What did you do to your Boss 302 or S197 today?

[FastEd]

A coolant flush. Still had the orange stuff in it.

I have to do that on my 12 as well. It only had 8600 km on it when purchased last year so the only maintenance it had ever had was oil changes.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

FastEd, I do hope you did some other things besides just oil changes as I would definitely have changed the rear end fluid, tranny fluid , etc. when you did the coolant flush --- just for the age of the car if nothing else. If tracking often those areas need to be as religiously changed as brake fluid and engine oil imho.

 

[XJCasper]

Not doing to well at it today. Sold some wheels to pay my son to sand and polish up my Racestars.

4:30 in the afternoon, sipping on coffee. Feel so lazy. Posting this to put my foot up my ass and get going.

I can tell you what I shouls be doing. replacing my 20 year old seats. Get the horn for my new steering wheel working. Syart stripping the interior and taking measurements for my rear eear delete/amp rack. Pull a wheel off my daughter's car.

Guess I will finish my coffee and watch some YouTube mustang videos to get my motivation going.

 

[welltal89]

I went to a local Lincoln dealership to look at a higher mileage (90K miles) 2014 track pack GT. The dude who was showing me the car mentioned it has a 3rd gear grind (not great) pretty much straight piped exhaust (loud), and an alignment issue (pulls to the left.)

I then get the opportunity to put it up on a lift and I see a rust hole about 7 inches wide that the body shop says is about 1200 to repair. For primarily being a track car this seems to need a bit of work. 12500 a good deal though?

 

[stevbd]

That’s weird I’ve never seen that much rust damage on a late model S197. Track pack is sweet but personally I’d move along

 

[BackInBlack]

Better to buy a good chassis with a bad engine that you can replace! Good thing you spotted the rust!

 

[mwjscn]

Yeah, move on. Lots of stated issues means there's probably also unstated issues and when you can see rust it also means there's usually rust you can't see, too. Suppose that's Michigan winters for ya.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

Rust bucket ------ not something you want on your " Bucket List , " move on from that holey terror!

 

[EF1]

I would not buy one with that kind of rust damage. If it was me I would look for a cleaner example. The 3rd gear grind means it needs a rebuild or tranny swap and due to mileage a clutch and slave cylinder. The track pack doesn’t mean much to me. My 2011 was a Brembo car (no track pack that year )and everything that came in the package has been swapped out.

 

[Dave_W]

As someone who has had a Triumph Spitfire shell on a rotisserie in the barn for several decades, take it from me that mechanical work is way easier than sheetmetal work.

 

[Bill Pemberton]

..... hmmm, unless you are working with Lucas electrical components, haha!

 

[Tim.ocon]

Not something I actually did TODAY but a few days ago I finally got around to notching my strut towers to take full advantage of my vorshlag camber plates

Also started a design for some brake cooling deflectors modelled after the vorshlag ones that I can’t afford to ship across the border (Canada)

 

[WVTrakPak]

Shew! It was a long long process and much sweat and frustration. That’s a wrap….or unwrap for Bill…..

 

[302BOB]

Shew! It was a long long process and much sweat and frustration.

Congrats on your achievement of epic proportions..........I'm sure it's not going to be forgotten by you any time soon.............

 

[Mike_FL]

Did track night at America at Daytona on Thursday.
Had planned to do all six session but I managed to crack a rear rotor.
No idea how that happened as the TC was off

My 3.73 rear end definitely held me back at speed in the backing. Struggled to do more then 140mph in 5th


After that I was flagging the chicane/busstop for Scca club races on fri/sat/sun. Great weekend

 

[Fabman]

Did track night at America at Daytona on Thursday.
Had planned to do all six session but I managed to crack a rear rotor.
No idea how that happened as the TC was off

My 3.73 rear end definitely held me back at speed in the backing. Struggled to do more then 140mph in 5th


After that I was flagging the chicane/busstop for Scca club races on fri/sat/sun. Great weekend

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When you replace those rotors have them cryogenically frozen before use and they will last may many times longer.

 

[Mike_FL]

Thanks I’ll look into that. These are the gt500 rear rotors, I thought they were supposed to handle the heat better due to the extra size. I also have already removed the rear dust shields

 

[Fabman]

Thanks I’ll look into that. These are the gt500 rear rotors, I thought they were supposed to handle the heat better due to the extra size. I also have already removed the rear dust shields

I used to go through rotors every couple races, now a set of rotors last all season. It costs me 125.00 to do all 4 rotors. It’s a no brainer.

 

[4dMuscle]

Hey M

Did track night at America at Daytona on Thursday.
Had planned to do all six session but I managed to crack a rear rotor.
No idea how that happened as the TC was off

My 3.73 rear end definitely held me back at speed in the backing. Struggled to do more then 140mph in 5th


After that I was flagging the chicane/busstop for Scca club races on fri/sat/sun. Great weekend

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Hey Mike,
Did you find this during routine inspection between sessions, or did you get an indication on track?

 

[4dMuscle]

When you replace those rotors have them cryogenically frozen before use and they will last may many times longer.

Does the cryo treatment need to be done on new rotors, or is it effective on parts already in service?