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Well,It's been a busy year so far and haven't been on here in a while!! Well I have done a couple things to the car as of lately.I went from a 10" ebay fan to a 12" Spal curved blade fan, drained my coolant and used some Royal Purple "water wetter" type stuff. What I used before was distilled water and water-wetter. I used distilled water per Suzuki. However that is mixed with antifreeze. Well I guess distilled water will actually draw minerals out of the cooling jacket and reduce the cooling efficiency? Well, I now have purified drinking water and that Royal Purple additive. All things combined, I can run it really REALLY hard in the dunes and it will get up to 210 with a 95* ambient air temp. I don't push it past that, as I will stop for literally 30 seconds to a min. and it will drop to 190 and stay there under "normal" driving around on the dunes. Possibly may go to a 4 row Civic rad vs the 2 row I currently have.I also made some adapters for my bead-lock wheels! It looks KILLER! so from going from 8" wide wheels to a 10" wide wheel and 13" wide paddles there is more of a contact patch on the sand. It really hooks up good now! I made some spring adjustments too. Originally had 300# on the bottom and 250# on the top...WAY over-sprung. I had 2" of shaft in the body..() I was hoping for 4-5" of shaft in the body..(LMFAO, married mans dream). I did the math over and over and my simple mind said if you need to drop another 2" cut the poundage in half. Well, my numbers matched up to the calculations that Downsouth Motorsports came up with. I should be getting the new coils today. 150 on the bottom with 100 on the top. This will allow me some pre-load if I needed. Then I will have to test and possibly some valving.This car is just too much damn fun! Not sure if I want to start another build, or do a Busa swap with this car. Looking at dyno numbers of the 750, bikes are seeing 55# ft of torque at 12k...the first gen busa has that at 2500 rpm... And this car will pull the front wheels juuuust ever so slightly over a roller at 10-13k RPM.