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Took to the engine bay today with a couple of cans of spray greaser so now it's clean and oil free again. New alternator belt installed, Bosch one this time, might stay on a little better than the el cheapo parts store one, might not either. Also adjusted the shift linkage, so hopefully I will have 3 gears again.

Since I hadn't done the obligatory video with the new exhaust, here it is:



Looks like it is all set to go again.


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Well it seems like no serious damage was done and the new exhaust seems to have helped just a little bit:





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Nearly a full second is substantial. You gotta be pretty happy with that. I'm guessing 'seat of the pants' feel was fun too. Glad to hear.
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So it was all corked up huh... Beer
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Originally posted by steinercj5 steinercj5 wrote:

Nearly a full second is substantial. You gotta be pretty happy with that. I'm guessing 'seat of the pants' feel was fun too. Glad to hear.


Was actually more than a second, only ran 13.52 with the old exhaust, definitely worth making that change.
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Looks like there will be a short break in proceedings due to some fool falling off a ladder at the weekend and fracturing several bones in his foot:

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It's about time for an update. I couldn't do much while the foot was healing so tinkered with a couple of small cosmetic jobs:

I'd accumulated a bit of a collection of factory mirrors in various states of disrepair:


 With the addition of some new glass, I managed to cobble together a couple of non-remote mirrors from that lot (passenger side is not finished yet):


I also made up a new door card backing from aluminium composite sign board over a year ago:


While functional, it was not very pretty. The factory door cards are padded, I thought something similar was in order and so cracked out the foam padding and contact adhesive to replicate this:


Then re-applied the original factory vinyl over the top, little bit bumpy in places, but certainly a big improvement:


Ok, neither of these things are going to make it go faster and some might question the wisdom of adding additional weight, but it's done now.

Now onto to the more important stuff, back to the track for Mopar night this week. But a bit of fun first, there were some hot hatches lined up at the track, so thought I would get in on the action: 


Then it was time for the on track action:


I actually had a really good night, it took a little while to get going, I'm going to blame the 10-12 mph head wind at the track that did ease off towards the end of the night and let me finish with a new PB of 12.23 @ 110.75 mph.


 
Green is a PB, yellow is the best on the night. 

Starting to get a sniff of 11's now.


Edited by WesternRed - Dec/20/2018 at 3:59am
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Couple of runs:



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Seems like there is a bit of scope to improve 60' times with the current mph.


Edited by WesternRed - Dec/14/2018 at 10:11pm
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Running strong! Congrats.
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