The clutch fork pivot stud thingy broke causing me to lose use of the clutch. Finished up the dragon stuck in second gear. Once I made it to the lake on the TN side, we dianosed the problem. Decided to stash the car at my parent's house so I had to drive 20 miles without the use of the clutch, rev matching to change gears.

This is the third time dammit, that I have broke something on the dragon. Add this to diff mount/subframe and oil cooler line.

 

Did you find the part for it yet or are you gonna have to drive your "beater"? Someone should of filmed you guys getting that thing home with the pit crew following and all!

 

I left the car in TN. I'm getting the "beater" registered, then gonna drive that until I get the chance to go back out there and fix the 7.

 

My car overheated in Jasper,TN just west of chattanooga. Luckily a fellow caravaner's in-laws were about 10 minutes away and I parked the car there. I drove the car back and it waited until I got off the interstate to overheat again. At least I saved some gas... because last time I overheated ON the gap... BUT STILL DROVE IT HOME!!!! hopefully everyone will get their stuff fixed for next year.

Paul

 

I wore out a set of brake pads, but thats it for me. I had a blast!

 

Meh, my car ran perfect.

Thank you Kevin Landers.

 

last year the dragon ate my alternator.
apparently alternators dont like turning 5-6k for 15 minutes at a time.

thanks to paul and chad for coming to the rescue.

 

Of course yours ran perfect. You never got it above about 15 mph!

 

I think I killed the voice coil in my right rear speaker....

 

greg prepare yourself for when DJ sees that...

because you just might not realize whom you are dealing with..

 

I have nothing to prove.

Those who were riding with me when I wore it out (Paul) know that I was kickin ***.

Remember, this is my daily, my parents won't buy me a 'reliable' car to drive for the fun of it.

 

hahaha...good luck Greg.

 

Well I didnt ride with you, and you for some reason backed out on my little challenge, so...

 

Haha, I had to test out my new racing beat stainless steel brake lines, and I must say. I am VERY impressed! Last time, some spirited driving in the country left me nearly brakeless, yet this time I was driving harder than ever, braking harder, later, and noticing no fade! After over 5 hours of driving (probably like 4hrs of HARD driving) I was on my way home, and taking my "detour" down 348 and I missed a stop sign at the end by like 5 feet! haha- it was funny because I saw the stop sign a long way off, and I was just coasting. But when I started braking, I noticed it wasn't stopping (on the way down the mountain, I did a couple crazy brake tests and that mountain was steeper than the dragon) So yeah, it was funny because at the dragon I had no problems what so ever, drove extremely hard- on the way home I didn't take it very easy either... SS brake lines FTW!

 

The open header gave me some temporary hearing loss.

I started getting a lean out mis-fire on high boost, so I had to spend the whole trip on low boost.
A new 255LPH fuel pump is on its way.

Still it was a blast.

 

I had some clutch slippage and my 3rd gear synchro is going Other than that I didn't find anything else to break

 

i blew an oil seal, engines comming apart right now though. I was able to limp home at 60mph (got home on $50 of gas oO)

 

Well, the Dragon didn't break my car put I am pretty sure it contributed to a few things:
1) Front brake pads are squeaking now
2) Oil pan leaking a little in the rear
3) Turbo is grumpy sometimes (knew that was coming)

Oh well, next day off, all will be fixed.

 

What the dragon ate or I now need to replace
1) 3 Konig billet ALLU. center caps only $42 a piece and I have to wait 3 weeks for them to be made!!!!

2) Brake Pads

3) about five super small paint scratches.

 

You MUST send me good pix of the 8 with the centercaps on those rims! those are SWEET.

 

Dude those wheels cant be very old. I would call up Konig and tell them that their pos center caps fell off the wheels after (however long you have had them) and you didnt pay a whole lot of money for wheels with center caps that fall off. Tell them to send you some new ones. It might work :shrug:

 

I agree. bitch about it before you pay $$.

 

Oh, and from all the getting in and out of the car all weekend, all day, the drivers side door handle friggin broke...

Me no happy.

 

I just started getting a high power mis-fire running the gap.
It ran fine when I lowered the boost, & running the gap in wet conditions is safer in low boost anyway.
But, it kept getting worse for the next week.
New fuel filter - helped some, not much. New fuel pump - no help.

Then I found it - the AFM was getting erratic.
The S-AFC AIR reading plot had a notch in it.
It had given trouble last winter, but contact cleaner cleared it up.
This time it was just worn out.

For now I'm temporarely running on a 929 AFM, with the S-AFC dialed down 40%.

 

My car survived, but it developed a mysterious boost leak that disappeared the next day. The stock fan almost came off too, creating a horrible vibration on the drive back. I think the worst damage was definitely to my wallet!