Budget '69 Camaro Track Car - NO WHINERS!

[Track Junky]

With the May Thunderhill event coming up and realizing that driving two hours to Vince's shop to work on my motor wasn't going to happen I drove down to the shop last week and picked up my motor and all the parts and pieces to put her back together.
I mentioned that I would never go back to a timing chain after breaking one at T-Hill last May so I picked up an Xceldyne belt drive. It was the first time for me ever installing a belt drive but the directions were well written and the quality of the parts and pieces were top knotch.
Got the belt drive installed and heads torqued down this weekend.

[Sieg]

Nice bottom end!

[Cole]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Nice bottom end!

That doesn't sound very proper....

[intocarss]

You're looking real racy now

[Track Junky]

Originally Posted by Sieg

Nice bottom end!

Originally Posted by Cole

That doesn't sound very proper....

Originally Posted by intocarss

You're looking real racy now

Nice, not very proper, and racy........I can live with that. Kind of like how I liked my women..........well, back in the day anyways.

Anyhow, In my efforts to try and get the rear of my car to rotate I asked Vince to make a slider clamp for my rear Hotchkis sway bar so that I can make it adjustable. Vince has sent a computer drafted design of the sliders to the water jet guy. He sent me an e-mail of the design and if I can figure out how to post from e-mail I will. Basically just a block of billet aluminum with a hole in it the same diameter of the bar that will wrap around the sway bar with two bolts on the bottom to sinch it to the bar and a heim joint connection on top. Hard to believe I couldn't just find one on line. BMW has a custom sway bar set up with the sliders but they wouldn't seperate the sliders and heim joint set up from the bar. Should be pretty neat and I'm looking forward to putting it to work.

[Flash68]

Cool on the belt! Who needs a stinkin gear?

Originally Posted by Track Junky

He sent me an e-mail of the design and if I can figure out how to post from e-mail I will.

Forward me the email and I will post it up.

[Beach Cruiser]

I checked out the local shop that was running Camaros and BMWS in the Contential tire series not to long ago. They had the coolest set up for in car adjustable sway bars. Basically the swaybar arms are square, but more like flatbar stock. They have a system to rotate the arm from the drivers seat so that if they stand the arm up complety vertical its the stiffest, and if it's rotated flat (180 degs) its at its softest. So, the arm not the bar is adjusted for the stiffness, all from the drivers seat!

[67zo6Camaro]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

With the May Thunderhill event coming up and realizing that driving two hours to Vince's shop to work on my motor wasn't going to happen I drove down to the shop last week and picked up my motor and all the parts and pieces to put her back together.
I mentioned that I would never go back to a timing chain after breaking one at T-Hill last May so I picked up an Xceldyne belt drive. It was the first time for me ever installing a belt drive but the directions were well written and the quality of the parts and pieces were top knotch.
Got the belt drive installed and heads torqued down this weekend.

Sweetness. Keep the updates coming. I like learning about the motor stuff.

[Track Junky]

Originally Posted by 67zo6Camaro

Sweetness. Keep the updates coming. I like learning about the motor stuff.

Thanks Bret. First thing I thought about when I was posting is what a great job you do when posting up your pics and the details you note with each pic. I wanted to put a note under each pic but time prevailed.

[Vince@Meanstreets]

Originally Posted by Track Junky

With the May Thunderhill event coming up and realizing that driving two hours to Vince's shop to work on my motor wasn't going to happen I drove down to the shop last week and picked up my motor and all the parts and pieces to put her back together.
I mentioned that I would never go back to a timing chain after breaking one at T-Hill last May so I picked up an Xceldyne belt drive. It was the first time for me ever installing a belt drive but the directions were well written and the quality of the parts and pieces were top knotch.
Got the belt drive installed and heads torqued down this weekend.

you should get some synthetic assembly lube. Put that 3 in 1 stuff back in your sewing kit. LOL

Amsoil Assembly lube, I put that **** on everything.