My 69 Camaro, "Project Stance"

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by DFRESH

Thanks Matt--does this mean your 69 won't make it to RTTC either? I hate trackside mods and repairs--but I enjoy watching others do them.

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Probably not anymore. I needed Brett to install a Vaporworq retrofit kit for me, but then some big shot guy just called him up and made him drop everything.

In all honesty, I have had enough thrashing on the purple car to last me, if not a life time, certainly more than a few years. Something always goes wrong with that car at the last minute. We had to fight to get to SEMA two years in a row, and it has always been new and unsorted at every RTTC event it has been to. Last year I drove off track in the middle of the straightaway because I got distracted watching my oil pressure read a frighteningly low number. I think I should have won an award for that one. This year I am just going to slap tires on the Mustang and go have fun.

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[DFRESH]

Originally Posted by Matt.A

Probably not anymore. I needed Brett to install a Vaporworq retrofit kit for me, but then some big shot guy just called him up and made him drop everything.

In all honesty, I have had enough thrashing on the purple car to last me, if not a life time, certainly more than a few years. Something always goes wrong with that car at the last minute. We had to fight to get to SEMA two years in a row, and it has always been new and unsorted at every RTTC event it has been to. Last year I drove off track in the middle of the straightaway because I got distracted watching my oil pressure read a frighteningly low number. I think I should have won an award for that one. This year I am just going to slap tires on the Mustang and go have fun.

LOL--no, he's not dropping anything--we will get started later---Ron's car and some other projects are in play right now at Skunk Works 53. I don't have the brakes yet---Blake will take car of that --then we can start mocking up the rearend. Stay thirsty my friends.

[Matt@BOS]

Originally Posted by DFRESH

LOL--no, he's not dropping anything--we will get started later---Ron's car and some other projects are in play right now at Skunk Works 53. I don't have the brakes yet---Blake will take car of that --then we can start mocking up the rearend. Stay thirsty my friends.

I was just teasing both of you guys. I have no idea what time frame you are looking at, but if you do need to be squeezed in, and I am ahead of you in the skunk works line, my tank can definitely be put on hold until later.

Matt

p.s. Brett, the Vaporworq stuff should arrive at your door step soon.

[DFRESH]

So, as a hailmary, I went ahead and popped the cover on the rearend, dropped the pin and slid the axles out to check the axle bearings---i'm suspicious since it seems that the noise is isolated to this side of the car--it's a fairly cheap swap---it's the only thing on this 8.5 ten bolt I haven't replaced--everything else is brand new. My buddy John is coming by tomorrow night with the bearings and seals, and the all important slide hammer to extract the bearings. Would still like to make the RTTC event in two weeks. Even if this fixes it, I'll still move forward with the new setup in order to be able to test it at RTTC in March. The smell of gear oil is almost as bad as it was a couple of weeks ago when we put the posi in.

Hoping for a quick and easy fix. LOL. I'm reminded of why I named my car A13. Just before the lunar module was going to break into the earths atmosphere, a guy in mission control calls the flight commander and lets him know that there is a possible typhoon warning right where the module was going to land in the ocean--he says "There's a chance it won't turn into anything" to which the flight commander responds "Only if their luck changes".

DR Fresh

[Nessumsar]

Say it aint so! The President of the OLJs has left us? I think that makes me the lone one-legger...

Glad to see Apollo is getting some love again though. If you need some help during the thrash let me know, I'd be glad to help you drink some beers.