Big Brown's Automagic - The last episode in my DSM story.

[dsmreck]

Yeah you need a better excuse to sell than that

[turbotalon1g]

Lol. I'm just tired of shit breaking all the time.
Anyway, I'll get to spend a day running a new line on that POS.

Car is packed and ready to go.
Going to pick up a manual boost controller from Carl on my way up to PG.

[turbotalon1g]

Good day at the track since I was able to drive home, but not without adventures!

Got close to BIR tried to go around some traffic and the car felt down on power big time, did another pull and it was lean by almost 2 points. I thought it was the pump dying, but it turned out to be the fuel filter.

That's my own fault because I have always changed them once I take the car out of storage and this year I didn't. Lesson learned.

Car went 11.4, 11.4, 11.4, 11.4, 11.38, 11.4, crap run my shift box ate it's face for a round, 11.4.

So then I called it a night every single trap speed was 119mph.

Figured out launching at about 15-17psi is the best I ran all 1.6x 60Ft times.

For some reason I really enjoyed driving the car today and fell in love with it again, seeing tachyon's car made me realize how good looking I think these cars are.

I'm going to be concentrating on cleaning up the paint as best as I can. I actually don't know if I have put wax on this car since owning it, but I will try to soon.

[Halon]

Time for some bracket racing.

[asshanson]

^ This. Talk about consistency. Nice work man.

[turbotalon1g]

Thanks guys cruising up there with tachyon really re-inspired my love for the 1GA body style and the lack of a truly clean one did too.
His car looks amazing rolling down the freeway.
I'm gonna get working on the missing body pieces asap and get to clay barring it and hopefully buffing it soon.

[Tachyon]

Thanks for the kind word, Aaron! Your car looked really good out there! Sorry we did not hang out much Saturday.. I replaced the fuel filter and got a new FPR from a buddy, but my car was still going lean after 10 PSI.

[Goat Blower]

Yeah, seeing other 1g's always inspires me too. Not many around anymore, I had the only DSM I saw at C&C yesterday.

[Mark Leasure]

I stopped over to chat, but you were all ready gone. The car looked great out there, nothings like a nice1g. Crazy how consistent you are with it too.

[Dark2g]

Aaron good job this weekend, nice seeing u and glad your car worked out in the end for ya.

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by Goat Blower

Yeah, seeing other 1g's always inspires me too. Not many around anymore, I had the only DSM I saw at C&C yesterday.

Originally Posted by Mark Leasure

I stopped over to chat, but you were all ready gone. The car looked great out there, nothings like a nice1g. Crazy how consistent you are with it too.

Sorry I missed you. Yeah I'm glad that I have the car consistent I've basically spend this whole year doing that.

I was so inspired by Tachyon I broke out the buffer on the car a little and now I have some reflection in the paint. It's really weird since the car basically looks like it has matte white paint.

Originally Posted by Dark2g

Aaron good job this weekend, nice seeing u and glad your car worked out in the end for ya.

Thanks, it was good to see you again too, shame you guys aren't closer.
I really wish we had a track closer to the cities.
Although i did see that BIR has a bracket racing class.....


*edit*
Timeslips from PG pic:

[C3L1CA]

Good hanging out with ya on Saturday for a bit, glad it was just the fuel filter and not the pump. Crazy how clogged it sounded.

Sucks you had to work on Sunday and couldn't get in on the eliminations, you would've had it.

[goodhart]

Never did get to meet up with you, but I was able to watch a couple of your runs. Good times

[dsmreck]

Sounds like you had some great runs as usuall for this year. Sorry I didn't get to go to pg and see you rip, I'm also bummed I didn't get to run my car.

[turbotalon1g]

9/7/14:
So feeling inspired (I still am btw for looks and speed) sunday after work (why I missed the eliminations) I decided to take the buffer to the car.
Sadly with a white car this is very hard to illustrate, especially since the pics were taken inside and not outside.

Pre-wax pic, tired of having such a crappy looking car. This is just after a normal wash.


Close up of the tree sap I was hoping to remove. I forgot to get an after pic, but the clay bar didn't do much anyway.This stuff is all over the passenger side of the car on the hood, fender, and door.

Another pre pic, kinda useless since I didn't get many post pics but it helps to show how dull the paint job is.

Another pre-wax pic, sadly it needs some buffer work for it to shine. But look at how non-shiny the paint is and this is after a wash.




Trying out the clay bar on her, well destroying a clay bar.


To be honest it didn't appear to make difference, it did feel better though.

Not 100% what is going on here IIRC, the left side is post buffer.


I only buffed the front fenders, hood and roof before we went out, but the car has not shined like this before, maybe ever in her life. (See other pics for matte white finish)


So white is extremely difficult to buff/wax, but what I was going for here was a comparison of the buffer with cutting compound, the front half (left side of pic) of the fender is before and the back (right side of pic) is after. if you look at the edge of the wheelwell you can see it.


Bam, finally a pic to show the difference. Left is after, right side is before.
I only used a heavy cut (Meguiars 201) then I ran out of time.


From the front this time, look how much better it is. Next year she won't be looking so rough.


Dynotune Nitrous dry kit, going to be used for stall up only.

[mondale]

For the tree sap, try putting Iso heat on a cotton ball. Let it sit on the tree sap for a min or two and try to get it off the paint with the cotton ball. That has worked well for me in the past. It looks good though!

[A//// Guy]

Yea you will need to use bug and tar remover for all those black specks. I just did that on my car before I waxed over the weekend. Then youll clay bar, to remove any other remnants. The big stuff wont come off in the clay. Looks good tho!

[b00sted_spyder]

Gloss=sex!

[turbotalon1g]

Originally Posted by A//// Guy

Yea you will need to use bug and tar remover for all those black specks. I just did that on my car before I waxed over the weekend. Then youll clay bar, to remove any other remnants. The big stuff wont come off in the clay. Looks good tho!

This isn't some random tar shit, this has been on the paint for at least 7 years every year in over 100* heat down in OK.
I tried some rain-x bug and tar, didn't seem to do much do you have a brand or recommendation for some?

Originally Posted by mondale

For the tree sap, try putting Iso heat on a cotton ball. Let it sit on the tree sap for a min or two and try to get it off the paint with the cotton ball. That has worked well for me in the past. It looks good though!

That sounds serious!!
I'll give it a whirl though, I have a good friend that wants to try his hand at the car too.

Originally Posted by b00sted_spyder

Gloss=sex!

Thanks, I agree it makes me dig the stock color. If only mitsu would of used a better clear over the paint.

[Goat Blower]

I've had the best luck with using paint thinner or brake cleaner on tree sap. It still takes some elbow grease though.