Dude isn't out driving me, he is out moneying me. If I had anything close to what his car is I'd walk all over him.
Time to start spending
So your mad cause he's beasting you at your own game? There is always going to be someone with more money. And the saying isn't 80% car 20% driver. The pits are full of those guys.I'm kind of flattered that he needs to do all that to beat my redneck ass in my stock motored, fat pig Honda. Dude isn't out driving me, he is out moneying me. If I had anything close to what his car is I'd walk all over him.
So your mad cause he's beasting you at your own game? There is always going to be someone with more money. And the saying isn't 80% car 20% driver. The pits are full of those guys.
That is a cool picture.
The shift kit sounds exciting/promising.
I raced a couple times with a semi local SxS racer and we'd start in the back of the pack in a stock RZR and pass the entire field and end up 1st or 2nd. The one short course race we started dead last and passed 18 other modified cars and ended up in 1st. A few things I know he did was brake way later than anyone else and felt like the front end was gonna break off from the brake chatter. But it was consistently faster.
Have a couple other buddies that race a in the pro class and run a 4 cylinder mini trophy truck with a 5 speed. It's a dog and pain to shift with the 5 speed compared to the fullsize V8 rigs in the same class but last year he rolled it on the side, got it back over and was still able to get second.
Keep on the driver training!
Hackfuck the mufflers 'cause race car and light weight. Then pack them with new packing because it's cheap and readily available.
They will come apart agian, plenty of opportunity to hackfuck down the road. I'm not against it, just prolonging the inevitable.
Makes repacking them even more fun.Pack and tig it
Is there that my vibration to tear it like that or to much pressure in the can itself blowing it apart?
Does it have an equalizer pipe between the two? Just thinking outside the box.
Badass build I went thru all 20 pages last night.
What about your exhaust wrap keeping all the heat until it hits the mufflers and just eating your packing and heat cycles the muffler to the extent of failure on the rivets and the ones that hold on stretch from bouncing around.Thanks man!
It's not from vibration, I'm sure of that. Those cans are (were) not moving. Muffler seems to be getting stupid hot for some reason. That system has an X pipe in it so why it's not happening to both sides is what has me puzzled. Car doesn't have a lean misfire and it doesn't pop on decel as far as I can tell, I was listening for it today. I'm thinking one cylinder is leaning out and if I follow the crossover at the X it leads to the front cylinder. I'm going to pull the plugs in the morning to see what's going on. I may possibly have a bad/clogged injector or a vacuum leak below the throttle bodies. It didn't feel slow at the track today and it doesn't smoke even a little bit so whatever is wrong isn't major.....YET. I bought more packing from the store at the track and will repack the muffler again and use even more rivets. That whole system is coming off at the end of the year and a custom built 2 into 1 system will be going on for next season, so if I can squeeze 5 more races out of it I will be happy.
What about your exhaust wrap keeping all the heat until it hits the mufflers and just eating your packing and heat cycles the muffler to the extent of failure on the rivets and the ones that hold on stretch from bouncing around.
I'd try and take the exhaust wrap off after repacking the one muffler and rivet it back up and see if it does it again.
so sounds like a backfire and blew the mufflers ass right out of it.
well now you dont have to hackfuck the muffler if this is the problem and like you said its only the one side doing it. you going to pull muller off and weld the rivet hole up and redrill so there tight or just rivet it back up and hope for the best.