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Well, I've had some time to get used to driving the roadster and put some time on the engine. It had it's first oil change last week. I have about 950 miles on it now in various driving situations. I have only done a WOT burst twice so I still can't report on how it really performs as a drag racer. What I have discovered is there is only so much you can do to regulate the performance of an EFI engine without some sort of outside help. That help can come in the form of an electronic after market ...

Since I am keeping all emissions and keeping the motor stock (for now). I needed to figure out the EGR Tube. This tube basically takes exhaust gases from the manifold and send it back into the intake to be re-burned for a cleaner exhaust/emission. Many delete this as putting dirty hot exhaust into your engine is not something most of us can imagine. However, if Ford and all other Mfgs do it and engines seem to last, I guess it isn't all that bad. :confused:

In short the stock ...

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Machined up some barrels and assembled a bump steer kit. The nice thing about this is not only can you dial out or improve the bump steer, but you can adjust the length using the barrel and not have to deal with turning the tie rod as it has no flats for turning. You have to use pliers or something to turn the tie rod for toe adjustment.

The barrel is machine from stainless steel, so the cross section profile can be kept smaller in diameter than aluminum and it polishes nicely. Looks ...

The MK3 is well known for the purky butt, basically a hump in the fiberglass trunk. In addition when viewed from the rear of the car, you could see the gas tank under the body. One way people were fixing this issue was to lower the body to hide the gas tank and make the purky trunk less noticeable. My plan was to either mod the fiberglass or buy a different trunk lid. I also followed the well documented dropped trunk mod by CobraDVM. [url]http://www.ffcars.com/forums/17-factory-five-roadsters/230055-how-i-did-my-dropped-butt-mod.html[/url] ...