Trans Am KLRBRD Update...Headed to Texas!
 

KLRBRD was picked up Saturday and is on its way to Texas. Here is a short video of it going onto the truck from West Bend Dyno's Facebook page. Love the note of that exhaust.

https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v...type=2&theater

We are supposed to see it Wednesday morning!! Best smiley I could find to describe how fired up my wife is to be getting the car. :ups:

meet up
 

We gotta get together now we both are rolling. Although i have had a temp set back. Should be ready in a week.

Jay,

Anything new with the 'Bird?

Very healthy sounding exhaust btw. :thumbsup:

Been off the grid a bit and appreciate the "nudge" Skip.

The TA has been going through shakedown runs and we have encountered a couple issues and making a few more changes. Clutch is being changed from mechanical to hydraulic. We had to re-route some oil lines and fittings that worked loose and were sitting against the headers. The old DSE steering rack started leaking all over out of just about every line. We just replaced it instead of rebuilding. We are adding a parking brake to pass safety inspection in order to get the car registered. The power window motors had to be pulled, cleaned and re-assembled to get the windows to go up and down. Nuisance stuff for the most part.

Now the two bigger issues we are dealing with.
The Atomic EFI has a tuning issue at low RPM so working with MSD for an update to resolve the stumble off the line and low RPM's. Not sure if anyone else is experiencing this when running a 4 barrel throttle body on an LS. MSD told us a fix is coming next month and it could be a good tech article for the system. Until then we are driving through it.

The Dynatech headers are no longer. They were way too low and scraped on everything. We chose to go with Ultimate Headers swept short/mid length headers. We are tucking the exhaust way up to get more ground clearance. They over-promised on delivery so what was supposed to be less than a week has turned into 3 weeks.

The good news is my wife Amy auto-crossed the car at her first event and took third in her class out of 17cars. I will post some pics.

Sounds like that TA is keeping you busy in your spare time Jay. :)

Nice results though for your wife already. :thumbsup:

Moving on...cars going up for sale!
 

My wife and I have decided to move on from our 1969 Camaro and 1973 Trans Am. We want to go in a different direction. Looking at a Z06 or Z28 and want to invest in expanding my consulting business.

I simply don't have the time necessary to manage the car projects anymore. We are going to be putting our cars up for sale, buy a newer car to stay connected to the PT community that will require less time committment while we build out the business. It's bittersweet but we believe there will always be an opportunity to jump back in for us down the road.

I'll be putting the cars in the for sale section soon once we get all the appropriate spec information and pics to post on the site but I wanted to raise the flag to the lateral-g community we are moving on from our 1973 Trans Am and 1969 Camaro. If you have interest and want t learn more, please connect with me but I'll have them on the for sale page before long.

I for one understand that sacrifices must be made to better your position in life but man it's tough.

I enjoyed watching your builds and wish you luck with your business.

Jay you sure built 2 super nice cars and quality cars like these should sell pretty quick,GLWS.

This one cuts deep Jay...plus we didn't even get a full year of fawning over a 'done' TA yet!

:waveflag:


Seriously...are you leaning one way or the other Z06 vs. Z28? :)

Jay,

It's a tough decision but it's a smart one. I love both of the cars you built and it was fun watching you build them. Good luck with the sales on both of these which shouldn't be a problem.

As for picking between the z06 and the z28 you might want to consider a 2014 or 2014 Camaro with the 1le track package. Incredible car for the money and you still have the creature comforts that the z28 does not have since it's more of a race car.


With the 1le you can drive it everyday and still have a beast at the track. Jump on over to the Camaro5.com forum and you will be impressed with what the guys at GM have done with the car.

I've converted my 2010 using some of the 1le parts and what a difference. It was comfortable enough to drive 1300 miles on the power tour and even drive both my girls to school. Best bang for the buck is the 1le for $40 grand brand new.

Stock 1LE puts down a blistering 1:54.628 at Fontana.
http://www.camaro5.com/forums/showth...1le+blistering