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My wife found herself in a situation at a stoplight up a tiny hill where here FWD car would literally not move at all because the traction control sensed there was zero traction. The neighbors happened to be behind her and pushed her to get the car moving. So I taught her how to turn it off for trac...

This one is RWD based, unlike your Regal. So the motor sits in there the correct way and not sideways. This one won't be frying the tires and should be a successful dirt racer as well. Hopefully it's just a tick slower than the Vette in the dirt.

-BP

If I can do it in my S10 on the A/C side, we can get it done on that thing. If you want my skinny hands to help, give me a holler and we'll get it done.

-BP

Nice! You never actually drove the car with that Jegs efi in place did you? Only garage and driveway? Just wondering how those Jegs/Summit brand EFI systems were compared to a Holley or FAST. I would assume someone big like that makes them anyway.

-BP

I haven't pulled my seats out for anything yet, but do you pull the seat bottom off to access the mounting bolts to the floor?

-BP

For those non-Hagerty readers out there, I found this article interesting. It's a good take on possessions vs memories courtesy of Jay Leno.

https://www.hagerty.com/media/opinion/l ... y-a-dodge/

-BP

I stumbled on this video about why Tony Angelo left HRG for real.

The first 15 minutes is background, and the last 15 minutes explains why.

https://youtu.be/yi1Rg5QMVi4?si=ZMQJ9EWjjlHhKGky

-BP

That's an odd version of Monza I've never seen. IMO, it should be with higher powered cars. No chicanes AND banked turns? The MX5 would be a boring car to drive there. Looks like all drafting all the time. I only watched a couple laps, just to get the lay of the land.

-BP

We got to work on the power steering cooler yesterday. A reasonably easy install except for some tight spots for clamps and hoses. I had a piece of galvanized angle steel laying around, and the holes in it lined up perfectly with the holes in the cooler. I got to use our "new" welder to we...

The new gasket is installed on the tank and the fuel pump assembly is reinstalled and pumping fuel again. Time will tell if the sloshing problem has been resolved or not.

-BP

That's pretty inventive. What? Nooo Wayyy... I like it!

-BP

Yesterday we worked on the gas tank fuel starvation issue and tried out my "new" welder. This is the welder I posted a little while back and decided that for the price it would be handy to have at Dad's place for whatever might arise. We hooked it up to make sure it was a functioning unit ...

Yesterday's project was to replace the passenger door's outside weather seal. It came with the car and we did the driver's one last year sometime. Like the driver's side, it took a couple hours. At some point a mouse was living in there and ate a bunch of wire coating off the door lock wiring, but s...

The Raptor got it's new wheel / tire combo installed yesterday. It's a much more streetable tire, really designed for hard packed dirt, but certified road worthy in Europe. They definitely transform the handling of this thing on dry pavement. It's like going from an 18:1 steering box to a 12:1. Turn...

These are already LED lights all the way around. They look old school but... The license plate light I just gave up on. Even the small t-bracket for the license plate would get bent if it didn't have the plate on it. There's pretty much no way to use their design. So I mounted the plate nice and hig...