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Messages - Clayton

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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
That's the beauty of building something I suppose, everything has a life span. My starter was bought when I put the old flowtech headers on it back in 07 or 08 and the stock starter physically wouldn't fit. So I bought this high torque mini starter off ebay for about $50, brand new. All was good with the world. I'm pleased it lasted this long it definitely didn't owe me anything.

But for the sake of it not happening again for another decade, do it right. Small things are often overlooked and could potentially cause bigger problems later on

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General Fox T-Bird/Cougar Discussion / Re: Kinda jonesin' for a Mark VII..
I want a black on black 91 LSC like, bad. Keep the air ride, nice wheels, updated brakes, and a coyote 10r80. North of 300 hp and smooth as glass and some pretty ok-ish mileage. Maybe a Whipple or a vmp blower on it at some point. I think that would be tits.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
Haven't updated here in a while, but the car is running great! Has a small incident last week.. my 13+ year old starter decided to hang up and stay engaged and start a small fire. Hood was up and I was home luckily but in the scramble to get a wrench to undo the battery it kept rolling the engine over, melted the wire and all that fun stuff. And literally the only thing I had close by to put the fire out was a bottle of raspberry tea :toothless: mmmmm burnt wire and raspberry. I ordered a new sve starter and wire from lmr and am back up and going again.... with a hint of raspberry.

Had her at a couple shows and got to beat the snot out of it a few times all is good in my world.

I was going to take it to the track and see what she would do the week of the 4th of July, had the car loaded on the trailer and ready to roll and got rained out and haven't had a chance to get down there since. I need to buy some slicks. Seems every time they have a street tire event I've got something else going on.. or it's raining. Muncie only does a few street tire events and they're on Wednesdays.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
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How has the self tuning been going?

It hasn't been too bad. A hiccup here and there but all in all not bad. I will eventually have it tuned by a pro when I get a little more serious with it, but for now I'm happy with it. I'm still on the original o2 sensor and coolant temp sensor that came with the kit which from what I'm hearing is a rarity.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
No updates to speak of I've just been getting out to every car show I can make it to

My work will be shut down the week of the 4th so that gives me a chance to get down to the track in Muncie and see what she does. I need to buy a set of tires so I can go down on a Friday night TnT. I haven't done any of those due to them requiring slicks or drag radials, but Wednesday's are open to street tires.
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User Rides / Re: Pastel Desert Sand TC...
You can buy a brand new tank on rock auto for under $100 I think I paid 78 for a brand new tank for my 88. That is unless you really want a fuel cell.

I remember when you got the car, man it's been a long time. Im glad to see its getting some new life again.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
Pretty chilly out today but made it out to the ole cars and coffee. I'm so  excited for this season of car shows
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
Cars and coffee this morning, I got there pretty early but there were over 100 cars out there today. It was crazy.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
Full disclosure. The picture makes it look a whole bunch better than it really does. But it looks  good for a knocker can paint job.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
It's all in one color finally! It looks like a bag of turds, but I didn't expect a show paint job from a rattle can. Had some issues with the primer that are gonna cause me to have to do some more work. But that's a less then $100 paint job for ya.
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User Rides / Re: Starting fresh
I'll be going black for now. I wanted to try out those rustoleum turbo cans lol.

I hope it turns out as nice as the door jams did. Theyre pretty nice looking.

I always wanted a black bird, but this is just a temporary tide me over until I'm done doing big mods on it. I'm going to hunt for a new front bumper, and passenger side door eventually but what I have now is solid-ish.

If I scratch the paint doing something stupid its not going to ruin my day.