Just a short note to mention that I restored the 1LE brake installation page on my old website.
http://www.ws6transam.org/1LEbrake.html
Cheers,
-Dan



National Fbody Motorsports Event in Memphis was a BLAST this year!!!!
(I can't wait until next year).

 

Hey, Dan,

Good to know. I'd been referring members to this link:

http://web.archive.org/web/200605221.../1LEbrake.html

JamesC

 

Hey, whaddyaknow! I didn't know the site was worthy of archiving! I wonder what else they got over there...

 

Dan,

Good to hear from you again. I used your brake photos years ago. Thanks!

On another note what road course is that you are on? I have a very old photo of a 82-84 camaro in about the same spot on track.

DM

 

That's Memphis Motorsports Park, north of Memphis. The National Fbody Motorsports Event goes there each year. This year I think the third-gens nearly tied the fourth-gens in terms of participation. The fastest time around the track, at 77 seconds, was Mark Frouhar's silver '86 Trans Am. Memphis Motorsports Park says that a 75 second lap of the course is considered a super-fast lap for a dedicated road race car, so a 77 second lap is cooking for a street car. I was probably running closer to 89 second lap with my street tires. I eventually lost my brakes and tires on the lap following that picture. Boiled the fluid and greased the tires at the same time, going into the "M&M's" where that picture was taken. It followed a 140+ MPH blast on the straightaway, on the fifth lap, and the brakes and tires gave up. I hit the red&white curb but didn't grass the tires. That was my last lap for the day as the fluid turned black. Hence, I am servicing my brakes at the moment, and managed to snap this dandy of a picture!



The full-size photo, when printed on a laser printer, is properly scaled to 330 dpi in order to make the photo a 1:1 scale model of the bracket. Folks can now engineer their own brackets if they wish....

http://ws6transam.org/Gallery/albums...1lebracket.jpg

By the way, if memory serves me correctly, that is Kevin Crain's car in that picture of yours:

 

Very cool info on the event and course.......I had that pic for a background quite a few years ago.

How long has Kevin had the LS1?

I also remember paying out the butt for those brackets, not to mention the caliper "cage's"