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Max Welton
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 Posted: Tue Apr 29, 2025 7:35 pm Post subject: Running and Driving in Colorado |
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Thought I'd share some progress on my fasty. 
More of the interior is now in place. Seat, door-cards and some of the carpet are in. Many rattles and unnecessary sounds eliminated. The car now shifts right and runs well. The megasquirt tune is very close now. Still recording and reviewing logs for fine-tuning purposes. The CSP exhaust has a nice bass note to it that I really like.
Now if I can just figure out how to get the GoPro to sit straight on my head. 
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| Posted: Tue May 13, 2025 3:42 pm Post subject: Re: Running and Driving in Colorado |
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i cant believe no one commented on this... Max your videos have been coming across my feed and have watched nearly every one of them. glad to see you out enjoying your car !
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Bobnotch
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 3:33 pm Post subject: Re: Running and Driving in Colorado |
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Have you put many freeway miles on it yet? I like to do 50 or so before I call it good. Also I make a note on how squirley it is on grooved pavement, as sometimes that takes you by surprise. I've had several cars do that to me. My Geo Prizm is good for that on it's stock 13 inch winter tires, but doesn't do that on it's 3 season 15's. Granted they're summer tires.
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Max Welton
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| Posted: Wed May 14, 2025 4:19 pm Post subject: Re: Running and Driving in Colorado |
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| Have you put many freeway miles on it yet? I like to do 50 or so before I call it good. Also I make a note on how squirley it is on grooved pavement, as sometimes that takes you by surprise. I've had several cars do that to me. My Geo Prizm is good for that on it's stock 13 inch winter tires, but doesn't do that on it's 3 season 15's. Granted they're summer tires. |
I've been driving it and fixing things as I find them. Best way to do it, IMO.
I've been up to Boulder ( ~90 miles ) but came home on a AAA flatbed after the shift-rod coupler fell apart.
Drove down to Florence a few weeks ago to visit Manfred58sc. Probably ~130 miles round trip there. Some of that was on the freeway into the wind.
I had a rumble from the rear-end that I thought was transmission related. Turned out to be a loose axle nut.  Randy Bowen tightened that up for me with an air-tool. That one will sit in the back of my brain for a while and I'll probably start carrying a torque-tool in case it gets loose again.
Last week I installed the flex tubes between the heat exchangers and the body. That's when I noticed the sound of exhaust leaks. I think it was there before but the tubes gave a more direct path for the sound. So I've been fixing that since Monday. There's a show up in Littleton this Sunday and I want to be ready for that.
I have reset the tire pressures (18/28 front/back) and bumped in a little toe-out in the rear. Drives fine but I haven't really had a windy day to try that out.
The car will get as much fair-weather use as possible this summer. It drives nice!
Max
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Bobnotch
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| Posted: Thu May 15, 2025 12:27 pm Post subject: Re: Running and Driving in Colorado |
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Yeah, in my case I'll make a run down to John J's house, or take to the MI Festival for a test run. The Festival is about 40 miles further than John's house, but I don't get to see how his sled project is going. We haven't had a "Sledfest" at John's in a while. The last one had us doing a bunch of welding and grinding, with pizza afterward.
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