Did you guys make it to the show today?

Yeah, i went yesterday and today. Ran it in the autocross. Best i could muster up was a 59.04. but had a lot of fun. I have a video on my ipad, it wont upload to photobucket and i cant figure out how to load straight from the ipad.....

Also trying to get some photos up from the current set up that Keith did. Car drives fantastic.

Too funny also, my very first run on the course yesterday morning, bam, car breaks. Thought it was a fuel pump, turned out to be a bad crimp at the relay box feeding power to the pump. Whew.

Did a 61, 60, 59, 60. Was really trying to get a 58 and some change.

what am I looking at? Times were 60 seconds? usually they are 30

If you cant see it, try it from another browser. The pros were running 52 to 54. It was the largest course pleasanton has ever had (with the goodguys)

can you post the link to you tube? im not seeing it either.


glad you had a good time.

AS A VIDEO POSTER --- YOU'RE AN EPIC FAIL....


JUST SAYIN'

Weird I see it

And tested it and now woila! It's gone. I'm gone on vacation with pammy and don't have a YouTube app on my phone. When I get to a hotspot I will try again

It's under "goodguys march 29" or my name mike.dublinglass

attaboy. Finally.. thanks greg, too!!!

Well, the car finally had a track day.
Went up to Thunderhill with Greg W and Sieg and met up with Dave, G, Ron.

What a great time.
I signed up for the school as i've never been on a track before, as a passenger or pilot. Dam it! Its about time. Getting this car "track worthy" has been quite a project. 22 years in the making (guys dont feel bad about your "delayed" projects, you know who you are).

So, said i wasn't gonna go on the track with out a rollbar, well......you know how that goes "i'm just gonna take it easy and do the school". Well after some making fun of my car in the class "Hey Bill (my instructor) can you go with Mike in the Camaro? How olds the car?, Dam thats things almost as old as me". hahaha, very funny mother fu.......r. I said "well, i've done some thingss to it" he says "like what?", so i tell him the list of a few major things, he smiles, looks at me and says "ha, were gonna have fun".....Holy crap. He has me doin a 100 down the main straight on my warm up lap, has me pass the one car in front of me, bam were gone. Turns out, i was thrown in with the wolves, hes an ex transam champion and pro and pro track instructor. Man i learned what this car can do.

Effin fun. Moved my way outa "beginner" real quick. It was a blast having the track to virtually myself during the last three sessions. Only got past twice, once was a "Busch cup car" and a new Shelby mustang. Now, this was the beginner's group.....but hey....

Headin out on friday

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Friday night, good to go

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A shot of the boys toys

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I believe turn 3

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And one of my favorites,

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Looks like you had a lot of fun I'm hoping to do a track day in my car one of these days.

Epic weekend, one of my favorites of all time. I'm hooked. Been wanting to do this my whole life and finally....dreams do come true.

Only issue i had all weekend was a broken spot weld on my hood latch and the hood kept "unlatching". So a rubber bungee under the hood around the g brace, good to go.

Ran it up to 125 ish up the front straight, 6500 rpm in fourth, then hard on the brakes and gentle smooth drift into turn one at 80 ish.....so much fun.
Great instructor, he only ran with me two outa the four sessions the school had, and said "i recommend you go up to the next group, you got this".
I felt good, confident, but not overly so. Still have great respect for these machines we use, they can hurt you in an instant. So what i did was push the machine till i felt comfortable for the both of us. Well, used all of the track, pushed the machine to its limits (tach and tires)....and she loved it.

Very very worth it.

The suspension work Keith at Custom Works did was outstanding. I am running 245's up front and 275's in the back and the car was very welll balanced. Front wasn't coming out nor was the rear coming around. I went from curb to curb in each turn as fast as possible and simply fell in Love with this sport.

I'm in trouble. Can't wait to go again.......

Thanx for checkin, Mike

way to go mike!!! open the flood gates brother.

What are you gonna build for your wife?

WAY TO GO DUDE!:king:

Last few posts are epic Mike. Congrats on the successful outing!!

Mine too :cheers:

Great meeting you out there Mike. Looking forward to the next one. :thumbsup:

Now I wish I was till in Sac to join you guys. Sounds like a terrific weekend for everyone. Awesome that you took the car out to beat on it. Good luck to you, you're going to get completely addicted.....

It took me a few years (22) you'll get there...

Thanx Vince, built the wifey a 66 malibu convert, she didnt like it so i used the funds to finish this beast. She wants me to build here a "Herbie" lol



Thanx Jer!!

THanx Ron, will see you real soon out there ruining your nice new paint!
Thanx G, hopefully be running alongside (or behind lol) ya soon
Yeah, very much addicted. I will be in Texas at the Goodguys in Oct after the roadtrip, hopefully you and Bryan can autocross and takes shots of our 2nd gens out there....

Congrats to getting it on the track,Mike the car looks great and I am sure it was a lot of fun.

Fantastic news, Mike. Glad to know the car did well and that you had a great time too.

Thanx you guys. Here it is wednesday and i still cant wait to go out.

Mike, thers a couple of events that I still havent chosen from that I would like to attend. Either June 13th at Thunderhill with NCRC or June 14th at Sonoma with NASA. The June 13th event would suit me better so I'm swaying that direction right now. Let me know what you think.

I registered for the Fontana USCA event, but the F#$%ers at BFG haven't released the tires I need yet. Its always something. Are you going Mike?

The 13th may work for me. Theres a family wedding scheduled for middle june, i'll have to check my dates to confirm.
But i checked out the NCRC site and it looks like a good fit for me :thumbsup:

Havent had time to check it out yet. Just got home, been gone with work and mon nite, tues nite wed nite and fri nite i'm not home. So ima gonna check it out now and see was up with timing......

Some progress being made.

Roll bar 90% done. Rear package shelf done. Steering wheel done (eff that took for friggen ever).

A/C going in as we type, waited 4 weeks for it, took a week off of work to hang in my garage (cause thats my fishin), and bam. Wrong part. And only got 4 weeks before the Texas road trip and then an October track event.

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Back in the day, my dad and grandfather on the left.

My wifey and I (on the right) and our best friends vaca'in in NYC

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"All I want for Christmas is a Woody and a Buzz"

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Back to our regularly scheduled programming:

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One fat dog "Tucker" at 10.

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And finally, the resort "Casa de la Pamela", basically the house of Pam lol, i got the garage...
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Rear cage looks great Mike. Can you give us some details?

On the cage, so far 4 pnts, 1 3/4 material bought at chris Alston Cw, and Kyle at East Bay Metal Fab with the welding (hes a mech eng who also used to work for CA) and the door bars are waiting for me to finish the door panels so we can get as tight to the door as possible. I finished the left door today....

Looking good!

Looking good Mike. Hope to see you in Texas.

Nice work but honestly I think I am going to hang out at the pool

Very nice job on the Rollbar and everything else you have done,car is really nice:thumbsup: :thumbsup: :thumbsup:

Dude, you do sweeeet work!

Thanx Curtis, looking forward to yours getting done as well....

If all goes well, well be arriving on Thursday. We'll be parked in an area for the road haul group, but i'll be at the autocross hopefully...

Did you even work on your car? :peepwall: Ha, see ya at SEMA?
When you driving yours? Its looks great, hope to see ya in WV next summer...

HaHa verry funny mf!! Right back atcha :flashie:

In the beginning only. I let Kenny do all the clean fun stuff.