Error401
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I got to run my K3 a little while ago, just threw the starter, Tx and a couple tools and the lighter in a pack and hiked down the street to the local park. I hit the baseball diamond really wanting to do some drift practice. The diamond was kind of a dry dusty sandy very very loose covering over really hard pack dirt. I thinks to myself "self, this is gonna be cool".
I got the mill started fairly easily and let it warm up a bit. Temps were in the mid 60's and kind of humid. After about a 1/4 of a tank it finally warmed up and started comming on. I had to run the first tank as a tuning tank, and the K mill seemed to act a little funny, but it sucked the bottom out of the tank without getting over 260. I pulled the shell of and found a couple things. First there was a rock under the left rear diff output and wedged in between the diff case and the hinge pin. It was a real pain to get it out, but I did. I thought this might have been the reason it was acting funny, since there was some rub marks on the diff output cup. Then I noticed a cut in the fuel line right on the tank side of the fuel filter. Problem fixed, fueld and ready to rip. Tuning was alot easier, though I did have to lean it up about 1/4 turn on the HSN.
Then the mill came to life. OMG. I was running Ofna += M2 tires and the K3 was a pure joy to drive. Next to a sheet of ice, the baseball diamond was about the slickest thing I can think of driving on. But the K3 ate it up. 4 wheel burnouts, and brake induced powerslides, and tons of dust. I really should have taken a camera, because the pix would have turned out great (just like 1:1 baja racing). Then I started noticing how the car felt. I got it to do some "in place" doughnuts, and just returning the steering to neutral, or a hint of countersteer, but still at WOT, the K would straiten out and take off. Very little fightning with it. My old Lightning was a complete bitch on surfaces like that. It would continue to spin, or start to spin in the other direction. The K was the opposite side of the coin. The K didn't seem to want to drift as much as the lightning either. Application of power made it want to straiten out. I guess that's the L.S.D. in the front diff doing that. Not that I'm complaining, I thought it was refreshing and fun. Maybe changing to Knuckles XTR would make it drift easier, I'll try them next time.
Then I started playing around and trying to see how stable the K really is. High speed runs, then start wagging the tail with lock to lock steering at WOT. I found that it was extremely stable, unless you got it down so that the wag got real violent, then you could get it to do sliding doughnuts. That was great! Then release the steering and off it went again. The surface was so slick, I could go WOT and do long dusty burnouts, or WOT with a jab on the brakes and hard steering and get it sideways and slide of about 10'. Man, I really should have taken a camera.
I got the mill started fairly easily and let it warm up a bit. Temps were in the mid 60's and kind of humid. After about a 1/4 of a tank it finally warmed up and started comming on. I had to run the first tank as a tuning tank, and the K mill seemed to act a little funny, but it sucked the bottom out of the tank without getting over 260. I pulled the shell of and found a couple things. First there was a rock under the left rear diff output and wedged in between the diff case and the hinge pin. It was a real pain to get it out, but I did. I thought this might have been the reason it was acting funny, since there was some rub marks on the diff output cup. Then I noticed a cut in the fuel line right on the tank side of the fuel filter. Problem fixed, fueld and ready to rip. Tuning was alot easier, though I did have to lean it up about 1/4 turn on the HSN.
Then the mill came to life. OMG. I was running Ofna += M2 tires and the K3 was a pure joy to drive. Next to a sheet of ice, the baseball diamond was about the slickest thing I can think of driving on. But the K3 ate it up. 4 wheel burnouts, and brake induced powerslides, and tons of dust. I really should have taken a camera, because the pix would have turned out great (just like 1:1 baja racing). Then I started noticing how the car felt. I got it to do some "in place" doughnuts, and just returning the steering to neutral, or a hint of countersteer, but still at WOT, the K would straiten out and take off. Very little fightning with it. My old Lightning was a complete bitch on surfaces like that. It would continue to spin, or start to spin in the other direction. The K was the opposite side of the coin. The K didn't seem to want to drift as much as the lightning either. Application of power made it want to straiten out. I guess that's the L.S.D. in the front diff doing that. Not that I'm complaining, I thought it was refreshing and fun. Maybe changing to Knuckles XTR would make it drift easier, I'll try them next time.
Then I started playing around and trying to see how stable the K really is. High speed runs, then start wagging the tail with lock to lock steering at WOT. I found that it was extremely stable, unless you got it down so that the wag got real violent, then you could get it to do sliding doughnuts. That was great! Then release the steering and off it went again. The surface was so slick, I could go WOT and do long dusty burnouts, or WOT with a jab on the brakes and hard steering and get it sideways and slide of about 10'. Man, I really should have taken a camera.
