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Here to prep for Crandon. Step 1 is to take everything unnecessary off. Then fix the fenders and stuff… I hope we can do a quickie paint job. It has some kind of VW Paradise engine too. We need to test jumps and dial-in suspension/tires/pressures next week….probably towards the end fri/sat? Anybody know a good jump?
We beat the stink off of it this evening. Started making a list too…
Love them Yokohamas.
Cory, are you cool with welding in A-pilar to beam tubes, and B pilar to torsion housing tubes? The car needs them complete the structure + strength.
Worked on your rig some yesterday.
Looked over the cage additions were going to make and decided the knee basher dash bar had to go.
New one bent and fit.
A-pillar to upper beam tube bars up next.
We will build it if it comes.
More progress. Dash bar welded.
Pass a-pillar to upper beam bar and the vertical brace bar fit and partially welded.
We will build it if it comes.
Finished up all the front cage mods this evening. Fitting the drives side bars.
All fit and happy.
Everything welded.
We will build it if it comes.
The camshaft measures out pretty good. .455-.464” would be in the engle vz14 range. But we don’t know what the cam is…Lauffers probably have a special grind or something anyway.
I’m going to retorque the heads/adjust valves and call it good.
The head studs were way loose. Re-torqued to 30ft/lbs. I noticed some missing valve stem lash caps on the 3/4 side…So, installed some new ones. Also had to swap out the rocker studs as they were about to strip-out.
Valves set to .001” for steel pushrods.
I like to weld some tabs on the valve covers to prevent them from slipping around and washers to wire tie the bails in place. You definitely don’t want to lose a valve cover in a race. Easy to do if the apron gets banged around much.
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