I'm just waiting to hear and see a video of that running, think it might sound mean!
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Stuff my dog says; on second thought I'll just build a race car
- Thread starter NashGTI
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Most done throttle cable bracket
Tweaked the throttle cable bracket the little bit I needed for better alignment then gave it a quick coat of black this evening. Then ordered some stuff at the house tonight, hose ends and adapters to complete the cooling system from head to intake manifold, a coupler for the air filter/air box, and a tuning kit for the Holley four barrel. Then ordered a different blower pulley. Hopefully we can do more on the intake itself this coming weekend.
120 miles on this tire
I hope they were 120 good miles!
I just picked up a number of screws om my garage floor, certain if I ignored them they would be in one of my tires. I have four brothers. As brothers do we would occasionally check up on our respective "Wheel index" number. As I had a couple of ATVs 3 or four cars, lawn tractor, farm tractor, boat trailers, wheel barrow and bicycles for the family my wheel index was often in the 40s and usually at least one needed a flat repair. My current wheel index is 33.
Driver's rear on the RAV4 went flat Friday. Found a pop rivet right where the tread meets the sidewall. Non-reparable.
Being AWD, tires must be replaced in pairs. The OEM Toyo tires have 32K miles on them and are more than halfway to the wear bars, so I've arranged for 4 new Goodyears. Tires, installation and alignment will come to a shade over $1000. Sigh...
Being AWD, tires must be replaced in pairs. The OEM Toyo tires have 32K miles on them and are more than halfway to the wear bars, so I've arranged for 4 new Goodyears. Tires, installation and alignment will come to a shade over $1000. Sigh...
Down one psi since I checked an hour after getting to the house. I'm thinking I'm just going to live with the slow leak for a while.
Picture just because pictures
Picture just because pictures
I ride not real fast, I would put a plug in it and monitor the pressure carefully. What is the reasoning for not plugging a rear.
This one went in almost directly following the tread of the tire, I don't know how you'd ever plug it.
And maybe some slime? 
Work from Saturday, a little bit of time messing with intake pipes.
Didn't weld anything yet, just cutting and drilling to prepare things.
And then a couple from this evening looking at the possibility of ducting to the front brakes
Rough ideas there obviously, it would have to have more of an upsweep at the leading edge because of the steering geometry. I don't hate it but I'm not in love either. Decided to sleep on it a couple nights.
Didn't weld anything yet, just cutting and drilling to prepare things.
And then a couple from this evening looking at the possibility of ducting to the front brakes
Rough ideas there obviously, it would have to have more of an upsweep at the leading edge because of the steering geometry. I don't hate it but I'm not in love either. Decided to sleep on it a couple nights.
Did a tiny bit of fitting work last night, trimmed the up pipes and elongated the holes in the cross pipe so they angled up pipes fit. I've also decided to scrap the brake duct idea for now at least.
I REALLY need to buckle down and learn to TIG aluminum. Probably won't, but I need to...
DE, do you mean like this?
Yeah I can't do that
In my dreams...
Have a plan for the blower outlet, now we wait two weeks for me to have the me to fit the two pipes together. Then welding and the new longer belt for the larger blower pulley, then boost (hopefully).
