Overheating/Handling

[Kimbo]

Hey Guys,

I have not posted since I have purchased my car. My name is Kim and I have been following this forum for quite some time. A couple of months ago I purchased a registered, but not entirely finished car.

The car is a Harrison (No. 6) with a balanced (but otherwise stock) 302 Windsor Mustang motor. Live (SS Commodore) rear axle and was originally registered in 2003.

Monday this week I took it to Wakefield Park for a bit of a shakedown run knowing that we have a club day coming up and the nationals a bit down the track - so to speak.

Other than having a great time driving the car, I found two major issues:

Overheating
After about 6-8 laps, the engine would overheat spitting about 3 litres of coolant out during each run. It does not seem to have any water leaks that I can see and so I can only assume it is coming out of the overflow bottle. It has a thermo fan and an electric water pump driven by the Haltec engine management.

Handling
The handling of the car was exciting to say the least. It would throw you off the track for even the most minor changes of direction with virtually no warning. I changed the shock setting to full soft that helped a lot but then had the car body rolling in the corners. Front end turn in was fantastic but rear end grip was almost non-existent. To give you an idea, I was running around the track along with a stock standard V6 VN commodore wagon and he was significantly quicker around the corners - you can only imagine the embarrassment.

Any advise on the this would be very much appreciated as I am only new to this.

Thanks,
Kim