First test drive
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Melting Slicks
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From: Beringen
First test drive
Okay, today was my first test drive day after a very very long resto.
Car is not all together in the sense that the doors still need to be mounted and such, but I planned on a short test drive to see how my alignment job came out.
First was a short drive in my street. Still freezing and she wasn't warmed up. Noticed a off idle flat spot. Tried a lot of things but couldn't get it going away. Then decided to be a little less gentle on the throttle and it seemed to slow down, even moving sideways. When I stopped a blue cloud past me and I smelled burned rubber. I looked back and there were 2 black tire stripes of about 10 meter. Big grin.
After dark, I couldn't resist to do a drive around the block.
Well, let me put it like this : I'll have to be very carefull with it.
As for driving manner's I felt like she was a little to darty, too quick steering response somehow. Have to look into that.
Car is not all together in the sense that the doors still need to be mounted and such, but I planned on a short test drive to see how my alignment job came out.
First was a short drive in my street. Still freezing and she wasn't warmed up. Noticed a off idle flat spot. Tried a lot of things but couldn't get it going away. Then decided to be a little less gentle on the throttle and it seemed to slow down, even moving sideways. When I stopped a blue cloud past me and I smelled burned rubber. I looked back and there were 2 black tire stripes of about 10 meter. Big grin.
After dark, I couldn't resist to do a drive around the block.
Well, let me put it like this : I'll have to be very carefull with it.
As for driving manner's I felt like she was a little to darty, too quick steering response somehow. Have to look into that.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Beringen
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Nothing wrong with 10 meters of black stripes!
Please do me a favour and at least put in seats before your next test drive.
Regarding the steering, try taking a little air out of the front tires. They look awfully high.
Please do me a favour and at least put in seats before your next test drive.
Regarding the steering, try taking a little air out of the front tires. They look awfully high.
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Melting Slicks
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From: Beringen
I put the seats in just for the drive (after I took the picture that is). Doors were not in and it's freezing here, so the drive was ...well....cold 
It looked like a very sleek, fast dune buggy.
It looked like a very sleek, fast dune buggy.
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Could be, they are at 2.6 bar now. Little bulge in the sidewalls.
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Must say, I went up to about 4-5000 rpm, and she was not gasping for air, very comfortable up there, smooth. I think she'll easily run 7000 (or more). Much above 7500 and I'm in the danger zone due to the stainless and heavier valves. Would need to go to titanium and lots of $$$. 12.5 is ok at low rpm, but with street gas i'll run into detonation once I'm going into the better VE range.
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