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Spent a little time cleaning up the rear
Flairs and lower Rockers. A little carbon
fiber vinyl covers up a lot of road rash!

Also took a shot of the 3" exhaust

Bob

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Guess pics did not show up

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Pic hopefully this time

Very cool car Bob, I have always loved the early second gen Trans Ams. Looking forward to seeing you at Thunderhill!

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Exhaust picture. Does not let me do more
than on picture at a time

Bob

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Jake
I love the 69 cameros i had a Z28
when I was a kid. Looking forward to
Thunderhill. With all this great weather
now I am wondering if it wii be good in a month

Bob

Love the car Bob! Did you say mono leafs?

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Track junky
Yes it has mono leafs from
F body pro touring. Seem to
work good so far. Been tweaking things
and now time to run it

Bob

whats the japanese flag sticker about?

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Vengeance
If you mean the Sticker on the front
window it is our company logo...red,
white and blue.. one with my nephew

Bob

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Been fighting an electrical short for a while
and finally figured out my one wire alternator
(actually has 6 wires going to it) wires were all in
a fan formation to get them to fit would move and
loosen as the engine torqued.. bought a terminal
block.. Modified it and now have them all in a row
so hopefully no more non starting or lights out issue

New softer brake pads next then work on pinion angle,
maybe mount the new door handles but that is low on the list

I have Nitto tires Nto5's.. only thing I could get in 200 tires
my size 275/315 17's.. wondering if anyone knows where to
start with tire pressure.. was running about 30 both ends
but very few runs before.. now that I got the front to stick
hope to dial her in.. any thoughts

Bob

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Got a bunch of little things done on the bird
Front pads changed to bp-20's. Had the wrong ones
For the back. They will be here tomorrow
Installed wedges in the rear to change pinion angle
Insulated the hose to the Accusump since it is inside the car
Fixed the bad spot on the seat... Used iron on patches
with my heat gun:)
And finally put a horn on the car.... As if you can't
hear that beast coming from down the block

Just a few more little items mostly dress up things left to do
Add pin striping, new door handles then we are set for optima

Bob

Sweet. See ya up there...

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Mikey.. Aka Glassman I am ready to run the
car hard.. hope all of your and my efforts have
things working .. look forward to seeing you again

Bob

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The right rear pads showed up today
Will get them on Thursday and hope to
do a little testing Friday and Saturday
It is suppose to be over 70 degrees the
next couple of days. Makes it hard to stay
in the shop and work on things

Bob

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Got a few more things done for optima
Rear brakes installed ...adjusted the clutch pedal
height as it was way high. I never put an adjusting
bolt in tweny plus years ago when I made it a manual
shift car.

Fabbed up some plexi windows for transporting
I pulled the side windows and all the hardware recently
trying to save weight

Actually drove around with the passenger side in
tonight. Works pretty good

Bob

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Took a shot of my old 69 trans am clone I
have hanging on the wall.. wish I still had this
car but could not get enough tire
under it years back.. need to get this shot of my
current cars... heading to Sears early one day with
no fog or traffic in the parking lot... like this last weekend
but I was working on the car

Bob

Funny the contrast to the rims of yesterday compared to today....I'd love a 69 TA in my arsenal...

Dang, Bob. You've had some great cars. I really want to build a 69 bird at some point.

I'll like any pic of the GGB from the Sausalito side!

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Yes a 69 Ta would be cool.. looked at a low
mileage one many years back in the north bay
The car was very nice but not perfect for the two
guys that collected them.. they had a warehouse full
of rare muscle cars and trust me they looked perfect
They wanted $20k for it...
Yes the GGB shot with your car is a great shot..will
do my current cars some day

Bob

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Did a little red pin stripe on the stripes trying
to give the car and its old paint job a little something
It really does not show that well in the picture.. looks better in person
Just a couple of things left for Optima

Bob

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Had a little header rash on the Autocross
track after the first dip near the start
We dialed the shocks up and it
was a little better.. time to put some shields
on the headers.. My Buddy Harry wants me to raise
the rear end more

Bob

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Harry did a little roll angle review using
one of the pictures from the Autocross
Cool Stuff

Bob

That is a pretty cool read, Bob. Thanks for posting it. What UCA's are you running? Car looks good as always.

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Not sure what UCA's are??

Trying to post a video of the run but not working

Bob

Yup yup... Looks like your car is ready for some Secret Sauce!!

I saw a couple of videos from the autocross course and the dips made it looks...well, challenging to say the least. Especially that last right before the right hand sweeper to the finish.

I bet there was some serious shock adjusting going on in the pits trying to get cars through the "terrain" as fast as possible.

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Lance,
yes that last turn was a challenge.. car was like a bucking
bronko until we teaked it a few times.. but tons
of fun and great for the leaning curve.. have a video
of one of my runs but not smart enough to post it
Skip is helping me out if he can

Bob

That car looks and sounds great! Ok, so maybe I'm a bit biased, but I don't care... :)

Heck yeah!!! Looking good out there.

^^^ Ditto! ^^^

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Thanks guys... we were really happy with how
the car handled and ran... We have a list of little
things to make it better... rework the rear brake valving,
taller ball joint and maybe some different size bump stops,
Soften the tops of the rear sway bar mounting

Need to check out the shaft system to make sure the solid
rollers etc are all good since we had so much trouble before
installing them.. also want to look at the bronze gear in the
Dizzy as it has a few miles on it now.. motor was a pain for
a while so I want to make sure all is well inside... seemed great
all runs

Driver needs to get a little more aggressive now that I am
remembering what this car can do after 20 years of not
really running in seriously

All in good time.. I am really happy with the results so far
and enjoying learning how to dial it in

Future may bring new gearing, tires, wheels and brake upgrade

Bob

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My Pantera buddies.. we all have
180 exhaust systems and my crew
for the weekend less Harry the Brains
of the Team

Bob

^ that's just cool Bob. Glad you had fun...you car looked like it was too!

:cheers:

Bob,

Sounds like a pist-off-Poncho to me.

:D

Upper Control Arms

Upper Control Arms, Bob. Sorry for using abbreviations.

Ah, Greg beat me to it.

I'm very happy with my SpeedTech arms. At current ride height, which is low, I have -1.5 camber and +4.5 caster. I could go more on both, easily. Camber gain is very nice compared to stock. I just noticed the comment in the analysis about your camber gain so I though I would ask.

Glad you had a lot of fun out there. Good luck!

:G-Dub:

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Uca's... I think I figured it out late last night
I have speed tech control arms..... emailing
back and forth with Harry last night and we
decided to put a taller ball joint.. 1 1/2" taller
although I think it may already be raised up...
will check to see how much

Camber on the car is 3 1/2 degrees presently
not sure where caster is.. toe in approx 1/8"
We checked it at the track again last Saturday

Bob