Took my 418 for a drive today. But something blew up.

Ok, Chris aka CManT1914 came over today to help. Got the car started and out of the garage and ready to drive. Took it for a spin up and down our county road. It drove awesome but when I took a turn I heard a pop and the steering started to act funny. At first I thought it was just low on steering fluid then when i get it back home chris started to add fluid. Then I noticed a very large puddle of fluid under the car. At first I thought it was just one of the rubber lines but once i got under my car i saw it was pouring from under the rack. Took a closer look and I saw the rack had a hair line crack and was just pouring out fluid. So my dod on his way over went to autozone and got a new one for $100. But now I have to lift the engine to clear the rack so I can slide it off. Just one more thing to do now.

But damn, it drove so nice and smooth and it moves

Glad to hear it actually drives
Good luck on getting that fixed......now where did i put that 'owned' picture

Well that sucks man the car just teased you then said f**k you lol. It will be up and running in now time.

Nice man well glitches always happen.
After its done though you should get some nice pics. up of that thing on the road.

Sorry, I just love this pic........

You'll get it in no time Brandon! You'll love it when you do. You working on it now?

Fun isn't it?
You had me worried for a minute with that "something blew up" line. Im glad it wasn't the engine or transmission!

What sucks now is I can't drive it untill i get the rack replaced. Should get that done tonight. But damn i hauls ass.

Yeah, I know that feeling. It should only be one day tho.

I had mine out haulin ass last night too. I bumped the timing up to 14-15* and it's running a lot better. Im going to the dyno thursday night, I can't wait!

Well Brandon, at least yours idles decently. After we bumped up my fuel pressure and reset my timing, that damn idle surge came back. It's not real bad, but it sounds gay with the car sitting there and surging all the time, and it's really irritating. I think I need to adjust my TPS, it's reading 1.17 at idle (cus I had modified it before I had the twEECer). So maybe if I set that back to .99 or so at 850rpms, it won't surge as much. It's always something huh?! lol

Did you get another T5 for that thing

Yep. It was either that, or let it sit until jan-feb.

Lol i understand man, you gotta keep putting miles on that things and breakin it in. So then when you get the TKO you can go to the track and beat on it.

Dude seriously dont scare us like that. I thought a crank snapped or something....

how long is this one gonna last?


Brandon: yeah the blew up line not good to use i was like **** he blew the motor already damn

I had to get you guys scared.

I have a forged crank and if I broke it I would probably cry.

I just got done replacing the rack with an autozone rebuilt one for $100 then they had a $85 core that my buddy there will take my broken one as a core.

I will see how the az rack is. It says ford on it and the arms on the rack are really stiff compared to the old one that are really limp. Now i'm going to finish up some little stuff tomorrow then take it for a spin and fill it up with gas.

It's from a V-6 with 117K on it. Im trying my best to go easy on this one, but I don't know how long that can last.

As long as I don't get in any more race's with LS1's, I think it'll last until winter.

We need to start betting on how long will Mikes tranny last. I give it 2 weeks.

yea 2 weeks if he leaves the car in the garage...... i hear ya on the tranny tho mike...at least you get to drive teh damn car