What did you do to your GT350 today?

[Lorne34]

@Lorne34 @matthewr87 Not only did my oldest kid (now 20) have friends in high school that didn't know how to drive a manual, but these kids had never even seen one! Like, would get in his car and be like "bro, wtf are you doing to your car?" Dead serious.

i've heard similar stories as well. If Vinyl LP's hadn't made a comeback they wouldn't have had a clue in that dept either... unless their parents hung unto theirs.

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[Lorne34]

Weellll, shit. Now I wanna play and be proud like you guys!! Both of my kids are car nuts. Funny story though, my son (the oldest) is a total car guy, but he likes his car and fancy stuff. I would not label him a full fledged gear head. Daughter on the other hand…full blown gear head. Here she is installing my 500 valve covers for me. We must go to every race in town (Indy, NHRA, Petit LeMans, etc etc). She’s looking for her first job at @Discount Tire She wants to go to one of these high performance technical colleges and wants to ultimately end up on a fancy race team some day. Sorry for the picture flood, but, you guys started it

Oh…and at 15 she can already shred it up pretty good. Did most of the driving at this years Mountain Run!

Great Pics! Good to hear from you.... That Mountain Run was epic!

 

[Lorne34]

I am 24, never owned a manual car before the Shelby. Took a lesson from an instructor here in town and about 6 weeks later I'm driving the GT350R home Uhh, I was a little nervous

Can thank my father for the car enthusiasm gene. I got a few friends who are into cars and drive manuals too. But driving a manual is hard when we're all eating avocado toast and drinking $10 lattes while driving

It's the #1 deterrent to texting or anything on your cell phone and driving. You have to be engaged.. at least on the street.
My first manual was a 1981 Datsun 210 hatchback that my buddy test drove for me. I bought it without even knowing how to drive one. My house was about 6 miles down on the same road as dealership.. ended up driving it home in 1st and 2nd gear. Lets just say the gearing was not as tall as the shelby's
Within a week I had it down and it turned out to be one of those life altering decisions. I am so glad I was able to drive manual at a young age.

 

[Lorne34]

Thanks Lorne! I had this personal plate for my first two Shelby's until I went with Collector plates, and was surprised it was still available. It was nice to pull up the cover to put it on, but it made it tough to put it back down and not drive it. The roads are still white with salt, and today its going to be 63. WTF. Tomorrow it will snow, and they will dump the winters allotment of salt down.

Anyone who is "bored" with their weather should move to WI.
69 on Tuesday, 16 degrees and -1 wind chill on Wednesday morning!
We're almost there Keith!....

 

[NPTR]

Agreed on manual preventing distracted driving - one of the reasons even my truck is stick! Also one of the many reasons these things will hold their value. We’re all in possession of a magical beast that is about to go extinct - a privilege and an honor!

 

[Nfs1000f]

My dad required all of 4 us to learn to drive standard shift if we were to get our licenses.

 

[TeamGomez]

After decades of my head under a hood, came across a nice LED hood option from Home Depot. LiteStix from Bendpak. Mag mountable (on steel hoods lol) or clamp on with a padded light bar. Maybe not a direct 350 mod/repair, but it certainly will facilitate all future work on all these ponies!

 

[Lorne34]

After decades of my head under a hood, came across a nice LED hood option from Home Depot. LiteStix from Bendpak. Mag mountable (on steel hoods lol) or clamp on with a padded light bar. Maybe not a direct 350 mod/repair, but it certainly will facilitate all future work on all these ponies!

I have something similar really helps with under the hood work. Even in a fairly well lit garage this helps a ton.

 

[Mjc1241]

New caliper overlays and Shelby polished lug nuts.

 

[526 HRSE]

Love this - and I can relate...My 2 year old daughter screams "MORE FAST" from the back seat in my car. I obviously don't push it with her in the car, but a little stomp on the gas to rock her around and she goes absolutely bonkers...she also prefers the windows down and music playing...future problem on my hands haha!

Your two year old daughter and I sound a lot alike.

 

[wingnutt]

splitter swap time!

 

[TeamGomez]

splitter swap time!

What’s the best diy thread? I feel like the Ford engineers intentionally designed the fastening mechanisms to drive a man to drink…

 

[ajhartman]

Finally finished relocating my battery.

 

[wingnutt]

What’s the best diy thread? I feel like the Ford engineers intentionally designed the fastening mechanisms to drive a man to drink…

well then, May I suggest a bottle of Colonel Taylors? If that’s hard to find then Bulleit Bourbon always goes well with car stuffs

cause I found no thread…should have made one, but didn’t wanna

its actually pretty straightforward…but I pulled my entire undertray off to do an oil change, pressure wash and bolt check while I was down there

 

[TeamGomez]

well then, May I suggest a bottle of Colonel Taylors? If that’s hard to find then Bulleit Bourbon always goes well with car stuffs

cause I found no thread…should have made one, but didn’t wanna

its actually pretty straightforward…but I pulled my entire undertray off to do an oil change, pressure wash and bolt check while I was down there

Woodford Reserve usually keeps my rightys tighty though on occasion it's made this nut a little loosey (but def not lefty lol).

I thought that if I could pull a 502 BBC, put new aluminum heads on and degree a hotrod cam, that dropping the splitter would be no problem. And I'm sure it isn't as I'm a big proponent of 'man made it so man can fix it'...but I couldn't figure out where the blind clasps/snaps were located and didn't want to resort to the Woodford too early which would have made said clasps relinquish their death grip for the price of never going back together again b/c I just broke half of 'em off...

I had the belly pan disconnected but couldn't get the splitter dropped so I thought I'd get smart first b/f breaking out the larger mallet/pry bar(s). I'll wait til summer and my next oil change (for the splitter, not the Woodford...speaking of Woodford, I think I'm going to adjourn to the mancave for a respite from the desk...cheers!)

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