That is one WicKeD ride! Bet your glad to get it home.....

Thank you.
Yeah I'm glad but now I have to tune the front and rear suspension a bit, fix the horn, roll the rear fenders slightly, and tune the engine after 500miles to run leaner. The car is a blast to drive. The guys at Gearhead Garage did a great job with the car. I was expecting more little issues, but nothing has come up yet.

Looking good, man. I look forward to seeing it one of these days. In one piece.

Man that thing looks killer!! Congrats!


sooooo... you remember a while back when you offered to let me drive it... :unibrow:

Was there ever a clear understanding on what went wrong when the rear wheel came off ? Car looks killer.

Looks awesome!! How's the fuel filler location working...any loss of fuel on the hard take offs?? I'm still considering the same install you did...a little burn't out on the fab work at the moment though!! Any new interior pics?? Keep up the good work!!! :thumbsup:

Hey Charlie. The only thing that Moser, the shop and I could come up with was that the brake brackets were not counter bored for this new style rear-end. We think what happened was that there was too much friction with the bearing and it over heated and exploded in the housing. The other side was looking as if that was going to happen there as well. Moser took care of that problem, and Freddie Byers rebuilt the rear end for me. It seems fine now.

It works ok. I say only ok because you cannot fill it up past 7/8's. No fuel comes out on hard acceleration. It has a fuel door in the neck.

I need to sort a few small things out then Ill let people have a go at it. :thumbsup:

That's a ride you only want to do once...if that!!!!!!!!! :wow:

Once was enough.

A few from today

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Nice, looks good :thumbsup:

Beautiful!!

Looks awesome! What happened to your backup lights?

Hey guys thanks for the kind words. No backup lights right now as Marquez doesn't make any for it as of yet. I want to match the rear tails. Ill wait till they do, then we will put them in.

Ok new update. I got the car back from CARR yesterday and it drove great. One problem is that it looks like it slightly leans a little on the left side. Just ever so slightly. Also there is already an engine oil leak from the front, might be a bad crate engine as there is some internal balancing issues. Either a flywheel or the engine is not balanced correctly.

Looks great! How's the sound system sound? Do you know what gaskets they used on the Chevelle mirrors? It doesn't appear that my Chevelle gaskets work very well with the profile of the 67-8 camaro doors...I know they fit better on the 69's. And yes I have already reshaped the mirror base to fit the door. Thanks!!

Hey Anthony. The sound system sounds really good. We used nothing but Alpine and it seems to work really well. I'm not sure what gaskets they used in the mirrors, but I do know they had to be shimmed a bit.

Thanks, I'll try again when the time comes...maybe they can be used after all!!

wow! first time i see this car and damn!!! ...are you goin to the speed merchant g2g next weekend ?

I kind of doubt it right now. I'm having it torn down to look for the balancing problem. If it's the motor I'm having it rebuilt the way I want it with a supercharger in mind. Unless it's a flywheel problem, it will be down for at least a few weeks. If it's only the flywheel, then I should make it.

well hopefully is just the flywheel then hehe ....im looking foward to seeing it .

Yeah me too. Id like more power so I might get creative.
On another note I took the wife and the car to Santa Cruz this weekend driving over 17 and on to 101. It was perfect. The car other then the small vibration was great. It handled much better then I thought, I need some minor suspension adjustments but other then that it was a blast.

Funny thing happened on the way to the shop this morning. The left front shock tower came apart and the car hit the ground right down the street from Campbell Auto. I was bringing it in to figure out the vibration issues, when the left front tire started rubbing, then collapsed into the ground. No damage, but I think we are going to look at aftermarket coilovers for this thing. I cannot trust anything fatman has right now. The top of the coilover looks like it came apart as it only has about 5 turns of the thread and for some reason it came off. Bad design.

oh man that sucks ....so no damage to the car then ? do you mind posting some pics ? thanks

I didn't take pics at the side of the road, no camera. Right now they are calling Koni and bilstein to see if they have or will make a custom coilover to fit this setup. This will actually be an improvement over what came with it anyways so this is for the better.

Man what a great looking car! This is the first time I have seen it and just spent over an hour reading through your post. I'm sorry to hear about the wheel and now the shock. Keep up the great work. :thumbsup:

Well guys I made up my mind. It's the supercharger. DSE subframe connectors are in along with other mods. Ill take pictures sometime this week.

Not suprised, when I found out you had the fatman frame I kinda winced, but didn't want to rain on your parade. I installed a set of their lower/upper control arms on a first gen and the uppers had no bump stops and no suspension gains. The lowers were not made correctly and the plate that held the lower spring bent and threw off everything. They of course sent us new revised versions which were better, but I still had to charge the guy to swap them out. Good luck with the rebuilds

Yeah mine didn't come with bump stops either but the custom Koni's have them built in to the shock/spring. We are going to see how that works before they fab some up. The arms are not too bad, and they seem to be pretty tough, and the geometry is not bad for a M2. But the stuff they are doing will improve this whole thing. The stock springs and shocks are trash though. The frame itself from what I understand is pretty stiff, much stiffer then a Martz. Will see how it goes. It should be pretty fast and stiff once it's done. Frank from Prodigy Customs is helping with the design and parts for the procharger on my car. I want to thank him for the effort and time as well. Ill give you all the info on everything later once the kit and fab work is finalized.

Ok, finally something happining. The supercharger came in today as did the GPS snitch. That thing is pretty cool. The car goes in next week and they have all the parts, and it's just a matter of time to bolt everything together at this point. It's going to be real tough to make the Goodguys in San Diego, but they are going to try and get everything finished for that show. I hope. Thanks again Frank for the parts.

Mike, keep us posted with pictures.

I will once the car heads down there. Have you taken your car to gearhead yet?

Yeah I dropped it off a few weeks ago. I changed my mind on a motor, and bought a Procharger, Holey Stealth Ram for it. SO we are waiting for all that stuff to come in.

That sound's killer. Let me know the progress of how it goes. What are you having done in total?

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A few pics.

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Looks REALLLL good!

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