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Old 01-15-2019, 09:20 PM
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I was talking about your 60’ times.

Don’t fret, you got this! You’ll be 100% before you know it.
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I FIXED IT FOR YOU!

Those prices are not for the faint of heart!

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Those prices are not for the faint of heart!
I was lucky to afford their front springs lol.

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I was lucky to afford their front springs lol.
Me too!

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Thanks all, I found a great thread on YB on the Viking shocks. I am going to start with the rear shocks, they are very helpful and answer questions at viking. Some fast cars running them too. Yes they did say am valving.

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Thanks all, I found a great thread on YB on the Viking shocks. I am going to start with the rear shocks, they are very helpful and answer questions at viking. Some fast cars running them too. Yes they did say am valving.
I put Viking double adjustable coil overs on last year .. I use santhuff shocks on the rear. .track time seeing what works // I went 1.24 on a very small shot .. Looking for better in 2019 .You got this my friend...

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It's funny how this snowballs. Mark I wanted to build an 11 second street car. You need nothing fancy for that, 3 trannys and a rear later and now adding a bunch of suspension parts. Where does it stop?? LOL

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It's funny how this snowballs. Mark I wanted to build an 11 second street car. You need nothing fancy for that, 3 trannys and a rear later and now adding a bunch of suspension parts. Where does it stop?? LOL
Im afraid Jeff it does not stop ..lol

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Jeff, sorry to hear about your health. Get that fixed asap and you'll be fine. I can relate to getting bummed over cancer. If prostate it's curable. (Mines treatable) .

I assume you currently run a manual boost controller. For now leave it as your limit control. You can add a 90° shut-off valve (barrel valve) and manually pull in your boost fast as you can keep hooked. It's faster than turning a knob and will keep from overshooting boost limit.

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Old 01-19-2019, 12:27 PM
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Think soft compound dirt track DOT tires for street strip. American Racer (used to be McCreary). Low cost and sticky.

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Think soft compound dirt track DOT tires for street strip. American Racer (used to be McCreary). Low cost and sticky.
Those used to be the ticket around here for street legal street racers.

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Jeff, sorry to hear about your health. Get that fixed asap and you'll be fine. I can relate to getting bummed over cancer. If prostate it's curable. (Mines treatable) .

I assume you currently run a manual boost controller. For now leave it as your limit control. You can add a 90° shut-off valve (barrel valve) and manually pull in your boost fast as you can keep hooked. It's faster than turning a knob and will keep from overshooting boost limit.
Thanks Bruce. Yes cancer sucks, all of it every kind. As we get a little older and loose friends and family to it, you really begin to hate it with a burning passion.

As for the car, I have slicks on it now and by spring I will have a decent set of rear shocks. Hopefully the single digit pass will be there, I am sure it will.
Car is a real street car, full interior, customer console with cupholders, phone charger, bluetooth, nice radio. I have to be happy the way it is,, any faster and it becomes a real danger I guess. It has no roll bar, just 3 point belts.
It's a sleeper hub caps and all!
It has a manual boost controller, but if all goes well this year I will add an electronic one. I have a date for a track day, but have to see how things are before I really commit.


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