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Paco Motorsports. https://pacomotorsports.com/offroadster/

Very cool Chief, glad to see it out stretching its legs finally. I love that supercharger whine! :D

Results are even better. Without any adjustment at all, the finish on this one is way better than the old one. Best finish I was ever able to get on the old one is here on the left, after adjusting it in as much as I could. On the right is the finish on the new machine. Left side feels rough to...

Turns out they are damn near the same size. The bolt holes for the base aren't in exactly the same spot, but I could use the base / chip pan / stand from the old lathe, which I really like, just had to drill and tap a couple of new holes. I marked the centerline of the mounts then used the...

I uh...I did a thing.

Back to normal Only 2 of us in the car today, but one of the guys in a D Prepared Bugeye Sprite had an engine issue after his 2nd run, so he hopped in after we were done with ours and took a last run in my car. Fun course that I didn't really get great, but got ok. Courses like this REALLY make...

Went full #TeamGangBang on the car during instructor runs in the lunch break of our Novice School today. 5 of us put 12 runs on it over the course of an hour and she seems to be back to running like a top. Can't wait to run it in competition again tomorrow :D

It's a race car that gets rode hard and put up wet. There's always concerns for that sort of stuff. But they've held up well too. Parts will break eventually, I've got spares of just about everything important, but I don't have the budget to go through and age out a bunch of parts every few...

Ten years of dozens of clutch-dump launches, most of that time on slicks is my guess.

Last week I started to put the trans back in but as I jacked it up into position I remembered that I'd taken a small shower when we PULLED the bad transmission out because in so doing we had cracked the little coolant nipple cap on the back of the head. Since that would have been an immediate...

I almost put the transmission back in yesterday, then remembered 2 fairly important things. 1. We noticed a leak in the coolant plug on the back of the head while pulling the broken trans out, and it's infinitely easier to replace without the trans there, so I ran by Jim Ellis Mazda and...

I like to thread a die down the bolt before cutting it. With a normal nut, you risk boogering up the threads on that burr at the end (even after cleaning it up) since the nut and bolt are typically the same hardness. A die will cut straight through it.

Adding them won't hurt, but binding is bad even with them.

Make sure that your RB sway isn't bound up as well. It'll work better (ie: correctly), and...honestly, you can skip the blocks if it isn't. The arms should swing down from horizontal under gravity, fairly slowly (ie: shouldn't just drop, but also shouldn't need your hand to push the arms down)...

I told mine I was disappointed in it for not installing the not-broken transmission while I was out of the country for a couple weeks (unamused)

Blech. Maybe I'll actually tear this thing down and a) learn something about transmissions (I get how they work conceptually, but as far as how it's put together, it's kind of a black box to me), and if it's nothing too bad (HA!!!) maybe replace the part and have another spare.

Nope, shifter bushing is fine, and everything inside the turret looks clean & pristine. So I'm pretty sure she's dickered :( Meh. :D

Does your car not work if it's raining or something? O_o

I'm thinking about it, but I'm going to try and get a Miata 6-speed to survive behind it first. The Getrag is a great unit, but the swap is more $$.