Chad's 68 Camaro V3.0 build. LS3 & TCI goodies

[Vince@Meanstreets]

How did the non power brakes feel?

[Chad-1stGen]

Originally Posted by Flash68

Nice job Chad! Car's gettin better every time out.

Thanks Dave. I yearn for the day we are all hitting a track day together again!

Originally Posted by Vince@MSperfab

How did the non power brakes feel?

I wish I knew Vince. I've been too short on time to do the simple fabricating I need with brake lines and brackets to get it installed. A potentially costly mistake given this pic:

[Chad-1stGen]

Good times at Del Mar yesterday. Over breakfast this morning I realized that I'm the only first gen Camaro on the board at 4th place in Street Machine.

Today is going to be even tougher!

[Track Junky]

Great competition in that class Chad. Your all within thousands of a second.

[glassman]

+No doubt ^^. Your car is getting sorted out very nicely Chad. Looking forward to seeing it in person. I shoulda came down for that GG, i've always wanted to go to that one and just didn't plan well

Whats up with the autocross on Friday's? wish they did that for Pleasanton, i only got 3 runs in on saturday as it was PACKED. It was a fun social event, but i liked the course they had set up and wished i could of drivin it more....

Autocross is fun, but the track is my crack!!

[Chad-1stGen]

Those on Facebook have seen a bunch of pics from this weekend but I wanted to share with the broader Lateral-g.net folks.

I had a great time going to Optima this past weekend. First of all anytime you can drive your car 300 miles to an event, beat on it hard for two days, and then drive it 300 miles home without pulling any tools out of the tool box is a success!

Friday recap:
I had taken the day off of work to drive out to Vegas but used the morning to 1) wire up my DSE wiper motor and 2) fix a broken rotor bolt. I think I've had the wiper motor on the car for 5 or more years but never actually hooked it up...

Car is packed up and ready to go. Driving the car rather than trailering it means I need to keep the Sub for quality tunes... or ones strong enough to overpower the wind noise from a window design that is practically 50 years old.


TCI came to my rescue on the broken bolt issue so I stopped by their shop on the way out of town.

It was a good thing too because on my drive to Vegas it rained a little bit but on the road rally portion it rained the whole 1.5-2 hours including pouring pretty hard in some spots.

Getting some use out of those wipers!


This was my first road trip in the Camaro since the V3.0 build and I was fairly pleased with the 19.5 mpg I got since driving this to and from a local autocross I usually get closer to 12 mpg. However, I also learned that the off idle flat spot created by my Westech tune was an order of magnitude worse at the 2500 ft of elevation in Vegas.

I started this post a few hours ago. Will have to add the rest later. More pics, video and story to come.

EDIT: to finish the Friday recap. Made it to Vegas without incident and not too terrible on traffic. My wife was actually already in Vegas for work and had to work through the weekend which meant I got to see her and do dinners with her as well as have a free place to stay! It was worth the 20 minute drive to the track and back each day.

[Penny]

Good talking with you Chad. Glad things went well for you.

Cole