Yeah.

^ I owe Matt a big thanks, as he's done his part keeping the pics rolling :thumbsup:

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Skip, I made changes to my car for no reason other than because I thought it would look cool, and that was before I had the excuse of trying to work towards something.

Truth is it is all Brett Campbell's fault. The two of us sort of use each other's cars as a bench mark to see if we need to improve something on our own car. If he is faster than me, I'll want to try and catch up to him, and if I'm faster than him, then I know he'll be making changes, and I know that I'll soon be playing catch up again. It is fun competition and I think it has helped both of us acquire a lot more knowledge and maybe even a little more driving ability through practice. We've both taken a lot of baby steps but we've I think we've also come a long ways from when we started autocrossing a few years ago. I know we've closed the gap down on some cars that used to be beyond our benchmark for performance.

Matt

Oh, and no pics of Ron's car. It's up at QMP getting the engine buttoned up and broken in, I think.

Matt,


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... and a lot of fans will jump on the 'Matty Ice' bandwagon.

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:D

interior
 

any interior pics of the car?

nice
 

Nice.... what are the switches under the a.c. controls for. I'm building a convertible 69 and was looking for ideas for interiors

The switches operate the headlights, headlight doors, and electric cut outs. The fourth switch was included in case something had to be added after the car was finished.

Got some changes going on.

Decided to try out a new look...

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:lol: How about some specs on what we are looking at? Other than the first shot of your new fiberglass fenders.

Is that a space saver spare in the background?

So since track width is one of the technical discussions these days, what's your new measurement of outside of tire to outside of tire (NASA track width) and also the standard measurement track width most discuss?

I should know better, really but...

Wait, what??

Dave, Bro...it's late man. Sure you wanna go there? You'll be up all night w a tape measure and a spreadsheet :lol:

My tape measure is put away. My stuff is done. Final final.

Maybe.

:lol:

The HRE wheels are just rollers until I get the Forgelines back from being re-hooped.

Track or tread width, whatever you want to call it, from outside to outside, should be around 1" wider front than back. I haven't measured scrub yet, but I am a pretty unscientific person and it is going to be what it is going to be.

I decided to go with a 10.5" front wheel. It is less than ideal for a 315, but I was also running a 275 on a 9" wheel before and managed to turn some respectable times, while not destroying tires. I'm sure Rob will probably be telling me that I should stretch a smaller tire over a wider wheel, but at the end of the day, I think that the 315 on a 10.5" wheel will still net me better performance than a 275-295 on that same wheel, at least for my car and what I've been doing with it.

Yep me and the guys that spec'd the Porsche GT2 cars would tell you to run a 12" wide wheel for a tire that large.:lmao:

On a 10.5" wheel I'd run a 285.:stirthepot:

I know you have a limited tire choice in the brand you are going to run.

I'd run a 285 on a 10.5" wheel too, if I was running a 295 on the back. I would also run the a 285/295 if all I was running were road courses. I bet you my tires, which will move a little more on the rim will push a lot less than your tires. :poke: And don't play the wheel base card either, we know that your car has a longer wheel base than some limos.

One of the best things about the Lat-G community is the friendships you build. Case and Point... Matt has become one of my main local competitors lately as his times on the track have become equal and even faster than mine sometimes. (Note Matt, lol, I used sometimes... he he). Anyway even know we are competitors on the track we are still able to share information about our trials of success in the tuning of our cars. I was in need of some different coil springs for tuning and Matt stepped up to let me barrow some that he had. Pretty cool considering I'm trying to stay tuned to be faster than him and I'm sure he is making adjustments to stay faster than me.

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Even Rob Fe has stepped in to let help me out even know I'm a Chevy guy. That's his Watts link in the picture that I was test fitting in the Fab53 Camaro.

So when I was down at BOS picking up springs, I was able to check out Matt's new adventures... The front fender changes and front wheel changes. I'm pretty excited for him as this is one of the thing I did earlier this year (and so has several other racers out there).

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That thing might actually end up being faster than a Barracuda yet...:hello:

That was my actual benchmark, not Brett's car as a few had probably thought. I'm not sure what I'm going to do to be able to catch the Valiant though...

HaHa! You and Brett both mock the Valiant, but I predict a rash of 67-69 Camaros being offered up in trade after the Valiant makes its triumphant debut. :bur2: Seriously though, those fenders look mean, and as you know, I say thats plenty of rim for a 315!:D

Hey, I wasn't lying. I'm a little bit afraid of that Valiant.

315's on a 10.5?! :eek:



:D

Yeah dude. Tom and I are among the last few holdouts who don't want to join Rob's hellaflush brigade.

I'm looking at getting a set of wheels that can fit both of my cars, and if I do, I'll be testing to see if wider wheels/smaller tires work better than wider tires/smaller wheels on an autocross.

I'd prefer to join Jiffy Pop nation if possible.

The Ridetech '33 seems to be doing pretty well with 315's on a 12. :poke:

Did you and rob attend a hellaflush club meeting yesterday? Sometimes friendly arguing is just too much fun to pass up. All I'm going to say is that the '33 works, however, when it was on the west coast my 275/9" fronts netted me lap times within half a second at Willow and Adams. Do you and Rob think a 255 would have been the secret to making me faster than the '33. :idea:

West Coast asphalt is stickier than mid-west or east coast! Just sayin! :stirthepot:

Assuming you put a 275 on the rear, yes. :D

It was the topic of the day on the hellaflush forum.:rolleyes: :lol:

In truth IMHO staying with your 275 but putting it on your wider 10.5" wheel would have made you faster.:D :thumbsup:

Matt, I'll take a Porter or a Stout.:thankyou:

No matter what, you have a ticket to the show and your driving skill is climbing faster than the temps in Baker. You better take your tricks back underground :secret: if people aren't gunning for you then they won't know what hits them.

:cheers:

A 10.5 would be better than the 9 but so would a bigger tire :lol:

At this point all that matters is the beer you owe me.

:cheers:

Don't they have to run and drive before you need to worry about tires and stuff??


I think there's a 6 year date code on tires or they become non DOT legal. Tires on this thing must be way older than that!

OH wait!! This is Matt's thread! So sorry..... thought I was posting in ROB or RON's or DAVE's thread.

The tires Ron just picked up from me are pretty well travelled. I don't think they're six years old, but he might want to check. They ran a One Lap, made a few trips back and forth between SoCal and NorCal, then I bought them, Rupp might have borrowed them, and Gregg might have used them as well. Now they're in Ron's garage and will probably end up in the hands of some member of the Rontourage.

Wheels Schmeels. Just mount the tires and drive! When does the new fender/tire debut at the track? :headspin:

Wheels might be done by the end of next week. I hope. I'd like to get the car tested before paint so it might debut in a really ugly form in two weeks. Picture grey primered front end.

:lol: sounds like someone got an insider deal.... :confused59:

Matt whaddaya say we take that 335 and put it on an 8" rim? :lol:

I think Tom already did that with my old 335 Nitto NT05s.

:trophy-1302: Won the "Super Sunday" at the last Del Mar Goodguys with those very 335s on 10 inch rims and 295s on 9 inch rims up front. Sure the car was a little "Wiggly" but who cares when you are "Ballin" as the kids say on 335s? I believe it was Billy Crystal as "Fernando" on Saturday night live who said it best: "It is more inportant to look good than to feel good"...

I cant believe ive resorted to quoting stuff from the 80's when Matt was still in the womb...