
Added some much needed pep. The car feels like a dog, I was having trouble passing a Miata on the straights without them lifting. Still feels like the engine is weezy but the exhaust made it feel a little better.
At this point, I'm living in Milwaukee, WI and the car is in Houston. Not really doing much maintenance but the car is still going! The bad news...A "racing shop " sold me some manual transmission fluid. I flew in from WI that afternoon and was doing maintenance in the paddock (not fun!). So I put in that $30L Motul gear oil that I bought at the "race shop". Found out later on that is a GL5 lube. The transmission wasn't great before that but it was significantly worse afterwards. I had to rev match perfectly downshift. I got better at rev matching but was not perfect by any means. Grinding and missing a gear wasn't an uncommon thing.
The parting shot as the car leaves Houston, TX

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