I was using GM fluid last time. Dustin at Wilwood keeps telling me that you need to bleed the brakes before every event. The speed stop challenges is the only place I've experienced any issues. I really think it's a combination of back to back runs and very little cooloing due to no speed like on a road course.

Who needs shock travel with 700 springs. Ha Ha

Glad to see you got everything back together and running. I wish I had a 1/4 of your mechanic skills, as always, nice work man.

Practice makes perfect. :_paranoid

Whats shock travel? As long as I still haven't rattled the teeth out of my gums I figure I'm still good.

And who needs a bump stop when you have a solid sway bar for a stop :lol:

Kelli and I took the car for a ride out to Callville Bay this moring for breakfast. I needed to scuff in the new rubber for my up coming races anyway, right. :D I also did a mini desert hail mary this evening. All and all, I racked up over 100 miles today.

I've been busy getting the car ready for my SCCA event next Sunday and the road race in Buttonwillow on the 17th. I can't seem to leave anything alone. I always end up tweaking this and that before most events. My dad's an engineer, it's his fault for passing along those genes :lol: All the hardwork is definitely paying off. My desert hail mary allowed me to really bang some gears tonight. I made a small clutch adjustment. My tko 600 is now t56 esque. :lol: It's sharp and I'm actually pretty happy with it. 2nd ain't perfect but it's a HELL of a lot better. Between that and the aluminum flywheel, it's a night and day difference. :thumbsup: One interesting thing is the car is getting out of the hole better. I noticed it before swapping tires so I'm thinking the aluminum flywheel isn't hitting the tires as hard. I've got 600 ftlbs at 3500 rpm, I can't make any other sense of it.

I bled the brakes out with the wilwood 600 fluid. The front fluid was indeed cooked from the Fontana event last month. Brakes are high and very good now.

I checked the alignment and everything is good to go.... 1/16 toe in and top secret camber. HA HA

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I changed out the springs 6, 9, 12 months ago and never corner weighted the car. A friend and client in the SCCA was nice enough to lend me his scales again. The good news is she's lost about 44 lbs since I last scaled her. At first I thought the scales had a problem. I knew I'd lost 16lbs with the flywheel change, but where the hell did the rest of the weight go? It's the brake change. I lost a considerable amount of weight and rotating mass when I switched to my floating caliper set up. Since the front brakes overheated in the speed stop challenge and the rear fluid was brand new, I still feel that it was a good decision. Buttonwillow may change that but I doubt it. Anyway, lowered the rear of the car about .25" before I scaled it. I've put the car thought hell and back and my indicators showed over .25 to spare. I ended up needing to sping the RF coil over up 4 full turns and the LR 2 full turns to get a PERFECT 50/50 cross weight. :D Car's lower than ever, has more meat, and no rubs that I'm aware of. :thumbsup:

I can't wait to get her off road and see what she's got!

This is how my corner weight started...(Me in the car)
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After multiple adjustments: (Me in the car) Two more gallons of gas..(Full Tank)
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Weight without me...
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Put that fatty on a diet! :D

Lookin good man... you might be a force to be reckoned with in 2 weeks... :unibrow:

Todd,

Your car looks great. It's one of my favorites on the site. How is the ground clearance with the car sitting that low? Any clearance issues with the headers?


Thanks,
Mike

Might? :unibrow: Looking forward to it man!

Thanks Mike. I can only recall scraping the right header v band once over a large speed bump. We have pretty flat and generally good roads around the valley. It's not much lower compared to the past. .25" front and back....

Glad to hear the upgrades were worth it. Just keep her together for another week alright? Can't wait to see you boys at BW. :cheers:

I think you need an Anvil CF hood HA! And maybe the inners to match.

Looks good Todd. Good luck at the events.

That weight isn't bad at all. Without all of my stupid little carbon fiber parts, I think my car would weigh more. I find that a little scary actually...

Matt

the v-band also caught a cross beam getting on a dyno once:_paranoid

look how dirty those front wheels are! your gonna loose like 25 point at your next car show if you dont get those cleaned up!

Only 52% over the nose with a BBC?! I'm doing something wrong.
:thumbsup:

Just imagine what post number it will be when he puts an LS motor in!!!

Good one Stuart, I can't wait to hear Todd's response to that one :lol:

BTW Todd, very nice Camaro that just keeps getting better and better. Congrats

That will be around the same day I let my old lady carry my balls around in her purse. :rofl: (We all know that guy) Never gonna happen!

We are going to have a blast!
See my response to Stuart..:lol:

We both built fat chicks. I've got the lightest big block possible...
Maybe I'll take it down to the super run after the scca and buttonwillow event WITHOUT cleaning it. :lol:

Just put a stupid sub box made out of lead in the trunk and you can do it too...

I'm at the end of a very long road..... Up next is likely the back shocks. I have single adjustable varishocks and feel they aren't giving me quite the rebound I need on the street of track. :cheers:

Todd, you are a scream. Nice car.

Had a fun day Sunday. Car felt great and the new tires definitely stepped up the grip level, especially the side bite out back. I was able to set my rear shocks near the middle ground again. The course was a finesse design with no place to put down much power. I was only .5 off the CSP club champ on A6's and .9 off the ST champ that wins PAX all the time. Once again, the fastest car that DROVE to the track.:thumbsup:

We had a huge storm blow in at the end of the day. Car got thrashed on the way home.

So how'd the tranny work??

The real test is this weekend at Buttonwillow for down shifts and many high rpm up shifts. So far, it's been worth the trouble.

That's good to hear!!

Maybe you have a side biz there?

Man I guess all the Lat-g guys are coming to Buttonwillow. And to think they are all sold out for me to run. Depending on work load. I might just cruise out there.

Hells no...:unibrow:


Looks like a get together Friday and Saturday evening are in the works. Shame, I was looking forward to spanking that slow poke you call a pro touring car. :D I have to think that somebody won't show up and you can slide in?

I have been trying to get a spot for a few weeks. But we are also in full thrash mode around here to get 4 cars to SEMA and as we all know work comes before play. This week is crucial to get our biggest project together for the show. Plus I would hope you would beat me out there, you have been driving and tuning the car for a few years. I get to mess with mine in my spare time. I have alot more time at the goodguys autocross experience then big track time in this car. But Buttonwillow is my home track, I have done quite a few laps in my Mustang back in the day. But if you want to go over to the go kart track where the real side by side action is, I will give up a hundred pounds to you and still take you to school.

It absolutely pains me but I may have to back out of this weekend due to some health issues.... Rodger, I think I have what you need... for both days. I will make the final call in the next day or 2....

:unibrow: If I had time, I'd take you up on that.

Man, sorry to hear....

It's always the little guys who are pissed after I clean their clock. The part they forget it weight is down force and down force is momentum. The hotter or colder the track the more you will complain.

The problem I'm seeing, Is I bet they check ID. So Unless they will let you transfer it to me and I pay you. I bet it goes to the 3 guys waiting on the waiting list. Just what I'm seeing from begging for 3 weeks for a spot. I even sent them a picture of my hauler so they might think I was someone. That did not help. I even dropped the Earnhardt a few times.....Nothin......

No, they allow a transfer for a small fee. Others have already done it.

Sounds like the Government, You can do anything for a small fee.

Had a great time at Buttonwillow this weekend.:D Fast cars, good company, and a few cold ones.(Maybe more than a few):lol: Car was really fast. I think I passed about 50 cars in my 5 sessions. Bunch a M3's, M5's, S4's, Shelby... :thumbsup: I laid down a 2:18 in the 2nd heat and that was my only clean lap with no traffic. I knew I could lay down a better lap but it took until the last two laps of the 5th sessoin for me to get a clean track. I'd have a great lap going in other sessions and catch somebody. :willy: Anyway, I laid down a 2:14.1xx and 2:14.2xx my last two laps. The go pro battery went capoot after heat 2. The car was very well balanced and man was it making big power. I was thrilled with the performance. I did have some high oil temps come into play that I need to address. It was in the low 90's but I really need a bigger cooler. As you'll see in the video, I wind it out pretty good. Later in the day I shifted into 4th to lower rpms and create less heat. I was hitting about 130-135 down both straights at the end of the day. Buttonwillow is the ****. Favorite to date.....


The 2:18 lap starts at about 2:30...

Awesome Todd! Glad all your hard work and fine-tuning is paying off. Love watching you "clean-house" on the track and esp reel-in that smokey 67/68 Camaro one last time. Car is running wicked fast man - congrats!

Gregg

Nice Job Todd :cheers:

Saturnight was a blast, it was great to finally hang out with the Ice Man :cheers:. I can't wait for the next event, all of us can play together then :unibrow:.

Hey, I resemble that remark:D

Todd, I don't have a car to bring but I'm sure I can put down a few cold one's w/you one day. Video looks more than fun, congrats

Nice work!

Great day Todd. It did look like the Bimmers were reasonably quick to let you pass.

I loved the couple minutes of chatter in the garage afterward.

Looks like it's time for more mods. :D