Project, "She Devil"

[tyoneal]

Thank you everyone who has kept my wife in your thoughts and prayers. I am lucky, after these last 2 months or so I was told she can come home Monday given everything stays ok.

She has been really strong through everything and persevered admirably. I have learned a lot more about her character through this "adventure".

She is ready to get on with things as I am.

Also things can get back to normal so some time can be spent on "Betty", the She Devil.

HOOO WAAA!!!

I will start and get some progress reports made, and I have spoken with jake and he is preparing one of his subframes custom for this car. Down bars, weight jacks and a Cock pit adjustable sway bar are going on it. Once completed, it will be shipped down here where I can put it on, and get the new LS3 installed. I'll also work on the interior a bit, then send the car up to him for some special metalwork and some paint.

With any luck at all I hope to get to know some of you all in person at an event or three. Looks like there are a lot of people from Texas so we might have to organize an event down here or something.

Texas needs to represent!

Anyway, I'm glad to be back hopefully for a long time, and thanks again to everyone who has been supportive.

Everything and everyone are helpful when times get tough. I'm just glad this is going to have a happy ending as it was pretty scary at one point.

Take care and enjoy your weekend.

Sincerely,

Ty O'Neal

[tones2SS]

Glad she is coming home soon Ty!!
Good luck with the build.

[tyoneal]

To all:

Sorry it has been so much time since I was on the site. Here is where I am with things.

Jake is finishing up the front clip for the car. Once done it will be sent to me. I will install it down here along with the LS3, R/T T-56, and the custom 3 link.

A bit of extra time on the front end has been needed to add a couple of items I wanted to put on it.

1) Adjustable Sway Bar (Cockpit adjustable)
2) Down bars comings off the firewall.
3) Upgraded C6 "A" arms.
4) Room for a Mark VIII sucker fan and still work with the body mods
5) I'm nixing the weight jacks in the front as the adjustably Jake has designed into the front suspension should be more than enough to get the nose down low at the track.
6) Custom headers are being designed to work with the exhaust systems requirements
7) There are a couple other items that were needing to be sorted out that I think has Benny worked through.

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A couple of things that have again raised their ugly heads have been the health surrounding my wife and the death of my father. Sometimes when it
rains it pours.
After some bad health my father passed away and was buried last week. Margaret my wife while favoring the bad ankle she had, accidentally broke her right one with the cane she was using.

I'm again writing from the Hospital. All this however, we are still moving forward. Since I last wrote I was looking for a 1962 Triumph TR3B in "Powder Blue", for my wife. I found an unrestored and rust free model in Kansas City which not lives at our home. Makes a great Drive in Hamburger car.

While waiting for the Camaro parts and getting the Triumph, I came across a 1964 Corvette with 85% of the Mid-America Grand Sport kit on it. The poor owner had been hit hard and was needing to free up some cash in a hurry, so I have my next project ready and waiting after I finish SHE DEVIL.

I have the 1965 Riviera in the shop getting a make over. I will have Ben due a drawing of it soon.

With all the chaos going on, every spare minute I have had I have tried to stay busy working on something Car related. Things get down right depressing, so I do have a bunch of things working. I usually won't do this sort of thing, but sanity is a nice thing to have going for you and this is the outlet I have been using to help keep mine in tact.

I'll update on all the cars soon, I just just need to download the pictures off my phone and post them with a bit of information.
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FYI: The Keisler 6 Speed R/T Gearbox for the Camaro is being finished. Again I wanted a couple extra things for it.

1) It will be the Road Racing version with a tighter gear spacing throughout all 6 Gears

2) I am having the proper fittings attached to it in the event I want to put a cooler on it. Having the Dogbox configuration, it would not surprise me to get it pretty warm with some decent spirited driving.

3) I am going to have the gear box put into a "Perfect fit" Configuration to make sure I don't miss anything. I am SO ready to get this car rolling.

Anyway, I hope this has helped bring things up to speed for everyone.

[tyoneal]

Here is the latest update on "She Devil"


"She Devil" is awaiting some very crucial parts, however I have got the Cage in the car now and have had the three link modified for better performance. (Instead of saving the back seat as originally designed, I had the bar lengthened for better geometry as well as some adjustment changes.) With a good cage in it and some cross bracing, your back seat is effectively rendered useless. I think it has what it needs now. (Enough rear room for a couple suitcases, and a "Cool Suit" ice box. I found one on ebay for a decent price.

A shop that makes some very expensive race cars was used to do the rear suspension modification work. Since I was having rear weights jacks put in the car, I needed to step it up a notch from the average builder. I like how it is now as you can adjust how the rear sits, and adjust the weight balance very easy and quickly.

The cage that was installed is not only for safety it is also extremely rigid now. There is a lot of cross bracing designed into it on several different planes. Sound confusing? I'll try and get some pictures to help explain what was done. (My description might technically be in error so some pictures will help)

Until then here are a couple more pictures I have of the car with the PS Engineering wheels on it, and it shows a bit of the cage.

Enjoy.

[tyoneal]

Here is another update on a major part of the Suspension. I spoke with Jake at, "Jakes Rod Shop", and he sent me some pictures of the status my subframe.

Some of the features of his subframe are:

-Subframe is powder coated black
-Howe extreme duty rebuildable ball joints
-Monoball d.o.m control arms
-Double adj shocks
-Can run a 275 mm or 285 mm Tire on the front. (10 Inch Wide Wheel, With 8 To 8.125 BS
-R & P Steering (16:1 ratio)
-Exhaust headers keep exhaust tucked up 1/4 inch above the bottom of the subframe
-Headers are 1.875 primary going to 2.25 mid and 3 inch collector (tri-y Headers)
Mine will have "Down Bars" that will tie into the Cage. A "Handle Bar" will connect these.

Jake updated me that my subframe will ship immediately.

Hope this helps a bit.

Enjoy,

Ty

[70rs]

Thanks for the updates Ty. Its looking great.
What happened to the roofline mods as planned early on?

[tyoneal]

Originally Posted by 70rs

Thanks for the updates Ty. Its looking great.
What happened to the roofline mods as planned early on?

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Eric:

Thanks for writing.

The roofline modifications I will really need to address those. When I had the cage installed, I was busy with my wife, and just screwed up on the front cage bars.

I wished I had remembered everything at the time, I just dropped the ball. It's odd, I absolutely live and breath cars, but when something happens to my wife or family, I become very focused on the issue at hand, and to my detriment sometimes, details of other things just never present themselves as options when I need them.

I really don't know what else to say? (Brain Fart??)

My family is important to me, and when the chips are down, they always get 100% of my attention.

Cars are my Passion, my Family is my life.

I seriously want to do a good job on that car, so once things simmers down a bit, I'll get it rolling.

Ty

[70rs]

Originally Posted by tyoneal

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Eric:

Thanks for writing.

The roofline modifications I will really need to address those. When I had the cage installed, I was busy with my wife, and just screwed up on the front cage bars.

I wished I had remembered everything at the time, I just dropped the ball. It's odd, I absolutely live and breath cars, but when something happens to my wife or family, I become very focused on the issue at hand, and to my detriment sometimes, details of other things just never present themselves as options when I need them.

I really don't know what else to say? (Brain Fart??)

My family is important to me, and when the chips are down, they always get 100% of my attention.

Cars are my Passion, my Family is my life.

I seriously want to do a good job on that car, so once things simmers down a bit, I'll get it rolling.

Ty

I totaly understand "family first" and how that can affect things.

Nice progress on the project so far. It looks great!

[rwhite692]

Looks great, Ty. Once things have settled down a bit with the family stuff, I'm sure you will make a lot of rapid progress, keep the updates coming! -Rob

[CRCRFT78]

Are there any updates to this project?