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I would say denser coil count equates to higher spring rate

Love PO's! How are you gonna repair the fresh air intake? I would drill out the 6-7 spot welds that hold the sheet metal rain cover over the intake. That will provide some room to work. If you need a new intake I can see if I have one you can use. I would probably use a body panel adhesive versus trying to get in there to weld it back. It is very confined with out opening the cowl all the way up

Are you testing at the sensor or at the ecu?

This may be the problem. Try a set of overbore rings or mic the piston to see if it's already over bored...

Have you tested the shielding on the sensor yet?

@Blue Ditto!

Unless your car needs a lot of work, $11k is not even close...

The real question is what is a properly restored Scarab worth?

In Texas, probably 30-40k. If you found the perfect guy, 25k..

I might have one. Do you have a picture of what your looking for?

Yeah, I like that. I would be in the market for one of those but I am afraid I might cuss a lot trying to work on it...

Who's who in this picture?

I am using a spray bottle from Depot. I keep the spray broad or it will wash off the chromate. I try not to spray them too hard or too directly... Yes, the plating bath is 110-115dF I did at first, but lately they are at room temperature probably about 80dF I am using a cheap aquarium pump from Harbor Freight. Moves the liquid around but no bubbles I am using some Muriatic from Depot at about 3 water : 1 acid I have been. I add a little every time I plate. I am unsure if it helps or not. I don't ever get bright plate like some people do.. Not yet... I haven't had any parts come out in a way where I needed to do more... 5 gallon bucket with about 3 gallons of fluid. I had 1.5 gallons but upped it to make it easier to run larger parts or longer strings of parts... I am running 2 of Caswell's plates, 4x8 on opposing sides of the tank Nope. They are dark when they go in and almost black when they come out. I rinse them when I'm done with the spray bottle and black water rinses off. They seem to plate ok, so I haven't worried about it I am using a steel wire wheel I bought at Harbor freight. Be careful a light touch is needed to polish and not cut up the part Sometimes I use my parts washer before I bead blast. Stinky solvent based cleaner. SP degreaser in a crock pot before the "pickle" I haven't done anything yet that bead blasting didn't handle. I would be comfortable using something if I had a situation that required it... My power supply calls for a short circuit to set initial settings. After connecting the string I adjust as necessary. When I put in a new string, I adjust up or down as needed for the required amperage for that particular string That is correct. I actually adjusted a part the other day before plating or maybe after but before color. It left my finder print on the part...

Also, 3" is probably going to hurt your performance not help it

That sounds like a plan

Looks good

I understand, this can get expensive if you want to run larger tanks... This is what I plated yesterday. Got good results although that may not be apparent in this picture. I would set it up and go check on the golf match or the Olympics. Plated everything for 30 minutes @ 0.14 amps / in Blue chromate for 60 secs and yellow @ 35 seconds. I rinse it with the spray bottle between chromates and shake them off. I haven't used heat to dry them yet. Let them air dry overnight. The yellow chromate won't scratch off any more since I am going straight to yellow from blue after rinsing... The finished color is very close to the professional stuff I have had plated

I will help any way I can. I am just using a spray bottle between steps because I figured dipping would contaminate fairly quickly. I haven't had any real issues yet but I also haven't done a lot of plating yet. Over time that might end up being a problem for me...

If I were you I would fit it together and have a shop weld it up after you get it the way you want it. It is a little tricky to get the exhaust tucked up under the car well. 3" will be even harder. A decent exhaust shop should weld it up for just a little money

Have you ever had Lone Star?

What did you get in from Caswell?

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Austin, Sounds good. Lot's of great roads with in reasonable distance and really high speed limits... @Mike W My wife is from Fredericksburg so we should make it. She suggested a road route out that way through the hill country. A number of vineyards out that way too...

Where is Zcon 2017?

The supercharged Z is really interesting. I wonder who makes the hardware for that?