REDGAR

Great start Kevin.

gator's 99TA

iTrader: (2)

very nice Kevin. car looks outstanding and runs the number. you have to be happy with that!

kp

iTrader: (34)

Yea, I was shooting for 6.2x-6.3x the first time out so I'm very happy. DA was 2400' and that was on some 2 year old hoosier DOT QTPs. I'm just going over everything making sure I didnt forget to tighten something and hit a 1/4 mile track this weekend if the weather is decent.

Villain281H

iTrader: (5)

Congrats on the first outing Kevin, she looks to have the 6.50 index down (if you guys run that at all, as we do a lot of it down south). Keep us posted, good luck hitting the 1/4 this weekend.

Derek

kp

iTrader: (34)

They run 5.70, 6.0, 6.50 and 7.0 around here. I could lighten it up a little and put some slicks on it and run 6.0 but thats mostly light chassis/backhalf cars so its a tough class. Couple tracks have 6.50 with a 10.5x28 max and a .500 tree and those are more street carish.

I just built this car more for just fooling around at some events and some limited street driving, if I wanted to index race and win around here I'd buy a 1900lb chassis car

JL ws-6

iTrader: (50)

Not a bad start that's for sure. Hell you're not leaning on it at all and if I know you, there's a good bit left by tweaking the chassis

Nice looking car, and it's already running some good #'s to boot. It's a win-win in my book!

kp

iTrader: (34)

Its the same basic combo I had in the other car so I could easily get it in the 5s/low 9s changing a couple things around. Its running through a single 3" muffler with a Y-pipe and I'm running a whopping 14 degrees of timing so it has a lot more left. In an all new car I didnt want get too crazy the first time out..

JL ws-6

iTrader: (50)

Understandable. Hell ya probably can put another 4 degrees to it with pump gas and have no problems.

The exhaust I'm sure isn't helping. Might be able to cheat with that and put a couple cutout's at the headers though.


Excellent results regardless, car is show quality as always and in the performance department it's a winner as well.

kp

iTrader: (34)

I purposely made the exhaust restrictive, as well as the 60lb injectors so I dont go too far with this one. I really just want it to stay in the 9.80 or so range, its kind of hard because I know it will do a lot better but I proved my point with the other car..

JL ws-6

iTrader: (50)

Makes sense. Set a limit, and stick to it.

Wish I had done that LOL, I'd have alot more $ in my pocket still.

kp

iTrader: (34)

We'll see how long I stick to the plan, this thing still has the door bars, bumper supports, heavy carpeting, all the stock wiring, power steering/brakes etc. Although for the most part its a dedicated track car the main reason I'm keeping it like this is if I get bored with taking it to the track I can pull out the roll bar, put the stock seats back in and have a really nice street car. Once you cross into that 10pt cage/chute, cuttng the wiring up and gutting thing its hard to go back.

JL ws-6

iTrader: (50)

Very true.

You're hardcore enough to deal with the rollbar and seats though, a rim/tire swap and you're golden

Maybe not even that...

promod1955

iTrader: (44)

very good lookin car kp! both this one and the last one. Wish i knew your t/a was for sale instead of building this camaro i just did.

kp

iTrader: (34)

I priced that car a little cheap and it was sold in an hour, in retrospect I probably should have kept it but my plan was to build something non-LS powered at the time.

kp

iTrader: (34)

I'll bring this back up one last time, hit a 1/4 mile track for the first time last weekend and ran a 9.55 @ 141 best with a 1.33 60 foot. DA was around 1500 feet, thats about as far as I'm going to take this car with a 6pt roll bar. A blower pulley change, bigger injectors and some weight removal and a more aggressive tune would put in the low 9s but I'll leave it for now and just have some fun with it for a while, it runs and drives so nice I dont want to screw it up

Some video, first pass I left a plug wire loose..

http://videos.streetfire.net/video/B...209_680308.htm

Nice launch pic from there as well..

4bangermustang

iTrader: (24)

I was watching the video and was like, is that byron?

What were you doing in this neck of the woods?

kp

iTrader: (34)

I used to live in Chicago and race at Byron all the time, had to run up there anyhow last weekend so I figured I'd take the car along since the weather looked nice..

Coach 02 A3 Z/28

iTrader: (10)

Congrats KP. Car looks great.

Coach