esir_spd

Oh wow, I have been so caught up in the Nitto's that I did not realize this was a different tire.

FromZto5

Thank you very much, guys. Spring is my favorite time of year - It's like opening a 5 month present that's been hibernating in the garage all winter.

Stage_3

Superb!!

Coyote5-0

I really like how picture quotes are severely downscaled. Not mad at that.

FromZto5

I want to know how to "reduce" the size of the pics that we quote an image to... it never used to be that big, and now with the new site updates, it makes it all big.

Anyone know how to make the size of the images smaller??? I want to keep them as links and NOT attachments.

Stage_3

I bring mine into PS3 and reduce the imagine size there.
PS3 = Photoshop 3.

FromZto5

Oh, yeah I know how to do that. I meant TMS itself, used to shrink it automatically. Now it doesn't.

laserred38

Car is at my suspension guy's shop getting all the BMR stuff (already done with that) actually) and front Wilwoods on. I was missing one rear brake pad so I have to go back to the shop for the rear install.

Longtubes go on next Thursday too!

Stage_3

Nice!
Car is getting some nice upgrades Patrick!

laserred38

Holy HELL, the car feels fricken amazing now!! If you drive a manual and haven't swapped your brake fluid, I highly recommend doing this. I swapped to Motul RBF 600 when I had all the stuff put on and the clutch feels SO much better. It also cured a LOT of my shifting woes. Almost all of the nibble and crunch is gone. I'm assuming a lot of that had to do with the clutch, since nothing else driveline was touched. Wow. And the BMR suspension too? Just grips!!

laserred38

Here's a teaser. Need to go back to have the rears installed!

esir_spd

Those Wilwood's look awesome!

From what I understand there is no bleeder valve on the clutch slave, if that is the case how do you get all of the old fluid out?

laserred38

Suck out the fluid from the reservoir, put new fluid in, bleed each corner starting from the farthest corner to the reservoir (RR in our case) to the nearest corner, until you see the new fluid in the line.

Ah, clutch part. I think they actually used a vacuum pump!

Stage_3

Nice bro!!
Awesome to hear. Fronts are looking killer!

ford20

What did you have put on?

laserred38

BMR adjustable LCAs and relocation brackets, adjustable UCA and mount, adjustable PHB and PHB brace (which my exhaust is hitting on one side so I need to do something about that), and then the front Wilwoods. I was missing a rear brake pad so I couldn't put the rears on, but it should be here today.

SilrBult

Actually it was yesterday. I ordered a track key for my '14 GT about a week ago from a local Ford dealer that handles Ford Racing parts and has a wholesale operation. Excellent price, $318.75 before taxes. Even after tax it was still better than some of the internet prices I've seen. The only problem was that this is a small town rural dealership here in SW Illinois and the service dept. had never done a track key before and the service manager was honest enough to admit that he wasn't sure they were up to it. No matter, Sunset Ford in St.Louis is an SVO dealership and so I made an appointment with them to have it programmed in yesterday. It took longer than expected. Their tech has done them before and didn't have any problems on his end, but apparently Ford was doing some work on their computers and it took forever to upload the information to them to complete the process. In any case Sunset was fair and didn't charge me for problems on Ford's end. They originally quoted me a price of one hours labor and they stuck to it even though it took over three hours. So was it worth it and how does it work? I think so. I haven't had a chance yet to explore all it's capabilities but there is a noticeable increase in low end torque and while I doubt that the lopey idle adds any performance it is unmistakable and gives a definite "cammed up" sound. Throttle response is sharper both on and off throttle.I think this will probably prove useful at the next autocross. One totally unexpected result was better gas mileage if the gas mileage indicator is to be believed. In the past using the standard key I averaged around 22.4 MPG regardless of octane used. Track key requires a minimum of 91 octane since it really bumps up the timing advance especially at lower rpms. I suspect the increased timing advance is responsible for the increase I saw. It hit a high of 25 MPG on the way home from St.Louis and settled in at 24.5. The key may also run a slightly leaner air/fuel mix under some conditions as well. In any case it's not something you would call a money saver since the cost of premium fuel will more than offset the improved gas mileage it provides compared to the cost of 87. I had two main reasons for choosing the track key over aftermarket tunes. The first was the fact that it won't void my factory warranty protection and the second was instant reversibility. In a lot of small towns and rural areas premium fuel is unavailable so running 87 octane is unavoidable unless you drive some distance just to get gas.

laserred38

Also did this for fun...doesn't make a huge difference, but it's noticeable. And strangely, the exhaust is quieter/less raspy. I actually smell the fumes less too, so I'm assuming it burns more completely than 91. Anyways, I had to drive 20 miles just to get to the station, so I won't be doing that again, but I filled the tank, so I'll have some fun this weekend...

Stage_3

Patrick, do you have a tune for the 101 octane?
That's expensive stuff, huh? 88 bucks for 12 and a half gallons!

laserred38

I don't, but supposedly our cars will pull timing automatically...I've read variations of that though. Figured what the hey, let's give it a try and see.