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Offline BenelliSEI

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Re: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?
« Reply #4225 on: June 18, 2025, 10:19:26 AM »
... and we turned some very quick laps! We tested a set of “Westlake Sport” tires.

I've heard of Westlake tires, they sell 'em at WalMart down here. 
Curious what the difference in lap times would be?

On a 2:06.0 lap at Shannonville (long course) the Westlake easily matched the Firestone Indys. The Toyos are about 1 second a lap faster.

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Re: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?
« Reply #4226 on: June 18, 2025, 01:48:09 PM »
Purchased some battery terminals for the '69 Mach 1 that allow my large cables to be soldered to them. It really cleaned up the battery area and should help with the "hot engine-slow crank" issue I had.



Also installed some new horns, the PO [before my brother] painted them and it was peeling. I don't think they should be painted so I just sprung for some re-pops. 
Now ready for the annual Mustang car show in August!

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Those cables/horns look Good Stev-o.
I hope you enjoy the Mustang car show;will Shelbys be there also??
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Re: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?
« Reply #4227 on: June 19, 2025, 07:02:03 AM »
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Those cables/horns look Good Stev-o.
I hope you enjoy the Mustang car show;will Shelbys be there also??

Thanks Bill.  Any vehicle with a Ford motor is welcome...
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Re: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?
« Reply #4228 on: June 19, 2025, 01:21:56 PM »
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Those cables/horns look Good Stev-o.
I hope you enjoy the Mustang car show;will Shelbys be there also??

Thanks Bill.  Any vehicle with a Ford motor is welcome...

I'd love to see a hopped-up Shelby GT350 up close,in person.
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Do your BEST...nobody can take that away from you.

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Re: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?
« Reply #4229 on: June 20, 2025, 06:09:48 PM »
 I backed up my race trailer and my wife noticed the back-up lights weren't on. While checking them at the track last week, the B-U lights were on with the taillights. They're yellow LED's (long story) but we got home before dark.
 All I can figure is when I wired the new plug-ins last year, I got a wire wrong. Except all of the other lights are correct and the truck is also correct.
  I replaced the rusty GM hitch with a heavier duty one from Curt and needed to change the truck side plug also, that was plug and play but I also swapped the pigtail so that must be where the error occurred.
  I bought much prettier Silverado taillights for the 2003 GMC, Dorman sells them with full harnesses so they will be plug and play also, the Chevy side markers alternate with the turn signal.
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Re: What did you do to your non-motorcycle vehicle today?
« Reply #4230 on: June 21, 2025, 06:30:13 PM »
 I gave up on fitting the 3 chamber Magnaflow mufflers under my 69 firebird project, they are just too big for the space left in the Art Morrison frame. I'm measuring up some 15* elbows and straight through linear flow Flowmasters to see if they will fit the space available without making new problems.
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