Yes I am a Ford dealer in Vancouver , and no the car is easy to import as a race car , I also have a comp orange 2012 model Boss 302S and we sold a white 2012 to New Zealand .
Yes I am a Ford dealer in Vancouver , and no the car is easy to import as a race car , I also have a comp orange 2012 model Boss 302S and we sold a white 2012 to New Zealand .
I have done 4 races with the watts link and we also took the rear bar off and raised the rear spring rates from 350 to 400 .
The car is easier to drive and is better from mid corner to exit , easier to slide on exit , took a little compression out of the rear which helps get the power down .
The cortex cover has a drain on the bottom so no need to remove the cover .
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What are you guys using for a car cover? I have the front splitter already and will be adding the G-Stream wing early 2014; I'll need a cover for the car when it's out of the trailer at the track that will work with both of those.
Thoughts?
I have a California Car cover and they made it special for me with the dimensions I supplied for the Splitter and G-Stream Wing. They should have the info on file.
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Why do you need to cover your splitter with a car cover??
Why do you need to cover your splitter with a car cover??
It holds the cover on quite nicely in very high winds. :read::idea:
Thought that was what the "ring" on the bottom of the car cover was for?
Bruce, did you pass this info along to Mark or anyone at Ford Racing ?
Just thought I'd let my fellow Boss 302S owners in on an issue I've had with my SRA LCA's.
Back in June of this year I was at Road America at the Northwood's Shelby Club track event and I started to hear a knocking sound in the rear end. We gave the car a cursory inspection and found the diff catch can a little loose. I told the crew, that's NOT what I'm hearing but I'm willing to give it a shot. Sure enough, the sound didn't change.
Next event the knocking sound got a bit louder. Still could not find it. The last event I did, it sounded like the rear axle was going to be falling out of the car at any given moment.
We gave the car a VERY thorough inspection and found a significant amount of play in both ends of both LCA's. When we removed the LCA's we found a lot of play in mounting points. We thought it was in the spherical bearings. When we took the spherical bearings out of the control arms they pretty much fell right out. Although the spherical bearings had 'some' play in them, the biggest problem was the fact that the bore for the spherical bearing was about .006" too big. In addition, the bushings that take up the space between the mounting bolts and the spherical bearings also had a few thou clearance as well.
So..........after blasting off the powder coating (tough stuff) we tried heating up the eyes to shrink them and didn't have a lot of success. So then we heated them up again and had a little squirt bottle and sprayed some water on the bore and actually had more success. You would not want to do a full quench because you'd run the risk of making the eyes on the control arm brittle.
We ended up shrinking the eyes enough to where we are pretty happy we will have a tight enough press along with the assistance of some Loc-tite press fit assist. We also ended up replacing the spherical bearings and having to knurl the bushings that take up the difference between the spherical bearings and the mounting bolts.
Pretty sure we are going to be making these in the not too distant future. Not really happy with this design.
Hope this info helps.
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Bruce, I was discussing the merits of Maximum Motorsport's Extreme Duty rear LCA's with a fellow member here, Sam (19COBRA93). He shared with me the fact that his FRPP arms had failed him and expressed quite a bit of disappointment considering the source, FRPP, and the price.
I'll pm him to see if he can shed some light and see if the failures were similar.