"Ray's AKA demonfire's XR4Ti build up"

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Re: "Ray's AKA demonfire's XR4Ti build up"

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It indeed as a big improvement. The standard rear beam gives way too much camber increase, which reduces the traction in a straight line. But the bump steer on the standard beam is even worse, it makes the car understeer quite a lot.
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Hey ya'll, good morning - figured i'd mosey my way back to the forums (thanks Mark for helping me get back online here).

I don't know why i had a notification from this thread when logging back in, but it's as good a place as any.
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Thanks for not choosing photobucket :D
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Maybe you can re-post anything you linked to that no longer exists. If you have the photos someplace. I like the exhaust work.
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God, i'll have to look - i lost my old computer and thousands of images (and years of research on microbiology and presentations on soil ecology). I can take as many new pictures as you want from current, but the amount of custom stuff / home made stuff / etc is hard to explain. Even scrolling thru this post, i forget half of what I did...

Daisy isn't a car designed for street duty, obviously, so a lot of what was / is done - wasn't designed for comfort. She's designed to make me giggle.

That half shafts are stock. :lol:
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1985 Merkur XR4Ti -#141 CP "Miss Daisy"
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Ray wrote: Wed Dec 07, 2022 10:54 am God, i'll have to look - i lost my old computer and thousands of images (and years of research on microbiology and presentations on soil ecology).....
Have you ever seen those companies (advertised in the back of computer magazines) that do data recovery? You can mail them a non-functioning hard drive and they can take it apart and recover your data. Not sure if it is that important or possible in your case.
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My friend owns Logistics CT - he has my drive and the place he trusts would charge upward of 1500 bucks - which i don't have right now, so he's just holding the drive for the time being. He tried to get thru into it (he's really, really, good) and recommended a specific place that he trusts. As for now, i'm just trying to make ends meet until that arrives. I reckon, it's good to sometimes just start over with a new, sober, chapter of my life anyway.
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1985 Merkur XR4Ti -#141 CP "Miss Daisy"
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