Badev0's Build part 2 - Built 2.0/FF 6266 by badev0

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5-23-2013

I am driving the car home tonight. Have the day off work tomorrow to install the aluminum driveshaft, fluids, plugs, touch up the tune and what not before we leave for Norwalk. 

Here's two crappy pics from my phone of the cage before completion. Will get finished pics soon. It turned out amazing! 

5-28-2013

The cage is all done with the exception of putting in the window net and harness. Ran out of time Friday night. 

I drove the car down to Ohio for the IDRC, it was a great drive. Car got 20.5mpg . I took it to Buschur's on Saturday then Cedar point afterwards. I think I put close to 400 miles on the car. I wish we could have tested the car prior to the event but had no time. 

The car popped out the same freeze plug again Saturday night when tuning it a bit more. We replaced it and it held good then, hoping it would stay in to race... Well it did not and came out after a launch at the track. Same one Joey popped out as well which is crazy. Thank you Boostin Performance for the freeze plug so I could get home  And thank you Wheatley for the fuel as the pump was broken at the only E85 station in Norwalk. 

We inspected the hole the freeze plug popped out of, looks like its scored pretty bad (seem's like the machine shop may have messed it up). We will be taking care of these issues shortly whether the head is lifting or not and be testing the car at the local track soon