ok, I think the car is playing hard to get! I moved it around the block a week ago, out of the garage to turn it around, construction in my nieghborhood didn't pave the street and left a 3 inch manhole cover sticking up! Guess what hit it? My front left lower control arm mount. Tweaked the subframe quite a bit. No shop in the area wants to touch it to try an pull it back. I got it close witha a longacre camber/caster meter but it's not were it was before. I autoX'd it Sunday and it was terrible! I redid the alinment, drove it around moved the body over the to make up for the difference and raised the ride height today and was going to redo the alignment but my jack decided to be a jackass and blow a seal! so no lifting the car in the garage tonight. So here's the newest decal in the car.

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on a good note, I did get to change the brakes and get the ducts installed, maybe next time I'll be able to stop before I take out a manhole! I'm not happy.....

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A few more random pics from this week.

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and the deal killer
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How awful! I feel for you I did the same with my 1 year old lowered S10 when I was a younger man. My fillings nearly popped out of my teeth when I clanked that thing.....those manhole covers don't move! Lucky for me, I had a buddy that owned a body shop. That repair was nothing compared to trying to get your custom subframe straightened. Really cool homebuilt hotrod you have there. Good luck with the fix.

As you can see from the pics, it took a direct hit on that front corner. From what I can see so far it did twist the k-member. The rear mount on that arm is about 3/4 higher than the other side and there is a buckle in where the cross member ties into the main frame. I think it would pull out, I just don't have any way to do it. None of the shops I talked to want to touch it. My Buddy at Maaco Hampton said he would do it, but I got to get it over there to him, he's about an hour from here. I'm going to try and do that tomorrow. As if it couldn't get any worse, it slipped off the jack yesterday and broke the steering rack! Autozone is cool about it though and is swapping one out for me under warrenty, just waiting on it to get here.
At least it's sunny and my garage got a lot bigger!
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When it rains it pours
 

Should be able to put it on a frame machine and pull it back straight. Suprised no collison shop would help you out locally.

Ok, new rack is in and alignment redone with my driveway tools. gonna take it to the shop tomorrew to pull on it and see if they can make it better. Leaving it there till next week. I'll have all weekend to get the Backup car (WS6 is faster) ready for The Detroit Speed Slam at CMP. I'm going even if I have to drive my 4Runner ont the track!

My buddy came over yesteday and we spent most of the day shimming, moving, reshimming ect... to try and get the alignment spot on for the Southern Slam. At the end of the day we were able to get both sides set equal, and the fender clearence just about the same on both sides. Drove it around quite a bit and it drives better now than it ever did from the alignment shop. I think the guy at the shop just didn't want to spend as much time on it as we did. Final specs (track setup mind you) were -2.8 camber both sides on the front and 6.5 Caster on both sides. 0 Toe. On the back it's set to -1.8 Camber and slight toe in. All specs from Pfadt's web site for a track prepared C5/C6 Vette.

After today, I'm not touching it till I load it on the trailer Thursday night for the 7 hour ride down to South Carolina.

Good to here you gona make !!! Get some video.

Hey Guys I just got home and uploaded some pics from the weekend. Sorry I didn't update from my phone, but there was no service there for ATT. Had a great weekend, towed the car there and back with no issues and besides a leaky Header gasket nothing on the car let me down! Adjusted and tweaked a few things and chased a few Gremlins (not the AMC type) and ended up running pretty well all weekend. Since I wasn't on the Spec 200 TW tire I can't post any times and that's ok with me. I was just going for fun anyway. From looking at the times of the guys I know I could run with, I was somewhere in the top twenty and they put me in the second fastest run group out of 6 for the weekend! The car was fast! but not without it's issues. I had a really hard time putting the power down (and she's got some for a 125K LS1!) We made some adjustments to the rear end geometry and had Kyle Tucker (Detroit speed owner if you don't know) come over and give us some tips on how to adjust what we have and It was better today in the AutoX portion than yesterday on the Road Course. I'm very happy with the car and I'll get it were it needs to be this year. The best part of the weekend was when my good racing friend for as long as I've been doing this won the Invite to the Optima Street car Challange! (and the fact I didn't break anything on my car is a close second) Here's some Pics!

Unloading from the Trailer Friday night
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Oh Crap! JB's Atomic Camaro from the show is here!
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Waiting to go with Stacy Tucker from DSE
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And Ron's Mustang (LS7 powered now)
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Putting the power down!
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I need more front swaybar and less rear
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Cooling off for a bit before I go again
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Looks like a good time man. Glad to see you out having so fun after all the hard work.

I really like this car, the home built ones have a special place in my heart. Until you really lean on an old car at a road course, you can't appreciate what it takes to make an old car handle and work well. This car seemed to work pretty well and it left in one piece, that is a good weekend.