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Old 08-13-2018, 10:44 AM
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Very solid update! Well done... Keep it up now...
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Old 01-20-2019, 10:13 PM
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New year - new update.

So the last few months of 2018 were a blur, with a last minute decision to haul up to Road America and fight for the Optima GTV season points.

Traveling to this huge, historic track helped motivate us to try an idea that had been floating around for a bit on the spoiler.


New in front, old underneath


Better looks (in our minds at least), 4 positions of adjustability, and less drag




Final painted and in position




Also took the opportunity to update the front end. Light is good


Alignment and corner weights checked, ready for battle

We passed through the parking lot at Road America on Power Tour in 2004. I told myself then someday we would go back to run it, having never even done an autocross. It was surreal to pull in the gate knowing we were there to race.


Cold. Surreal and cold..


Mixing it up with these two spectacular cars, incredible drivers, and all-around cool people was a highlight of the year for sure


We had a big group of familiar faces, and took in the local sights at night..


The autocross was tight and slick. We were in a great spot after the morning, but fell down the order in the afternoon


RA is F - A - S - T and beautiful in the fall


Yeah, real fast.

In the end, we finished third in class, but bettered our score from Barber earlier in the year and locked up the GTV points championship. Still hard to believe..

Once we made it home from Road America, it set in that in mere weeks it would be time to turn around and haul to Las Vegas for the Invitational.


War paint: Activate

To be continued..
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Old 01-21-2019, 12:27 PM
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Stellar work Duston, can’t wait till I get mine finished.
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Old 01-21-2019, 08:41 PM
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Congrats Duston on the points championship. I live only 30 minutes north of Road America so seeing your post makes me more excited to finally get my car on the track.
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I always enjoy getting to run with you. I can't wait to see how well you run this year. Keep the Disco Camaro on top of the charts.
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Sorry I missed your update earlier, Duston. Glad the car is performing well. It looks great!
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Been a crazy long time since I updated this. Kind of a lot happened. Installed EFI. Gave it a makeover. Had a kid. Got into a little fight with a tire wall a while back. Formulating the plan for what's next, and in the meantime putting together kind of a wild little update on our old farm truck.

Camaro time coming up again soon.


COTA 2019, we dropped 10 seconds from going there with Optima in 2016 - running a 2:30 in the dead of summer.


Added a black two tone and gold lettering, inspired by the R30 Skylines


Upgraded to Holley Dominator EFI with race throttle body, also added cylinder EGT probes for monitoring


Optima Invitational road course, 2019


In 2020, we got a little bored like a lot of people did, and added some aero. Nine Lives wing paired with a splitter.


Tried out some new tires in 2021. It didn't go to plan.. ended up going off track in the worst possible spot at Heartland Park during Gridlife.


Cars are dumb. But we wouldn't have it any other way.

Keep up with the latest on everything we're doing on instagram: https://www.instagram.com/silverc10/
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Glad to see the update. I actually came across your Instagram while hunting out pictures of C10s. I don't really use Instagram but the C10 looked great. Good luck with it all, Duston.
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Thanks for the updates and great pictures!
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Glad to see the update. I actually came across your Instagram while hunting out pictures of C10s. I don't really use Instagram but the C10 looked great. Good luck with it all, Duston.
Thanks Trey! I'm so geeked to get the truck back together, I need to make a thread for the saga of it someday. We've had it for 25 years this year somehow..

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Thanks for the updates and great pictures!
Thanks! We're lucky to have some great photographers around. Most of the great action ones in here are from Kaleb Kelley - he shoots all the Optima events and does fantastic work!
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