Certainly you mean the How Not To Build Book..... it's part of the Ron Myers Hot Sauce book series. :twak:

:cheers:

I'm doing the opposite of my natural instinct...so #1 instead.

:lol:

Just as much can be learned from watching someone do it the wrong way. Over and over and over...:D

I'm almost starting to feel guilty but you are such an easy target. Hope you and the family are well...

Yep. Learning from the mistakes of others and making my own mistakes for others to avoid. That about sums it up.

Don't feel guilty... my son will walk and talk, and my car will pass Gaetano in 2015. That's pretty exciting right there. :D

Happy New Year.

Yeah, publicly put pressure on the 'yute...

:shakehead:


lol

Fixed that for you Dave. :mock:

Don't forget to buy a transponder. :poke:

Yeah I'll be lucky to be about triple.... :lol: But I may be okay since you started working with Sutton recently.... just ask Weld. :computer:

Speaking of Weld and parade laps.... sans transponder..... :popcorn2:

I'm driving up to Cortex this week to check out the progress.

Dave, whats the old sayin on here? "pics or it didn't happen?"...

As long as this build is taking -- even digital pictures will most likely be faded...

:ohsnap:

That's some funny snidzit right there...

Now that's funny!

:lmao:

For some reason, this thread attracts GW internet huggs like nuttin else...


:popcorn2:

Good thing I didn't have a sip of water in my mouth right before reading this. lol
Too funny.

That very well might be the funniest thing ever posted on LG to date.

Well done!

Wish I had the extra cake to play with Ron but unfortunately I'm going to have to settle with "good enough for now".

Greg will never get a transponder. He's worked to hard at boosting his ego. :lol:

Don't listen to these chumps. You'll be driving your protouring car through the Wendy's drive through soon enough. You may need your pit crew to rebuild it after such a strenuous exercise, but that's the price you have to pay to out run Gaetano.

CorteX is all over this build! With that in mind, I looked at the CorteX Racing site today hoping to find shop pics of a Camaro lurking in the background... but given that CorteX is a Mustang specialist shop... they've no doubt taken great pains to hide the CamoFord build.

Re: Gaetano/Weld lap times....

We do have a great time bantering back and forth in these threads and on the text train. But I'll repeat what I've said many times. It's one thing to run spec cars and see who's the best driver... but it's a ridiculous exercise to try to compare different cars. I say this for those that haven't tracked or AutoX their own cars... and then if they do... try to begin this comparison. It's impossible. That's why they have CLASSES in racing - so the cars are basically built to rules and specs to keep them as even as possible. We don't do any of that. Ours are all very very different. If you want to know what your car is CAPABLE OF - get one of the best drivers on here (Pozzi/Hobaugh/Maier/Finch et al) to run it for you. Then that's the time to beat in YOUR car.

A buddy of mine just added a Lotus 2 11 to his garage. He's a Porsche instructor and has tracked for years. He is copying my set up - which is copied from the Lotus Cup Unlimited Champions set up. I guarantee he will be many SECONDS faster than me. He's a far more capable driver. That's MY time to work to in that car.

Your posts remind me of the 12 pillars of Jim Rome.

lol

Rear suspension UPGRADE well on its way. This is what will be the first GM version of the Cortex Torque Arm and Watts link. Oh, and it's made for a 108 inch wheelbase for those keeping track.

Old JRS torque arm = 30 lbs

New Cortex torque arm = 18 lbs

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Once they finish up the watts link and fuel cell cage adjustments, they'll move on to LCA modification and header/exhaust fab.

Regular updates should be more the norm now as I will be going by there every 2-3 weeks. One of those perks of working with a local shop. :thumbsup:

What a year a difference makes..... HAHAHAHAHAHA


Betsy home - new baby son Garrett - a car that might be finished.... HAPPY NEW YEAR!!

Yeah, it's a great start to 2015. :thumbsup:

I LOL'd there Jer.. Nice. :D

Nice to see the updates Dave.

...Life brimming brightly with optimism and verve...

#namethatepisode

Woohoo updates! :thumbsup:
Do you have any shots of the front mount and crossmember? And because I don't spend anytime under a camaro, are the other two links located in the stock spring location?

Filip is a hell of a nice guy and can drive ok too...won't be much longer now!

I hope you are keeping that trick double D exhaust.

looks good.

Dave what are they doing to the LCAs?

Great to see some progress on this Beast :cheers:

Right on Dave. Great to see this project moving forward again. I'm counting on you to wrap this up soon.
Then I envision you sucking me into multiple track days and my wife making me move into my car trailer. :lol:

if your lucky....you get the dog house and the dog gets a nice warm bed.

better put Dish and a big screen back there.

Dave,

Any thoughts on whether you will be able to adjust the pinion angle with this setup? With my original JRS setup, the 'old' style that used 2 rods to triangulate the housing to the TA, I could. When we added Jake's plate which bolts to the pinion support and then to the TA, you lose that ability unless you egg out some holes.

From what I can see in this picture, it looks all welded in that area, so is there any adjustment I can't see?

Looks like it's going to be a nice setup! :thumbsup:

I would assume they set up the angles and fabricate around it. It "shouldn't" need adjustment. Unless the vibration at freeway speeds on the Griswold family road trip bothers the little one. :D

I realized when I got home I didn't take pics of that. Dangit. The Cortex TA is 4-5 inches shorter than the JRS piece so the mount and Xmember were indeed modified from before.

I haven't really paid attn to the lower links in ages and I can't even tell you if they are in the stock spring location... you might know more about Camaros than me actually. :lol:

And yes Filip is a great guy and I really enjoy talking and working with him. And yes he can flat out drive. :thumbsup:

We hope and plan to. I brought up the remaining pieces today and the guys there really liked the setup.

We decided to "straighten" the rear arm of the LCA to gain 2-3 inches of header clearance since it doesn't change any of the structural integrity of anything. We agreed it was likely easier to cut that than to make the NASCAR headers go around that unnecessarily "bulky" area. Plus I told them I'd rather cut up a JRS part than a NASCAR part if it had to be one or the other. :sieg:

I should have pics of that next I go up.

Wrap it up soon? :lol: Good one.

The multiple track days is a no brainer... but I cannot be held responsible for you and Brian living together in a trailer in Simi Valley.

No adjustment is correct. They set it and forget it. The whole shoot n' match is pretty close to what Filip runs on his '66 as that has the same 108" wheelbase.

So Bryan, when you swapping out that JRS TA? :popcorn2:


Thanks fellas... I think I am on a good course. :cheers:

:) If I were going to swap it all out, I would go all the way to a 3-link instead of another TA. Too many challenges between exhaust routing and sway bar mounting and setting driveshaft angles. Of course I liked keeping the back seat on TOW.

Given the race car status of BMF :poke: , I'm a little surprised you didn't jump all the way up to a 3-link instead of the TA. Since you are making the change, any thoughts on that choice?

He wanted to insure that both Gaetano and I can pass his ass despite having a NASCAR winning motor.

:lol:

I got excited reading about actual car progress!! Good stuff Dave!

I can't wait to hit up a track day with you and have you beat me soundly again :)

I am not sure if I would completely agree with your implication that a 3 link is going "all the way"... it's debatable I guess, just like about everything else on this site. :)

I have a lot going on in the back seat area right now anyway, so it could be a challenge if I were to "go all the way" but I haven't looked into it to be honest. I bought into the torque arm idea 3 years ago based on its simplicity and Jake doing well with it in AIX.

Cortex has been very successful with their torque arm (and other parts) so when I decided to go with them it was part buying into Cortex/Filip and part the mechanism itself. Filip is a real engineer by trade as well.

Contrary to popular belief I am not building a GT-1 car (do they have lic plates? :peepwall:) and I don't plan on being the guy tuning and adjusting a million things between every session. Not interested in that.

Here is Sutton's brief explanation and I maintain it should suit me well. Of course... are these cars ever done? :)

You and me both! I really wanna go back to Willow Springs sometime.