That was actually meant to be posted a few weeks ago but never made it I see. So now theres some more good news and progress.
I picked up a few side jobs and found a little more coin so.
The saga of 275-35-18 in the front is at an end. Theirs a few of us that think we need a big tire in the front as well as the back so... The if you've been following this and or your one of the one want to stuff 275's in the front. I probably don't have a good answer for you but heres what I did to make it work for Twisted Fish. After getting the 18x9 front rims with a 6inch back space which do fit under the fenders but with as low as the car is they rubbed the fenders in a not so tight turn. So for my fist test drives I had the air ride cranked almost all the way up. ( kinda defeats the who reason for building it low) So I talked to willwood and got a set of offset hubs and new caliper brackets to move the wheel in 7 tenths on an inch. At that point the rim can be pushed back out if needed with spacers. as it turned out I left them all the way in. Now with anything less then 18" it won't work it will hit the steering and upper control arm. as it is at full lock it will know off my wheel weight. So I pulled the lower control arms and welded up a hard stop should have done that a long time ago. Its all back together now and works great with the springs at mid-point which is quite low nothing hits so I don't have to worry anymore about destroying my fenders. Now it I drop it on the ground thats another story.
So I got the front end done.
Remade a brake line that was still seeping and stopped a power steering leak.
Time for a road test.So before going on another road test. I Made a bunch of changes to the trans computer for shift timing and such. So today I took it and was afraid I wasn't going to make it back.
it ran terrible and was shifting very wrong. not a happy camper. I couldn't understand what went wrong. I turns out that all it takes is one "bit" of software was off. The FAST computer can store 4 programs for different "tunes" one "byte" 0,1,2,3, I had finished the wiring for a 2 position switch in the glove boy so I can have two different tunes. Theres three wires 1,2, and return. No problem but the "first" program isn't '"1" its "0" oops...
after correction my mistake I make a few more test runs with a VERY happy smile on my face. It's running very nice and shifting near perfect. Man made my day. Still need to fine tune the motor and put it on the dyno. But its getting closer!!
Oh one last thing I bought a upholstery sewing machine... Time to learn something new. ha ha this should be fun.
Topic: Twisted Fish 6.1 Pro-Touring, Channeled, bagged, finaly going back together! (Read 226382 times)
