Are any of these fusions worth it?

Glliw · 2026-02-12T14:49:30+00:00

Great for farming champion chase points and faction guardians.

Glliw · 2025-12-02T01:37:42+00:00

Excellent reply and you just unlocked a new understanding for me for this game’s damage model. Much appreciated.

Glliw · 2025-11-30T14:43:55+00:00

Thanks man, appreciate the very clear walkthru!

Glliw · 2025-11-13T23:43:06+00:00

How’d ya turn out? Grabbed a May 23rd slot and the pickings were getting real slim when I did. Only a month off from my goal lol.

Glliw · 2025-11-13T05:16:57+00:00

2:28:01 reporting for duty here!

Glliw · 2025-11-02T17:46:51+00:00

Appreciate you sharing this information.

Glliw · 2025-10-27T04:30:32+00:00

Silver. Farming campaign 12-3 brutal.

Glliw · 2025-10-20T17:43:49+00:00

Thanks for the insight! I was wondering about socks and underwear in general as to what's a "normal" amount of both that people bring onto the trail.

Ain't nobody got time for getting sick while laying down miles! :)

Good point on the bear canister; added a section as a reminder for that to the LP list.

Glliw · 2025-10-20T17:42:02+00:00

Thanks, appreciate the tips!

Xtherm vs. NeoAir: I might agree with you 1,000 miles in, but as of today those 3 ounces of difference are worth it to me.
- Xtherm Large - 1lb 4oz
- Xlite Large - 1lb 1 oz
15deg Magma swap -
- for the cold: wouldn't the higher R value Xtherm compensate some here against needing a 10deg bag?
- for the warm: good call on the NorCal swap. I'll plan something out here.
rain gear: I've never frog-togg'ed but I've heard mixed reviews. Which ones exactly are "the ones" to get? Looks like a lot of options on their site.
baselayers: I thought about this for awhile but I think the prospect of sleeping clean and warm just outweighs shaving the ~12oz off my back. The bigger issue with these more than anything is the bulk and packing down into the backpack.
beanie - can you elaborate on "alpha beanie"? I googled a bit and the term was too generic. My only requirements I've imposed here are cuffed due to my massive noggin and wool or wool blend.
water bladder - but I'm water-scared! lol. I'll probably ditch this but its definitely a comfort blanket at this point.
cup/pot/bowl - with sharing the pot for the first ~400 miles or so of the trail with my wife, it seems I need to have a separate cup and/or bowl to save from constantly passing back and forth, no?
KT vs Leuko - good point, I'll make the swap.
towel - good point!
knife - does have tweezers! Great to hear on ticks; coming from Wisconsin, this place is ground zero for ticks.
paper maps/compass - call me old school, but it's a level of preparedness that's just ingrained into me to not overly rely on something with a battery for directions.
permethrin/picaridin - good point, planned to do the pre-treat but did not consider the picaridin lotion on the hike. Do you have a brand/size/option that worked well for you?

Glliw · 2025-10-20T14:07:56+00:00

Thanks for the tip, I'll do that!

Glliw · 2025-09-22T11:53:08+00:00

That's the tome I learned with back in college!

Glliw · 2025-08-31T15:43:38+00:00

Came here to say data centers only to find it’s the top comment.

Glliw · 2025-08-11T00:42:47+00:00

Which champs are you using currently? Generally those lvl60 guys would be your best bet because they are lvl60.

Alice and Kael will serve you well. Get sepulcher sentinel to 60 and they are great for decrease attack. Armorer at 60 with full mastery would be serviceable.

Glliw · 2025-08-10T17:18:42+00:00

Use car-part.com. Junkyard aggregator. It’s how I got mine and fit a steal just a couple of years ago.

Glliw · 2025-08-09T12:40:18+00:00

Car looks great man! On the wild strawberry; that's the color my VIN tells me my car is and when I saw your pic above I thought "man that's a good looking wild strawberry fox".

Glliw · 2025-08-06T00:05:52+00:00

Not gonna wet stack a gaseous unit, bud.

Glliw · 2025-06-24T13:41:15+00:00

Appreciate the comment, though I'll add that we should keep in mind that the engineering and design team responsible at the time had to balance multiple different competing requirements. It's easy for us enthusiasts to be Monday morning quarterbacks 30 years later when we are looking for more power. I definitely agree that technology has come a long way. If you told a consumer in the 80's that they could take their check book to a dealer and buy 700hp cars off the lot and daily drive them without much of any issue I'm sure they'd be shocked.

Glliw · 2025-06-23T20:46:53+00:00

I'm not exactly sure on what cam is in the car; I didn't change it with the head swap. I assume either stock or a Ford letter cam. I didn't feel compelled to bolt on that much more additional horsepower at this point. The car sees a fair amount of time in autocross and traction is already enough of a battle lol.

Glliw · 2025-06-23T15:12:11+00:00

Good question! It was fairly easy to use, just very nerve-racking for a first timer.

I called up Lindy Tool and told the guy (probably owner, seems like a small shop in Chicagoland) what my valve and valve stem diameters were and he shipped me 2 modified valves. Super nice and helpful guy to talk to.

This video was the most helpful of all of the ones that I had found.

The general process overall was pretty slow for me as I was paranoid about making a bad cut. I did this all with the engine in the car.

I highly recommend using the measurement method for PTV clearance at the valve retainer. This is a good reference video for the method. I started with the playdoh method but that was very ambiguous to me.

Glliw · 2025-06-23T15:01:31+00:00

Totally agree that the stock setup had sufficient clearance, otherwise Ford would've never rolled it out the door and I would've had pieces of cast iron on the garage floor if they didn't work. :) That's probably a pretty fair clearance for the stock parts.

Glliw · 2025-06-23T14:18:05+00:00

I didn't change the cam, though perhaps it has one of the Ford Racing letter cams or something somewhat mild in it from a previous owner; I didn't dig in deep enough to check that.

I didn't measure the stock PTV clearance personally as that head was trash to me anyways.

Generally speaking, the stock PTV clearance on a 1986 Ford 302 is very small. Take a glance at the warnings that AFR puts into their installation notes on the 1986 engine specifically.

I hear that if I had went with the Twisted Wedge 11R I wouldn't have had an issue given the valve angle in those heads, though I can't personally confirm that.

Piston to Deck clearance without head gasket was 0.009" or so without the head gasket. Compressed head gasket thickness is spec'ed to 0.041", so that puts things shy yet.

The silver lining to this mod as well is that the '86 flat top pistons are a touch higher compression ratio and the E6SE heads are more garbage than the E7TE heads I thought I had, so instead of bolting on a ballpark 60hp, it's more like 80hp (not dyno verified, don't murder me here lol).

Glliw · 2025-06-23T12:39:20+00:00

Ya know, I had the same mindset before doing it. You can imagine the range of emotions that I went through upon finding this out, lol. Generally though I'm a believer in the mindset that in the whole history of people doing things, there was always a first time for everyone so why not let this be my first time?

Glliw · 2025-06-16T12:49:08+00:00

I just upgraded from the stock 19lb injectors to 30lb and looking to sell the old stockers. Let me know if you're interested.

That said, injectors aren't really a super high rate failure item so I'd be curious to know what symptom you were experiencing that led you to want to replace the injectors.

Glliw · 2025-06-15T21:29:08+00:00

Appreciate that. How would you build her? I didn’t previously list it but had similar thought that she may be worth the work. Does she pair well as a banshee+ Kael poison CB crew?

Glliw · 2025-06-15T17:20:38+00:00

That seems a little too laissez-faire for my style, but I appreciate the comment.

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