Getting closer........

[Jim Nilsen]

The weekend didn't bring me all it was supposed to as far as getting the tune in my email but I made progress on a noise that I thought I had fixed and then it would return and leave. I found it to be the shock moving on the bushing and allowing the metal part of the shock to rattle against the shock mount. Now that I have the thing spaced on both sides so it can't move the noise and other noise i thought I had have completely gone away. the telegraghing of the noise showed up in the strangest and scariest of places.

With the noises gone and the warm weather and sunshine giving me more opportunity to drive it, the car is working really well and I started to get on it a bit with confidence. The car is geared just like I engineered it to be and I will be able to use 2nd at the autocross where others were using 1st and hitting the rev limiter. I can get off the line with a lot of control over the tire spin and will be able to go to 36 mph at 6000 rpm and when I go to 2nd it is right in the sweet spot of the torque curve. The gears go in 30 mph increments all the way to 185 mph at 6000 rpm in 6th with a 26 in. tall tire. With a taller tire and not much of a taller tire the speed would go to 200mph just like I had designed it to. I totally love the incremental stepping of the gears and the ability to choose which way to shift according to the next corner or straight away.

I feel I can now move on to some of the things that need to get finished but was not wanting to have to go backwards to fix things.

I will try to get a video from inside the car while going thru the gears. When the car can go to 6 grand it will be just what I was looking for and the late model stock car engine is really liking the gears too.