even MORE sema pics....
 

I'm exhausted.. beat.. sore.. between all the work meetings and "walkabouts" SEMA almost killed me. lol

It was great meeting so many of you, I only regret not having more time to hang out with more people. Seemed like I constantly had somewhere to go. At least I had some time to hang aroung my car.

Here are some shots, I will post more throughout the day. So many nice cars this year.

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And Penny is now safely in my garage at home :woot:

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Hay Steve did you drive Penny or trailer her???

Trailered both ways.

I was going to drive her back but two things happened.

1. I was hit by a small sand storm on the way home Sunday in my truck.. I thought "that would suck"

2. I have a pulley with a bad bearing.. I think it's the tensioner pulley. Need to replace it.

Intercity Lines cut me a killer deal since they had a truck coming this way, it was a no brainer. I did drive it around the neighborhood some today though. Need that damn pulley, hope I can find a decent looking one.

Hey Steve,
Just curious.
Following up on a previous thread.
Any "goofy" offers?
Just wondering if there are people at the show looking to pick up cars.
Scott

p.s. thx for the pics:)

thanks for he pics..... Penny looks great under the lights!

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Nice pics, although Penny pretty much sticks out over the others, but the silver 69 is verrry nice. Thanks Steve!:thumbsup:

Lets see some pics from the Wheel and Tire room. :unibrow:

Nice pics!! Thanks!

I found this pic on another site. Does anybody have more pics of this chevelle and who is the manufacturer of that really intresting injection system ???????

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I have a client who owns one of those Ariel cars and decided to give me a ride in it. Not a car for commuting, that's for sure. A pretty wild ride none the less. Looks like you had a great time shooting cars Steve. Those Ring Bros mustangs are just killer.

It was fun playing phone tag with you.. we need to hit a smaller event when your car is done. I was there four days and I feel like I saw so little with all the running back and forth.

The Ring Bros car was sweet.. it will be nice to see what they come up with for a Camaro.

And I want an Ariel car so bad, how much are they??

thats mothers polish chevelle, its a new zealand haigh racing block, its cast alum block, cnc finished, cam moved up 1.5 inches, canted valve heads, can go to 550 ci or something crazy, pretty killer and way nicer then what wa sin the car on power tour

Here some I was able to take. It had a crowd around it all week!! For good reason!
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My car is almost finished. Just a few days of tuning and waiting for my wheels. The Ariel is pretty cheap, 30k or so, but you really need goggles to be in the car. I have good wrap around glasses and the wind was just awful in my eyes. I found the car enjoyable to a certain extent, but it's just not a car that you would want to drive everyday. It is a cool car though. The thing with the Ariel, not all of them are legal for the streets, I guess from what I was told, only some at this point are legal. The one my buddy/client has is the hoped up 300hp version. 2 big guys would have a rough time fitting into one as the seats are right next to each other. I do want to come down on a weekend that the weather is good. As soon as the car is squared away Ill come down.

If you get it done by December 2nd there's a good show at John Force's race center. :)

The Ariel would be fun if I had $30k to toss about. Would be a blast at open track day :yes:

at 527ci it swings a 4.5 stroke crankshaft. The builder told me the block would accept a 5 in stroke crank that would make it 580ci:hail:

I cannot describe how smart this guy was.....it was cool as hell to talk to him.

I may just go. I'm now shopping for the tires you have on Penny for my car, that's the last thing I need. Ill keep in contact about the cars schedule for being finished and coming down. It has to be done this week for the Good guys show here this coming weekend.

What size?

Nearly 1000 HP with propane - very impressive

275 35 18's
255 40 18's

Is it a LSX style, or standard SBC, almost looks like SB2 heads.

Travis, what's the company called that makes that block.

Thanks !!!

That is incredible! And from new zeland ??? That is something new. Cant wait to see feature of it.

Great pics, Steve. I've been thinking about picking up a digital SLR, I'd like to be able to take some wide angle shots. What do you shoot with?

Until you run out of fuel. ;)

The Chevelle has SMOY wrote all over it. The chassis and suspension are from outer space, and weather they work or not, impressive to say the least. The Chassis builder is saying there is 4500 hours in the car, I believe it. The one thing I was a bit disappointed at though were some of the claims the chassis builder was making. I heard some things like 1.3Gs. I let him know there are a few places (like Lateral G) that may call bull**** on 1.3Gs with 235s up front. Lucky though performance numbers for the autocross at SMOY are not factored in, as I understand it simply has to drive the coarse. But with that said, it will take one bad beotch in fab and enginuity to top it this year.

A Canon 20D with at 11-24mm Tokina lens. I can crazy close to something for a pic but at 11 it does distort a bit. Handy for SEMA though.

I'm thinking of upgrading in the near future so PM me if you want a camera.. would sell my 20D body (8.1mp)

If that car, with those tires and wheels, can pull 1.3g then I will eat one of my Toyo R888s. It just isn't going to happen. The Morrison vette didn't quite pull that much (was close) and it COG was a foot or two lower than that Chevelle. It also had better tires and weighed half a ton less. lol

It's like saying "My car will run 10s" when it's never been down the strip.

I didn't like the lack of inner fender wells, they just looked missing. The suspension fab work was very cool though and the engine looked killer.