Well Good news today and a small accident too !!!
I test drove the Stude today around the industrial park, Clint Bowyer's Team was very helpful and weighed my car at his dirt team's shop. Very nice group of guys. When leaving the shop I got on the gas a bit and did not see a friggin pot hole and ran the left tires in the big dip and the bell housing scraped the pavement (no damage) but then I cut short into driveway and dropped the right side tires off the pavement and the front airdam hit and it now has a small 3/4" hairline crack under the bottom edge and a 1/4" chip in the paint. Larry can fix that in less than 30 minutes,,,, There I go,,, done tore it up and was only a few hundred feet from the shop. Also when pushing the car, I slipped and grabbed the passenger door handle and tore it off the car !!! what a dunce I am,,,, Larry can fix that too... Man I had to leave before I tore anything else up today,,long hours in the heat and no sleep,,, I was a klutzzzzz today...
The new clutch was hard to get use to.. I got it now,,, Rev it and dump it LOL... Car ran good, steered straight and stopped straight,,, we need to bleed the brakes more and add some more front or take out some rear on the balance bar.
Visibility is great looking straight out over the left side of the hood. looking right is not to good. I am sitting so far back I can not see the nose of the car (it slants down fast and I low and in the back seat area).
Good thing we run on straights LOL.
Car was much lighter than we anticipated,, this is good for Maxton and Loring... but could prove not so good for Bonneville.
Total "wet weight, race ready" of the Car without me is 2910 Lbs. 52% Rear 48% Front (this is good)
Left and right perfect balance 49.9 % Left 50.1% Right.
Now with me in the car some things change (Imagine that)
Total weight is now 3284
Rear is still 52% and Front is 48% (still as we wanted)
Left is now up to 53% and Right is 47% I do not know what to think of that as far as handling goes.
OK back to some Math and suspension changes.
Charles