I had a lot of fun riding along in Black Jack at the school! You did an amazing job out on course!Way to go Black Jack! How much more fun can a guy have in a car than to run an all time best 1/4 mi trap speed last week at Rockingham dragway, and then to set the fastest lap of the day for the novice school at this week's autocross. Better be careful, Black Jack, you're making some really awesome memories! Can you believe a foxbody posted the fastest auto-x times of all the newbs, today?!
Anyways, I'm grateful & thankful to have so many nice events and awesome people around me. Special thanks to @Warhorse Racing and Randy from the THSCC car club for the motivation and education, today.
Guys, if you're reading this and are in the North Carolina area, you don't know what you're missing. Come out and have some fun. The next event is on 23 JUN. Hit me up and I'll help you get out here.
11.90’s here we come!!!!Knock knock knockin' on 'leven's doooor,
hey, hey, hey hey yeah!
If I hadn't put that 3-4 lbs bag of ice back in the car, Black Jack would be an 11 sec car, lol.
Seriously, though, the launch felt great and was .08 faster than my best 60' last NA session. The 1/8 was Black Jack's quickest and fastest run ever. Something went wrong on the back half, and I could feel it. Now, the car ran and drove fine afterwards, but the slips validate what I felt. Even though my 1/8 trap speed was faster than the previous run's 89.88, my 1/4 mile was slower... 114.45 final run vs 115.2 on the previous run. wtf? I probably should have let out. Not sure if it was breaking up or maybe I short shifted to 4th and dropped out of the nitrous 3.5k min RPM window. I may pull the plugs, even though I've driven home on em to see what I can see. Maybe tighten them up a bit.
DA at this point was around 2250 ft.
Still, all in all, I was very happy with a 12.029@114.4mph. In the near future, I'll bump from a 100 to a 125 and then to a 150, so long as the AFRs stay in a good place, and I don't hear detonation.
Just a minor point for information, I have a 78 Mustang that I bought new 10/1977 and it has blind head bolt holes.head bolt threads of mexican blocks, and the early 289-302 blocks up to '74 or so, are all blind so there is no chance or issues with water leaking, whereas our later model roller blocks are not blind and headbolts must be sealed.
I can't believe they have 4-stars on, LMR. Some people are saying the same stuff, but who are those things working for? Hopefully, my review will bring it down another peg.It's about the only good part Dorman makes. Once in a while they get it right.
I got one from LMR and it ended up in the trash. Im actually surprised they arent reboxing Dorman's to begin with?
This is good to know, years ago I did my window motors and door lock actuators with parts from LMR, probably like 2014 or so... I'm sure I'll need new ones when it comes time to put my doors back together so I'll try to remember to get the Dorman ones for the locks. Any word on the window motors? I thought the LMR ones were ok on that but if there's a better option I'd love to know.Guys, after almost 2 years of fiddle-f*$^#ing around with the LMR door locks, I noticed someone on FB mention the same problem and that they had much better luck with dorman actuators. They were right! I just got done installing the Dormans and it's night and day. Happy to have functional door locks again. I bought a small stock of them, because if Dorman ever stops making 'em, I want enough to last me a long time. Went ahead and did the window bushings and greased everything up again while I was in there.
@jrichker always recommended rebuilding the OEM units. There's a sticky in the Technical Thread Index (that I'm going to verify is still there after I get done typing this).One of blackjack's window motors was seized up when I bought it back. However, after just dinking around with itit started working again and has been working since. I do have one of lmr's window motors in a box, but I've never used it.
Well crap... I tossed mine.@jrichker always recommended rebuilding the OEM units. There's a sticky in the Technical Thread Index (that I'm going to verify is still there after I get done typing this).
Well crap... I tossed mine.
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