looks pretty good steve!
i gotta admit though with the new wheels not having a dark center and penny being such a bright colored car it look real showy, almost like when you see it from the outside you'd expect it to have some fancy exotic int. and alot more shinny stuff under the hood. its always amazing how much the wheels really change the whole look of a car.if you decided to have the centers darkened would it add less weight to just have the guys a b.o.s paint the centers instead of having them p.c.ed ?

But IMO the polished lips totally belong on penny it it just ties in much better that the brushed hoops since she's got all the polished trim.
Also the center caps look awesome!!! he did a really good job with coloring them, looks like a real penny!

Steve hope you get to feeling better. The wheel's & center cap's are smokin cool.They fit perfect w/theme of the car.Penny just's keep's getting nicer by the day.Good luck at puhrump.:thumbsup: :thumbsup: Scott.

Steve I love the wheel centers, they look sweet. I hope you feel better.

How about a run of coins as swag for us CP subscribers??!! :unibrow:

Steve,
Those wheel center caps are just plain Bad A$$ !!!!!!

Good seeing you at the even Al.. thanks for coming with the Camaro!

I will try to rest.. but not much time for that for the next two weeks. :willy:

Thanks AJ.. and to all that gave the car/wheels compliments.. I build the car for myself, but I would be lying if I said it didn't make me feel good to hear the positive comments (and the negative ones in a wierd way)

I would say 90% of the people like the new wheels and 8% prefer the darker centers. To be honest I always missed the polished hoops and I sorta miss the grey centers. But in a year it will easy to make them grey to once again change the car.

And you're right, the wheels can totally change the car, remember the black wheels from the first Optima? that might as well have been a different car.

At first the copper centers through me off.. I'm more subtle and would have done brushed nickel but the copper fits the theme and after a day of staring at them they copper sort of blends in and adds a nice accent. Plus they are just too damn cool. lol

I make enough power that I don't have to worry about the weight diff between paint and power and power holds up WAY better.

Even if I ordered up a hundred I doubt they would be cheap enough.. I might ask though.. if they got down to a couple bucks, maybe. lol

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Well.. hit the chassis dyno today.

The bad..

Found out that the smaller bell on the new H20 pump makes my belt come close to my upper radiator hose.. under flogging it barely left a mark on the blue tape we put there to check it. Will have to fix it this weekend.. it's always something.

My O2 sensors are shot.. ordered some that will be here Friday, for now the car is in open loop

New engine idles at 210/215 all day long.. We engine dynoed at 175 degrees.. the difference makes the car not like 91 octane. Seems like it would be good to go on 95ish.. but not 91. Sort of a buzz kill.

So the plan for now? Well after we did the dyno pulls we made sure the tune was safe and filled her up with 100 octane.. smells great.. :)

After SEMA, in January, I will pull the engine and lower the compression, maybe by going with a thicker Cometic gasket and opening up the heads a bit. Right now I'm at 11.5 and I need to be 11.1 or maybe 11.2 static. This will also give me a chance to get my one off oil pan made by Canton that will accomodate the long stroke and give me all the room I can get.

Other than that life is good... as for the dyno:

The 90mm TB is really choking the engine down.. we guess that the new 102 TB on the way will free up at least another 20hp.

http://i52.tinypic.com/30kr12t.jpg

I will be fun.. just going out to have fun this year.. :)

BTW.. your Mustang is f'ing off the hook sick.. tempted to put it in the Camaro magazine it's so nice! ;)

And the obligatory video: