What Are You Doing To/With Your Car Today?

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Full brakes in the Demon.......First time since 1982 :thumbsup:

Bent and flared all of the lines and topped it all off with Dot 5.......Pedal feels great!

With all the under hood stuff complete now......It won't be long 'til her engine and transmission are back where they belong.

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66fyssh said:
On the advice of the sod farm we went with Zoysia. Said it's good in this climate with our 5 dogs. Here's an after Pic. (wish I had a drone)
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5 dogs and new sod? I hope you are using the anti-stain rocks in their water, friends of mine swear by it, the mineral in the rocks gets absorbed into the water they drink and neutralizes the nitrogen in the dogs pee so they dont destroy your new grass.
https://www.amazon.ca/Dog-Rocks-Prevent-Grass-Supply/dp/B000NE2UH4?tag=fabo03-20
 
Added some Bose bookshelf speakers to my Ragtop. No good place for speakers without cutting door panels . I'm trying these, adding a Amp. and subwoofer in trunk during the winter. So far, they sound decent but need some bass. Had some in the kick panels but didn't like them.

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Kendog 170 said:
Added some Bose bookshelf speakers to my Ragtop. No good place for speakers without cutting door panels . I'm trying these, adding a Amp. and subwoofer in trunk during the winter. So far, they sound decent but need some bass. Had some in the kick panels but didn't like them.

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I can see a future knee surgery in your life when you start banging gears on the clutch pedel hope iam wrong lol
 
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I put my new wheels/tires on the front today. These will be my Day 2/track tires. I couldn’t get it out for better pictures because of a snow storm yesterday, but I had to get an idea of how it was gonna look.

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Edit: Got it out in the sun a couple days later. I'm very happy with the look.

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Replaced the battery in my Demon. Very impressed that it lasted 8 years.
 
I think I'll gain a tenth just by swapping these... damn that original starter is heavy!!
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My avatar Demon sits a tad too high for my taste in the rear when the P295/55-R15 Mickey street tires are on it. It's fine at the track with the 28/10.5-15W bias slicks are on it so I'm trying to strike a balance on rear height between the two. It has a CalTrac split mono leaf setup but rather than buy new rear leafs for ride height adjustment, I'm moving the front spring eye bolt to an upper one that is in the front hanger. By my calcs, this should drop the rear about 1/2".

Well, not so fast...because that then changes the pinion angle (makes it point higher). So to address it and get it back to where it is today (about 1.4 deg total diff between trans and pinion assuming a 2 degree pinion rise on acceleration), I'm adding a 2 degree set of shims to nose down the pinion which, according to my measurements, will net my new overall total difference in angles to 0.8 degrees, even better than today. Now will it sit better and will the measurements pan out, I'll have to wait until it's all reassembled. Because anytime I tear into something, I find I have to clean it and paint it up to at least look better! Which adds quite a bit to the work. :realcrazy:

Of course my wife says I'm nuts since the car works very well at the track. But what the heck, these are the kinds of things we do for fun so I gotta give it a try! And I can always pull the shims and put it back to where it is...I hope!

Anyhow, here's a shot underneath where I stopped today. And no, that is not what the pinion will look like once reassembled! The axle is just sitting on jack stands sorta hanging nose down for now.

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Demonx2 said:
My avatar Demon sits a tad too high for my taste in the rear when the P295/55-R15 Mickey street tires are on it. It's fine at the track with the 28/10.5-15W bias slicks are on it so I'm trying to strike a balance on rear height between the two. It has a CalTrac split mono leaf setup but rather than buy new rear leafs for ride height adjustment, I'm moving the front spring eye bolt to an upper one that is in the front hanger. By my calcs, this should drop the rear about 1/2".

Well, not so fast...because that then changes the pinion angle (makes it point higher). So to address it and get it back to where it is today (about 1.4 deg total diff between trans and pinion assuming a 2 degree pinion rise on acceleration), I'm adding a 2 degree set of shims to nose down the pinion which, according to my measurements, will net my new overall total difference in angles to 0.8 degrees, even better than today. Now will it sit better and will the measurements pan out, I'll have to wait until it's all reassembled. Because anytime I tear into something, I find I have to clean it and paint it up to at least look better! Which adds quite a bit to the work. :realcrazy:

Of course my wife says I'm nuts since the car works very well at the track. But what the heck, these are the kinds of things we do for fun so I gotta give it a try! And I can always pull the shims and put it back to where it is...I hope!

Anyhow, here's a shot underneath where I stopped today. And no, that is not what the pinion will look like once reassembled! The axle is just sitting on jack stands sorta hanging nose down for now.

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Street driven?? If so, how do those Caltracs ride?
 
Well I'm probably not the best one to answer this as "ride" is not something I pay attention to. For me, they ride just fine. If you've climbed over the cage and strapped yourself in, and light off the motor, you're in for a fun ride period! I've said before that this 408 is like a young teenage boy - just wants to go, go, go. It puts a big smile on my face every time I drive it (especially since now it's a toss-up if I get to drive as the wife loves to drive it on the street when we take it places!).

That being said, keep in mind that the car has "skinnies" up front - MT 26x7.5-15's. So carving canyons is out with this car. The only negative (if it is truly a negative) is you will hear the CalTrac bars slap (rattle?) one time on each shift, especially the 2-3 shift. (Trans has a RMVB so you have to shift it yourself.) But a quick slap and that's all I notice the CalTracs. I've never had them before but will say they made me a fan quickly after using them and making a few adjustments.
 
Demonx2 said:
Well I'm probably not the best one to answer this as "ride" is not something I pay attention to. For me, they ride just fine. If you've climbed over the cage and strapped yourself in, and light off the motor, you're in for a fun ride period! I've said before that this 408 is like a young teenage boy - just wants to go, go, go. It puts a big smile on my face every time I drive it (especially since now it's a toss-up if I get to drive as the wife loves to drive it on the street when we take it places!).

That being said, keep in mind that the car has "skinnies" up front - MT 26x7.5-15's. So carving canyons is out with this car. The only negative (if it is truly a negative) is you will hear the CalTrac bars slap (rattle?) one time on each shift, especially the 2-3 shift. (Trans has a RMVB so you have to shift it yourself.) But a quick slap and that's all I notice the CalTracs. I've never had them before but will say they made me a fan quickly after using them and making a few adjustments.
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Just knowing you do drive it on the street is a good indication that the ride quality is good… I guess I was asking if it rode like a 1 ton truck… apparently it does not.
Thanks for answering
 
Just fixed the line locks… previous owner has it plumbed wrong
 
BrianT said:
I put my new wheels/tires on the front today. These will be my Day 2/track tires. I couldn’t get it out for better pictures because of a snow storm yesterday, but I had to get an idea of how it was gonna look.

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Edit: Got it out in the sun a couple days later. I'm very happy with the look.

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Brian, what size wheels and tires in the front there?
 
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