Congrats on the finalist award!! Well deserved!! :thumbsup: Nice to see you out there putting it through it's paces! Mary & Dave get to drive all the cool cars! I want their job!! :D

You guys did a hell of a job on that car! She is beautiful.

Congrats on the awards.

Thank you!

Congratulations Cris... well deserved! You worked your ass off on that car. :thumbsup:

How was the turn out at the show for Thanksgiving week?
The car sounds mean, that is one bad Camaro.

Congrats on the awards as well, and I agree that thing sounds badass. Need to see more video :unibrow:

Congrats on the award yesterday. Del Mar is a great show to win awards at for the setting you get to park you car or truck in.

I think you have the Muscle Machine Award you got mixed up with the Street Machine of the Year award. The Muscle Machine award is given out maybe 10 times through out the year and next Oct before SEMA they select the Muscle Machine of the Year winner from the 10 finalists. The Street Machine of the Year awards has a top five that is selected Friday night at Columbus after the show and afternoon autocross and the winner is crowned Saturday night at a big ceremony that very same weekend. There are no Finalist awards given for the SMOY throughout the year.

Congrats, I just wanted to make sure you understood process.

Thank you sir! Now we got to catch up on all the work we are behind on!

The turn out was what was to be expected for a holiday weekend.. Not to many people or vendors but still was a fun event..

Thank you for the compliments!

We will get some new video when the car is on the chassis dyno!

Thank you for the clarification Rodger.. Kinda new to the award thing for the Goodguys show..

That truck you built for Frank & Mary leaves me speechless everytime I see it! congrats to you too on your award

Not sure what they (GoodGuys) were thinking when they picked that weekend... people are busy enough that weekend without a car show to get ready for etc.

Congrats on the award!!

Pozzi tuned was not disclosed. :D Congrats, sir.

Congrats Cris, the car looks and sounds very distinctive. :thumbsup:

What kind of feedback are you getting on it being widened? :cool:

Man, I love that car. The stance is awesome as is the color scheme.
Congrats on the award. Well deserved!

Ed told me that the Friday turn out was equal to a spring show for Friday. The Saturday count was down from the spring show, but they figured that was also due to the Scottsdale show happening the previous weekend. But the autocross at this event was huge since it was not in the back 40. I think Goodguys met or slight exceeded their expectations for this new event.

Snapped a couple of photos while I was there. Wish the chainlink wasnt there so I could have gotten better auto-x pics. At least the one I did get you can see Cris is pretty happy with the car judging by the grin on his face.

Did not run it enough to get a Pozzi Tune! We will as soon as we sort out a few things..

No feed back yet Skip! but we will keep you posted if anything come out of it..

Thanks Tony!

I am hoping that this show has a future for us! I like Delmar

Thanks for the pics Jeff! I was a bit happy

Can i please get some more info on how you did this? DId you have to mod the tail pan or just custom tail lights. Any plan on selling something like this? Would love a pair

Congrats again Chris, it was great shooting the breeze with you. I'm expecting great things from your shop. Keep it up.:thumbsup:

I have gotten several PM's or emails on the tail lights about if we will have them available.. We are not planning on producing them to sell them... not very cost effective for us to make.. plus we had to machine the lens also..

To get the look we wanted .. which was a flat look we had to cut out the whole tail panel out & fabricate a new one.. Lots of work went into getting it to look right..


Al- Likeise.. It was great talking to you & meeting the rest of the family.. Your daughter was very cute in the way she talked her day dad into a ice cream cone.. Believe me! my daughter does the same thing to me!

When is the car coming to Texas? and what date is the run going to be?The car is killer good job.:hail: :hail: :hail:

Kendall- It is going to be great to debut the car @ its first track event in my home state.. San Marcos, TX.. Looking forward to some TX BBQ! Have not been home to visit the family for a few years..

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Feb 18, 2012

More info coming soon, be mark your calendars, tell your friends and get your cars ready for a new Run to Series Event in Texas!

Maybe this is the best build around here, so simple, yet so awesome, not a lot of details, only the needed amount, it's a total win. Congratulations Chris. JCG does an amazing job.

Sweet Ride what mirrors are you running on the car they look good

They are off a 70 Mustang..

Cris,

What's new on BB as you get it ready for delivery? :thumbsup:

Hint-we kinda like pics/vids here.

Skip- I have been busy putting some miles on the little 68.. driving up & down the Coast.. Going to Malibu & taking two hour lunches .. Sometimes 3 depending on Santa Barbra traffic on the way back to the shop.. I got about 800 miles it.. Getting pulled over by the CHP & getting fix it tickets for not having a front license plate.. CA on ramps are fun! The owner said to drive it & make sure that she is road worthy!

All kidding aside.. Uhhh! We are getting the car ready for Run to the Alamo Event.. Fixing a few things that the car needs before we start abusing it on track..
Finally got the fuel gage from Spek, fixed the rear end vent by building a remote tank @ a higher level, Exhaust was hitting slightly, finish Stereo system, interior, trunk interior.. Chassis dyno tuning!

I got the parking brake cables done today.. I got them to work great.. I can apply the p-brake with the car in gear & will shut the car down.. P-brakes are pain to get them to work correct.. but I used a Honda Accord lever with a few machined pcs. For a balance bar system.. & lots of adjusting & measuring.. got tons of leverage from the Honda lever.. which a Lokar lever does not have.. Routing of cables are very important too..

I have to replace the brake booster or convert to manual brakes! Not looking forward to that but we will see how that goes.. We got tire rub on the inboard side of the inner fender wells on suspension compression… We will be fixing those two things this next coming week..

We will be renting the Camarillo Airport for a day during the week to shake the car out in mid January.. That will be fun! I will be doing some traveling this year with the car to attend all the race events going on .. Gotta support what we built!

I will post videos as we do some dyno tuning & testing @ the Camarillo Airport soon..

We got a lot of things going on behind the rear-end!

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I got a surprise for you Skip! Ben Hermance is working on it for me this week..

Cris- I would think you get lots of offers to have lunch in Malibu...they're so bored with their Ferraris, Lambos and of course Panganis.... ;)

Seriously, that's some great progress obviously with some more hills to climb. Brakes specifically (maybe a broad generalization here) but it seems like they offer their fair share of challenges on many serious pro-touring builds...

Rutt row! :wow:



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Cris,

Are you going to be in the shop Monday, the day after Christmas?

I am picking up some lightweight parts for my falcon in Camarillo. I thought I would stop by if you guys are there.

Bryce- We will be here on Monday.. Well @ least I will be .. Call me to let me know you are on your way.. Just in case I am not out on my 2 to 3 hour lunches with the 68.. :D

HAHA, alright will do.

Are you driving the car to San Marcos are you trailing it to Texas can't wait to see it.

Kendall- We are trailering the car.. Not looking forward to the 20 hr drive.. But it will be worth it.. Look forward to meeting you in person..

Blu Balz II- Race Car
 

Well.. It is offical.. We will be building a another version of Blu Balz..

This one will be a race version but street legal.. Custom chrome moly chassis, lots of fiberglass/carbon fiber, floater rear-end, Wilwood pedals & road race brake system & much more.. LS7 with six speed!

Shell will be going out to the media cleaning mid January..

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What suspension?
One off?

If you would have paid us a visit yesterday.. you would have seen the prototype.. Especially the Ford stuff! :unibrow:

I was 20 miles from your shop and it was another hour of traffic. the 101 was rediculous yesterday at 1pm. I had the wife and 3 month old with me I did not want to push my luck. HAHA.

I am bummed I did not stop by. Sorry Cris.

BB's going to need its own website soon.

Merchandise, apparel line...all that diva stuff. :unibrow:

Sounds awesome, congrats Cris. :thumbsup:

Only 20 hour drive to Texas???? I've got far farther than that and I'm bringing the wife?!?!?!?! :rolleyes:

The drive will be worth it - 'cause we'll get to hang together!:D


Nice new project! Way to score!

20 HOURS IS NOTHING IT THE LAST 8 HOUR ONCE YOU PASS LE PASO,TEXAS.make sure you fill up in LE PASO it not many places you can get fuel before you get to Kerrville.Texas about 550 miles to the 501 exit:yes: :yes:

Kendall! Dude!! You mean that Odessa and Midland are not just the sweet spots of America?? :rofl: :rofl:

I once drove my BMW 2002 thru there -- I had to wear a bandana over my nose and mouth to keep the dust out.... the front of my car looked like it was sand blasted. I had to follow a big truck 'cause all I could see was the tail lights!

After choking thru this bungholio -- I ended up in Dallas.... and it rained... the entire town turned into "west texas red dirt". :rolleyes: