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Recent content by JAJ

  1. Cup2R Tires Road Atlanta - Managing Pressure at HPDE Track Event

    Get yourself a Motorcraft TPMS Reset Tool TPMS19. It allows you to retrain the BCM to recognize the (OEM) TPMS's you just installed on the car when you changed wheels. You start the relearn with a series of taps on the brakes and the start button and then go around the car and trigger each...
  2. Thoughts on how my Pagid 29’s are wearing

    What I'm seeing is pads that have been run very hot. RSL29's are exceptional race pads so they can take it, but their condition is a result of going in deep and getting hard on the brakes late. Braking that way generates a huge amount of heat at a time when you're not moving fast enough for...
  3. Tornado hits Willy Da P's house , but there is even worse news............

    If you want to celebrate a "my car survived a tornado too" moment, try this:I'm' really glad to hear nothing bad happened to you and your family. There are so many more "unnatural disaster" problems these days - big wildfires, hurricanes, tornados, floods, you name it, it just goes on and on.
  4. S550 Honey Badger GT350 Build

    That's great, but with all the cutting and chopping you've done to the chassis since the picture was taken, are there possibly new pathways for water to get in? If you have room to mount the electronics 2" off the floor, it might be worth it.
  5. S550 Honey Badger GT350 Build

    With the electronics on the floor, could rain become a problem?
  6. S550 OTS Tune with ZERO rev hang?

    If you find one, it'll be interesting to hear how it works. For the non-turbo engines, the hang is there to keep the cats hot. On the Ecoboost, presumably it's there to keep the turbo from spinning down too far (lag prevention). Maybe it's unnecessary - time will tell.
  7. Ford Performance Rear Hub w/ ARP Studs Issue?

    I have the set on the car and a spare set and there's no human-detectable play in any of the four. If the bearing separates under a high lateral g load, the only thing that can keep the wheel on is the brake caliper.
  8. Ford Performance Rear Hub w/ ARP Studs Issue?

    Depending on your schedule, contact FP again and show them pictures of the play. They may have a defective batch.I had this problem once on a set of replacement OEM rear hubs (with longer studs installed) on my GT350 and it was caused by the machine shop that swapped the studs catching the...
  9. More awesome news out of DC

    I've been watching this thread with interest. A few points from my decades of watching regulatory overreach develop and grow to fruition:1. That there's a car industry at all is an urban myth. It was completely destroyed back in the 1970's when governments imposed super-stringent...
  10. coolers for road racing?

    The 10 vs 12 issue goes back a long way, it might have been for the Boss 302 race cars running Coyote's. There was a post about engine problems by Kohr (or whatever the name was before it was changed to Kohr) and from that point on, -12AN has been the spec for cooler plumbing.
  11. AP racing front brake kit for 2020 GT500

    It depends on your needs.Ford, bless their hearts, made doing what you want to do really easy. The front knuckle on the 2020 GT350R (NOT the 2020 GT350) is exactly the same as the GT500 front knuckle, except it's been machined for the GT350 front brake setup that 19" rims will fit over. Ford...
  12. IMSA penalties explained.

    This did create a real dilemma for IMSA and I think their decisions were about money. The teams running the unfair cars likely knew nothing of the unfair advantage - they "runned what they brung" and won the race. While it's great for the team and the drivers, there's not a lot of financial...
  13. Diff cooling and E85 results - interesting findings at Road Atlanta - fast lap

    Exactly. The OP says he has a diff cooler so the spec lube that Ford puts in the high horsepower, high torque, cooler-equipped GT500 should work fine.
  14. Tire size for handling package

    I went looking for a Trofeo RS review and didn't see any. Can you point me at one? I ran Trofeo R's in the past, I really liked them and they're what I'm switching back to when my current set of MPSC2's wears out. I saw the RS, but they're an OEM tire, and it's not clear what that means...
  15. Diff cooling and E85 results - interesting findings at Road Atlanta - fast lap

    You might want to switch back to the diff oil the car came with. Ford runs 75w-85 diff oil in the FP Shelby's because it generates less heat under high load than heavier oils and it lubricates at least as well or better. It's a modern formulation developed to meet a very tough spec published...
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