We built this car about 2 years ago to race in the AER road racing series. The AER series runs endurance type road racing. Their typical format is practice and qualify on Friday and then 10 hour races saturday and sunday.
The car is a 1987 Mercury Cougar with a 2015' Mustang Coyote 5.0 and MT82 transmission.
We ran a few races the first and had some issues with the car. So due to limited time to work o the car we spent last winter and this summer trying to sort everything out. We finally sorted everything out and headed to Summit Point main last weekend to do some testing.
The car is running Fox Body suspension except for a MM torque arm and pan hard bar.
One of the issues we were having with the car was multiple different brake problems. So one of our main focuses was to test the brakes. Both reliability and pad wear.
Testing went well Saturday. We worked on brake bias balance and loosening up the rear end to help reduce under steer. Everything went very well Saturday but first thing Sunday morning we ended up with a clutch/tranny problem. That problem progressed to a grind on the 4-3 downshift even when heal toe shifting and eventuallly started grinding and crunching to the point we had to park it. So one of our winter "to do items" will be getting rid of the MT82 and replacing it with a more durable transmission that is also serviceable at the track. We're researching options on that now.
Here is a short video from my session Sunday. I would normally run turn 1 in 3rd but we had been having the grind issue so i started the session using 4th. I few laps in I tried 3rd and it worked ok but later in the session the grind started again and eventually I couldn;t get the car in any gear.
The car is a 1987 Mercury Cougar with a 2015' Mustang Coyote 5.0 and MT82 transmission.
We ran a few races the first and had some issues with the car. So due to limited time to work o the car we spent last winter and this summer trying to sort everything out. We finally sorted everything out and headed to Summit Point main last weekend to do some testing.
The car is running Fox Body suspension except for a MM torque arm and pan hard bar.
One of the issues we were having with the car was multiple different brake problems. So one of our main focuses was to test the brakes. Both reliability and pad wear.
Testing went well Saturday. We worked on brake bias balance and loosening up the rear end to help reduce under steer. Everything went very well Saturday but first thing Sunday morning we ended up with a clutch/tranny problem. That problem progressed to a grind on the 4-3 downshift even when heal toe shifting and eventuallly started grinding and crunching to the point we had to park it. So one of our winter "to do items" will be getting rid of the MT82 and replacing it with a more durable transmission that is also serviceable at the track. We're researching options on that now.
Here is a short video from my session Sunday. I would normally run turn 1 in 3rd but we had been having the grind issue so i started the session using 4th. I few laps in I tried 3rd and it worked ok but later in the session the grind started again and eventually I couldn;t get the car in any gear.
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