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I painted the calipers sliver today. On the car, yea it’s lazy, but honestly, I don’t care haha. Going to let them sit over night. I think the silver will look nice. I’m going to get some black Brembo stickers to put on them too.
clean the shit outta the hubs and rotor backsides, preferably with scrapers and not grinders. you want as close to zero runout as you can with fixed calipers or youll kill piston cup seals as they occilate back and forth in the bores
even a little paint/grit can screw you
lazy is fine, just dont cut corners
even a little paint/grit can screw you
lazy is fine, just dont cut corners
So, I had alittle scare this past weekend. Last Thursday, was driving home from work and noticed as pulling up to a stop, the car is missing. Ok, kinda weird as I was literally just cruising, not making any wot hits or anything. Scan it and it’s missing on cyl# 1. I thought ok, finally I hurt this poor old 3800 that’s been abused severely for years haha. I pull the valve cover and loosen the rocker arms to do a leak down, assuming i chipped a piston and notice the intake valve was open as I loosen the intake rocker thats on top dead center. I figure I’ll just start it quick with the rocker loose and see what happens. Thing runs smoother than ever with the intake rocker loose. Come to find out the lifter came apart and was holding the valve open. Crisis averted, tossed in a new lifter, all good. Anyone ever see this before? The spring clip that holds the lifter together popped off. No other damage.
Thats a good idea. I want to say high end lifters like Johnson have c-clips now that I think about it.
Yep that's one reason why I did it. The non-removable cup retainers that the aftermarket Comp Cams lifters use remove preload travel distance
I made it to the track yesterday finally, nothing very impressive happened, couldn't 60ft the car at all (old nitto street tires). 2.2 60ft was best I could get in the two runs I got in. Best was 12.6 @ 117mph. about .5 second faster than my M90 setup with drag radials. 10mph faster tho, so that shows a decent improvement over the blower haha. The track was getting super packed and i figured i didn't break anything, so I called it a day. Drove there and back no issues at all, even managed 23-24mpg on e85, not bad. There was a clean pearl white SC Riviera there, didn't see it make a pass tho.
117mph is good power, definitely an 11sec pass with some grip.Well, I haven’t posted this because I’m still so pissed. But my car is no more. I got cut of by an old lady and totaled the car. It’s been 2 weeks. I am buying the car back for all the stuff I have into it.
I hope this isn't your exit from 3800s! Sorry about your luck. That lady's insurance better pay up!
Absolutely not, I've been scouring the web for another w-body. i have a ton of stuff that will bolt right on another one!
The car is at a shop in Wood Dale, we can definitely cut the bitch up one day. The cupholder is still good!!! haha. Probably the main reason I bought the car back hahaha
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