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Sunday, June 24, 2007
Good news and Bad news
Well ever since that last 2 passes at island dragway, the car has had a funny coolant issue, where it gets hot randomly and then finally cools down alright, it basically pukes the rad out into the overflow, and then anywhere from 5-20 min later it seems to suck it all back up, this is usually sign of a head gasket failure, but thats fine, the rusty had slightly weaker composite felpro headgaskets installed as a weak point, so if the cyl pressure got to be too much, it would pop the head gasket instead of popping the motor or the bottom end etc. Tomorrow me and the mad scientist will take out the Tstat and boil it, and see when it opens, if it opens accurately, its pretty much a blown HG, we will also be doing some compression testing...
Well now that the bad news is out of the way we might as well cheer you up a little bit, ryan was going to order his anti-roll bar and adjustable uppers this week so it would drop the launches out of the 1.5-1.6 range and into the low 1.4s if not better. While talking to a friend last night, he said he has a set. Apparently he bought a whole kit, uppers, lowers, and anti roll, and only installed the lowers, well this is great because ryan has lowers and nothing else. So we made a stop up at vince's house today and bought the goods. So now we will have time to install this stuff right and get her ready to rip once again. Here is a pic of the suspension goodies.
