There were quite a few up's and down's at this event that Geoff already talked about so I won't go on about that. What I will go on about is how amazingly fun this car is to drive. It's been about six months since we started this project and I'm a convert evangelist.

This event we learned just how much the lack of a working differential was holding us back. With the air locker working during the morning hours, the car was a joy to drive. With both tires locking the increase in traction was huge. The car accelerated out of drift so well and transitioning the car was much more consistent. I did manage to run out of steering angle a few times and would've been able to save them if it weren't for our pesky corolla e-brake (read: total lack of an e-brake). Now the changes I'm most looking forward to are a seat, some further tuning of spring rates/dampening and POWER. Somehow it just doesn't seem like a mustang if the car isn't at least slightly unwieldy. That and it would make the videos a lot more interesting if we had great plumes of smoke coming off the rear tires.

Lastly, there are still some people sipping juice-box haterade out there (I'd expect this from the Mustang camp, but what gives drifting folks?) but what they're missing is how great it feels to make this 20 year old car move the way that it does out on the track. In our estimation the car is no more than 80% 'complete' and it's just going to get more and more awesome.

Thanks for checking in.