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Brock B posted:

OUCH.....! The KYBs at $35 each sound way better with a can of chevy orange! 😂 And maybe a wing decal......

Plastikote by Valspar T-31 Bright Orange is an EXACT match according to Koni. It's what I used to refresh a set of NOS Konis that were all scratched up. and got replacement old-school 1970s stickers on ebay.....

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The koni shocks I am running are not coil over. The torsion bars are plenty strong enough to handle the weight of my Speedster even with the Suby engine with the correct adjustment. The car is very stable now and cruises at 90 plus mph with no issues or control problems. I am very impressed with how my car drives and handles. The Gas adjust shocks were horrible. The regular KYB's may be fine, I have no experience with them.

I can just see Brock's shop:

Work, work, work and then, suddenly his dog barks and........  

There's the UPS/Amazon/FedEx guy!!  Brock brightens up like it's Christmas, the dog is jumping up and down, the UPS/Amazon/FedEx guy doesn't know what to think and just drops off his packages, but Brock now has parts for the next step in his build.

This is probably an almost daily occurrence about now........

Well the concept is simple, easy to work or not $750 for a set of frames would cut into my engine parts deeply amd i can't  make engine parts!

Cutting the curved parts from a flat sheet should  fairly easy. The window channel ,made from already existing 90deg bends will the be welded to the back side and the rubber installed. Now the tight curve of the qw frame will not be so easy to add channel to but i have an idea.

It all my not work out but im going to try it and if its not perfect so be it..........

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Brock B posted:

Shortened the clutch cable with a modified harbor freight cable collett. Works great!

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I can't tell from your pic here what length you have, but there is a longer version of that actuator arm that the cable pulls on and it really eases up on the clutch pedal pressure if that is important to you. A Jack Crosby piece of advice that I took years ago and it's well worth it. 

Back in the day when a we purchased a new product or part we assumed that when we removed it from the box it would work.  Fast forward to the Chinese stuff ...Opening up a box the first thing we look for is loose parts, broken pieces , thread cut, shake the part to see if anything is loose inside of it. Then compare both the removed part and the new one for size, fit and finish ...all this and it's still a 60/41 shot that the part will not function as intended or it will self destruct in the first week or 100 miles whichever come first. Proof today:  I bought 180- 220 & 320 grit sandpaper from ACE Hardware and you guessed it once in the garage I noticed Made in Chinese and true to form it is junk. 

Ray, thanks great idea!

David, i have no idea what arm it is but right now its super easy. The arm i made on the pedal where the cable hooks up is longer than the stocker to.

Jack, my wing nut seems to be a good one amd bites into the arm well.

Alan, yeah i have been telling all my friends for years that just because its new doesn't mean its worth a damn!

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Ray:  One of the local guys (recent VS Speedster) had the wing nut back off.  I went to his place to help and figured out what was going on, so he went out the next day and found a regular nut with the same pitch and installed it as a lock nut against the wingnut as you did.  No problems since, and I've added the same locknut to my car since.  Easy, cheap insurance.

My story is on my way down from Vancouver to Seattle I was suddenly aware of no clutch on I5 going 70 MPH again at 10pm... I pulled over to a safe spot and a very kind County Mounty helped me out and protected my son and I.  

We tightened the nut which needed a pair of pliers as it was not a wing nut and he had a par of plyers I had no tools in my car at the time  

We went to a 24 hour walmart and got a real 10mm key ... for a more permanent fix.  

The next day I did the nylon nut on top. 

 

BTW, it makes you feel like a wing nut when you see that back off. duh. 

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