RebekahsZ

Not at all! I will run those numbers when I get a chance and look up the mounted diameters of my assorted R6s. That's one way to lower the car! Most of the landspeed guys hate overdrive trannies for some reason and chose instead to run tall tires, tall rear ratios and 1:1 final gearbox ratios. They say there's a science to it, but I don't get it. Something about driveline efficiency losses. Once I have a lift and a welder, I hope to figure out some kind of better diff mounting system to allow me to swap diffs really fast. Then I can test and tune several ratios on the same weekend.once football season is over and I'm not running back and forth to Auburn for games I hope to get out in the garage and get some work done. Right now I'm in football and marching band season purgatory. Don't get me wrong, the girls are much more important than the car, but I can't seem to get two minutes next to each other lately.

I have a 3.54, 28" drag radials and a .84 fifth gear. That puts me at 150 ish in the 1/2-mile at 6200 in 4th and 174 ish in the 1-mile in 5th. I have bought a super rare 3.36 R200, but that still won't get me to 200mph. I'm gonna order a 3.18 R&P this winter. That'll do the trick but I will need lots more power. Texas300, I'm curious to see how you car does if you shift to 6th gear. With low profile tires, you are gonna run out of gearing pretty fast. I know I don't have the torque to pull 6th. One of these days I'm gonna check with Liberty gears to see if my 6th could ever be changed from a .50 to a .75 ratio. 6th is kinda worthless except cruising on the highway.

Dang, that's a nice car already! Sure you want to redo one that's already that nice?

You putting same motor back in (with new bearings) or staying with the LS3 plan? On my truck (if builder was telling the truth), he put three sets of main bearings in before having block line-bored. That seems to have fixed it. Clutch slave blew yesterday, so I have that to deal with. Sucks having trouble. Praying you get peace soon.

Does it make anybody else uncomfortable that we put all of our braking forces thru a single 3/8" bolt?

Would you now say that this control arm is superior to the use of a flat plate dogleg as used with a stock LCA or the old TTT LCA? Hmmm, wonder where you get those fixed rod ends??

I think you've got it covered. How about driveshaft-to get the yoke (even if you just use it to shove in the tranny to keep the oil from running on the floor. Muffler? Exhaust tubing? Section of the bed floor to cover spare tire well? Tranny cooler hoses? All the weatherpack wiring connectors you can cut off. All the wiring you can save (comes in handy). Shifter (if not on column). Service manual. Manuals out of glovebox.

Thanks for the super nice offer. I've tried twice, booked flights, reserved rooms, scheduled off time at work and gotten rained out twice. I'm done with salt-too iff-y. I'm gonna limit myself to paved surfaces that dry off quickly. Those two attempts to go just as a crew member, cost me thousands.

My truck blew it's clutch hydraulic line again on the way home tonight. The guy who installed my LQ4 did not plan for a safe routing of the clutch line, and without pulling the motor, I can't see an improved option for how it is routed across the header. I've replaced the burned line once. Gonna start on it again tomorrow.

I don't know if I should install a FAST intake and throttle body, the hottest cam I can get and a set of long tubes (no additional exhaust) to try to get up to around 500hp, then put a 150 shot on it. That would be my n/a 200 mph attempt if I made one with this engine. I can't see me ever taking the heads off this motor. But I'm not sure 650hp can get me a red hat. I bet I need more.

Pictures????? PLEASE!

Flares are there to cover the tires. They did a really clean, high quality build. I'd have that car in a heartbeat. The absence of a back to those front fenders is gonna be pretty hard on the paint if he really puts race rubber on it and starts slinging pebbles. But I'd have that car in a second. If he decides to sell it after that Best in Show, he's gonna make some money. Don't knock it-go build your own!

IF I do another Z, I'm thinking white. That way the interior and underside and under hood is nice and bright. Then I can have the exterior done in a wrap. That way, I can change it every so many years. I struggle with a paint color too.

Try not to get distracted!!! On to the finish!

There are 350s that make 150hp and there are 350s that make over 400 hp. If it's a weak-ass worn out motor and trans, it will go 8s in the 1/8 and high 13s or low 14s in the 1/4. With a healthy, built motor and slicks it will go 7.30s in the 1/8 and high 11s in the 1/4. Nitrous and a good driver and you are in the high 6s in the 1/8 and 10s in the 1/4. I race with a buddy with a healthy 350 and a Craig's list T350. I've got like a million bucks in my car and he got his for like a case of beer-he has just as much fun as I do. Should be a lot of fun for you. Please go to the track and let us know how it goes!

I had to get my daughter to translate that. I was afraid I had hurt your feelings and you were cussing me out or something. I'm in Chatanooga watching my other daughter's marching band compete in the rain. I drove by two good fabrication shops along the 3 hour drive and I've had solid axle dreams running thru my head to help me stay awake behind the wheel. No matter what you do, your drivetrain will be fine until it isn't. I'm not kidding. Yo may get away with the R180 for a couple years or you may break it next week. No way to be sure. Enjoy your car and cross that bridge when you have to. I have broken a stub axle (the one that goes in the diff) on launch at the strip on a 4500rpm clutch dump onto heated slicks on the stickiest track in my area. So that broke at a standstill and caused no collateral damage. I broke the other (my fault for building this axle too short) when a CV came apart on a 1-2 shift, so again I wasn't going very fast and the boot kept the axle from flopping around, so again, no collateral. That's just two failures in 3 years of hard use. Oh, yeah, I had a CV overheat on a track day (these parts are 40 years old), melt the edge of the CV boot and sling the clamp off. I heard the clamp clicking and pit-ed. The only collateral on that one was a lot of grease on the floor pans to clean up. So, so far it hasn't been a big crisis. I'm worried that I could break someday on a 4-5 shift at 150mph. That's gonna make a real mess and might send me into the guardrail or off the track. That's the axle failure I'm praying against.

Both wheels will hook or both wheels will spin if they both have equal traction. Stepping out doesn't mean anything unless you are doing it in women's' clothes, but we won't hate you for that if it makes you smile on the inside. Your happiness is all we care about.

Sorry about my attempt at humor. Do you know what happened? Too much boost? Wonder if it was an aluminum block issue?

I'm a hybridZ addict! The LS2 is the heart of this car. I just love that motor. Crazy that it is bone stock. I think that's a lot of the fun. I haven't worked on the engine-at all! In the years ahead, that may change, but if it does, this motor comes out and goes on a stand. Then maybe something more exotic, but probably less reliable. Texas300 just broke his supercharged LS2 and I think that was just with a 1.9 liter Maggie putting down 600hp. If I go to the trouble to do an engine swap, I will be looking for around 800hp. But that's a ways off. Thanks for all the encouragement.

"balls on your chin." Not something I want anything to do with. I mean, who came up with that expression??! Sorry about your motor. That sucks. Wait, did I just go there?

Thanks, Cary! Yes, lotta air down there. That's an old picture-big airdam since then. I'd like to get the car down lower, but there's lots of clearance issues with this car. To run the tall rear tires (for gearing), I can't let it down too low since track is pretty bumpy. I'm gonna have to let the airdam do most of the air limiting under the car, but I will bring the car down a bit in the coming year. Remember, this is my street/autocross/dragrace/trackday/landpseed car, so there's a limit of how much I want to chop it up. Gotta stiffen suspension a lot to make that feasible-the airdam is so far out in front of the front tires that it hit the ground (started at 3" off the concrete at static ride height) on speed runs. I got a rear spoiler like MiKelly's to try next year. Gonna sacrifice my rear decklid and drill it full of holes for mounting several different rear spoilers. Wish I felt like paying for a trip to A2 Windtunnel. Maybe someday. That' my skinny-ass big brother beside me in the ball cap. He drove in 10 hours from Pennsylvania, and I had a team of 4 come up 8 hours with me from Alabama. It was a great weekend. We hit my mph goal of approaching 175mph, then we worked hard on trying to get the car to handle better, but we really never made any progress with the handling. But we had a ball wrenching and problem "solving." Very tired when we turned toward home. Hoping to be involved in the Ohio Mile for the rest of my life. If I ever get this garage/shop finished up, there may be another chassis in my future. If so, that one will be purpose-built for going straight with forced induction. Then this car will get set back up for track days only. Curves are great, but nothing beats the thrill of pure acceleration. You really don't get to enjoy listening and feeling your engine work until you get into the higher gears and the action slows down...feeling the cam climbing thru the Rs, doing its thing straight thru to your spine-nothing like it. In a short race, its all frantic, asses and elbows, trying to do the right thing as a driver. In landspeed, you really get to enjoy the car and all the work you did to get it put together. Everything has to work together: safety tech, power, suspension, aero. So much fun!

My wife wants your wood floors! Super nice headers, btw. Perhaps nicest I've ever seen. You and your son (Alan?) sound like the Odd Couple in that video. And, who stole my cowl panel and put it on YOUR car?

Biggest obstacles to ECTA is the rulebook and tech inspection. They are serious about their safety. No one escapes without some discrepancy to correct. It was a pin hole in my firewall and an additional pad on the doorbar that they gigged me for in June. Same car flew thru tech in May.

Here are some other pics Larry Chen shot but didn't make the website. He emailed them to me.