Fresh Battery

I typically always buy a new battery when buying a used car unless I know for sure it was replaced recently. I had intended that for the 944 but I guess time flew by and I still hadn't gotten around to it. Recently I noticed sometimes acceleration would hesitate randomly especially if I had a lot of electrical things on like my lights, radio, rear defogger, etc. It's very random and I know this can happen if you have just enough voltage drop at load where the DME is starved of voltage. I looked at the manufacture date of the old Napa battery in the car and it was about 6.5 years old which is really old for a standard battery so I went ahead and replaced it with a new Diehard Gold T6. I would've preferred to go AGM like all my cars but unfortuantely they didn't have one in stock in the T6 size.

New DieHard Gold Battery

Maintenance Update:

Mileage: 99,694 miles

- New Diehard Gold T6 battery

End of Season Oil Change

Well another year went by and we didn't really put a ton of miles on the Jeep but it was due for an oil change anyway.

Maintenance Update:

Mileage: 86,321

- 6 quarts Castrol Edge 5W-20
- 1 new Mopar oil filter

Final S2K Takeover Event Ever - Watkins Glen

It's been an incredible stretch of running with S2K Takover but sadly we reached out final event ever. Lower attendance has made it not financially viable for Brad to continue so we went to Watkins Glen for one last event...our final hurrah as a group.

Watkins Glen - 9-29-2026

Unfortunately, though expectedly, we got hit with constant rain and fog both days we were there with just an opening in drying conditions on the afternoon of the 2nd day. It was still a lot of fun though and the car felt great though I couldn't really set a PB or anything like that since we had to avoid all curbing and painted surfaces as they were too slippery go on. 

NJMP Lightning with HOD NorthEast

Excited to get some additional track time before the season ends, I signed up to run with HOD NorthEast again, this time at NJMP Lightning. I was bit concerned looking at the weather a week before since it looks liked it was just going to be a wash out but we got lucky and Saturday turned out to be a perfect break in the weather and we were blessed with dry weather and highs in the mid-70s. The car cotinues to feel great and I set a new PB for Lightning at 1:15.99 (just barely squeaked in under 1:16 lol).

Beautiful day for a track day

NJMP Lightning - 9/19/2026 - 1:15.99

Additional USB-C Port

The T120 has a conveniently located USB-C port in the rear of the clocks which I use to power my Quad lock wireless charger but I wanted a second USB-C port in order to keep any additional accessories I may mount like a camera charged up for longer rides. I picked up an Evotech USB-C cable and wired it to my Thunderbox and mounted the connector right by the front forks for easy access. Admittedly the space under my seat is starting to look a little bit like a rat's nest but there's not really a lot of space under there to tuck things out of the way to begin with.

Chain Maintenance

I got the bike serviced pretty much right at the 600 mile break-in point. I've put in over 800 miles since then so it was time to clean and lube the chain.

Maintance Update:

Mileage: 1,450

- Oil clean and lube using Motul fluids

Motone Tail Tidy

I wanted to have a little bit of storage under the seat so I switched tail tidies to the Motone V3 unit with the Gort light then moved the turn signals back from the shock mounts to license plate so I could actually free up space on the sides in case I want to bring any saddle bags.

Motone tail tidy

A little cubby under the seat for paperwork lol

New tail light and turn signals moved to the rear again