Unwanted surprise today Options

[drew365]

We are trying to finish up work on my car so it will be ready for a track date this Sunday. We completely rebuilt the rear suspension including reinforcing the console ears which meant the engine had to come out which meant we discovered a few items to fix on it and the trans while it was out. But now the rear suspension is all finished, the engine and trans are back in the car and we started on the front suspension. I got new bushings, Koni Sport inserts and 22mm torsion bars. We then discovered someone in the past put a 914-4 A-arm on the right side and I had one 911 torsion bar and one 914-4 torsion bar (IMG:style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) So I had to frantically find a used right side A-arm and end cap. Lucked out and found one and I think I'll be seeing the track after all. It totally baffles me why someone would do that to an original 6. I hope I don't have any more surprises like that.

[campbellcj]

Wow, I'm glad (in a warped sense) that I'm not the only one having "issues" trying to make it out to the track lately!

There were definitely some Mickey Mouse Engineering aspects of my car too. I missed the last 2 or 3 events I optimistically thought I could make. We've finally got most of the initial kinks worked out, and its baseline handling is pretty neutral and stable (now the tuning & further mod process begins).

So I WILL be there Sunday. Can't guarantee that the car will hold together and/or that I'll run any decent times, but I WILL be there...finally! (IMG:style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

I need to re-point the car and hopefully squeeze it into V4. Last time I added everything up, I would be in V3 which would not be a good thing the way the car is currently built. (I would only be about 2 or 3" down on tire and 100+ HP short, no problem other than that (IMG:style_emoticons/default/blink.gif) ) I can always ballast it back into V4 if need be -- unless POC bans adding weight, which I heard was under discussion.

BTW I think I have some extra 911SC A-arms and other bits if your other deal falls thru and/or another crisis pops up. I had a whole front-end but ended up using very little of it (calipers + 1 strut) in my 5-lug conversion.