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Jerico is the way to go for sure....but it's another expense and job to integrate the peripherals.You can't turn a street trans into a race trans with a $2000 shifter. A sequential shifter is just a really expensive crutch.
Pull the magnum, sell it and recoup most of your money. Throw in your sequential shifter money and buy a Jerico 4 speed. Figure out the optimum gearing you need for Laguna to make it a 3 gear race track. You'll be faster, the car will be 75 lbs lighter and you'll never miss a shift again. You're only regret will be that you didn't do it sooner. You've gone past the street car stuff in so many areas. Time to get past the street car transmission too.
https://trackmustangsonline.com/threads/ben-calimer-mt82-installed.10208/page-4#post-203521
https://trackmustangsonline.com/threads/ben-calimer-mt82-installed.10208/page-4#post-203556
Mustang road race car w jerico (just to show you that i'm not alone in thinking like this)
https://www.racingjunk.com/GT/183058801/2004-Ford-Mustang-Cobra.html?category_id=4&location_distance=200&location_zip=&price_min=&price_max=&condition=&trade=&search=jerico&search_type=all&search_exclude=&state[0]=&country=&order=score&limit=20&np_offset=1&from=search
Road race camaro w jerico
https://www.racingjunk.com/Road-Clu...icho-trans.html?category_id=5673&np_offset=46
ASA stock car based road racer with, you guessed it, a jerico
https://www.racingjunk.com/GT/183076524/GTA-Monte-Carlo-Lefthander-Howe-Chassis-LS1.html?category_id=4&location_distance=200&location_zip=&price_min=&price_max=&condition=&trade=&search=jerico&search_type=all&search_exclude=&state[0]=&country=&order=score&limit=20&np_offset=3&from=search
Just got off the phone with Tremec....he says there is something definitely wrong with my transmission. Now to go hunting....sheesh.I hear ya. As far as the 5th gear gate and reverse, the solenoid and plunger are supposed to stop it from getting into reverse. Its easy enough to take out and check it. Maybe you'll see something. When you pull it out you can see a relatively big lever that gets rotated into the hole when going into reverse. I took my plunger out just to see what it did (tr6060 not magnum). There's not much too it. But maybe forcing in into reverse has pushed the plunger in deeper than its supposed to be exposing part of the reverse gate.
I'm prepping my son as well, he has an S550-PP and his second track day is coming up on the 12th. He's really good on our simulator so I expect him to do well on track.Good luck.
Here's what my car looks like right now. I had planned on it being done in June. Oh well. I was a slave to a race car for many years. Now I'm not stressed about it. When its done, its done, and it'll be done right because I didn't rush it.
Plus, instead of working on my car, I worked on my kids car and he won his first race. He's only 16 and never raced anything before this summer. So I'm pretty pumped and proud about that. I've had my heyday. I'm over it. Seeing him win his first was way better than me winning 10 more.
Anyway here's my pos with that overweight pig tremec calls a transmission.
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I just may be bringing a plastic straw to a gunfight....
Yep...I was there. I have been watching the results as well which is why I was so bold as to throw my hat in the ring. My Laguna time of 1:38.5 would have been good enough to win every ITE event so far this year, at least on paper, and I've made some improvements since then. However, there are some super fast cars out there that haven't been showing up, so there is a good chance we may see some of them next year.I doubt it, but agree that its hard to predict whats going to be there. The last scca regional at laguna was this past weekend. ITE best times ranged from 1:40 to 1:45
But you'll usually get grouped in with GT1 which ran as fast as 1:27. So you will get screwed out of a lap or 2 of race distance as the lead GT1 car laps the field.
https://www.sfrscca.org/racing/results/
Drinks on you then....Dad.Oh I see you're a young one. I'm going to beat you to 60 by one month.
I am at the age where my friends are dropping like flies....it's just a matter of time for so I plan on enjoying what time I have left and the thing that makes me the happiest is RACECAR!Got you both covered by 6 years. Should we have a "who's the oldest dude on TMO" thread? I just try to ignore it personally, it's just a number.
...and no, my gauges aren't all different colors, just the light bulbs.
3 came Green and 3 came clear. When I had them in 2 different gauge pods it was no big deal. Just need to change the bulbs....a detail I'll get to later.
We can use a green sharpie to color the clear ones...According to Autometer, the lights cannot be changed so I'm stuck with goofy colors.
My quest for perfection is riddled with blemishes. I hate that.
Genius....but what if we used clear sharpie to color the green ones?We can use a green sharpie to color the clear ones...
Yeah I thought of that. The gels from my band lighting would work but the gauges are sealed. Not that big of a deal, it only looks janky when the car is running and nobody is going to see that....just one more of life's little imperfections that I have to learn to live with.If the bezel rings can be removed, you can cut out a piece of photography color correction film and stick that in there. Avoid the sharpie lines that way.