[redbird1]

I KNOW I SURE AS HELL DIDN'T! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/mad.gif)

But I still love Michigan (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/beerchug.gif)

It's actualy more like this (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/sad.gif)

Or this (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/banghead.gif)

I just miss my car. I can't wait for spring. I never know how things will go but I hope I can create the chance to get my car on a track this year. Maybe see some of your cars run. Or at least sttend a race. i would love to see a nasa weekend. AI and AIX.

Steve

[Tony99SS]

Drove the truck (THE 01 TA) today running errands.

Also put some shakedown miles on the SS. Only a week remains until MSR!!

I've been chasing a strange noise from the rear of the driveline, sort of a heavy metallic rattle coupled with alot of drive lash at low, low speeds. I swapped out the acpt driveshaft for an Al one in my haphazard process of elimination. Man! I had forgotten how much of a difference the carbon fiber driveshaft makes at high speed: It's like getting from behind the wheel of a 1969 Valiant into an 2004 500SEL! And this Al driveshaft has been rebalanced!

The mass of the AL driveshaft revealed a harmonic vibration or resonance above 115 that I hadn't detected with the carbon shaft. It may be an imbalance in the shaft, but I will recheck the pinion angle tomorrow anyway.

(Before the flames start, this is at my "High Speed Testing Facility" - a seven mile stretch of arrow-straight blacktop farm road without any cross streets or houses. It's VERY lightly travelled, due to nearby freeways and a general lack of anything worth exiting them for.)

I have a T2R on the shelf, but I've been waiting for my moser axles to arrive before tearing into the rearend. On second thought, I should get that rear end set up ASAP in case of unforseen complications coming down to my track day.

Lets see: five working days to mount and balance the Nitttos, bed in my spare set of C5/Z-06 brakes, do the axle/diff install, find source of oil pressure guage malfunction, swap Turn-One pump from TA BACK to the SS, pass tech inspection, run over to Houston for a retune on the dyno and p/u my new hood (that'll kill a whole day), replace caster bushings & realign, have this damned root canal, move out of my apartment by Tuesday and into the RV on my construction site, find a car hauler and a truck to pull it, round up a pit bitch,...Oh, and I probably should get some rest! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/blink.gif)

Sounds like I'm right on schedule.


Tony