Another 100 degree day in good ol' KS.
Took the FD out 'cuz it hadn't been out for a while.
I was just amazed at how well it ran, even with the A/C on! I have a little stretch of road that I use as my "test bed" for cars. There is a stop sign and then a short run of a little over a quarter of a mile that has a bridge on it.
In the cold, good horsepower making days, I can hit right at 120 mph from a dead stop to the end of the bridge. Today the car did 110 mph....just flat amazing!
There have been other times that the heat REALLY affected the car, lots of stalling and hard starting...I was afraid to take it out. Not today, though.

 

HA- 100 degrees?
Move to florida. Youll know how shitty it is year round.
-Ben

 

the whole SE region is riddled with that crapola. i cant walk outside w/o sweating my face off!!!! not as high temps as florida, but tennessee still makes me sick to my stomach. haha.

paul

 

glad the car ran good in 100 weather.... that is some sick weather

 

i hope you guys are running temp guages...i know rotorbrain is.....back when i was first modifying my fd i ran mine at the track in that kind of heat...guess what....side seal gone....ouchy.

hell...id definitely not be driving it even now that i run an upgraded cooling system.

you guys are insane for doing that.


j

 

Oh yeah? Move to Florida AND install awnings for eight hours.

Just felt like one-upping.




I'm glad your car is running well and your block weld seems to be holding up. My car might be going on the block weld program as well.

 

It must be awful, living in Florida, or anywhere in the south for that matter. 80's and 90's from april to december, and it gets down to maybe 60 in the "winter?"

**** off, try new england, we got 112 inches of snow last year in good old worcester. And guess what? It's hotter and more humid here in the summer than it is in Florida. Don't beliebe me? Watch the weather channel some day, it breaks 90 almost every day in the summer. Quit your friggen complaining.

 

i know it must get hot in new england... but there is no way the heat index with humidity is worse than south florida... no way at all...

 

i acutally used to have a beach house up on long island... it got hot... but nothing compared to florida... and i have a house in vermont... gets hot... but again, nothing compared to central/south west florida

 

Florida weather is a real pain. But a good running car IMHO is a sign of bad things to come. I guess thats because my car was running perfect on me, as soon as i was beginning to love the car even more, the pulsation dampner went. So now im putting in a new motor to save some $$ on labor. Soon to be happy once again with a brand new ASI Streetport

 

ive lived in boston and in south florida....boston summer is like winter in florida...even on the hottest days....the hottest day here with humidity was around the fourth of july and it maybe came close to how hot it got down there on an average summer day.

though i must say...the winters up here suck dick...the roads are ****...and it is almost unlivable.

boston only gets two or three months of good weather at most...hell from december til june there was max fifteen sunny days...it was either rainin..sleetin...or snowin....

either way id take nine months of good weather in south florida over this.


j

 

got two words for you guys......south texas...

 

I do have a temp guage, and it only comes off 180 around noon.
I am looking forward to the cooler days of winter so I can see what all this cold weather HP is all about.
-Ben

 

I've been more south in TX than you this summer boostedrotor :p I know what you mean.

 

I'd rather stay in the heat and be able to drive the car year round. Must suck to put it up half the year up North.

 

ha! ha!
try san diego it's like spring time year round

But damn average price of house is $400,000 these days... Sunshine dollars my friends...


Edit:
P.S. On the brighter side of things I get to go surfing on my lunch break and we get waves year round.

 

They always run best before the blow...

 

I'm from florida, and humidity sucks, but there's something eerie and scary about breathing 110 degree air, where the air you breathe is hotter than your body... even though it's in the desert.
Inland california air is real scarry stuff... I'd hate to be a turbo and try to cool that shtuff down in an intercooler...

-DC