Pro Touring Car Owners.....

[RussMurco]

Originally Posted by E.rodz

I vote drive them! and is this the trailer you guys are referring to?
I really love driving the car I put over 3,000 miles a year on my car and drive it to the track pulling the camper trailer and road racing,drag racing and attempting to auto cross. it does not always work out the best but I put drivers insurance with towing up to 150 miles and a couple of years ago I broke the rear end and had it towed home on a flat bed. my idea is drive them and have fun with them.but I can also understand bringing a support vehicle with just to make it easy for the just in case. for me it is the adventure of the whole trip.

I've seen this in person, he drives it everywhere! These Minnesota folks are pretty hard-core about their cars!
Me? When the Firebird is done it will be doing way more than 200 mile runs! Not for competition, for pleasure!

[Revved]

/\/\/\/\/\/\ That is awesome!

I roadtest all of my projects at least 200-300 miles before they leave for drive tuning and shakedown. These cars like hiding surprises and you never know what is going to loosen up when they first hit the road. Lots of torqueing and retorqueing!

After finishing the Chevelle build the owner flew out to DFW and we road tripped it back down to Miami Beach. Between driving around here, the road trip, a 2 hour backtrack because he left his wallet at a gas station, and driving around there we put 2200 miles on it in a week.

462ci blown, intercooled, EFI with 820 rwhp. Quick math put the mph at about 14 for the road trip with a glitchy TPS for 3/4 of the drive causing accel fuel to squirt everytime there was a light accel so I my guess is that it could get 16-18 highway now that the TPS is fixed.

IMHO that is what pro-touring is about... the driving!

[dale68z]

Originally Posted by dale68z

Next weekend Tom and I will be driving to Fontana for Speed Ventures at Auto Club.

I will be bringing a trailer. The car we are tracking will be pulling the 4x6 trailer. The trailer will have fuel, Extra tires, easyup, and our clothes.

So, basically if I have the time and the trip is interesting enough. I have no issues driving either my 68 or 71 anywhere.

We finished our trip, left Friday 2:00 pm. got back Saturday at 11:00 pm
I had a steel brake line crack. Found the issue on our first gas stop. Luckly car quest was open, and had a 30" brake line. 15 minutes later we were back on the road.
Other than that, 650 miles + 5-25 minute ROVAL track sessions, all good.

Of course, Toms car... never an issue

2 weeks we will be at Spring Mountain

[Gambit]

At the moment no. It won't move under its own power since the engine out & waiting on a clutch. Be another few months in the build then I'll have it back. I think it's about 150km to the shop that's doing it (I'm in aus so it's metric).

Once it's on the road it'll def be racking up the km's!
Here's a link if anyone's interested. I can only post pics with tapatalk & it doesn't work on this forum so I haven't started one..

http://www.usmuscle.com.au/Forum/showthread.php?t=12534

Cheers

[Mkelcy]

You asked this question just as I was getting an 11 year build on the road.

Not ready for 200 miles yet, but give me a month or so to get familiar with the car and get some of the minor issues resolved. LS376/480 '68 Camaro with all aftermarket suspension. She's a beast.