Cool garage.
Sorry about the door ding on the G8. People can be,..well,...d*****bags. Good luck on getting another wheel for the Vette.:thumbsup:

Not much of an update - the G8 goes in for paint tomorrow - sucks blowing that cash during the holidays.

I FINALLY had time to mess around with my new camera - heres a Daytime test vid I did today, mounted it to the dash inside the G8.



You can really hear the exhaust at 1:30 and 4:30 - still sounds way muffled from how loud it really is. Can't wait till I get a 32 gig SD card for this - I'm just using a 1gig card I had laying around in an old camera - so I'm limited to time length due to file size right now. I asked for one from the gf for Christmas - guess I'll see if I get it. I really look forward to using this on some Autocrosses, the Power Tour, and at least the RTTH's next year....

Its been awhile since I've updated - been a long couple of months... nothing really new project wise. I'm not feeling all that great today - went out last night for my birthday celebration and well had a few too many beers. But I shot some vids and pictures from an Autocross that I participated in on Saturday up at Zmax Dragway in Concord, NC.

Getting the car ready - changing the oil and swiping out the clutch fluid - I FINALLY had the time to use my race ramps... and lifting a lowered car is a PITA. I used them on the G8 and while that was decent - it really cut down on the oil change time on the Vette.
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/IMAG0459.jpg

Some pics from the AutoX:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0472.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0476.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0480.jpg

More pics can be found here:
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/n...s%202_19_2011/

Now for the vids:
These videos are unedited, and the sound sucks - I dont know why the sound is so terrible...





My results of the AutoX:

427 Craig 2005 Chevrolet Corvette Blue 91.778 87.170 85.025+3 84.366 85.606+1

So I did fairly decent I managed to drop my times, and I killed a few cones.

I probably won't be modifying the car anymore until after the Power Tour is over.

I've got the 12 Hrs of Sebring coming up, the Land Speed racing event @ Maxton NC, and the Food Lion Autofair car show @ Charlotte Motor Speedway.

Very cool.:thumbsup:
Practice, practice, practice. Car looks good.

Cool pics, I have the exact same car (in stock form) only mines a convertable. That's the wife's DD. Your next adventure should be VIR, not that far from ya.

Looks like you had a great time
 

I will drop you a note once I get my car back together and we can do the Z-Max autocross if they have another one coming up. Plan on going to CMS some time in the spring as well.:unibrow:

They have another Zmax dragway autox in June scheduled - I'll probably attend - pending its not during the Power Tour.

This past weekend was a very interesting weekend...

I headed down to West Palm Beach for a bit of vacation, and to get away from the Carolinas.

The weather was awesome and made it down there in about 9.5 hrs. If you go there - I highly recommend checking out CityPlace... lots of bars/shopping/clubs/food. Plus it was 2 miles from my Hotel, and well they had a free shuttle service - definitely needed after going to some of the clubs there, lol.

Saturday we got up extra early and headed out to Sebring, FL - thats about 2 hrs from West Palm Beach.

We attended the 12 Hrs of Sebring, which was a lot of fun - but man that is a dirty/nasty/grimey/dusty track. My car and I where very nasty by the end of the day, lol.

Link to all of my pics:
http://s305.photobucket.com/albums/n...ebring%202011/

The Corvette corral was cool, and it was pretty cool seeing the factory Corvette ALMS racing team do there thing.

My only complaint about Sebring - it's not really spectator friendly - it was hard to find a good seat w/out being on bleachers, a motor home, etc.

Heres some pics and vids from Sebring:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC05894.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC05912.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC05931.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC05959.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC05950.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC05974.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC06027.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC06032.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/DSC06165.jpg

Some race footage:


The race was fun and all - we left about 6pm and headed back to West Palm Beach after a slight detour due to my factory Nav unit.

We slept in Sunday a bit, and got on the road about 9am.

After about an hour outside West Palm Beach my rear tire decided to get punctured and explode @ 80mph. I tried the Green Slim fix a tire crap, and well the hole is so big - it didnt help! Awesome!

It being a Sunday, and no one having a Corvette tire in stock anywhere - I was stranded in Florida, 700 miles from home!

So after about 30 mins of calling around, I had a flat bed tow truck on the way, a truck rented - and a 4 wheel auto transport trailer as well.

14 hrs later... $200 bucks in gas... and I don't want to say how much for the rental - we got the car unloaded at 1am, and I had to be up at 5am for work the next day... so I'm still pissed off about Sunday so the car its sitting in the garage w/ a cover on it..... I'll get to it this weekend.

I will say this - I am glad I have my race ramps - they let me angle the steel ramps from the trailer good enough to back them off w/ no issue and no scraping the front bumper.

Pics of my PAIN from Sunday.... lol.
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0561.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0562.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0563.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0566.jpg
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...1/IMAG0571.jpg

Sweet Vette!

So - I need to make a decision on the whole wheel thing - I've shopped around the cheapest I'm going to get a new KDW will be 300 minimum w/out install or taxes or anything.

So I decided to pull the rear Z06 wheels that I've had in storage out and bolt them onto the car. First I just wanted to see how it would look, second I wanted to make the car moveable, and third - get the car of floor jack and jackstands.

I bought a set of rear Competition Grey z06 wheels probably 2 years ago now, RPO code Q44, and they had some stock runflats on them. They are in decent shape and I'll probably get a summer of driving out of them. So this solves my popped rear tire issue, but now I have mismatching wheels - I found a front wheel for 100 bucks on ebay last year, so I decided to put that on the front as mockup and see how it will look. I like the look - plus this puts me 1 step closer to putting the z06 wide body kit on finally.

Oh - and I have a line on the last front wheel - I am going to call and order it Monday. Last time the guy quoted me $150 for the wheel shipped, while thats not bad I may have to get it painted to get matched - I'll find out when I get the wheel.

Now for the pics:

Screwed rear KDW:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/DSC06189.jpg

325 width vs 285 width
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/DSC06187.jpg

Both wheels for mockup:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/DSC06193.jpg

Rear mockup:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/DSC06195.jpg

Front Mockup:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/DSC06202.jpg

Side shot of both wheels:
http://i305.photobucket.com/albums/n...e/DSC06203.jpg