SN95 RinerAutomotive's CAM-T Mustang Build Thread Profile - SN95 Mustangs

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I've done several events with the rear steer setup, I'm really liking it. I feel the car rotates better but isn't oversteery. One of my competitors watched the video and did a similar change to his car. He was the second fastest CAM-T mustang. Maybe I shouldn't be sharing everything? Nah, I like sharing and helping everyone level up.

I have had some things to fix over the last several events. First being the steering shaft bearing. It came apart luckily on my last run during one of the events. The steering shaft was knocking all around. The bearing is discontinued but luckily S197 mustangs have a compatible and better bearing.


Next was the throttle body. The engine came with a 75mm BBK TB. My tuner said it looked like the engine was getting air from somewhere, so I bought a smoke tester to look for the leak. I found two leaks one was fixed with a zip tie but the other was leaking around the TB shaft seal. Maybe it could be rebuilt, but the throttle linkage was also slightly bent which sometimes caused a hanging idle. I decided replacing the whole thing was best. Unfortunately, there aren't many SN95 options, so I went with a 70mm BBK. I knew this wasn't the best but the other ones didn't look any better.

Well the new BBK was DOA. The hole on the side where the TPS goes was undersized. The bushing didn't fit but neither did the lip on the TPS. So that was returned.

With what I felt no good options I turned to looking for a good used one. On ebay I found an old Ford Racing Cobra R 65mm. It looked to be in perfect condition even though it was made in 2001. Unfortunately, I already lost the little white rubber plug on the top (why we can't have nice things....).

 

[RinerAuto]

Recently I attended Muscle on the Mountain at UMI's Motorsports Park up in Pennsylvania. It is quickly becoming one of my favorite events and venue. This is their third year of doing this event and my second time attending. The UMI team puts on a great event. It's 2 days of qualifier runs with on average 8 runs on the first day and 6 runs on the second day. Its all to make it into the shootout which it's then a battle to determine the top 3. Drivers don't have to work the course, get an event t-shirt, lunch is provided both days, dinner social is provided on the first day. It's a top notch event. Oh and the competition is the best from across the country due to top 3 from each class winning cash money. There are 6 classes to cover all muscle cars and trucks from all vintages.

I was running in the Mid class which is 3rd and 4th gen F-Body, Fox and SN95 Mustangs. The class was 26 cars deep, which was second largest behind Early class. Oh yeah, this is Chevy country too. They broke the first day into 3 sessions of 3, 3, 2 runs. After the first session I was sitting 5th in class behind all Chevys and 0.7s off first place. After the second session everyone found more time except for me. I dropped to 7th in class and 1.3s off of first. So still achievable. There was chance of weather later in the day, but we lucked out and third session was still drying racing. Again more time was found, luckily I also found some more time on my last run to hang on to 7th and exactly 2 seconds off of first place. Only the top 7 make it to the shootout.

Day number 2 unfortunately started with rain. While I was ready to go, qualifying was cancelled and results from day 1 were going to be used for the shootout which was scheduled for later in the day. Most people packed up and left. Then around 11am the announcement that the weather window for the shootout was gone and it was also cancelled. So we packed up to hit the road back to VA which had beautiful weather. I finished with my best result of 7th in class and the fastest mustang in class.

A few people shared SoloStorm data, which showed that my lack of power and poor launches was really hurting my time at the beginning of the course. Once we got to the turns my car could keep just fine (when I didn't screw up braking or lines). So that is encouraging. I just need to try to drive like a Miata more and carry momentum.

As always here is a video of my time there, I think this one came out really good. Big thanks to Ashley for getting a lot of action shots and great b-roll.