How do you fit anyone back there? I can barely get my kids back there in mine an I'm only 5'4".
What have you done to your mustang today?
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How do you fit anyone back there? I can barely get my kids back there in mine an I'm only 5'4".
Norm Peterson
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Always, and I torque the lug nuts in two, sometimes three stages (70-100 or 60-80-100 depending on how I feel at the moment).
Quite a lot, I guess. Swapping among the track set, the "3-season" set, the original all-seasons (that I've quit using entirely the past 3 or 4 years), and a few extra times for the times I've bled brakes or changed pads and/or rotors has put them through more than a few torque cycles.
Actually, where and when it happened was probably as good a time and place as it could have possibly been. Other than needing to MacGyver a solution by stealing a couple of right front studs so it would roll up onto the flatbed, anyway. I did have a lot of help from a couple of guys I'd met at the hotel a couple of days before.
Got some new studs at an Autozone located walking distance from the hotel, heat-stressed myself getting the right side done so my son picked up the work on the left side.
These OE studs lived for around 45,000 miles, 2000 or so of those happening at 16 track days over the past 4 years.
I'd run 3.5 sessions in HOD's B-group and had been OK'ed to run in C, which I chose to do for half a dozen laps or so, as much for an easy introduction into the faster group as anything. That half lap in B was caused by a coolant spill.
Look at how the curves suddenly deviate at around 1:11 or so where the vertical cursor is set - the laps aren't atrociously inconsistent up to that point even though it was at the very end of a 2-day. Pure and simple, 1.2g lateral there was one time too many. Going back to the idea of it being fortunate timing etc., I have to wonder how much longer it'd have held up in my street driving, and I know I was extremely fortunate that it didn't happen under braking for T1 (120+ down to 70-ish). As the speed curve that goes to zero suggests, it was a rather uneventful slide to a stop, missing a drainage grate by maybe a car width.
Session 1 as background info. I really wish I'd got video of the incident.
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Today's update - I'm sure it's one of the "borrowed" studs, but I now have one LF lug nut that will not take full torque. So the car will sit until I get the new parts - all $$$$.¢¢ worth - installed. Gonna squeeze a little more suspension modding out of it as I go. Wife doesn't mind even this part, so yeah, I guess I'm lucky there too.
Norm
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Phil1098
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I just had two studs shear off while tightening (not on my Mustang) and I had always done the same and never went beyond the specified 100 lb.ft. with a known good torque wrench. I was kind of slack jawed, I had rotated the tires quite a bit in 140k miles, but they just turned to shit. I still don't know why they went soft.
Phil1098
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Tonight I finally figured out a way to tighten the number eight cylinder lower flange bolt on my Kooks LT headers. I could see the damn thing, just couldn't really get anything on it well. So I bought this and it worked like a dream. It's from Gear Wrench and it's a 13 +14 mm version. They want $68 for it, found it brand new on eBay for $14.
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Tyler, cant wait to see what you do to this one.
lemkau77
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I guess small people? I'm 5'11" and my wife can fit behind me and she is 5'8". It would be women going in the back, so normally not very big people. I think that I might have been close to rubbing with out the extra 200-240 lbs in the rear. I wish rims would have had a slightly different offset. Needless to say it doesn't happen that often.
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dark steed
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Got the rear calipers off after the guide pin seized up and wore the inside pad to the metal. New calipers going on all around tomorrow...
Saleen4971
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Finally got her registered in my name, alignment, and fixed separator plate rattle.
travelers
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Got the rear calipers off after the guide pin seized up and wore the inside pad to the metal. New calipers going on all around tomorrow...
That's a shame. A little anti-seize on the pins will help.
Phil1098
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Put on my new Continental DW tires in a 255/45-18 size. These fit the stock 18 x 8.5 rims much better. Just ran it down the road, they are smooth and have really good feel to them. Of course they replaced the original B.F. Goodrich tires that came on the car ten years ago.
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Oil change and new fuel filter
GallopingFord
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Dropped it off at the dyno.
Saleen4971
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Please no. Good brake grease is superior, anti seize isn't for brakes.
travelers
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I've used it for years and works good.
dark steed
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Kuplex
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Washed, clayed, waxed, detailed.
The day before I took my entire throttle body off, cleaned it thoroughly and the MAF. Put a little clamp on the hose from my JLT to the valve cover at the valve cover end. Seemed loose. Hopefully my random idle hang is fixed for good.
Next up is changing fuel filter and brake fluid. I'm going to grease the sliding pins and repaint the calipers matte black while I'm at it.
The day before I took my entire throttle body off, cleaned it thoroughly and the MAF. Put a little clamp on the hose from my JLT to the valve cover at the valve cover end. Seemed loose. Hopefully my random idle hang is fixed for good.
Next up is changing fuel filter and brake fluid. I'm going to grease the sliding pins and repaint the calipers matte black while I'm at it.
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