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Originally Posted by silver63c10
Good to see this here, Terry!
Sorry if I missed it, but what TT class will this fall into? I've started browsing the rules a few times, but haven't been able to devote the brain power needed to get it all straight in my head yet.
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Hey Dusty! its always fun seeing your 2nd gen at local CAM and Optima events. Make sure you leave your schedule open for the May 20th CAM Invitational here at Mineral Wells in a few months. We'll bring this 69 Camaro out there, finished or not, to show progress on this build in person. I'll likely bring
my 1992 Corvette (aka: Project #DangerZone) to run in CAM-S, just for the hell of it.
Don't know if
that car's build thread would make sense here, but this Corvette did just turn 25 years old yesterday, so I can get license plates with a "safety only" state inspection on it now, which is kind of fun. Opens up some options (CAM-S and GTL for Optima). We've been quietly working on this car over the winter and I might just have some surprises in store for this at the NASA @ MSR-Houston event in a few weeks (Jan 23-24). I'll post up some things next week but the good stuff will be shown after the NASA event.
We took this picture for Grassroots Motorsports "Wear your helmet to work" Day. That is a custom "roof intake", heh!
To answer your question of what NASA Time Trial class will this 69 Camaro end up in? The answer is TTU. We've violated so many rules for TT1/2/3 on this build already, but the customer didn't want it built around
any given class, so Unlimited it is. We had a long discussion about classing before we began, of course, as we always try to build race cars around a certain set of class rules. It makes it easier to push to the limit - with Unlimited classes it makes it easy to blow the budget!
We have some experience in TTU class, but literally anything can run there.
We had planned on trying to get the 69 Camaro owner to enter it in Optima events in GTL ("Light") but with the 2016 rules changes to that class (where the lightest a GTL car can weigh is 95% of published curb weights - see below) that pretty much screwed the pooch. I'm not real happy about that, as it bones 4 different lightweight builds we had in process for GTL class, and I have mentioned as much to the USCA folks. But that series seems to be all about the TV show and the sponsors now... Which is fine, because they pay for a majority of this series. Just sucks for some of the more serious competitors.
I've learned, over and over again, to
not build a serious car around a group with constantly-changing rules. NASA's TT rules are
fairly stable, but two NASA TT cars we own just got pounded by 2016 rules as well - both our E46 330 TTD car (
JackDaniels) and the TTC Corvette. So I guess I'm not having good luck with the rules makers this year, heh!
I have been writing up the October work on the 69 Camaro today. I will try to get Jason to edit my post now, then get it posted up tomorrow or Monday at the latest.