[matt f]

As the title says. I need something before June, so I've got time.

Thanks,

Matt

[CrashTestDummy]

What Kevin said! "To finish first, first, you must finish."

Make laps, stay clean, watch for the flags and make laps. We ran a stupid little Isuzu Impulse in Houston, and finished 28th by doing just that (4 of 5 teammates had never turned a wheel on a road course). Put good gas in that turbocoupe, and get better cooling to the IC and let 'er go. If it doesn't ping, advance the timing a bit, but resist the urge to up the boost, or you'll be spending time in the pits. Our SVO has been autocrossed for about 5 years with the only failure being a clutch (>100K mile clutch disk) and head gasket (we let someone else drive the car).

Spend your time on getting the car light, and making it handle. You can take a bunch of people coming off the corners with the turbo, if you can plant your foot on the loud pedal immediately after your initial turn-in. Get some old GT swaybars, try to find some motorsport springs that look like crap, pull the interior out and have fun!

I'd completely gut it, install a roll cage and harnesses and have fun with the 2.3T.

[Fauxhawk]

I was all set to enter the Lemons with an 87 Turbocoupe that someone had previously swapped to a 306ci SBF with a T5 transmission.



I have a racing seat from it for $20 just to recover what I had in to it. We didn't make the race as there were some issues that popped up (IE: Michigans economy) and everyone started dropping out like flies.... if you're near Michigan, LMK... I also have a 5 point harness that could be used for mock up purposes as it's missing it's SFI tag.






Here's some tips: Convert the gas tank to a fuel cell. The fox chassis cars always get removed from the race by people who cannot drive hitting them in the qtr panel near the fuel filler. The neck then brakes and causes a fuel leak that cannot be repaired, removing you from the race completely. A cheap fuel cell falls under the safety category (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)



And the 2.3T - make sure you keep it cool. Ford had issues with them running hot doing long term testing around race tracks. After a couple hours of abuse the headgasket was wanting to let go.

This post has been edited by Fauxhawk: Jan 20 2010, 03:39 PM

[matt f]

If you could ship it, I'd be happy to take it off your hands. Either that, or we could just pass it from member to member till it gets to PA:)

I was all set to enter the Lemons with an 87 Turbocoupe that someone had previously swapped to a 306ci SBF with a T5 transmission.



I have a racing seat from it for $20 just to recover what I had in to it. We didn't make the race as there were some issues that popped up (IE: Michigans economy) and everyone started dropping out like flies.... if you're near Michigan, LMK... I also have a 5 point harness that could be used for mock up purposes as it's missing it's SFI tag.






Here's some tips: Convert the gas tank to a fuel cell. The fox chassis cars always get removed from the race by people who cannot drive hitting them in the qtr panel near the fuel filler. The neck then brakes and causes a fuel leak that cannot be repaired, removing you from the race completely. A cheap fuel cell falls under the safety category (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)



And the 2.3T - make sure you keep it cool. Ford had issues with them running hot doing long term testing around race tracks. After a couple hours of abuse the headgasket was wanting to let go.

[Fauxhawk]

If you could ship it, I'd be happy to take it off your hands. Either that, or we could just pass it from member to member till it gets to PA:)

I was all set to enter the Lemons with an 87 Turbocoupe that someone had previously swapped to a 306ci SBF with a T5 transmission.



I have a racing seat from it for $20 just to recover what I had in to it. We didn't make the race as there were some issues that popped up (IE: Michigans economy) and everyone started dropping out like flies.... if you're near Michigan, LMK... I also have a 5 point harness that could be used for mock up purposes as it's missing it's SFI tag.






Here's some tips: Convert the gas tank to a fuel cell. The fox chassis cars always get removed from the race by people who cannot drive hitting them in the qtr panel near the fuel filler. The neck then brakes and causes a fuel leak that cannot be repaired, removing you from the race completely. A cheap fuel cell falls under the safety category (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/wink.gif)



And the 2.3T - make sure you keep it cool. Ford had issues with them running hot doing long term testing around race tracks. After a couple hours of abuse the headgasket was wanting to let go.

Let's see what I can do. Not sure how cheap shipping will be, i'll find out tho.


It's a composite/plastic/whatever 1 piece summit racing seat that's got a leather cover over it.