if your lucky....you get the dog house and the dog gets a nice warm bed.

better put Dish and a big screen back there.

Dave,

Any thoughts on whether you will be able to adjust the pinion angle with this setup? With my original JRS setup, the 'old' style that used 2 rods to triangulate the housing to the TA, I could. When we added Jake's plate which bolts to the pinion support and then to the TA, you lose that ability unless you egg out some holes.

From what I can see in this picture, it looks all welded in that area, so is there any adjustment I can't see?

Looks like it's going to be a nice setup! :thumbsup:

I would assume they set up the angles and fabricate around it. It "shouldn't" need adjustment. Unless the vibration at freeway speeds on the Griswold family road trip bothers the little one. :D

I realized when I got home I didn't take pics of that. Dangit. The Cortex TA is 4-5 inches shorter than the JRS piece so the mount and Xmember were indeed modified from before.

I haven't really paid attn to the lower links in ages and I can't even tell you if they are in the stock spring location... you might know more about Camaros than me actually. :lol:

And yes Filip is a great guy and I really enjoy talking and working with him. And yes he can flat out drive. :thumbsup:

We hope and plan to. I brought up the remaining pieces today and the guys there really liked the setup.

We decided to "straighten" the rear arm of the LCA to gain 2-3 inches of header clearance since it doesn't change any of the structural integrity of anything. We agreed it was likely easier to cut that than to make the NASCAR headers go around that unnecessarily "bulky" area. Plus I told them I'd rather cut up a JRS part than a NASCAR part if it had to be one or the other. :sieg:

I should have pics of that next I go up.

Wrap it up soon? :lol: Good one.

The multiple track days is a no brainer... but I cannot be held responsible for you and Brian living together in a trailer in Simi Valley.

No adjustment is correct. They set it and forget it. The whole shoot n' match is pretty close to what Filip runs on his '66 as that has the same 108" wheelbase.

So Bryan, when you swapping out that JRS TA? :popcorn2:


Thanks fellas... I think I am on a good course. :cheers:

:) If I were going to swap it all out, I would go all the way to a 3-link instead of another TA. Too many challenges between exhaust routing and sway bar mounting and setting driveshaft angles. Of course I liked keeping the back seat on TOW.

Given the race car status of BMF :poke: , I'm a little surprised you didn't jump all the way up to a 3-link instead of the TA. Since you are making the change, any thoughts on that choice?

He wanted to insure that both Gaetano and I can pass his ass despite having a NASCAR winning motor.

:lol:

I got excited reading about actual car progress!! Good stuff Dave!

I can't wait to hit up a track day with you and have you beat me soundly again :)

I am not sure if I would completely agree with your implication that a 3 link is going "all the way"... it's debatable I guess, just like about everything else on this site. :)

I have a lot going on in the back seat area right now anyway, so it could be a challenge if I were to "go all the way" but I haven't looked into it to be honest. I bought into the torque arm idea 3 years ago based on its simplicity and Jake doing well with it in AIX.

Cortex has been very successful with their torque arm (and other parts) so when I decided to go with them it was part buying into Cortex/Filip and part the mechanism itself. Filip is a real engineer by trade as well.

Contrary to popular belief I am not building a GT-1 car (do they have lic plates? :peepwall:) and I don't plan on being the guy tuning and adjusting a million things between every session. Not interested in that.

Here is Sutton's brief explanation and I maintain it should suit me well. Of course... are these cars ever done? :)

You and me both! I really wanna go back to Willow Springs sometime.