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Newbie Here!!
new to the lateral G site I started building my newest car less than 2 years ago and I had it out at the goodguys in pleaston for an Auto X shake down
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...s/DSC_5327.jpg it was a good time I even had Mary Pozzi ride along https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iI-rW2ymVm4 |
Welcome to the site! Great to see the car getting driven! :thumbsup:
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Thanks Pokey:cool:
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Welcome! Nice shot of the car on track. Must have been cool to have her ride along, she is a wealth of knowledge and fantastic driver too.:cheers:
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Thanks for the welcome
I was good fun :woot: I damaged a valve beating the car around the track but true to form, that old car finished the Saturday out and drove home with a mushroomed valve top! that's OK the car got brand new aluminum heads for Christmas :unibrow: a new distributorless ignition set up :D and a new powermaster alternator :thumbsup: Thanks for the welcome guys
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Bummer about the damage, but some great upgrades going in!:thumbsup:
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Thanks Guys
this weekend I installed the heads and cleaned up the firewall can't wait to get my car back on the street
so this was the start of the weekend http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...d/GEDC0731.jpg and this was the end of the weekend http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...d/GEDC0842.jpg |
Nice! What are the specs on the heads?
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Nice job on the engine compartment. Looks alot cleaner.:thumbsup:
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Looking good. :thumbsup:
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Combustion Chamber: 64cc Intake Runner: 195cc Exhaust Runner: 65cc Intake Valve: 2.02" Exhaust Valve: 1.60" I got the ported set!! :willy: that should make the old car scoot!! |
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I should try to get things up to date here so I will start with Return to The Coast 2012
Had an AWESOME! time my car (Plain Jane) was really fast on the autocross I finished 4th overall in the autocross after 2 days, beat down by Rob Mcgregor and his Hellboy truck, Karl Dunn and his Blue Balls Camaro, Gerald Lum and his silver bullet 70's camaro http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psa63980eb.jpg on the track!! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd6cf58fd.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd443c2f3.jpg won an awesome nod from a magazine!!!! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps4ef648f3.jpg |
end of year events
Goodguys Pleasanton Autumn Get-Together 2012
Saturday morning we loaded up at 6am to get to the event early and as I rolled in my freinds Kyle (Kyle Newman from Newman Car Creations) and Deanna (Deanna Mareango from Hotchkis) were already parked and getting ready for the day so I pulled in and we started getting ready http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...79455841_n.jpg after the morning runs we were all fast! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...65396729_n.jpg so we go to the end of day race off, and the standings change Kyle Newman with Newman Car Creations 55 chevy takes 1st Frasier from CARS in his 2nd Gen Camaro takes 2nd and myself (Rodney Prouty) in my 1968 camaro takes 3rd Time to pack it up for the night http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...15499739_n.jpg Sunday morning, headed back and the throwout bearing breaks in my camaro, I get to Goodguys and I get asked if I will just stick with yesterdays times or race, and I will race until the car has to be towed, and once again we are back and ready to battle, getting ready, talking about the tightness of the track, were can we pick up a 10th or a 100th http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...40911832_n.jpg again it comes down to the last runs of the day!!! an Kyle opened up a good 1st place time and I get pushed down to 4th when a 2002 corvette gets me in the end, heres the end of the weekend time for us http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...73137015_n.jpg Ok Im in the middle of my end of the year last 3 race events, 1 down 2 to go, wish me and my budget home garage built car some luck! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psb5872562.jpg |
GoodGuys Southwest Nationals -- Scottsdale, AZ 2012
After a ten hour drive, we were up early to get to GoodGuys in time for a good pit spot.
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psdfaa782a.jpg We took some shortcuts through parking lots and a gravel field (yes, I drove my car through gravel) to get to the gate as they were still setting up the timing and equipment. http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps23a338e0.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps4e14cfd0.jpg It was looking like beautiful weather - perfect for racing as we started taking off sweatshirts after the first run. http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf09ce49d.jpg After about six runs on Friday the competition was heating up. By the end of the day, I just managed to squeak out a small lead. http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps5361e5ed.jpg Come Saturday I had thought about the track all night and re-walked the course with a new attitude. After two runs I was able to further drop my times by a few tenths but Jeff Schwartz of famed Schwartz Performance and his 'Temptress' were chasing me down with a vengeance http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps15e88dec.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps48c67a13.jpg So like all movie endings, the event came down to the last run of the day. At this point, I'd already had my turn and Jeff Schwartz was approaching the line with consistent improvements in runs prior. I had to turn my back. I heard the turns, listening for loose rubber or cone killing.... none. More turns and he's hitting the serpentine directly behind me when... I hear some skidding...then the deafening recognizable sound of a cone hit. I looked. Jeff had hit a cone and I knew the win was mine. http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps1d12421e.jpg How do you get excited when your win means a really nice guy just lost? How do you cheer when someone hits a cone? I felt bad for Jeff but was so relieved to know that I had successfully pulled off my first AutoCross win - and a win at at Nationals. Time started to fly by and it was Johnnie Hunkins asking for my jacket size, GoodGuys asking about my car and time to run one last time around the course before the end of the day. GoodGuys wanted to take pictures and all I wanted to do was keep driving! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6a87f8f0.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps995f5497.jpg It hasn't quite set in yet but I'm sure it will when I hit DelMar and have the honor to run with the 'Pros' -- and get my ass kicked all over again. See you in Del Mar? |
Great story Rod!!
Happy for you buddy! |
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Goodguys Del Mar Nationals November 2012
Just as I left off in a prior post I left the hotel at 6:37am and wrote a friend of mine (Chad Reynolds)a note on his rear window
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psc91f282c.jpg I walked the track in the morning twice and found a few lines that I would try here and there thruout the day to see what helped the times At the track the morning crowds were looking good http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_3286.jpg afternoon on Friday, the times looked fine and I didn't need to run any of the lines I found in the morning and was holding just fine http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...79264716_n.jpg On Saturday the group started off running times for warm-ups just as fast as we finished with and then Brett Vokel threw down the hammer! and ran a 54.xxx time!!! some were he found a 3 second short cut? wow! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_3075.jpg then Rob Mcgregor in Hellboy ran a crazy 56.517 lap!! jumping into 2nd, oh damn I am in for it now http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_2726.jpg thats when I new I had to put on my big boy pants and run my lines and show my hand and I threw down a 55.953 to get back into second http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_2797.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_3270.jpg Then Rob ran again and Hellboy pushed a 55.522 run to take back second http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_2630.jpg I knew it was my last time to beat-up on those Optima cars with my home built 68 Camaro!! and I ran a 55.732 but it wasnt enough, I needed just a few more ponies on the track, but My little car known as Plain Jane dosn't know any better so she just keeps trying to chase down any thing I put in front of her!! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...2/IMG_2653.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...83525376_n.jpg it was a great weekend with good friends and some more made! and on a side note in street machine board, My Girlfriend came in 5th place chasing down John Hotchkis, finishing on the leader board at HER FIRST EVENT! she was awesome! Thanks to Brett and Rob for making the race fun and extra thanks to Rob for allowing me to help with the Wounded Warrior Project all weekend! see everyone at the track |
awesome Rod, thanks for the post.
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end of 2012
it was a good season
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Something Cool from Chris Hickman Art Werks
I have to share an awesome render from Chris Hickman of my car Plain Jane (1sickT8), who I was lucky enough to meet in Scottsdale AZ, I will just say he was my lucky charm ballast and together we turned in the fastest time of the weekend for the win!! you Rock Chris.....look him up at Chris Hickman Art Werks
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the upper shock mount and adjuster of the new Ridetech shocks, super easy to adjust and I don't have to jack the car up and crawl under it to change setting and fits perfectly thru the Upper Hotchkis shock brace, and the adjustment range of these shocks is awesome
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf1c2bfbc.jpg Added some front spoiler supports heres the first two, just trying decide the direction for the next two http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6c84d4b2.jpg |
Ridetech Front Shock Upgrade
I put the back Ridetech shocks on Monday and and set them as the instructions said and it was stiff, Tuesday I went full soft and it was bouncy, Wednesday I went up to click 5 and it rides well doesn't corner like i wanted, Thursday I only added 3 clicks, on setting 8 and the car feels good in and out of corners, and still rides well....so today I added the front Ridetech shocks to the mix!
so time to open the boxes http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps7f9f4126.jpg Look at these babies, there awesome looking so I gave you some close up shots, bearing lower T bracket, ride tech uses a swivel bushing upper mount instead of a rubber bushing that shocks have that create some bind in the suspension, and the guys over at ridetech did a excellent job of setting up my shocks to work with the Hotchkis components I'm running right now. http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps24de172e.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps891e42d5.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psa885bd30.jpg once you have everything apart reinstalling the new shock is fairly simple, because the body of the shock is a large diameter shock has to be installed with the spring the same time as opposed to a stock style shock that can be inserted in the bottom of the control arm http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps9e962cb7.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps14d48d43.jpg first you slip the shock into the spring http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps24849a86.jpg lifting both the shock in the spring he carefully slide them into place http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps7360ac04.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd4930e89.jpg position the shock in the spring and it's resting place and rotate the shock so T-bar lines up with the mounting holes http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps22daa26d.jpg once in place you lift up this spring allowing you to place the bolts in the T-bar http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps5c0abf9e.jpg after the bottom bolts are in place and tightened, I use a Jack to lift the arm upwards allowing me to bolt the upper part of the shock into place http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps11c03aab.jpg that was it one side done now on to the next http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps08024689.jpg |
Season warmup!
to be ready for the season, I tested the car and registered in and autocross driving school with a few friends a tune up for me and the car (Plain Jane)
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps6e4ea6c3.jpg good fun http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps3adbf924.jpg and silly friends http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps8047af3e.jpg |
off to Run To The Coast
my season warm up didn't go as well as I wanted, I will just say the tires I had for this event... sucked..... I have run the Falken rt615k for a year and have never had a problem, I won some tires at an event and since they where new (but not Falkens) I figured how bad could they be (since this company was promoting them as a autocross tire just a year ago) the car was so loose and out of control it was scary and I was in 30th spot, so Sunday before the event Big O tires were mounting 2 front different tires for me in an attempt to save my weekend race, and I went back to the track and the car was better but not good but I dropped a second on my time and moved up 10 spots to 20, lesson learn "That Company will not fool me again"
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So Cal Challenge (EVENT 1)
Last week at the last minute I decide to run the So Cal Challenge events, so I woke up saturday morning at 2:00am drove 550 miles to the event rolled in at 8:15 am and tech had just started at 8:00, so I was unloading the car during Tech, My girl friend also raced the day, I finished top 4, just beaten by Ridetechs 33, Brett Cambells Fab 53 Roadster Camaro, and Dale's Sunbeam Tiger
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd60eabdf.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psa5487e2b.jpg great event Thanks to Rob, Black ink media, the sponsors, TCI, comp cams, Ridetech and the rest! it was a good start of the season! |
minor wheel update
Here,s the front wheel update.....width change from 17x8 to 17x9.5 and now the Camaro runs 275-40-17 all four corners you can see there still just inside the fenderwells
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Another Great weekend! and a smooth start to the new Goodguys race season
Like I said another Great weekend! and a smooth start to the new Goodguys race season, I had a few updates to the car for the new season, the biggest change is the front wheels width, I stepped up to a 9.5" wheel and a 275-40-17 tire, I rolled the fender wells a little. During the first run the turn-in was almost to great, the car was turning so quick it made the rear end a little loose, so I added a little toe in and that smoothed it out some, with the wider front tires the steering input from me had to be smoother so the car was less jerky....after my shake down run the adjustments worked and I ran faster,
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psc8c49be4.jpg It was a weekend battle with a freind of mine from Southern California Brett Cambell from the Fab53.com shop it was a good day saturday and and afterwards we went to Rob MacGregor's motor home for a corn toss game and some beers http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf49ced6e.jpg Brett was also going faster all weekend and his final run sealed it I couldnt get Jane to get there without one more run, I ran only 5 runs all weekend, 1 less than everyone else because they moved me inside the show grounds next to the Pros and they said because I was moved I lost that turn in the line-up heres a pic of Brett on his winning run http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps8b542dcd.jpg I gave it one last run and the timing was over at 12:00 sunday and I finished in second http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psef5b1206.jpg Time to pack it up and head to Del Mar Goodguys |
Do you do autographs??
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Turn, Turn, Turn
so one of the things I always work on, is the turning ability of my car "Plain Jane" and some of the weapons out there are Ridetechs Tru-Turn and CPP's C-5 spindle for 1st gen camaros,I have had the c-5 around for awhile and now the tru-turn and here's a few pictures of the parts and measurements for everyone to look over and I will show some test and setups over the next few weeks on these
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps59798747.jpg ridetech VS stock http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps71201f21.jpg CPP VS stock http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psbf589b2f.jpg ridetech VS CPP http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps169bb78e.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf15e48a1.jpg CPP http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psb321f48e.jpg Ridetech http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps876d42d1.jpg stock http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psa3364afd.jpg |
Damn I'm excited, I Just got a bunch of great new parts going on to the car, install will have to wait till after the weekend (Pleasanton Goodguys) I wished I had the parts a few day earlier I could have had them on and did an alignment and tested them before the weekend! This stuff is great looking!
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps18a750cf.jpg AWESOME! here's some of the stuff out of the boxes! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psf2f4f331.jpg :ups: |
Goodguys Event in Delmar
this is cool, Thanks to Johnny Hunkins for the great pictures from Goodguys Delmar
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps78dc34a9.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps9e2a9dec.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps298678f3.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps55616c55.jpg and I have a few projects on the way!!!! I very excited! to show everyone |
Lookin good Rodney!
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You da man Rod!
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Nice parts Rodney!!
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Goodguys Event in Pleasanton, CA, june 2013
Saturday Morning and all the cool kids are here
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps959de568.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps1908cef3.jpg everyone hanging out at 8am and talking about the course http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps305c0e8b.jpg Mike under the car before we even run!! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psdb7f4174.jpg Chad doing his Chad thing http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps12331679.jpg Ed doing his Ed thing http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps0386ba33.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps2f3ffad0.jpg to make it fair we decided that mike had to run counter clock wise(opposite of everyone else) and he did just that for the fun of it on his first warm up http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps2507b4dd.jpg Mike going the wrong way! http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps34374326.jpg and after a great weekend! I got home on Sunday and gutted my suspension to began the install of the new front Ridetech control arms, and the Tru Turn kit http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psbeac84d2.jpg |
Ridetechs new upper arms!
heres a look at the newest upgraded Ridetech secret sauce
http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd4e1c1f8.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps3df1a021.jpg upper shaft close up http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd4390f14.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps620afcf2.jpg upper shaft with caster slugs in place http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps1e475833.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...pse7e9871d.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...ps40e3b23d.jpg http://i752.photobucket.com/albums/x...psd740ac1d.jpg |
thats not all!!
come on now! remember that delivery picture a few pages back! that was alot of boxes!! so here is the next few boxes opened!!! tell me what you think? is next!!!!!!
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