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Watkins Glen was not a bad race but my inexperience with the car showed a bit - qualifying 24 of 35 and finishing P22. The GR86 changed since last time I raced it, and tire wear is much more of a ...

At least its fast enough to merge into traffic with relative ease. It sounds like it would easily outperform the Jaguar 0-60 and 1/4 mile but maybe not top speed.

I was hoping for 1/4 mile times, road course times, flying mile, even confirmation of the speed limiter on the car.

Not much to report other than the truck has carried several heavy loads, and many more small loads.

Also got a pic of it with one of my other creations

I’ve been driving this car regularly since the salt washed off the roads. Finally went over 4000 miles. Trip B odometer has most of them.
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The steering wheel is just a bit off when the ...

did you inspect the wheels to make sure they are round? a slow spin on the front hub should tell the tale. the ATS had several that were out of round this way. It's not too likely that yours has this ...

Tonight I will be racing with the ChamCar iRacing Series at Watkins Glen in the metallic teal #50.

Broadcast starts at 9:20 pm, race starts at 9:30. This will be my second race of 2026 in this ...

While we're voting, if you hadn't shown the before pic I probably wouldn't notice.

Everything you touch in the interior is black so now the shifter joins the group.

Why did the factory make the ...

In the attached garage I have old plastic key fobs on a string from the ceiling. In the detached I have figure out to align the side mirror with something along the wall. Thumbs up on the mirror ...

I've been emailing liks to Fred32v and not posting them here. If anyone else is watching with any freuqency let me know I'll start posting them here again.

The American Muscle Series season is over ...

I was thinking at $30/hr that's $9k plus the $6k invested its a $15k truck. And the A/C is not working yet.

I learned a lot here - some of which will be applied when I work on the Colorado later ...

The last round of updates before delivery:

New spark plugs
The exterior of the plugs looked quite rusty so I ordered new ones. OE gap is .060”, and the old ones were over .090”. They were so worn ...

TireSmoker wrote: Thu Mar 26, 2026 7:09 pm And it's done! I drove the truck down it when I came in the driveway, thats the tire tracks. There will be some settling, but I'm pretty happy with how it turned out.20260326_174227.jpg

Upgrades!

I'm way behind on updates - here's a big chunk of what happened after the bed repair was completed:

Rear frame

The biggest surprise on this truck was that there was rust damage on the frame ...

markss327 wrote: Mon Mar 16, 2026 1:42 pm Unfortunately, the 93 fuel stuff is well over $4. Sheeesh.

There are fees associated with being in the performance vehicle club.