The Bogan

Quite run down to Goulburn to see my daughter Country life shits on the burbs

I've used a GC lock on my MX5, that worked quite well, which whilst it is a major compromise compared to a proper fixed seat, harness and bar, it did hold my lower body in place. I did need to pull it apart once and use some blue locktite as the allen screws came undone, once I had done that I never had an issue with it. Opinions do vary on them though

http://www.sydneydragway.com.au/events/race-4-real-dec-02-20201/ Donuts on the line

Cheers mate, I'm currently using Penrite 10w40 but am going to try Castrol edge 10w60 Oils for the LS, chop and change I've found, OEM are 0w30 to 10w40, dependant on country of release and what variants they were used in I was talking to a fellow bogan at work who has a few cars with LS1's in them, he runs and recommends 10w60 in all of them Further googling for the LS has seen 10w60 Maineline or Castrol edge recommended, alot Anyways, Supercheap has 5ltrs of Edge 10w60 for $60 so I grabbed 2 bottles and a filter to see how she runs with it over summer Cheers

Aircon is all regased and it's fracking freezing. Bring on the summer time cruises.

What engine oil are you using mate?

#Damnit There there, there there

Wire wheel and converter, then throw on some paint and bondo, finish with a nice rattle can finish. Don't worry about the exterior, just give it a cut and polish. That patina look is in, just need some wide steel rims painted black to finish the look.

Fark she is a vlean old girl Nice score

Dad, I caught a bug

Are we talking about RB's?....

That photo was where it was peeling out of second into third The pic was more of a reference of how much "face" of the tyre was making contact with the road, as it is, with the current camber, I'm missing a heap of tyre on the outside edges, yes it's a street tyre but it is still sacrificing grip I wore out the inside edge out of a set of M/T ET steet drag radials on my old skyline from running to much camber, when I zero'd the rear camber the skyline hooked up much better, wore flat, and improved my 60' time by a fair whack, that did go from around -2.0° to 0° though A rough guestimation is if I can zero the camber I can get maybe 30mm more contact patch per tyre, that has got to help my 60' Plus the cruise ship doesn't really need any camber at the back, the big fat Bessie isn't ever going to be a car to take fast corners, more a big fat comfortable cruise ship that eats highway miles and lays maaaaad skids For what I want the car to do, my plan is to just give it a good set up for hard launches on drag radials but still have it compliant and safe for street tyres In saying this I'm not even sure if my adjustable camber bushings are going to give me any more adjustment than the "camber correction" bushings that are in it now, fingers crossed AND........GO

Private road testing....gave it a little pedal to see how it hooked with the 245/45 17 RE003 and with the aid of 75 litres of fuel in the tank From a dead stop, in D, trac off, "not" in sports mode (because I forgot to hit the button) it just "spun" up through the gears, definitely needs more positive camber, I'm missing a big chunk of traction. I have adjustable camber bushings all ready to go, which are a PITA to install, not sure if it will give me what I want though, which is 0° camber, currently I think I'm at -1.0° IIRC. Meh, fingers crossed I need to get this sorted before I kill a set of drag radials In other news it shifts real nice and doesn't change direction much during the shifts So far so good

Got the car back, the car is even more LOL Did cut drive around short because it looks like the mother of all storms is just about to unleash hell

Unless you drive through a river I cannot see you "hydrolocking" My OTR intake with a K&N on the old LS1 takes a load of water every time it rains I've seen alot of Harley's with pods exposed to the elements that use these "rain socks", they are designed so if you leave it out in the rain the pod doesn't act as a funnel. These rain socks were never around years ago, but people need to make money, and good marketing can sell ice to Eskimos A pod under the bonnet or inside a guard or bumper negates this

Car is fixed and is now at the autotransmission joint to fit this >

What a cluster fark I did by the book, but, because auto there was just not enough room to get it up past the oem trans cooler hard lines, so, the PS pump needed to come out, which was easy and how I should have attacked it from the start. Now to clean up and put it back together, hopefully it still works......🤪

As for my 15 minute job of swapping out my alternator, yeah nah.....I'm pulling the pin for tonight, what a PITA It seems that my plans for my car tomorrow has changed Farkkkkk

So, my alternator made a awesome smoke show this arvo. I've got a new one from repco, but, I'm still at work and don't finish till 2200, I need to get this swapped tonight so I can drop the car of tomorrow for the converter. Hopefully it is a 15 minute job, I hope so anyway because I'm buggered and want to fall asleep now.....f**king last minute.com shit.....

Bike just got picked up to get some new tyres and new steering head bearings installed. The OEM head bearings developed a small knock when grabbing a hand full of front brake, I could have just pulled apart and put back together again and hoped for the best, but, for the small cost of new bearings it was a no brainer. Plus as the bike was getting new tyres, I pulled the lazy card and got the shop to do it. And with the car going in tomorrow, my bike and car should be ready for some cruising around over my leave period, I start leave this Friday, and don't go back till 18 Jan 21.

Yeah,trans cooler is going in as well.

Pics or its a Yaris

Torque converter has finally arrived, car goes in next Wednesday.

Becauseracecar

Tyres size is fine At 100kph on the speedo you will be doing about 101kph. Easy confirmatory would be via gps on google maps. But typically your speedo will read a bit high anyway. Enjoy the car