Ran the car all day today at st ives.
Sensational.
Michael and I both hoped it would be within 0.5 Sec of our laps from the club series meet a few weeks ago. We defined that as success.
Ran a couple of practice packs, changed front shock oil and played around with the diffs with 3 different setups f/r.
Result was the car was 0.5 sec faster than the fastest lap at the club series round. It was able to do 24.5 as the best time with high 24's consistenly. It puts the power down so well - in fact so well it is hard on the tyres.
There is defintely merit of the mechanical grip generated by the drivetrain.
Car is more stable in high speed sweepers than the B44 and as forgiving.
My biggest problem is trying to keep the motor cool. First 3 runs were at 180deg... got it down to 158deg in the last two runs but it is still too hot.
Only other issue seems to be the bearings expelling a lot of grease and the car got a lot noiser thorughout the day which seemed to be the bearings squeaking.
I also changed the spur for an associated 87 and had no issues - its a lot quieter than the std one.
Only other tip is to put threadlock on the screw that holds the rear outdrive on the slipper assembly. It does not tell you too in the manual and it came out for all the durango drives today. I picked it up in practice and with a drop of threadlock its fine.
The shock boots are great and the cvd boots work well too.
Car is a weapon.
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