LOL! Lots of duct tape will be needed.

Drag race day should be interesting at Alabama. The SS^2 at RTTC last year is the closest I've done to drag racing in decades.

James, you'll have to excuse my ignorance here, but I haven't been following the build for very long. What sort of chassis stiffening is being employed on the car? It doesn't look like there's much anything going on in the front end and the interior only has a roll bar (maybe I'm wrong? Hard to see in the photos).

Have you guys measured the hub-to-hub stiffness of the chassis?

How are the wing loads transmitted to the chassis?

Amen James, other then the big tires thing I totally agree, if you are required to run 200 tread wear tires the bigger the better. I really think C6 brakes with good pads would do us fine. You put Danny, or Mark in anyone of the better cars, and it would be a winner.

For me, going back to my drag racing days I'm going to make up for my short comings with raw horsepower. Lord knows I need more road course experience, I still look at it as 17 drag races, its been fun though.

Karl,
We've got a few things going on with respect to chassis stiffening. From the main hoop back it's pretty conventional although we've tied in to the 3-link at every chassis point. Going forwards are a pair of boxed SFCs welded in to the floor and subframe. From the rockers/subframe are a pair of uprights welded into the body and going forwards is a dash bar (also welded into the body) and going forward from there are a pair of downtubes from the dash bar tied in to the subframe. It's nowhere near a full cage like the '69 but it's enough for what we're doing with this car for now.

For the wing we've reinforced a steel trunk lid in two planes and the load is spread to the rearmost points on the frame rails. We have to option of adding additional support but at this point I don't think that it's necessary and I'm trying to avoid eating up trunk space unless we have to. We'll monitor with video when we're track testing.

Horsepower... I hear you. I'm at lest a hundred short by todays standards. I hate bringing knives to gun fights but at least it's a relatively sharp knife.

Lots of progress at Best of Show over the last week...

The new splitter was water-jetted out...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...tter%20raw.jpg

along with a Gurney Flap for the rear decklid...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...ney%20Flap.jpg

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...ey%20Close.jpg

We'll have new base mounts for the rear wing in a couple of days to get the uprights to the same 11 degrees that the GT-R uses (vs. the higher angle we have now). The curve of the Camaro decklid is a lot more substantial than we anticipated.

Best of all the valance, splitter, and fender extensions are just about wrapped up...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...%20Drivers.jpg

We've captured all of the elements we were looking for...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...0Passenger.jpg

and (I think) that it came out better than I had expected...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...0Head%20On.jpg

everything (more or less) flows and I think it looks like it "could have been" if GT3 was a class back in '67

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...e%20Ground.jpg

A couple more things to button up and we should be close...

http://www.onelapcamaro.com/1967%20O...e%20Ground.jpg

Looks great James.

I have just registered to this site as I'm starting a 1960 Pontiac PT car

I'm doing OLOA myself this year in my Camaro so I will see you there with my dad. Slightly different generation though.

:-)

looks awesome and funtional.

Does the wing mount to the trunk? if so is the trunk stong enough for the expected downforce?

Who did your water jet cutting? I could use another supplier for work.

Looks great:thumbsup:
To be honest it came together better than I originally as well.
even think the wing looks at home too.

Saw you were entered - look forward to meeting you in May!

Trunk lid has been reinforced and we have the option of adding some addional support if it looks like there is an issue in testing. I don't expect it to be a problem but we're prepared either way.

Thanks - cant wait to figure out colours for this year...