Slant 6 Turbo 68Dart Project
beating the drum is standard practice. the drum rusts to the hub and there is no other way of getting it off that doesnt take days. i beat mine pretty good with a 2lb balpeen hammer when i have to take them off. dropping it isnt going to hurt it either.
you can change over to the stock disc brake setup with standard hand tools. just need a socket set that goes up to 1" and wrenches that do the same. it seems like a lot but it really isnt.
I know beating on it is necessary. I've had to do that to mine, I mean the throwing around afterwards.
If I found discs I would likely do that, if it's not that hard.
I figured out the lighting. My brake switch that the manager said was supposedly just "dangling there" was in no such way. It was firmly attached right where it was supposed to be. What was missing were the two connectors on it and their respective wires. Both made contact with the column and shorted the circuit and blew the instrument cluster and lighting fuse. I replaced both fuses and spent about an hour becoming a contortionist under the dash trying to reconnect both wires and finally managed to do it. One connector is against a piece of steel and very hard to break all the bones in my hand so I can reach it, so it took a while. I also figured out I can lay underneath the entirety of the dash and see pretty much everything in there. Very useful for further conquests.
I am still upset as I don't know what possesed them to lie about my brake switch they claimed to have "not touched" and then left the two leads off which apparently grounded the circuit. There was also no reason to mess with it in the first place as the actual issue was "car pulls to right because of brakes you installed."
They don't want to take any responsibility for it unless I pay $320 more for them to replace the left side. WHen they fixed it the first time, it worked fine, and straight, till the cylinder popped again. After they fixed the second time, the car brakes suck - I know the left side is not causing the car to lock up on the right.
Anyway... brake irritation aside (and I am just ranting) - I will call the track tomorrow and see if my battery setup will fly. I really do want to race if I go because it will mean a huge negative point to the girlfriend if she had to stay and hang out with the kids just so I could go watch cars. Now if it was to fulfill a childhood dream of drahving mah racecah. -Then it'd be ok.