My Duster Adventures
Well, it’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted anything here. I really haven’t done very much TO the car but I’ve been having fun with it and been piling up some parts as well.
First off, here’s just a few of the parts I bought over the last few months.
I also bought some insulation and a few other things but I’ll post about that stuff as it gets installed.
So I’ve had an HDK Slammer suspension just hangin out in the garage for over a year now. Well, I finally got around to getting closer to install with that. Obviously, I’ll be putting 13” ‘99-04 Cobra brakes on the front. I bought a kit from MustangSteve.com that allows you to bolt the 13” brakes to the Heights 2” drop Mustang ii spindles I got with the HDK. Anyway, here’s more pics.
I’ve also always had an intermittent leaky windshield gasket. It’s intermittent because it only leaks when it rains!
:lol:
So a few months ago I went ahead and ordered front and rear window gaskets from AMD. They were on backorder until last week, so those came in the mail today.
There’s the AMD box with gaskets and that thin cardboard wrapped thingy beside the box is an OEM rear window that I bought off a member here earlier this year. They reason I bought an oem one instead of a new piece is because this particular glass has a built in defrost grid!! I didn’t even know they existed but was THRILLED to find it!
I also bought a new AMD windshield at the Holley Moparty show earlier this month. It’s a tinted unit. I would have preferred a clear glass but I’ll be tinting the rest of the windows later on and I think it’ll be fine, if I can’t live with it, I can always sell it and get a clear one later. The glass will hopefully be going in sometime this winter.
Speaking of Holley Moparty.... I mentioned at the beginning that I’ve been having fun with the car. Well, I ran the ole girl round and round on the autox track at Moparty and it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had with the car!!
@Kegan B was able to find a few pics online that different people took of my car. That’s Kegan behind me in his neon. I had him beat time wise for the first few runs I made then he started feedin’ her the onions and that neon kicked my *** pretty good!
:rofl:
All in all it was a great weekend! There was a tight hairpin at the end of the coarse that was reeaaalllyy fun with the factory manual steering.
:steering:
My goal was to get into the high 43s and my best run ended up being a 41.989 so I was pretty dang happy with that. Also, considering the fact that Hellcats and some of the old iron with way bigger engines and way more money in suspension than my car were running 34-38s. Now I know even a 38 is way faster than my 42 but still, I’m gonna be happy about it. Lol.
Well, it’s been quite awhile since I’ve posted anything here. I really haven’t done very much TO the car but I’ve been having fun with it and been piling up some parts as well.
First off, here’s just a few of the parts I bought over the last few months.
I also bought some insulation and a few other things but I’ll post about that stuff as it gets installed.
So I’ve had an HDK Slammer suspension just hangin out in the garage for over a year now. Well, I finally got around to getting closer to install with that. Obviously, I’ll be putting 13” ‘99-04 Cobra brakes on the front. I bought a kit from MustangSteve.com that allows you to bolt the 13” brakes to the Heights 2” drop Mustang ii spindles I got with the HDK. Anyway, here’s more pics.
I’ve also always had an intermittent leaky windshield gasket. It’s intermittent because it only leaks when it rains!
:lol:
So a few months ago I went ahead and ordered front and rear window gaskets from AMD. They were on backorder until last week, so those came in the mail today.
There’s the AMD box with gaskets and that thin cardboard wrapped thingy beside the box is an OEM rear window that I bought off a member here earlier this year. They reason I bought an oem one instead of a new piece is because this particular glass has a built in defrost grid!! I didn’t even know they existed but was THRILLED to find it!
I also bought a new AMD windshield at the Holley Moparty show earlier this month. It’s a tinted unit. I would have preferred a clear glass but I’ll be tinting the rest of the windows later on and I think it’ll be fine, if I can’t live with it, I can always sell it and get a clear one later. The glass will hopefully be going in sometime this winter.
Speaking of Holley Moparty.... I mentioned at the beginning that I’ve been having fun with the car. Well, I ran the ole girl round and round on the autox track at Moparty and it was probably the most fun I’ve ever had with the car!!
@Kegan B was able to find a few pics online that different people took of my car. That’s Kegan behind me in his neon. I had him beat time wise for the first few runs I made then he started feedin’ her the onions and that neon kicked my *** pretty good!
:rofl:
All in all it was a great weekend! There was a tight hairpin at the end of the coarse that was reeaaalllyy fun with the factory manual steering.
:steering:
My goal was to get into the high 43s and my best run ended up being a 41.989 so I was pretty dang happy with that. Also, considering the fact that Hellcats and some of the old iron with way bigger engines and way more money in suspension than my car were running 34-38s. Now I know even a 38 is way faster than my 42 but still, I’m gonna be happy about it. Lol.
