[DeTomaso] Pantera Alignment & knocking your nuts off

[Mark McWhinney]

When I roll over a large pinecone or something else on the road, I would get
that butt-tightening loud thud from the underside of the car, but I found a
fix for it.  I put down a layer of Dynamat on the bottom of a pan.  Now,
when I smack something, I get a pleasant ding that make me forget that there
is only 18 gage mild steel between the road and my tailbone.

Mark -- haulin' ass down the road



-----Original Message-----
From: detomaso-bounces at realbig.com [mailto:detomaso-bounces at realbig.com] On
Behalf Of Mad Dog Antenucci
Sent: Sunday, April 22, 2007 10:35 AM
To: detomaso at realbig.com
Subject: [DeTomaso] Pantera Alignment & knocking your nuts off

To newbies (Don) and Rookies,
   
  Mark (BoBo) McWhinney made an excellent point the other day about
alignment and that was that you can find anyone to put your Pantera on an
alignment  rack but your allot better off with someone who understands how a
Pantera works and what and how caster, toe and camber affect the Pantera on
the road or in competition.  
   
  My alignment guy is an ex-racer who every time I go back to his shop asks
me how the Pantera behaved in the last ORR.  He also has done several stock
and race Panteras in the past...he sits me in the car during the alignment
as he makes any new adjustments.  Yesterday I found out my rear caster was
waaaaaaaay off probably due in part to a couple hard hits (cracked rear
window and shaved bottom of front airdam off) at Silver State in Sept.
Someone commented on not dropping floor pans for open road racing. For
someone your size you need all the room you can get to include dropped floor
pan (floor, seat and steering adjustment) but my dropped pan has never hit
bumps or dips at Silver State.... I think Larry "Rockhouse" Stock hit them
at the Pony Express going across the bridge just after the rock house and
shaved the NUTS off his seat bolts but he was also traveling 165 when he
should have been closer to 140 ;-]> At 120-140 MPH Don you will NOT have any
problem. 
   


Mad Dawg Antenucci 
Team Pantera Racing 
  The 1st & still the only vintage race team in open road racing 
www.teampanteraracing.com
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