It is not slammed on the ground by any stretch, And I'm sure the 6'6" photographer camera angle makes it look even more like a monster truck. We currently have it set with the front arms level and the rear lower link level for a base line. I wanted tire size on this car not stance. The car is currently just over 3000 lbs with my 260 lbs in it. I will see what I can do about some outside pics next week.

Rodger

Very nice as usual.:thumbsup:
I'm digging that truck behind the Camaro as well.:bow:

Looks good, shows a lot of potential!

See you in Reno on Friday!

Thanks guys. Next weekend should be good for the car and for me.

you guys should look into building cars for a living:unibrow: :lol:

Ok really off topic but where did you get the shelf/workbench from?

Thanks
Kody

Well day one has been good. Got a few bugs worked out. Tommorrow we try to take it much faster. So far it is really good. So much power.

More info please. More photos please.



--Eric

Well day two was lots of fun it put 125 miles on the car in 5 - 6 laps session. The track is over 4 miles with a ton of turns . James car sounds like a jet plane when he blew by my at 130 up near the limiter. Mary was a great instructor. Super fun today and the car was really good right out of the box.

So time for the pics and info. I left friday morning at just before 5am. I headed east on 58 to 395.
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2010045.jpg
Once I got to Bishop I decided to avoid the beauty route and go though the straight flat route. It is very smooth and scenic this way but, I think I found BFE to the least. Well 455 miles later I pulled into Fernley Raceway. What a beautiful place, the track is up on top of a hill. The track was purchased by a new owner a year ago or so and they are working to make the facility top notch. The track as we ran it was over 4 miles long with 32 apexes or 23 turns. It has about a 120ft of elevation change. The hill is a blast, the hill down is fun but a little on the pucker side. The pic of the down hill does not do it justice.
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...maro/Image.jpg

Now on to the goodies, I had few small bugs to work out Friday when I got there. New car stuff. Once I got that sorted I we were able to do some low speed laps around the track and start to learn the track.
On Saturday we got 5 sessions I got to have Mary ride along 2 times. She really helped me learn the line very fast. She also gives you confidence to push just a bit harder then you would by yourself. ( EX - Don't you touch that brake or I will kill you ). I was still breaking in the engine and bedding the brakes so I was not the F-15 fighter jet that Mr Shipka was, But I can also say I might be one of the few that have been passed by James at a buck 20 down the front stretch just before he hits the limiter saling into turn one. That is quite the sound. It even backfires like a C6R once in a while. James drives his car faster then anyone would guess for a nice as the car is. Ok time for some pics.

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2010056.jpg
I'm standing on some really tall box, Yeah that's it.
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Pics of the track
The front stretch
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2010058.jpg
The front stretch with turn one
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2010059.jpg
The slide turn, this pic does not due this elevation change justice.
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...ber2010060.jpg

Mary has the action photos, James has the video coverage. The car performed great and I'm looking forward to Just checking everything out underneath and getting ready to try some autocross. I put just about 125 miles on the car this weekend. Mary has the pic when I had to drive the car back to the track in the rain. I drove to Autozone on Saturday night in the rain and a car show broke out in the rain. The staff was installing wipers on customers cars in the rain and here comes some guy without side glass or wipers and a LS7 power 67 camaro. I'm pretty sure they knew I was not from around there.

Good pics and story Rodger!

Great group to hang out with too!:thumbsup:

Rodger,

You need to get a video camera (like James has on his front spoiler!!!).


--Eric

You know Christmas is Coming. :D

Pretty sick Rodger!

Hey Rodger,

How does driving your 67 on the track compare to iRacing?



--Eric

Great pictures Rodger and it sounds like you had a killer time out there. I bet it was nice to finally get some XL seat time after all the work that's been put into the car. Keep us all posted with more info & pictures as the testing process continues.

Do you really think the "no side glass and wipers" that gave it away when you pulled into Autozone ...... :thumbsup:

- The Dish -

I don't care who you are, that's funny right there !! :rofl:

-The Dish -

Yea, but he would have to have someone design a bracket for it. Too expensive! :thumbsup:

Rodger,

Any plans to run a rear spoiler or inner fenders?

Your Camaro looks good next to one lap.:thumbsup:

If i wreck my vette on Iracing, I just press a button and I have a new one. But nothing beats the real thing. But I can't drive the camaro on a track everynight after I get home from work in my boxers. Well I guess I could but I might end up on the TV show "COPS".

I had a great time and I think Go kart racing and Racing on Iracing has helped me pick up the lines and get things down pretty quick. This car is a rocket.

I'm waiting on some Anvil Inner fenders. I plan to build a front valance and Some side rocker extensions. I plan to either install the anvil spoiler or maybe build one. I just wanted to drive the car and get some bugs worked out to go into phase 2. I still plan to stick close to the rendering.
http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t...orangeroof.jpg

The rendering has wipers!

I heard you take that kart racing gig just as serious and drive for Team CFL. :thumbsup: Rumor has it they are the team to beat on the West Coast and often beat the Lonestar crew. The lines would be similar in a kart however you're boxers will fill up with rocks sooner as there are no fenders on the kart.

http://i699.photobucket.com/albums/v...9/IMG_0800.jpg

Little CFL warm up session as well.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76Tx0...layer_embedded

- The Dish -

Boy those were that days. I think that was the day Umigo increased the rules from 2 to 3 rules.

"We only have 3 Rules"
No Bumping
No pinching off at the turn
No touching other people Karts :D :D :D

I don't break rules, I force legislation.

LOL!!! "The Dish"!!!!!

John

First there was the Earnhardt bar in Nascar. Now there's there Rodger Lee policy: I think the political version stated was something like this " Please keep all hands within the perimeter of the kart while it's in motion. At no time should you hand come in contact with another driver or kart for any reason."

- The Dish -

2 Thumbs up for the rain :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

http://i616.photobucket.com/albums/t.../Gettingas.jpg

Who was in charge of side-window installation?????


--Eric

Awesome pics and story Rodger. Looks like fun!:thumbsup:

Some pics Mary took.

I like this one, cuz this guy got mad that I passed him. It is a long story.
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Man I need a bigger Helmet.

One more
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Looks like a blast Rodger.

Looks like it was a fun weekend. Congrats on getting it going. I love the rendering and phase II plans but I also think it is great in primer. I look forward to seeing it at the Optima event next month:thumbsup:

Sweet! This is what it's all about. How did she feel? Loose, tight, forward bite, etc?

I really liked the handling on the car, very neutral feeling. I was not pushing th entry as fast as I would like but the forward bit was good. As the day press on and I went harder and harder, still not 10/10 maybe 7/10. It still felt really good out of the turn and down the straight. Mary and some of the instructors felt the car was more planted down the rough mid straight then James's car. I made a few shock adjustments to lossen things up and it felt even better. I really think I got lucky with the spring rate right out of the gate. I have 450's on the front and 175's on the rear. I ran the car around shifting the car at or below 5000 just to get the engine broke in. Later I will spin it to 7000, if the pistons will last.

I will not be running the car at Optima next month because I only get one chance to run the event. I would like to win my way in next year and have the car as dialed as possible by then.

I'm excited to take the car out again soon and work on some autocross stuff. This winter Buttonwillow will have plenty of track days to go work on it some more. At this point I think I need more work then the car. I might take the car to the El Toro event next month, I believe it is the No Limit shootout. I'm not sure on many details I was invited last week by the promoter.

Did you say something about carbon fiber front fenders??
Sounds expensive, but worth it!

Carbon inner fenders, but the outside will remain all steel.

Ooo, I see, both would be pretty cool to have don't cha think:unibrow:

None the less this car is awesome, great job.