Found out I have walking Phumonia (sp?)... no wonder I feel like crap. Got three shots, and inhaler and some kick ass cough swill.

But SEMA waits for nobody.. lol

New wheels are on the car and she goes tomorrow to dyno tune then back to BOS so we can finish up all the little stuff.

Shaun Dove (TwinSting) over at EVOD showed me a new deal he is doing. In short he has a way to cast emblems now. So he took my Bad Penny logo, scanned it, made it 3Dish and then made centercaps for my wheels.

He said he ca do this with any logo or car name and the cost for the entire set of custom one-off center caps is only about $250. Considering the billet Forgeline caps run $200 that's a hell of deal.

He can color them many ways, these he used a dye to give the patina copper look.

He can also do one off emblems as well (like if you had a car name or something) for under a hundred bucks.
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Sorry you feel like you look....

Those wheel caps are KILLER! That is a really hot idea! :thumbsup:

haaa haa awesome caps dude.

Get some rest and no more late nights young man. More white grape juice!!

Vince

wait...bad penny has a logo? since when?

Your car is so sick its not even funny ....

Wheels are hot, but I still miss the gunmetal finish that hits hard with your paint color :(

I sort of missed the polished hoops.. and now I do miss the GM centers.. but it's easy to get them done down the line a bit.

Shaun's website is www.evodindustries.com

Very nice Steve. Penny always looks great anyhow. The center caps came out really nice. That's some great work by those guys at EVOD.
Hope you get well soon bud!:thumbsup:

Funny, I asked you if you had a pneumonia last Friday and you said, "No, nothing that bad".

I know it will be tough with SEMA and all but try to get as much rest as possible. I had it last year and it took about six months to get 100%.

By they way, thanks again to you and the folk that put together the Duel in the Desert event. My three boys and myself had a great time. :thumbsup:

The center caps are really cool! Evod made the wheels for the Anvil Mustang and they are works of art.
Sorry your not feeling well, Steve. I hope you fell well enough to do what you need to do at SEMA!

looks pretty good steve!
i gotta admit though with the new wheels not having a dark center and penny being such a bright colored car it look real showy, almost like when you see it from the outside you'd expect it to have some fancy exotic int. and alot more shinny stuff under the hood. its always amazing how much the wheels really change the whole look of a car.if you decided to have the centers darkened would it add less weight to just have the guys a b.o.s paint the centers instead of having them p.c.ed ?

But IMO the polished lips totally belong on penny it it just ties in much better that the brushed hoops since she's got all the polished trim.
Also the center caps look awesome!!! he did a really good job with coloring them, looks like a real penny!

Steve hope you get to feeling better. The wheel's & center cap's are smokin cool.They fit perfect w/theme of the car.Penny just's keep's getting nicer by the day.Good luck at puhrump.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Scott.

Steve I love the wheel centers, they look sweet. I hope you feel better.

How about a run of coins as swag for us CP subscribers??!! :unibrow:

Steve,
Those wheel center caps are just plain Bad A$$ !!!!!!

Good seeing you at the even Al.. thanks for coming with the Camaro!

I will try to rest.. but not much time for that for the next two weeks. :willy:

Thanks AJ.. and to all that gave the car/wheels compliments.. I build the car for myself, but I would be lying if I said it didn't make me feel good to hear the positive comments (and the negative ones in a wierd way)

I would say 90% of the people like the new wheels and 8% prefer the darker centers. To be honest I always missed the polished hoops and I sorta miss the grey centers. But in a year it will easy to make them grey to once again change the car.

And you're right, the wheels can totally change the car, remember the black wheels from the first Optima? that might as well have been a different car.

At first the copper centers through me off.. I'm more subtle and would have done brushed nickel but the copper fits the theme and after a day of staring at them they copper sort of blends in and adds a nice accent. Plus they are just too damn cool. lol

I make enough power that I don't have to worry about the weight diff between paint and power and power holds up WAY better.

Even if I ordered up a hundred I doubt they would be cheap enough.. I might ask though.. if they got down to a couple bucks, maybe. lol

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Well.. hit the chassis dyno today.

The bad..

Found out that the smaller bell on the new H20 pump makes my belt come close to my upper radiator hose.. under flogging it barely left a mark on the blue tape we put there to check it. Will have to fix it this weekend.. it's always something.

My O2 sensors are shot.. ordered some that will be here Friday, for now the car is in open loop

New engine idles at 210/215 all day long.. We engine dynoed at 175 degrees.. the difference makes the car not like 91 octane. Seems like it would be good to go on 95ish.. but not 91. Sort of a buzz kill.

So the plan for now? Well after we did the dyno pulls we made sure the tune was safe and filled her up with 100 octane.. smells great.. :)

After SEMA, in January, I will pull the engine and lower the compression, maybe by going with a thicker Cometic gasket and opening up the heads a bit. Right now I'm at 11.5 and I need to be 11.1 or maybe 11.2 static. This will also give me a chance to get my one off oil pan made by Canton that will accomodate the long stroke and give me all the room I can get.

Other than that life is good... as for the dyno:

The 90mm TB is really choking the engine down.. we guess that the new 102 TB on the way will free up at least another 20hp.

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I will be fun.. just going out to have fun this year.. :)

BTW.. your Mustang is f'ing off the hook sick.. tempted to put it in the Camaro magazine it's so nice! ;)

And the obligatory video:

Back off Steve... I want it for PHR... LOL :D

lol.. ok, this time, but you owe me ;)

And I thought I worked on my big block alot... :rofl: I didn't know street cars ran on race gas. Looks like you got a little greedy. I know the feeling. That torque curve and engine is ridiculous. Compression and stroke are to blame, I noticed the hp fell off before 6000. I be that changes with less compression.

I didn't get greedy.. we just got surprised with a really thin head gasket from RHS. Hoped it would be fine with the overlap and that dynamic would be in a sweet spot. Oh well.

Could put in the bigger cam and drop dynamic, but I don't want the bigger cam. This is the first engine I've ever "designed" that came up needing more than 91 octane, but it happens.

The HP fell before 6000 instead of after (like on the engine dyno) because the 90mm TB is starving the engine of air at that level. The 102mm should help with that.

Only looking to drop it 4/10ths of a point.. we are just outside the 91 octane range. To be honest if I lived in a 93 octane state without all the crap additives we have here in CA I would most likely be fine. Here the next step from 91 is 100.. which sucks.

Anyways, just a temp problem that can be fixed.. for now I will enjoy the sweet smeels eminating from my tailpipes.. :)

Sounds so wicked Steve. Pretty amazing powerplant. Made me walk out to the garage and snicker at mine. lol

Very nice Steve. She looks and sounds great. :thumbsup:
I bet you will open up some more ponies with that new TB for sure. GOOD LUCK!:cheers:

Cool stuff going Steve, those center caps are pretty dang cool.:cool:

Those center caps kick ass - love the new wheels... :thumbsup:

...and he's off.
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Dude, I have heard so much of Bad Penny over the last two days that whenever I try to relax or go to sleep I start hearing the rumbling of exhaust and the thump of a lopey engine struggling to idle coupled with the occasional rev.

Matt

You forgot to mention the 8hrs breathing in burned race gas! :faint: :faint: :faint:

Yea, that was a tuning marathon.. new O2 sensors.. found a mis-installed fuse (was supposed to power the O2 heaters) and a bad MAF..

Once again I'm taking a car with 10 miles on it to SEMA.. lol.. you would think I would learn by now.

The new valley cover catch tank came out good.. and overall she's in good shape. Still tired and will be glad when it's a week from now..

Thanks everyone.. :)

I think my current TB might be one of my problems. Can't force the idle RPM below 1200.. might be letting too much air in. Will be curious is I can fix it with a new TB installed.

Has a 195 t-stat.. I want to later replace it with a 180 version. Right now it idles at 210 all day long, which isn't bad but I would prefer 200.

With this engine done I can spend the winter sorting the car.. I also need the find the source of a small battery drain I have. Electrical sucks..

I almost don't recognize Penny in that trailer pic. Guess you had to make those "significant changes" to be able to enter Optima again eh? LOL

Now see there would be ONE reason to move to Canada, we have 94 octane at the pump. and its only 5.20 a gallon. the 5.20 a gallon part is a good reason not to

i brought 15 gallons with me

that would require you to quit changing parts.............. :lol: See ya in a couple days Steve.

Jody

Car looks great! Can't wait to see, hear, and smell it!! Race Fuel! :D

Great car.:thumbsup:

It looks sweet Steve! Enjoy SEMA.

Blake you can get 100 octane all over Vegas if you want/need it. It''s about $6 a gal, tho...

I have a pump about 2 miles from me but it's not THAT accessible. They are known to be out on a regular bais.