And Penny just keeps on changing...

[TwinSting]

Well I was just cruising home from cruise night on the freeway and what comes rolling up next to me? Bad Penny and Mr. Rupp. She looked good and sounded great when Steve took her back a gear and gave it a little gas.
Looking forward to seeing her on the track tomorrow at GoodGuys. That ride looked a little stiff for our Cali freeways Steve. Did you have your kidney belt for that long drive home tonight? lol

[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by TwinSting

Well I was just cruising home from cruise night on the freeway and what comes rolling up next to me? Bad Penny and Mr. Rupp. She looked good and sounded great when Steve took her back a gear and gave it a little gas.
Looking forward to seeing her on the track tomorrow at GoodGuys. That ride looked a little stiff for our Cali freeways Steve. Did you have your kidney belt for that long drive home tonight? lol

I was like "Is that Shaun???" lol

She actually rode great.. evem on that damn plate freeways.. Teh Recaros also help tame the ride.. its actually a pleasure on most roads.

A nice 100 mile breadk in drive before tomorow... i shifted a LOT.

See ya tomorrow

[Vegas69]

Ya,Ya,Ya, how's the new power plant?

[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Ya,Ya,Ya, how's the new power plant?

Perky.. and it raps up REALLY fast..

[SS MPSTR]

Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2

Perky.. and it raps up REALLY fast..

As always, looks and sounds awesome, Steve.

I'd certainly hope your 460 makes more than 550whp - LS7's make more than that with smaller cams! Interested in the Mast top-end you're going to run, for sure...

[Steve1968LS2]

Originally Posted by SS MPSTR

As always, looks and sounds awesome, Steve.

I'd certainly hope your 460 makes more than 550whp - LS7's make more than that with smaller cams! Interested in the Mast top-end you're going to run, for sure...

But its all about the torque.. do the make 525 rwtq?

And my cam is tame.. nice street manners

Penny did good today.. Ran a 29.6xx which was in the top three i think.. we have an issue with the rear shocks bottoming out.. not good

So considering that and the broken hand we did good, had to drive in second gear to keep it under control

Will be working with global west to do som tuning an their new Penske line of shocks

[SS MPSTR]

Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2

But its all about the torque.. do the make 525 rwtq?

And my cam is tame.. nice street manners

Penny did good today.. Ran a 29.6xx which was in the top three i think.. we have an issue with the rear shocks bottoming out.. not good

So considering that and the broken hand we did good, had to drive in second gear to keep it under control

Will be working with global west to do som tuning an their new Penske line of shocks

the 33 CI advantage has the TQ covered (mine makes right at 500wtq), but your cam is quite a bit bigger than the cam in my LS7.

Are you working with Doug over at GW?

[evilzee28]

Originally Posted by Steve1968LS2

Penny did good today.. Ran a 29.6xx which was in the top three i think.. we have an issue with the rear shocks bottoming out.. not good


Will be working with global west to do som tuning an their new Penske line of shocks

Hi Steve, just a query, at the beginning of this thread you said, QUOTE:-

"Bigger on the list was that David thought we needed more shock travel. Seems that were were on the stops durring hard turns and even on acceleration. We worked with Steve Duck over at RaceCar Dynamics and came up with a shock that's over two inches longer. The new Bilsteins are also revalved for the car. The extra length meant that we had to punch holes in the trunk floor so that this mount extender could be welded to the top of the existing brace. The top hole is for future changes if necessary."


Why are you still having trouble with the shocks bottoming out, I thought that this area had been addressed by "punching the holes in the trunk & welding in extenders"? Does this mean that you're changing from the Bilsteins to Penske shocks now? If so what's wrong with the Bilsteins? How much shock compression/travel are you getting with the set up as is? Could it be that your spring rate is wrong allowing an excessive amount of spring compression? Sorry for so many questions, but I'm sure that those people that are following this, wouldn't want to copy your set up & find it falls short of what they want, just as you have.

thanks....Nige