That's awesome, Lance. Glad the steering changes really helped the car.
Regarding Kansas; can't say I blame you for wanting to leave the weather behind. I spent nearly three years in Liberal and that was enough. Too much wind for me. My head would be covered with a skull cap continuously for the whole winter except for sleeping and showering. I did enjoy the low humidity western Kansas has to offer though.
When do you finally make the move?
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Current ride: 2001 BMW 540iT soon to be manual swapped.
Former rides: 1979 Trans Am WS6: LT1/T56, Kore 3 C5/6 brakes, BMW 18in rims
Lance, as always, thanks for bringing your experience to us. It takes a lot of time and work to post this stuff, and it’s appreciated. Glad to see your car working so well, and your having a blast doing it!
No problem, just trying to pay back for all that has been shared with me. And yes, it is a BLAST to drive!!
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That is fantastic to hear Lance. Thanks for the update and sharing your experience.
Wish you could have made it out to see it run in person...now you'll just have to look us up next time you are in Phoenix...
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1985 Monte Carlo SS Street Car
Some of the Phoenix car friends I've met so far want to meet Barney in person, so I'm devising a plan to drag him out of storage next weekend. It's not exactly easy as I'm very limited in parking spaces both where we are living and at the storage units...but I think I've got it worked out.
Might even try to make it up to the car show at 67th and Bell Sat evening if any Phoenix locals want to meet up there. Can't wait to drive around a bit and see how Barney likes Arizona asphalt...
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Lance
1985 Monte Carlo SS Street Car
Some of the Phoenix car friends I've met so far want to meet Barney in person, so I'm devising a plan to drag him out of storage next weekend. It's not exactly easy as I'm very limited in parking spaces both where we are living and at the storage units...but I think I've got it worked out.
Might even try to make it up to the car show at 67th and Bell Sat evening if any Phoenix locals want to meet up there. Can't wait to drive around a bit and see how Barney likes Arizona asphalt...
I seriously need a place to put either a open car trailer, Barney or both...for 3 months or so. Right now I have Barney on the trailer in a storage unit and it makes doing anything with the car a bit of a hassle.
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Lance
1985 Monte Carlo SS Street Car
I drove Barney out to my first Arizona Region SCCA Autocross last Sunday and had a blast. AZR runs a tight ship, had us hoping from the time we got there til we left about 2:30 pm. Mike Hitt came up and co-drove Barney with me, he did great considering he'd never even rode in the car before Sunday morning. That is a testament to a Ron Sutton setup, balanced and friendly enough that anyone can get in one and go fast with it right away.
Still getting used to the awesome Stoptech brakes and the new RSRT valved Ridetech shocks. I'm figuring out I can brake earlier and then get off the brakes before corner entry and the new Secret Sauce shocks will keep the front pinned down yet being off the brakes lets me carry WAY more speed into and thru the corner. There is more in it still, will just take time to learn to trust it'll stick.
Here was my best run of the day.
and here was Mike's best run of the day.
I finished a tenth off of Tommy Tomerdale in CAM T and Mike was right behind me. Tommy has an awesome 67 camaro with an LS6 and C5 front and rear suspension under it all on 315s. I'm pretty happy with how we did.
Brian Hobaugh SCCA National Tour June 2014
First Hemi 'Cuda Convertible Ever Built
Short clips: Goodguys Pleasanton autocross and pit videos
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