars, nice firm pedal. One headlight, one fender one tailights. Roll out of my shop into the middle of a big ass biker party in the building next door. Get some serious "what the fu#k is that" looks, plus I've been awake for 2 days straight and look like a complete crazy black faced mess. Roll out of the gate on my island up a Road a couple hundred yards long and to basically a completely abandoned old boat dock area. Punched it a couple times on the way and figured out that I had 1/2 and 3/4 shift Rod switched. So that sucked but I could still put it in whatever gear I wanted to it was just hard to make yourself do the wrong shift from a bacwards H pattern shifter. Once I knew I had brakes and second gear I lit into it and this thing does Donuts like crazy nice and smooth. Rolled back to the shop through the party parking and checked air pressures and rolled back out again and did Donuts at the end of my street in the industrial complex. I won't say it's super fast but it definitely gets up. Ill try to go back and document some stuff but I just went beserk and buttoned up a list of little things to pass tech like sheeting a couple rust issues in the foot well. I was figuring if I could get there I'd have time to put a couple bolts in a fender and a headlight and button up that **** at the track. I went to leave at about 730 am Saturday morning and the shifter was jammed between gears after I swapped the shift rods. Unfortunately I didn't find that out till I let off the clutch in neutral and the car lurched forward and almost fell off the front of the lift ramps. I couldn't move it backwards and I couldn't pick the car up on the lift. Driver meeting at 9 am. Not gonna make it. DAMN!!.
Good try I guess. I did manage to drag it safely back in the lift and fix the shifter for some more fun, but the drift event was mandatory driver meeting and no chance I could get there in time. The stance is damn near perfect with one coil removed rear and two in the front. Thin upper spring pads in the rear. I'll get some more details on the rear end parts soon. It's coming along nicely. Nov 4 is the next event I was not aware until yesterday. So psyched I can have it actually ready to go then. Will be daily driving it for a bit shortly to shake it down.