Hi All,
I'm furiously trying to get my car ready for Shelby Fest. If I don't set myself some goals I'm never going to get this car done. This week end I decided to put the car into race track trim.
Winton will be the cars first real drive. Rolling up and down the drive way doesn't count and neither does a couple of skids in the street out front. Since it'll be it's first drive I'll be going dead slows so I figured if I'm not going to be going fast I might as well sound like I am.
To this end I pulled off the pusillanimous 87dB under body system and put the headers back on. I then knocked up a pair of shorty dump pipes. These were cut down from my original side pipes. I was planning on building a new set of side pipes as I wanted to TIG them together for a neater finish. I've also had a few new ideas I want to incorporate into them.
I'll send the headers and shorty pipes off to HPC this week to get coated. I should have them back in time for Shelby Fest.
When I fist fired it up you would have though the roof of the work shop was going to blow off. Oh My Lord it's loud! Siting in it and giving it a bit of a rev with the under body system was cool but this makes you want to jump out of the car and run inside to hide under the bed. The car seems truly frightening now.
I've still got a few jobs do do before it'll be ready. It needs a bit of body work and a coat of flat black. I've also got to finish my aero screen and the car needs a wheel alignment. I think I'll have to fit a 5 point harness too.
Hope you all had productive week ends.
Cheers