Solarflare’s *better late than never* build thread

[bluebeastsrt]

I like what I’m seeing. I’ll see if I can’t ship a little cool weather your way. See what that thing can really do!

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[SolarFlare]

I like what I’m seeing. I’ll see if I can’t ship a little cool weather your way. See what that thing can really do!

Thanks Blue. I’ve been waiting for a night where it doesn’t rain and I’m off for a while. Maybe this coming Friday if hurricane moves along and track open I’ll try to go

 

[88mustang]

Great build solarflare. Car looks great

 

[SolarFlare]

Great build solarflare. Car looks great

Thanks 88

 

[ypena02]

Sick build @SolarFlare, is this is HO or stage 2 kit?

 

[SolarFlare]

Sick build @SolarFlare, is this is HO or stage 2 kit?

Thanks. It’s a stage 2

 

[SolarFlare]

Figure while I wait for some decent weather I put the 20s on and do some maintenance

 

[SolarFlare]

Kicked off the south Florida “winter” track season with a trip to the west coast of Florida to Immokalee Regional Raceway. Never been there before

DA was +1100, temp 70*F and 75% humidity. Car was very inconsistent with their prep and gliding around in 2nd and 3rd. Managed one half decent pass and got a new 1/8 PB and best MPH.


60ft- 1.58 (being really easy on it)
330- 4.23
660- 6.43
Mph- 113

I had some tools in trunk, 5gal of E85, spare tire and spare axles, 3/4 tank of gas. So still some improvement by leaving some of that crap out.

 

[80FoxCoupe]

Keep chipping away at it!

 

[SolarFlare]

Definitely. This coming Friday, TnT DR/slick only! Woot woot

 

[SolarFlare]

Update!

working dayshift this week and weekend I decided to take a gamble, load up car Thursday and take it to work on friday and head straight to the track when I got off of work. Track is prepping for Citrus Nationals and it was packed but hosted a DR/Slick on TnT night.

after the 130mile drive and only cooldown being the 20minute that it took to put skinnies on the car delivered BIGLY (insert trump face). Car even though hot took the F off. Someone crashed soon after and had to be taken to hospital so I didn't want to get in like late in the night since I worked today at 6AM and still needed to swap tires. Below is the slip and weather conditions underlined for 7PM (run occurred at 6:45). I have a video of the car running with a Hellion TT S550 and was a badass race. Cant wait for cooler weather, still haven't seen log to know if theres any room for improvement on the shift rpm. 60ft is about 1 tenth from its previous best of 1.41

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[80FoxCoupe]

Hard work paying off!!!!

 

[SolarFlare]

Honestly I cant imagine there being simpler cars than these out there for 40-50K.

 

[Vector]

Epic

Nice Job man.

 

[80FoxCoupe]

Honestly I cant imagine there being simpler cars than these out there for 40-50K.

These s550 cars are incredible!!!! I need another one LOL

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