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Wouldn’t the spring center bolt locate the differential where it’s supposed to be?

Couldn’t help it. Took it off, hammered it flat, and welded some key stock on to keep it from bending, and the u-bolts from moving to the side. These have oblong holes for universal fitment, and I don’t care for it. The drivers side didn’t bend like this one, so I left it alone. Double checked...

The bolts walked themselves away from the spring a bit as the plates bent. The spring pin is in the hole as it should be, and the plate is flush with the spring face itself.

This is the entirety of the directions. No torque specs for their mounts whatsoever.

I would’ve been interested to see what they are too. 15 extra pounds shouldn’t bend them. The Calvert split mono u-bolt torque is 60-70.

Installed my new Assassins bars to take the place of Caltracs. Torqued the new Calvert u-bolts down to 60 ft lbs per the Calvert split mono specs, and the plates distorted a bit. Smith Racecraft doesn’t send any torque specs in their single sheet installation instructions. I’m not too overly...

Used Caltrac bars from my Duster. Going to disassemble and paint them. Other than that, what you see is what you get. Threads on the joints in good shape. $200, will ship within the US.

Won all these parts for a BTE Powerglide for my track champion prize. Everything added up is about $4400. A complete BTE is >$5000. If interested you’d have to let me know specifics on gear ratios, and I’d have it all shipped to you. I don’t have any parts in hand. Was looking for about $4000...

Winners circle photo from that last race. Had a trophy for the win, plaque for perfect light in competition, memorial trophy for best package, and my .000 time slip. The memorial is for a teenage daughter of a racer (Lexy) who lost her life to a drunk driver.

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Couple videos on my YT from the last race of the season 9/24. This was the 1/4 final where I had a trip zip and ran .008 off. He was .021 total. Wound up winning the day.

Hell, most box racers today don’t even have to push their throttle down at the line. Burnout buttons, bumping up, bumping down, talk about spoiled :D

For clarification, I don’t hate boxes. I’m considering throwing one in my car for next season just to try my luck beating up on them with their own toys. Here the foot brake guys run Sportsman class if they’re slower than 7.50 in the 1/8. I don’t think it’s fair to force mix any of the classes.

Their delay box is setup to let go of the button when their slower opponents light comes on. They put the other guys dial-in in the box which does the calculations on top of their set delay. Usually the timing system in that class turns on both top ambers at the same time regardless of the dial...

That’s my problem. I refuse to pay for a class that I have to run against someone with cross-talk. We used to do a quick 16 here which let the fast cars use their box, but not crossover. Without that little feature a lot of those guys fall apart. I won’t that class twice with no box. They...