Did you get your tach problem solved?
 

Your car is fantastic. Kind of like following Tiger around the golf course and saying good shot after he hits the ball.

I am curious on how the 450 lbs springs work on the front. I have 350's on mine and they feel really good.

Did you end up with 265 on the front and 335 on the rear? What is your front rim width? 9 inches?

Penny really is a gorgeous build Steve ! I love the down-low engine shot. Gonna blow that one up and put it on the wall man.

What finish in on the front upper a arms ? sanded and powered - or sanded and cleared ? PS, you did a great job on colors and metal finish choices. I know you spent a bunch of time on those choices and it really shows. It's always in the details !

Can't wait to hear and see her run the course ! You going to do any performance testing on her like lateral tests or anything ? Just wondering if she will crest the 1 G mark.

Jim

Be careful.. Karma can be a biatch! ;)

So far they feel fine.. the car is certainly "stiff" though.

I ended up with 255s on the front. When put next to the 275 RA1s I took off the car they were less than 1/4 inch narrower. The 265s were wider than the old 275s.. go figure.

Eventually I will have the front rims made 1 inch wider (to the inside) and run the 275s.. for now this will do.


Upper control arms are just smooted (casting lines removed) and then brushed.

Yea, testing is planned. I start tuning the suspension next week. Will keep ya updated.

I know, already there. :willy:

I got one of the tachs (the digital one) working great but the other one won't go below 1,700 RPM and seems "slow"... gotta call SW on it.

The speedo has been calibrated and works great when the car is in motion. When at idle it gyrates all over the place like it's on crack.. again, time to call SW.

The clear protection is on the car so she's ready for the road. Next week she goes in for a super double-throw-down alignment.

I still have a squeek in the front drive assembley. I doesn't make noise at idle, just under load. I've replaced both the tensioner and idler pullies so it must be the PS, ALT or water pump..

I still need to wire in the Racepak..

Anyways, that's the Penny update.. and for visting the thread here's a bonus shot. This was taken by Mike Harrington of Super Chevy and was one of the candiates for the cover (but it was never used).. was taken up in the mountains.

http://picsorban.com/upload/harringtonshot.jpg

Now that's a shot!! Love the car Steve!

The car car looks great! I hope to see it in person someday. One question: this may have been covered before, but what headlights are you using?

holy crap, that's not even fair. How do you get so many amazing shots of your car. My computer is gonna be full soon.

Very nice car!!!! Looks like you already see the light under the tunnel! Just wanted to tell you that I had the same problem with the speedo on a 69' Camaro Convertible(22x13 wheels on back) that I worked on a while back. Well I could never find the problem although I changed out the speedo and it did the same thing! I did not get to look into it that much cause the car was sold in the process of fixing little things it needed.

I is an profesionall

lol

I get asked this all the time.. which is funny because I didn't think they were all that special.

Unfortunatly they are one of the few items left from the original car and I don't know.

But, I am going to make it a quest to find out... time to put on the sluth hat..

You could probably shoot a trashcan and make me save it on my computer :D .. Not that the car itself is anything but beautiful. Keep the shots coming!

I think I could use a "leghumper" smilie daily around here. Is that why we don't have one? :rofl:

But only if you buy my leg dinner first.. I have standards!!


Hey, can you contact Mclavain about shooting your car or is the weather "done" up there?

Your car is one of my favorite first gens... :thumbsup:

We could always call it the "Cody"...

Now wouldn't that be ironic.. but what would we call the "hero" smilie?

I agree with Steve on this choice John. It is cold, but no real snow yet. Your car looks great and there are plenty of good photo shoot spots out by you.

Brandon

The clear bra is on and the car is aligned to good performance street setting. No reason I can't beat on it now.

I'm hoping we will rent Fontana soon for track testing.. I need to dial in my shocks. We are also getting a set of corner scales at work soon. :)

Just been cruising around town so far... winter's slow.

There just has to be a couple dry parking lots around someplace where you could setup the video camera and record some 'tire adhesion testing' sequences ! We need to hear that LS2 growl !!

:yes:

I was about to call you and see what
 

was going on. So I assume you got you tach problem solved, you are aligned and cleared...time for some action video!

How do those R compounds feel on the off ramps?

I have an incar camera setup Steve, and i'm only 30 minute away from you.

Well, my digital tach is working great.. love the shift light. The other tach is all wacked out, I think it's defective.

Also, my speedo signal is getting corrupted (I think it's picking up tach sig) so I need to isolate it and coil a ground wire around it. Works when the car is in motion and goes nuts when the car is stopped.

Tires feel amazing.. whole car feels good. I found my chirping noise. It turned out to be my alt bracket. The new bracket is being powdered and that should be on in a week. minor stuff. We are shopping for a vid camera right now in fact. :D

What type? I'm shopping for a camera and a NICE roll bar mount.

might as well condense all the Penny info into this thread.. from the alignment:

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The guy who did my LS2 tuning recently bought a new alignment rack. This thing is so cool. It can measure bumpsteer, check if the chassis is square to the body and a host of other things. I guess it cost over $50k installed and uses digital cameras on targets. The technology and graphics were stunning.

Anyways, the best news was that my car is perfectly square.. to the hundreth of an inch. :woot:

And even though my car is a bit lower than optimal the bumpsteer is very minimal. Almost none in a rise and very slight to the right on a compression (1 inch each way).

Sorta cool:
http://picsorban.com/upload/bmpsteer.jpg

My thrust angle was at about 2-degrees so we brought that to around zero. Scott was impressed with how easy the LD three-link was to adjust. We went for a good performance street alignment since that's where the car will spend 90% of its life.

The final specs:
http://picsorban.com/upload/finalspec.jpg

The alignment wasn't cheap but I feel it was worth every penny. The car tracks dead straight, doesn't "hunt" the ruts in the roads and feels great. We also did some computer fine tuning and figured out my front squeek. When I had my alt bracket powdered they coated the nub where the idler rides by accident. I cleaned it off, but not good enough thus causing the pulley to ride at a VERY slight angle. This causes the chirp. I will order up a new brackt tomorrow and just paint the damn thing. lol

I also found out that my car runs out of gas at 1/2 tank on the gauge.. don't ask but I need to adjust the sender. :_paranoid

The rack:
http://picsorban.com/upload/pennyrack.jpg

Did that part from Chris get painted yet? :unibrow:

Those hunter alignment machines are awesome and easy to use. We use the same machine and rack at mercedes. I wish we had the clamp on heads instead of the mercedes specific heads so then I can start aligning my cars.

Car looks awesome. That action shot is now my background. This should definitely give my dad the inspiration to build the 69 z/28 he has wanted since he was a senior in high school.

Steve:

I've been following your car for a while now, I kinda figured you'd discover the source of your, "Chirping", noise was located near the rear of your car.

Specifically under your rear wheels during the latter part of an up shift.:yes:

Great car.

Take Care,

Ty

I use a Sony DCR HC-42 camcorder and a Sony CCD camera. For a mount I use a billet aluminum clamp for 1.5" tubing(mainly goes in my sandrail). the CCD velcros into a mount that is 3m double sided taped onto the mount. holds the camera very steady on my offroad runs at Glamis or the hardpack, rocks and whoops near Barstow.
I bought the CCD and cables etc as a kit from skullcamz off of ebay a couple years ago.

Steve, after years of following this car, ( I even remember following the blue one) I just noticed this. Do you have manual (not power assisted) brakes?

I always run manual brakes, it's just what I prefer. The key is proper sizing of the MC bore.

Fixed the squeek from my front drive today. It was a combination of a bad bracket and a very dry belt. :woot:

She's running good now.

Also, found a radiator cap worthy of our cars.. nice but not all polished and flashy. It's from Billet Specialties and was about $20.

http://picsorban.com/upload/gas cap pen.jpg

Someone asked me about my fire extinguisher mount. It's just plate alum I had cut to a template at my water jetter. I then drilled the holes, rounded the edges and scuffed it up with a scotchbrite pad. After that I attached the plate for the Safecraft extinguisher. Oh, the "tongue" is offset one inch and was bent down towards the floor just a bit. The extinguisher in this location doesn't interfear with the passenger at all.

http://picsorban.com/upload/mount pen.jpg

Lastly, I had a request for a pic of how my proportioning valve is mounted. Here it is. it's hung off a bracket that is attached to the master and the clutch master hangs off it as well. Makes for one tidy package.

http://picsorban.com/upload/brake pen.jpg

Steve i love ur car man
you did an awsome job on it everything seems to work congrats
well be seeing some vids soon?