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GM Quick Ratio Steering Box with a Speedway 2:1 Steering Quickener under the dash

SPC Uppers from Mark at SC&C

Howe Tall Ball Joints from Mark at SC&C

650 Front Springs with Weight Jacks

GIANT Heimed front sway bar

Adjustable Height Heimed Tie rod Ends to eliminate bump and ackerman

Front Brakes and Spindles are 84 Chevy Van with 1 1/4 rotors and Wilwood PolyMatrix Autocoss compound pads. TAD AND JOE NEED THESE!!

Rear Suspension

180 pound dearched leaf Springs

New Sensatrac shocks

Winters 9" Grand National Floater Housing With RON'S Rear Ends Mini Spool 3.50 Ratio 3rd member

Winters 11" x 1.25" Rotors with aluminum brake hats, JFZ Nascar West 4 Piston Calipers, Wilwood PolyMatrix Pads

1" Rear Sway Bar

Competition Engineering Panhard Rod.

SWEET USED NASCAR Boom Tube Exhaust

All this on a completely stock 75ish Camaro Chassis

Fiberglass Body, with nicer rear Body Work and 8" Lexan Late Model style Spoiler

Sweet IROC Cowl Hood and Nose

4 1/8 inch frame heights across the front, 6 1/4 degrees of caster, 1.25 degrees of camber.

5 1/4 inch rear frame heights

Toe and Bump Steer will be addressed monday evening.

Scaling will be done after all the body work is complete minus paint and after the car is fueled. (Wednesdayish)

Tires are Hoosier 3045 27x10x15s on a 10" Aero Sprint Cup Wheel (tread width with a tape Measure is 11.5")

Even though the car looks wide in front it is actually the same as last year, the wheel offset is 4" instead of the previous 2"

Still to do:

Make Air Dam and Side Skirts. Install Headlight Covers. Redo Seat Belts. Put In Battery and Fuel. Fire it up and piss off the neighbors. Paint the car. Drink Beer while loading on Trailer. Show up at Autocross. Destroy all Shelby Kit Cars. Collect Trophy. Drink Beer in Celebration.

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Well its dead..... the green motor ate itself and we did an all night motor swap on friday, got to the track and had carb problems, then battery problems. sunday, we rebuilt the carb at the track, and lowered the pan hard bar one notch, ripped the brake caliper mounts off the rear end and took the lines with it, so we disconnected the rear brakes and capped off the line, then proceeded to hit a cement pad, bent the lower control arm, ripped off the trans pan and bent a rim, ripped off part of the body, but after an hour, it was back on the track. pics to come monday!

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A little update on the cars current condition. we took third over all in the last auto-x (two weeks ago) broke a couple lower ball joints, and had an e-fan relay issue, but overall did good. During the last few runs of the day, we ended up breaking a stock pushrod. After 6 years of hard hard life on the race track with average peak RPM's of 7500, it finally gave up. so hopefully we'll have a better valve train in it next time. We might also be swapping over to a purpose built chassis in the near future as well.

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Lol, so we just won fastest time overall and got fastest time in our class and I scored second place in my sisters stock z32TT. Well a day later we started round number 2 of weight reduction.

 

The entire firewall is going out and maybe the stock floor as well. We are going to make a single seat pod in there place and go from 2800 punds with a driver and 22 gallons of gas, to 2500 pounds with driver and 22 gallons of gas, as well as push the motor back another 6 inches.

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post-1405-026288800 1293840505_thumb.jpgpost-1405-073540100 1293840500_thumb.jpg Not much of an update, we have decided to keep just the driverside floor for now so we won't have to build a new one. The entire passenger floor and firewall have been removed and we have decided on moving the motor back another 7.5 inches to give us 53% rear weight and we are going to offset the motor about half an inch to the right to offset the driver. We are also going to do a little more cage work as well as tin off the passenger side and make a lightweight firewall. Any suggestions as to what we should add on for chassis reinforcements are appreciated.

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We got the motor where we actually want it the other day, but to our demise we have to cut the factory body brace :( so we will be rebuilding it and will get her in there. I have to still rewire the car and do a couple little odds and ends. Pics when I remember to post them!

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