What did you do today to your 3/S?

[donniekak]

defiantly I wouldn't go with a tilton style clutch for a street car with 500AWHP. They have to be measured for wear and shimmed periodically, it isn't something very driver friendly.

The only thing I do not like about the heavy big single disk clutches is they seem to slow shifting, at least for me. I have a fully rebuilt trans and with my southbend fe disc and ACT mb019 pressure plate I really have to kick the clutch hard and time things perfectly to nail really good shifts. With the stock disc you could be a lot lazier and it still shifted easier.

I was actually looking at the RPS new carbon carbon design, but if my clutch is working ok I can't see spending that kinda dough unless it made the transmission a lot easier to live with. It might be easier to just go six puck, but I sure like the driveability of a full face.

Act pressure plates are notorious for high rpm lockout. A good pressure plate, and unsprung hub disk are the best shifting singles. My spec stage 3 pressure plate, and xtd disk setup was the fastest shifting single I've been in.

[DK77]

Interesting Donnie, I had not heard anything bad about the ACT stuff. I just bought an ACT 6-puck with the sprung disc and I have an RPS Max PP with the 6 puck unsprung in the car right now. I figure I'll leave this clutch in until it acts ups.

TeotwawkiL The front motor mount is not too bad. Way easier than the rear at least. If you take the radiator out there's quite a bit of room to work with.

[OhioSpyderman]

I didn't do squat to my cars today, but I did replace the alternator in my wife's SAV (Suburban Assault Vehicle) - AKA - 2002 Chrysler Town and Country.

Her battery light came on yesterday a couple of times, so I dug into it today. Static battery voltage seemed OK at 12.4 volts. Started it and the meter was all over the map...13.6, 13.0, 13.3, 12.8...figured for sure it was the alternator...

Took the POS out, took to the local O'reillys to give them a core. For shits and grins I had them test it. 3 times in a row it tested good (WTF?) The counter guy said "bring the battery in and I'll test it", so I went back got the battery.
He put it on his mini tester, looked up at me and said "It says it's good, just needs a charge" DOH!

He put the battery on their charger and I went home to wait for results (said about an hour). Called and he said the battery was good, had about 1/4 of its life left (BULLSHIT, I just bought that battery in January), so I went up, told him to keep my core alternator and PLEASE, PLEASE, PLEASE sell me a new (reman) alternator for $180..he happily did.

Install went off with no minor issues, voltage with SAV running is now a pretty solid 14.0 volts.

What did we learn today? Never trust auto parts testing. In car testing gives much BETTER results.

Carry on, nothing to see here....

Bob.

[Teotwawki]

Interesting Donnie, I had not heard anything bad about the ACT stuff. I just bought an ACT 6-puck with the sprung disc and I have an RPS Max PP with the 6 puck unsprung in the car right now. I figure I'll leave this clutch in until it acts ups.

TeotwawkiL The front motor mount is not too bad. Way easier than the rear at least. If you take the radiator out there's quite a bit of room to work with.

Yeah it shouldn't give me too much grief. I'll probably get into it later this week.

Today I cleaned frogs out of the side skirts. Don't ask cause I don't know. It rained like crazy yesterday and they congregated there.

[TurboSinceBirth]

I helped out a guy that traveled two hours to get a tune. He had a shop do a smoke test but it had so many vacuum and boost leaks that we gained around 100hp. We had to install a few check valves he didn't realize he had taken out when he was replacing hoses. One of the brake booster hoses didn't have the check valve in it and that was the worse.

We also maxed out the 800cc injectors at 20 psi on E85 running DR-650s. We bumped up the fuel pressure and retuned for 22 psi. At that point the Spec clutch would get hot enough sometimes on the pulls it occasionally slipped so he'll be getting a RPS clutch.

I'm not very sold on the champion race plugs. Trevor recommended them to him because they work together on airplanes, but idle would occasionally miss and WOT was a little pickier misfiring on ethanol. It cut out real bad in the 10s. 11.8 to 12.1 AFR seemed to work the best for the cleanest pull. He was a happy camper at the end of the day with the car running like a champ.

[striker2]

The wife and I went for a hike in the foothills yesterday and on the way I had to stop and snap a pic. Could be washed again but considering its a DD and its rained briefly basically every day last week i dont think its too bad.

[95gto]

I can’t really tell a difference lol

in for better pics

Maybe these will help. I finally had a chance to wash the grime off the car and snap some new pictures. These shots still came from a cell phone camera but I provided multiple shots with the wing both up and down.







And just for reference here is the old wing the up position during the NG13 Auto-X
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As you can see, the new wing sits up higher and is both longer and wider.

[sergechronos]

Maybe these will help. I finally had a chance to wash the grime off the car and snap some new pictures. These shots still came from a cell phone camera but I provided multiple shots with the wing both up and down.







And just for reference here is the old wing the up position during the NG13 Auto-X
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As you can see, the new wing sits up higher and is both longer and wider.

[deemo99]

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Wrapping up VSS project. Has been long road, hoping to start her up tomorrow.... Seasons are short up here, hope to get some road time before....you know....

Powder coating was done through Terry @ Maximal Performance. I am real happy how it turned out, will be happier to drive it again!

[Beef6]

Do you think my oil pan is dented?
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This is what happens when you hit a power steering pump that falls off the car being towed in front of you. Only took me a few months to get motivated to start swapping the new pan.