{"id":180,"date":"2012-05-14T12:06:20","date_gmt":"2012-05-14T16:06:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/putrescence.org\/wordpress\/?p=180"},"modified":"2013-07-24T15:29:35","modified_gmt":"2013-07-24T19:29:35","slug":"prepping-for-2012-pe2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=180","title":{"rendered":"Prepping for 2012 PE#2"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, I do not have a mad dash to get anything completed with the car before the next event.\u00a0 The biggest problem I needed to solve was actually finding a tow vehicle since mine will be with my wife in Florida, but Dad&#8217;s going to let me take his truck.\u00a0 PE#2 is going to be an OVR event at National Trails, so it should be a pretty fast, fairly dried-out course.\u00a0 I will take the mud tires, but it is likely that I won&#8217;t need to change out the gravel tires while I&#8217;m there.\u00a0 Setup-wise, I think it&#8217;s best out go with the car as-is.\u00a0 The idle is smoothed out a bit with the recent change to the reqfuel number and the switch to simultaneous injections, and it seemed that the car was pulling very well at PE#1 at every level of the tune.\u00a0 The only work that needs to be done is the re-installation if the exhaust.<\/p>\n<p>For the exhaust, I am going to make sure that I&#8217;m using a u-bolt clamp to hold the flex tube to the down pipe.\u00a0 I think that the current clamp is more of a sleeve type, and it doesn&#8217;t seem to hold real well.\u00a0 I will also need to find some new places to hang the exhaust from as the bracket that I was using appears to have broken off.\u00a0 The section that goes over the rear suspension will need to be cut and have a new elbow clamped in.\u00a0 Eventually, I want to replace the current cheapo flex pipe with a true stainless braid flex section, but I need to do some measuring first and probably don&#8217;t have time to do that before the next event.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Interestingly enough, I do not have a mad dash to get anything completed with the car before the next event.\u00a0 The biggest problem I needed to solve was actually finding a tow vehicle since mine will be with my wife&#8230;<br \/><a class=\"read-more-button\" href=\"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/?p=180\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-180","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-turdbo"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=180"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":251,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/180\/revisions\/251"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=180"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=180"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.putrescence.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=180"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}