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After driving a Cobra Kit car I have come to the conclusion this thing will need the fastest steering you can fit to it, and power steering. And oh boy are they FUN!
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Coredump posted:Holy poo poo, its Bum the Sad. 
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Feb 19, 2014 03:38
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Kaptainballistik posted:After driving a Cobra Kit car I have come to the conclusion this thing will need the fastest steering you can fit to it, and power steering. Sorry for the de-rail but i have seen the car in your av before.... redwarf from rollaclub? silly 2tg rally thing irc?
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Feb 20, 2014 08:00
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I wonder if you will get kicked out of your condo or die in a firey crash first.
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Feb 24, 2014 05:33
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I thought of you while watching top gear tonight.
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Feb 24, 2014 05:34
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jamal posted:I thought of you while watching top gear tonight. Yeah. I was trying to keep in mind his car would be almost twice as powerful.
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Feb 24, 2014 05:36
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When it's done, call up the BBC and offer to let Top Gear borrow it. 
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Feb 26, 2014 00:25
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That would make for one Hell of an episode. Do it do it do it!
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Feb 26, 2014 02:45
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Don't let the bafoons in the USA take it though, tanner will drift it into a guardrail thinking he's cool enough to handle such a beast
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Feb 26, 2014 16:32
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tater_salad posted:Don't let the bafoons in the USA take it though, tanner will drift it into a guardrail thinking he's cool enough to handle such a beast I'm sorry, but you seem to think that there's any Top Gear aside from the one with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and The Stig. You're sadly mistaken there.
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Feb 26, 2014 16:47
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The other Top Gear features Finnegan and Freiburger, sorry.
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Feb 26, 2014 17:32
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MohawkSatan posted:I'm sorry, but you seem to think that there's any Top Gear aside from the one with Jeremy Clarkson, Richard Hammond, James May, and The Stig. You're sadly mistaken there. this is the correct mindset.
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Feb 26, 2014 17:34
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kastein posted:The other Top Gear features Finnegan and Freiburger, sorry. Give it to them for a bit, or even Regular Cars. I want to see how he'd react to a car that is actively trying to kill him.
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Feb 26, 2014 17:46
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IOwnCalculus posted:Give it to them for a bit, or even Regular Cars. I want to see how he'd react to a car that is actively trying to kill him. Have you seen the poo poo they drive on Roadkill? I'm pretty sure it already fits the bill  (also, "you're gonna get gonoherpesyphilaids")
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Feb 26, 2014 17:48
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kastein posted:Have you seen the poo poo they drive on Roadkill? I'm pretty sure it already fits the bill I meant Regular Cars, I do realize that everything Roadkill builds is a glorious deathtrap!
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Feb 26, 2014 17:56
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kastein posted:The other Top Gear features Finnegan and Freiburger, sorry. If they got rid of the two guys that aren't Tanner and replaced them with Finnegan and Freiburger, I would no poo poo get a TV subscription again. Hell if they just got rid of that irritating loving guido-douche I would be more inclined to watch it.
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Feb 26, 2014 18:01
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Terrible Robot posted:If they got rid of the two guys that aren't Tanner and replaced them with Finnegan and Freiburger, I would no poo poo get a TV subscription again. I think the fat guy with glasses whose name I can't remember would be a better fit with the Roadkill guys than Tanner. He seems unprofessional enough to fit in without going all the way into Adam Carolla territory. Actually, replace all three TGUSA hosts with Finnegan/Freiburger/Dog and they might have something.
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Feb 26, 2014 18:47
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Between posts I usually assume he test-drove the car and promptly died in a horrible accident.
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Feb 26, 2014 18:52
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I wish top gear russia was still a thing. I still want to see how ridiculous it gets
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Wild EEPROM posted:I wish top gear russia was still a thing. Open youtube, type in dash cam.. Top gear Russia will play.
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Feb 27, 2014 13:55
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Hey Wilson! What'cha doing with this here death trap?
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Mar 27, 2014 21:45
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Hey, sorry for the lack of updates, been a busy month for me. This Saturday I am going out to assemble the suspension, so will have a proper update then. In the mean time, the lifters are installed in the engine, and the heads are ready to go on as soon as I get some time to do that. I would absolutely have the road kill guys out to finish the car and drive it on the show, they are entertaining as hell. Might send them a mail once it is closer to the "put the engine in and go" stage, just to get a response.
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Mar 31, 2014 18:23
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Had a bit of help from JoeWagon assembling more of the engine this weekend. We put the head studs in, after cleaning up the head surface and the threads: Then we bolted some heads on:  We put assembly lube on the pushrods, dropped them in, and then installed the rocker arms:    And this morning we installed the valley cover, valve covers, and set the intake manifold on for fun:  I seem to have misplaced my oil pump shims that shipped with my double chain timing set, which offset the oil pump to clear the wider chain. So I'm unable to continue installing things until I find replacements, as well as the cap for the oil galley you can see I've taped off in all those pictures. Getting pretty close to an engine here, though!
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Apr 5, 2014 22:43
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Today I got the spark plugs, fuel injectors and fuel rails installed:  Now I'm stalled for a few days while I wait for that oil galley cap, but once I get that I should be able to do most of the seals and covers for the engine, including the oil pan.
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Apr 8, 2014 05:08
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That's starting to be a really good looking engine!
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Apr 8, 2014 06:47
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Slightly derailing my own thread. I haven't been able to work on the engine too much this week because my daily driver 2012 Mustang GT broke. Pressure plate spring snapped, causing the clutch not to release. This is apparently my fault, and I've been fighting with both the dealership and Ford customer relations all week.  The pressure plate is specifically listed as a covered part in my warranty, so we'll see what the eventual outcome is. Right now the warranty claim is at Ford corporate for approval, but the dealership keeps claiming abuse despite that spring not being a wear item.
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Apr 12, 2014 17:47
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WTF, how do they justify that? Pressure plate springs normally last like 20 years of normal use, that's a part defect.
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Apr 13, 2014 11:38
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kastein posted:WTF, how do they justify that? Pressure plate springs normally last like 20 years of normal use, that's a part defect. Probably the burn marks from the clutch... Yes, we sell a high-performance car and advertise it as being quick off the line. You need to drive it like a grandmother, though, or we void the warranty.
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Apr 13, 2014 17:59
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Warranty pays the tech probably less than half-rate on that one.
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The Mustang is still at the dealership, Ford Corporate denied the warranty claim based on some dubious evidence, still fighting. Got the oil galley plug for the LS engine in, it was indeed a different size to the one that came in my Comp Cams engine block plug kit. Not sure what is up with that, possibly I ended up with a Gen III part in the Comp package. That happened with the ARP head studs as well, and I ended up having to buy some Gen IV ones locally in a hurry(thanks to JoeWagon for helping me find those). Now I'm dealing with the oil pump spacing to clear my double chain timing set. The timing set came with spacers, of course, but I seem to have accidentally thrown them away and can't find replacements for sale anywhere. I did cut some from sheet steel, but I'm concerned they are a little too thin and it just hurts me to think of doing that on such an otherwise high effort build. So I'm going to give Comp a call and see if they'll ship me out some replacements even though they don't list a part number.
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Got a little bit more done on the engine this weekend. Oil pump is on, throttle body is temporarily on just to seal off the intake side a bit, baffle for the oil pan is in, along with the oil galley cap. Comp was kind enough to ship me out the oil pump spacers for free, so that was awesome of them. The windage tray needs some modification to fit the aftermarket oil pickup, so I'll be getting to that as soon as I get a chance, and then the oil pan should be able to go on also.
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I've got to imagine it's a lot easier to get that drat oil pickup O-ring on when the engine is on a stand. My dad swapped the cam on his '01 Z28 in-car and it took him three tries to get it on without pinching it.
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It is a bit of a pain due to the oil pump being spaced off the block by about 2mm to clear the double timing chain. I had to bend the oil pickup bracket a bit to get some more range out of it, and file the bolt hole a bit as well.
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Broke the Mustang again yesterday, and recently moved to a different house(where at least I can work on things with the garage door open), so not a whole lot has been done with this project recently. The engine is mostly assembled, it only needs a front accessories, a crankshaft position sensor, and ignition coils and I should be able to start it up on a running stand. More of a bump to keep this from the archives than a real update, sorry about that.
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Revelations posted:Broke the Mustang again yesterday, and recently moved to a different house(where at least I can work on things with the garage door open), so not a whole lot has been done with this project recently. The engine is mostly assembled, it only needs a front accessories, a crankshaft position sensor, and ignition coils and I should be able to start it up on a running stand. Prediction: The car you are building will be more reliable than your DD.
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Isn't your Mustang basically brand new? What the hell are you doing to it?
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Seat Safety Switch posted:Isn't your Mustang basically brand new? What the hell are you doing to it? Honestly he drives the thing (ever so slightly) less aggressively than I drive my M3. It's just got American car syndrome (which means it's an unreliable POS no warranty can fix)
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Das Volk posted:Honestly he drives the thing (ever so slightly) less aggressively than I drive my M3. It's just got American car syndrome (which means it's an unreliable POS no warranty can fix) Show us on the Forza model where the bad car touched you(r wallet.)
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Every time I read about work on this insanity, I keep getting a mental image of Wilson toiling away on this thing in between being bullied by House. Its hilarious!
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