S197 3V Fabman's build; How did we get here? Build Thread

[Fabman]

Finally finished. Rebuilt the caplipers, installed fresh pads and rotors and upgraded the rear brakes to 4 piston Brembos that match the fronts. Let’s see how this works….


Some minor livery updates:





First start up of the season:

 

[Mad Hatter]

any luck with the possibility of adding ABS??

 

[Fabman]

any luck with the possibility of adding ABS??

No, looks like it's going to be non ABS for the foreseeable future.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Well at least you have really big shoes.

 

[302BOB]

Fred Flintstone would be proud!!!!!!!!!!!!!.............carry on .....................

 

[Fabman]

You keep tearing stuff up, I'm sure we can hit 200

(page count was @100)
How prophetic…..look at the page count now. Lol.

 

[Boone]

Sal, do you think you're going to need to run a different compound pad in the rear with the brake upgrade? I don't know if you have a brake bias (F/R) dial in the car since the ABS is gone.

What do real racers do in this situation? Clue us street car guys in.

 

[Fabman]

Sal, do you think you're going to need to run a different compound pad in the rear with the brake upgrade? I don't know if you have a brake bias (F/R) dial in the car since the ABS is gone.

What do real racers do in this situation? Clue us street car guys in.

I have a race pad that came with the calipers that is supposed to be similar to the RSL-29 Pagids that I ran with the stock calipers.
I do have a proportioning valve so I can fine tune. We'll see what this does then adjust the pad compounds if necessary.
I have 2 sets of these pads so it would be great if they worked out but, still to be determined.

What do real racers do?


This, but my car is already built and crawling over the door bars to fab something like this on the floor is not high on my list....plus I keep thinking "This is my last season" so big projects are not something I want to do not to mention the added cost. BUT, I will if I have to....I just don't WANT to.

I'd also like to twin turbo this thing but again...time and money.
Probably not going to happen.

 

[Boone]

For the record, I love that you are the king of the American Iron world. Although, even AIX has power/weight limits, so the "Extreme" part is limited. When you decide it's time to step aside and give someone else a shot at the title, are you looking forward to the "no holds barred" world of nothing other than chasing lap times? No rules, whining competitors, officials, etc. Please tell me this is a "Yes" and you're not going to sell it all and go fishing.

At least make a winter trip to Chile and go show those pesky Porsches Mad Hatter is dealing with a thing or two. I can hear those wonderful announcers shouting "Sal Molinare!!!" between Spanish words I don't understand.

 

[Fabman]

For the record, I love that you are the king of the American Iron world. Although, even AIX has power/weight limits, so the "Extreme" part is limited. When you decide it's time to step aside and give someone else a shot at the title, are you looking forward to the "no holds barred" world of nothing other than chasing lap times? No rules, whining competitors, officials, etc. Please tell me this is a "Yes" and you're not going to sell it all and go fishing.

At least make a winter trip to Chile and go show those pesky Porsches Mad Hatter is dealing with a thing or two. I can hear those wonderful announcers shouting "Sal Molinare!!!" between Spanish words I don't understand.

I don’t even know how to fish.

 

[Fabman]

For the record, I love that you are the king of the American Iron world. Although, even AIX has power/weight limits, so the "Extreme" part is limited. When you decide it's time to step aside and give someone else a shot at the title, are you looking forward to the "no holds barred" world of nothing other than chasing lap times? No rules, whining competitors, officials, etc. Please tell me this is a "Yes" and you're not going to sell it all and go fishing.

At least make a winter trip to Chile and go show those pesky Porsches Mad Hatter is dealing with a thing or two. I can hear those wonderful announcers shouting "Sal Molinare!!!" between Spanish words I don't understand.

Honestly, I don’t know what I’m going to do. I’m stuck between “you only live once” and ”I better start saving for retirement’.

 

[Mad Hatter]

I can hear them shouting Sal Molinarrrrrre..... Sal is Salt, so that would be fitting. Of course, the fact that the evil greens have shut down our one pro track might sour the trip.

 

[Ludachris]

I’m stuck between “you only live once” and ”I better start saving for retirement’.

Aren't we all? That whole retirement savings thing is likely going to come back to bite me.

 

[Mad Hatter]

Well look on the bright side... (sort of).... we are living longer now and our kids are not pumping out babies like we used too... So, you will have people bothering you for welding jobs when your 80!!!

 

[KazarS197]

Aren't we all? That whole retirement savings thing is likely going to come back to bite me.

Retirement?

 

[JeffV8]

My wife says I can’t retire until I sell or stop tracking my car Or I can sell car and buy this…

 

[Mad Hatter]

Lol.... could you get a hot brake and tire machine to get the track smells? Ethanol you can just spray around... Assuming you don't smoke!

 

[Fabman]

I can hear them shouting Sal Molinarrrrrre..... Sal is Salt, so that would be fitting. Of course, the fact that the evil greens have shut down our one pro track might sour

The biblical definition of Sal is "Savior" or "Salt of the earth".....

 

[Fabman]

Aren't we all? That whole retirement savings thing is likely going to come back to bite me.

Oh, it's definitely biting me...

 

[Fabman]

Well look on the bright side... (sort of).... we are living longer now and our kids are not pumping out babies like we used too... So, you will have people bothering you for welding jobs when your 80!!!

splendid.