1968 Camaro - Project "BLUE HOUR"

[MaxHarvard]

Originally Posted by Roberts68

That was awesome! Cool vids.

Except, I was sitting there waiting for the OOPS and it gave me stress
I'm glad nothing happened to the car. It's always funny until somebody gets hurt... and cars lack the ability to heal or walk it off like us, it all takes money to make them heal.

Who were you running with and where? That looks like the shiznit and I want to try it someday.

I had an instructor with me. This is the MOWOG group of the Minnesota Autocross or MAC. Lots of fun to be had. Another 67 showed up and we had some good times

[cmraman]

Originally Posted by MaxHarvard

I had an instructor with me. This is the MOWOG group of the Minnesota Autocross or MAC. Lots of fun to be had. Another 67 showed up and we had some good times

What kind of times? What were some of the faster times, compared to yours?

[MaxHarvard]

Originally Posted by cmraman

What kind of times? What were some of the faster times, compared to yours?

Some really fast guys were in the mid to low 60's. These were the purpose built AutoX cars and the like, some pretty good drivers too with a lot more experience than me.

After 3 runs I had a best of 80 flat. To be fair, this was my first ever race of any sort and I'm really not comfortable with the car. I have no doubt that the car is capable of at least low 70's with a much better driver.

[Ron in SoCal]

Originally Posted by MaxHarvard

$$$ shot! Congrats Eric

[MaxHarvard]

Well, I just got back a day or two ago from Road America and the OPTIMA Challenge.

The entire thing felt like it lasted a week, but it really only ran for 2.5 days, it's a lot of stuff to do and very little time to do it all in. Friday I helped a group of people teach kids how to build a bike, then it was a nice dinner at Andrew Chevrolet in Milwaukee. Saturday it was a 70ish mile cruise to a car show with some dyno pulls and then onto Road America where we had tickets for the Grand Am race and NATIONWIDE series race where Danica got punted on the last lap. We then had an hour long go-kart enduro where it was teams of 4, my team placed 6th out of 12 thanks to some catch up laps by Randy Johnson of DandZ customs. Sunday, it was all racing. Goldberg was there with the OPTIMA filming crew interviewing everyone about their cars and what not. Goldberg was very nice and stayed for every picture, signed everything put in front of him and really seemed to enjoy my buddies 1,000+hp Grand National and unfortunately blew his tranny at the road course. We had to finish the road course (back half of the Road America course, 2.2 miles), a stop-box with a slalom and the AutoX which was the go-kart track, which was my favorite of the whole event.

I set myself a goal of "not be last" and that goal was achieved!! LOL I haven't seen the final tally yet, but I saw my road course times and it seemed to be about mid pack (maybe slightly lower than mid pack). There was a pretty knarly wreck by a new mustang and Jeff Van Buren (being the smart of the two of us) told me it was bad karma to post the photo, so I'll take his advice and not show it.

I met a lot of really cool people and had a great time, Cam Douglas, Jimi Day, Jim McIlvanie, Randy Johnson, Bret, Jeff Van Buren, Telly V, Goldberg and a few others that their names aren't coming to me right away, but it was a great experience and will certainly try to do it again.

So, without further ado, here's a few videos and photos of the experience. Seriously, it's an experience to say the least.

A couple quick notes:
- I didn't really feel comfortable taking the car over 110mph, so in the road course video, you'll see i kind of just hold it in 5th gear.
- My rear-end whines like crazy, I know this and am working on solving the problem.
- My go pro kept running when Goldberg interviewed me twice after the AutoX, it's essentially his arm pit, I edited that out figuring no one wanted to see it LOL.
- I'm not %100 comfortable with the car yet, so I braked early in a lot of placed and didn't really take the car to red line in many places.

These two photos I borrowed from Bangshift.com



This is from my camera I lent to someone.




Now, onto videos

The short course:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HqwM...ature=youtu.be

Stop Box
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaMxx...ature=youtu.be

AutoX
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZDyYy...ature=youtu.be

[Steve68]

You're right it whines!!! I had to turn the speakers down, but the video are great!!!

[Rybar]

Looks and sounds good Eric, I think you should get that rear checked out something is definitely wrong IMO.

[randy]

where did you get that brake setup and can you tell me alittle bit about it?

[LS1NOVA]

Nice job! Wish I could have joined you.

[Spiffav8]

Sounds like a lot of fun! Good to hear you got some track time with the car and are out enjoying it!!