'67 Camaro AIX - Vintage road race retrospective

[Sieg]

Originally Posted by Leroy Rochester

Front Suspension: Modified stock subframe by Maeco Motorsports and Mobius Motorsports. Subframe is seam welded and integrated into the roll cage. Upper A-arms attachment points modified for improved geometry. Poleposition adjustable A-arms and modified stock A-arms. Threaded weight jackers integrated into the subframe. Penske 8900 series three way adjustable remote resivoir shocks with custom mounting points. Fabricated spindles with second generation Camaro outer bearing races. Tubular, adjustable anti-sway bar. Hypercoils springs. Aluminum bushings in all control arms. Crossmember modified for dry-sump clearance.

Rear Suspension: Landrum multi-leaf springs with spherical bearings in spring eyes and in rear chassis attachment point. Chassis mounted adjustable Watts link lateral axle locator by Maeco Motorsports. Penske 8900 series three way adjustable remote resivoir shocks with custom mounting points by Dean Westmoreland.

Very interested in A-arm mounting alterations and Watts details. Poleposition morphed into the SPC adjustable arm?

Oh and...............

[Track Junky]

Love this car

[Flash68]

This is what I'm talkin about. Great thread!

[intocarss]

Keep it coming! It's been a long time, but I know Mike at Maeco Motorsports.You look familair too Sean..You ever get out to the dirt track races anymore??

[Leroy Rochester]

Originally Posted by intocarss

Keep it coming! It's been a long time, but I know Mike at Maeco Motorsports.You look familair too Sean..You ever get out to the dirt track races anymore??

I'd imagine we must have met at some point. Seems like we've spent a lot of time in the same circles. I raced SCCA/NASA Pro7 in 2000 and 2001. I was around a lot through 2004 doing rent-a-rides and karting even though my Camaro wasn't done. I ran my Camaro for a couple of years, somewhat infrequently (daughter born in 2004 and son born in 2005) and did a lot of karting throgh 2009. Boats and kids' sports kind of took over.

My buddies who had the VFX shop on Haskell drag raced for a while (nostalgia blown alky FED) and then ran a bit of AIX in a blue second gen Camaro and then ran the FFR series for a bit (one in an orange FFR Cobra and the other in a blue FFR Cobra). I was around with them quite a bit as well.

[Leroy Rochester]

OK, I'm going to work backwards a bit and give you guys the pay-off right away on this. Here's the photo set that went to ultimate buyer in Australia.

It shows where we ultimately got to with the car's development (although there were more steps in the works if we'd kept with it). So, there's some weird looking stuff that were really band-aids for stuff that didn't work on the car initially. I'll throw the pictures up and then I can explain stuff as a follow up.

My recollection is we ultimately got the car down to a 1:32 at big willow (I remember a '31, but I'm trying to factor in the optimism of time). I know that Ryan Flaherty and I both ran nearly the same lap time in the car that day. I did it in a fire suit shifting at 8,200 and he did it in jeans and a t-shirt shifting at 6,000...

[Leroy Rochester]

And now the dress comes off...