ReplicaR's Time Trial Mustang build Engine Rebuild

codfod · Nov 10, 2016

ReplicaR said:
Might be a little while. For reasons explained in the link below

[video=youtube;3V35jvY0u7I]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3V35jvY0u7I[/video]

Ahhh The Lonely Island. Understandable though, gotta do what you gotta doodoo

ReplicaR · Nov 16, 2016

A bit of an oops moment from last track event. While pulling the car out, I ran over a jack stand with my left rear wheel. As a result of that, I've got a bit of vibration now over 80 mph, and the cause looks to be a slightly bent axle shaft. Video below.

[video=youtube;Rp7WIeJ50v0]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Rp7WIeJ50v0[/video]

Musturd · Nov 16, 2016

Oooops . Shit happens hopefully it's not anything major axle shafts are nice and easy to replace . May need some pointers and advice from you on my new project for taking turns

ReplicaR · Nov 16, 2016

Yeah, I'm planning on Cobra rear brake upgrade while I'm there.

g36 monkey · Nov 16, 2016

Dang that sucks! Side note, I love your "Is my shifter in neutral?" autism. Why do we all do that. I constantly wiggle side to side to make sure, knowing all it takes is maybe one shake lol!

ReplicaR · Nov 17, 2016

My mind was elsewhere. I just wanted to make sure that I'm not going to get out of the car with it's still in gear.

g36 monkey · Nov 17, 2016

Lol you do it at the start up too! Believe me I am not making fun, because I know I do the same thing. Watch any exhaust video on this site, and for whatever reason, even if we know the car is in neutral, we still have to have shifter autism just to make sure lol!

Side note, almost finished up with the PHB, weld in sway bar, and TA

ttocs · Nov 17, 2016

I am willing to bet that is one of those stupid things you will only do one time as you will spend years now checking for nothing under/around the car.

ReplicaR · Nov 17, 2016

I'm betting you are probably right.

g36 monkey · Nov 17, 2016

I think we all probably will as a result of this video. Complacency definitely gets all of us at some point

ReplicaR · Dec 17, 2016

So a bit of an update. After having the totally stock Koni Single Adjustables on the car, I decided to get the revavled, and upgraded for more spring rate. This is not a cheap services, and kind of a pain in the ass, because Koni can only be serviced by like 3 authorized locations in United States alone, and unlike Bilsteins, which can be revalved for 60 dollars a pop, Koni revalve starts at 155. Luckily for me, one of the locations is in SoCal, a place called Pro Parts USA, and they currently have a 20% off special on any Koni service, so I've decided to take advantage of this deal. Going to drop the shocks off on wednesday, should have them back in 2-3 weeks. In the mean time, the car has been converted to a new shockless and springless air ride.

Here are shocks before they go into service. Can anyone spot something odd about them?

g36 monkey · Dec 18, 2016

I'm blind and mentally inept, so I don't want to guess and be wrong. Interested to see how you like the change. I didn't know Koni's were so much more expensive to revalve. I have Koni up front and Bilstein rear.

evilcw311 · Dec 18, 2016

It would appear one of your fronts is not fully extending.

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ReplicaR · Dec 18, 2016

evilcw311 said:
It would appear one of your fronts is not fully extending.

Bingo. Not sure when this happened, but it's good to know that I'm taking them for service this week.

g36 monkey · Dec 18, 2016

In my defense, you said shocks, so I was only looking at the shocks, not the struts lol.

chris91 · Dec 18, 2016

I'm lucky, Koni is like 30 minutes from me in Hebron, KY. I have four Yellow Struts that need rebuilt myself. Two of them are squirting fluid out the adjusters, the other two look like wolverine was trying to take the spring off and gouged the rod on them. Got em for free when I bought two good rear shocks. I also have another good set of Yellows too that will be going on the car soon. I was curious if I should have them rebuilt to stock specs or would it be even worth it for a street car to have them done with custom valving?

ReplicaR · Dec 18, 2016

The rebuild to stock or custom is totally your call. Stock Koni valving is pretty good, and can handle a lot of spring rate before you start going outside of what it can handle. According to MM, Koni SA front strut can handle up to 375 lbs of coilover spring rate, and rear is about 250 lbs of coilover rate. I'm running 450/300 currently, and it's a pretty good for a track car with no aero. Once I will get some aero devices, I will increase the rate another 75 lbs, hopefully that will be within the range.

ProPartsUSA is pretty close to me, I'm dropping the shocks off there on Wednesday morning.