500 mile shake down

[ggunter]

I officially finished my car on Labor day weekend and drove it a couple hundred miles. The only issue I had was the power steering pulley coming off when the car was wound up. I spoke with BPE who referred me to March Manufacturing who sent out a new pulley which will be here today the 13th. In the mean time I lock tited the pulley on and drove it another 300 miles this weekend, just no high rpm and the pulley stayed on fine. When I had the car in gokart stage I bought the equipment to set all the alignmet both front and rear to get it close enough to take it to get aligned professionally. I took it to a shop that sets up race cars and does this type of work. They balanced the tires, which really needed it, weighed and adjusted the corner weights, set the ride height, checked and aligned everything. The point of this post is how great this car rides and handles. No vibrations no shakes, tracks true, just a great riding car. Which goes to the engineering that FFR put into these cars. I put it up on the lift and checked tightness of all suspension, steering and driveline parts and everything was tight. Of course 500 miles is not an indicator of anything but I'm off to a good start.

[hineas]

Good luck with the pulley.

The rest sounds amazing!

[Jeff Kleiner]

... The point of this post is how great this car rides and handles. No vibrations no shakes, tracks true, just a great riding car. Which goes to the engineering that FFR put into these cars...

Hey, don't fail to take credit for that! FFR creates a great package with good bones but it was up to you to put it all together well. Trust me, I've had some cars come through my shop that were built from the same foundation as yours and they were downright scary :( Congrats on hitting a milestone and a job well done!

Jeff

[ggunter]

Thanks for the kind words Jeff, when I started looking at these cars five years ago I looked at most kits on the market. Some of the kit cars lived up to their name of kit car, weld this or fabricate that or “ obtain locally” made me a bit shaky about buying a kit car, but FFR paid those fears to rest when I went to their place and saw how things were done. Once I saw that I signed on the dotted line because I could see these are well thought out cars. Just put another 100 miles on it today. I hate to get out of it. I guess it’s the newness, but it sure is fun.

[Fixit]

Congratulations on the 500 mile-stone mark...

I just rolled 6200 on #9365 and the "newness" really doesn't wear off... it just is mellowed a bit. What's fun is when some knucklehead is "toying" with you to hammer it, and you can just subconsciencly say "I could wax yer azz with 2 plug wires off" and ignore them.

As Jeff said the build quality is up to you. FFR provides great "bones", but YOU flesh it out. Take Jeff's words to heart. As he told me "I get to see 'em with their clothes off - and some are nightmares"... and he see's a LOT of em.