Bullitt Mustang is back home August 30th 2017 ...
Guys,
It has been like two months since I have said anything about the Bullitt Mustang.
I did do a new thread sometime ago about Bullitt Mustang members selling their cars.
There was a lot of interest shown on that thread by a lot of members.
And in many cases there was useful ideas and suggestions.
As some of you know I am considering selling mine.
I could not in all honesty put mine on the market with knowing it was not as perfect as it possibly could be.
That being said brings us to today ...........
I got a call from Jon at DBR Performance this morning to come pick it up if I liked.
His thinking was the rain was coming here from Hurricane Harvey that hit Texas and especially Houston.
So we are expected to have rain for days here so it would be a good time to go get it before that started.
As it turned out Jon was right as this afternoon it started raining and has not stopped.
Let me bring you guys up to speed on the Bullitt and why it's been at DBR for weeks.
Some of you might recall that the serpentine belt for some reason would make noise upon 1st start-up.
It would go away if you just let it idle until the temperature got all the way up to normal.
Or if you simply drove it like maybe a mile or so.
Once the squealing would stop it would not return until the Bullitt would sit and cool way back down.
Then the exact same situation would once again return.
After Jon (Shop Foreman) and David (Owner) at DBR looked at it.
It was decided that what was causing the noise to return after installing a new serpentine belt was premature wear of the new serpentine belts.
If some of you recall that the Roush S/C Pulley and the PA Performance Alternator Pulley both were sent and had the Griptec coating applied.
It is a coating that feels much like rough sandpaper to the touch.
It is suppose to help stop serpentine belt slippage.
But, in this case what it was doing was eating up the serpentine belt and once it did that it caused the squealing upon 1st start-up.
So Jon got hold of me and ask if I could get with Brenspeed and get the part numbers for the two pulleys so he could order replacements.
Or if Brenspeed had them just have them drop ship them to his attention at DBR.
So I still have the means to contact Brent (Brenspeed Owner) on his personal cell phone.
I sent Brent a text and Brent sent me one saying he was at a NMRA race out of State.
He would be back to work Late Afternoon at Brenspeed to send him a reminder text Monday.
I actually was not thinking and sent Brent the reminder text but it was around 9 AM Pierceton, IN. time.
Well Brent did actually answer me but as it turned out he was still in bed sleeping.
He did not get in bed until 3 AM Monday morning.
What he did do was contact Chase at Brenspeed and explained to him exactly what I needed and for Chase to check and see if they had the two pulleys in stock and if not to order them.
Chase checked and they did have one left in stock of the smallest Roush S/C pulleys that I run.
The other PA Performance pulley had to be ordered.
Chase had it ordered and dropped shipped to Jon at DBR.
Brent texted me to make sure everything had been handled and not to worry about contacting him.
So, Jon does receive the two pulleys and does the install.
He does that and does not hear any noise at all.
He actually for weeks started the Bullitt numerous times through the day and in some cases as time permitted and the weather put miles on it.
As he said to me this morning, I did not run the crap out of it Terry but I did get into it pretty hard to make sure it was working correctly.
So after doing the above for weeks and satisfied it was okay he contacted me to come get it before the weather front moved in.
(And it did move in as it started raining and has not stopped)
Suppose to do that for the next few days ..........
Well guys as I sit here typing this I think I should also include the following comments.
As some of you know I'm very much considering selling the Bullitt.
But, as soon as I once again saw it at DBR this morning I instantly fell right back in luv with it.
That's right guys I'm just telling it as it really is.
And driving it back home it is such an awesome machine.
I stopped at Shell here at my exit and filled it back up with gas.
Man that thing is so Totally Bad @SS even to me after having it from 2008 until 2017 it's honestly going to be Very-Difficult to sell it.
(Or maybe I should be more specific having it sold)
I'm going to have to really think this over I suppose is the bottom-line.
Cathy did look at me when I came in the house smiling after pulling it in the garage.
She said, Terry you know you can't keep it and buy another $80K dollar new car honey.
She surely after 30 plus years knows me that's for sure when she saw my Lit-Up Face coming in the house.
If I do go ahead with this someone is going to be a Very-Very HAPPY New Owner somewhere in the World.
Below are the invoices to this last work done to get rid of that serpentine belt noise on 1st start-up.
And it back home guys.
Also,
The ones of you interested I also had Jon do something for me this morning before I left.
There was a Challenger sitting right to the rear of the Bullitt in the shop.
So I gave it a little thought and then ask Jon if he minded doing some measuring for me.
He said not big deal that's easy what's on your mind ???
I said as you know I'm considering selling or having the Bullitt sold.
And if I go through with that I'm considering two cars as it's Replacement.
One is as we already discussed the New "Widebody" Challenger Hellcat.
So man if you don't mind lets compare the actual size of the Bullitt to the Challenger sitting here.
As it turns out guys the Challenger is two (2) inches wider.
It is one (1) foot longer.
Once I got home and pulled the Bullitt in I took a look and I think (Not Positive) but I think the
"Widebody" Challenger Hellcat will fit with the New Golf R of Cathy's in the garage.
This car,
The other car I'm very much considering is the Audi TT RS Coupe below in Bright Red,
Terry