Finished the interior in The 14 Car

[70rs]

Good luck with the run John. Try to get some video footage of it if you can. I'm sure I'm nott the only one who would love to see that.

[NOT A TA]

Thanks, The Sebring deal is mostly to get accustomed to all the new stuff (and I always wanted to run there!) so I'm going to start slow and work my way up a little at a time. We get 4 - 25 minute sessions per day on track and I signed up for 2 days so thats almost 4 hours on track. 3.7 miles is long so it'll take a while to get comfortable with the track.

I finally just bought a Go Pro video camera and rollbar mount. I'm going to try to test it during the week and if all goes well I'll try it on track. The only video I've ever had is a really short clip a buddy took at Road Atlanta several years ago. Here it is

[70rs]

The car looked good from what little I saw. Now we need full laps. MANY full laps .

[NOT A TA]

The tech inspectors at the Sebring event were impressed with all the safety stuff while still retaining a somewhat stock dash, rear seat etc. Passed tech with flying colors!

Car ran well all weekend. Only problem was the belts shifted in one of the front tires at the end of my 3rd session on Sat and caused a bulge in one of the tires. I'd previously hit a square edge in a highway work zone really hard and that was right where the bulge was. So I guess once the tires got some serious track heat in them the belts shifted. I got new front tires at a local tire shop in town Sun morning and was back on track for the rest of the day. I got checked out and moved up into a higher group so now I can run solo! The lack of a 200 lb instructor almost makes up for the additional weight of the cage.

I go alone so I don't have any pics of the car on track, just ones I took in the pits. If I can figure out the you tube thing I'll post a vid from the go-pro. Here's a link to the pics I took this weekend http://s240.photobucket.com/albums/f.../Sebring%2009/

[syborg tt]

WOW - Aweseome work.

[camaro2nv]

Wow turned out great!

[BBC71Nova]

This thing is awesome. Let me know when you bring it up to Barber Motorsports Park so I can check it out up close and personal like .

John

[ProdigyCustoms]

I love it!

[LSXZ28]

That is one sweet ride!!!

[NOT A TA]

Thanks Guys! I was surprised to see this pop up out of the archives from over a month ago. Syborg TT must have been hunting around the site!

BBC71Nova: I've looked at that track a few times while surfin around. I'd like to go to Barber sometime.

Next track days are Sept 12 at Palm Beach International for a NASA HPDE then Oct. 3 at Sebring for a NASA HPDE then Oct. 11 a top speed race near Miami.

The Miami race is a sort of, minimal rules, run whatcha brung, kind of thing. 1 mile to speed up and 1 mile to slow down. It's non-sanctioned with minimal (very minimal) safety requirements. It's being held at the Dade/Collier airport out in the everglades which was built for the Concord SST flights but never used. Some guys rented the place and are putting on a race. http://milemarker-1.com/

I'm going to be waaaay outclassed at this party.... Out of over 100 vehicles entered, my car is the only old car. Sign ups are now closed and there's a waiting list. Almost all the cars entered are new high tech rides that are boosted, charged, or nitroused and have overdrive transmissions. They're gonna let people run up to (or over) 220 MPH without even a roll bar! GM High Tech Performance magazine is bringing a Vette and a 2010 Camaro. They're also doing a story about the race from what I've heard. The organizer said a Veyron will also be there. That outta be fun to watch!!!!

One of the Firebird/TA sites asked me for all the info and the story behind my Firebird and made up a couple pages web pages if anyones interested. There's a story, pics, and list of the parts I could remember from over the years it's been evolving. http://allgentransams.com/members_pa...enmp/john.html