where exactly are you in socal? i will be at camp pendleton, (Oceanside/San Diego) in oct. and the car back up and running my new years. it'd be cool to get together. you and the other guy with the grey and cruise.

 

im in san gabriel valley

 

wow, unbelievable. grats to you for awesome car. do you have anymore pics of the grey camaro? im interested in a grey color but aint sure yet.

 

thanks


thats z28fast1
hes on the forum as well

 

Count me in.

 

updates
ive been testin out my car
ran cammed s/c mustang freeway roll .
i love this tranny!

i have no traction off the dig though .
any sales on lcas?


i also added a new steering gear i highly reccommend these 21 year old cars to get that changed


ordered a new evap for the ac..
temperatures in cali are at 100 +
and my ac is decent but i dont thtink my used evap is helping out


im interested in fillin in the holes on the ends of the dash board
and recreating my rear lip to a taller one.

 

When you say steering gear are you talking about a new gear box? I read an article in Camaro Performers where they put a new quick-ratio box in an IROC-Z and said it did wonders for the car. I'd like to do something like that but the expense is a bit on the steep end, and way down the list of things I want/need to get the swap done.

As far as sales on LCA's, there is a sponsor on LS1Tech.com, "Byunspeed", their website is www.byunspeed.com They've got a sale going on with free shipping on orders over $99. I actually just purchased my tubular K-member through them and it was $485 with free shipping. Not bad if you ask me...

 

Uhhh, not to be too much of a downer, but it might not be a bad idea to be careful there...

 

I don't have any complaints from him (at this time anyway). He's even offered me $20 for every person that buys from him that mentions my name. And he said any time I want to start a group purchase to just give him a ring and he's sure he can work something out. I should have my k-member next week around the 8th or 9th. When it gets here I'll be sure to post up.

 

i ordered my lcas and relocation brackets.
evap is taking forever to get here.

i also have a few videos to show you guys.

if you guys are interested

 

Why of course we're interested! Post them ASAP!

 

2nd gear roll hwy
iroc vs 01 ws6 m6 (full bolt ons)

 

iroc vs c5 z06
20mph roll


iroc vs bolt on cobra
hwy


rematch week later undisclosed mods in the cobra
1st gear roll

 

this is "just" an 02 SS motor with a 06 GTO tranny and a LS7 clutch, wth how i dont get it, im stunned, speechless keep killin man jeesh. Its time for me to get a better job and build me one!

 

Sahweeeeeeeet~!

 

cleaned her up the other day


it needs a dyno tune and ill get some hidden power out of it
the exhaust is very quiet. so i might change the cat back to open up a bit.

 

very very nice man, only if my car looks as good as yours.......and as clean.... stupid cluttered engine bay

 

Sweet vids! I really like the one against the Z06 haha

So what exactly did the Cobra have that allowed it to scream ahead at the end of that last video? A huge shot of the giggle juice?

 

haha I was wondering the same thing.

Amazing car!

 

Looks Sick! I am hoping to do an LsX swap one of these days as well.

 

lol noh i actually let off on most of those runs..
stock rotors dont help out. lol

 

umi lcas and relocation brackets got installed
i feel a lot less wheel hop going on the roll
final test will be off the line.

i still feel a drag to the right side. not sure what it is but it might be alignment.

my rear is even now as well. i think my stock lcas were bent and gave it a uneven drop

 

yep, they were definitely bent.
looks good man

 

Yikes. Are you assuming the power of the new drivetrain bent them, or something else? That makes me want to push new control arms closer to the top of my "needs" list.

 

are those UMI LCA's thicker then the ones that Spohn offers, i have the Spohn and those look like there beefier.

 

I have also heard that sqr tubing is stronger that round stock. I know somebody offers LCA in sqr tubing.

 

i installed the 4th gen lcas a while back . i do get a lot of wheel hop and it might have twisted them a bit.

ive heard both bad and good about the tubular lcas.
spohn has the squared boxed lcas i think umi does too, not too sure. i ordered these on umis labor day special .

 

Hey I just wanted to update you on that purchase I made because I said I would.

I bought my Spohn k-member through Byunspeed on Sept. 1st, they billed it out. It didn't get shipped out until the 11th, but I believe that was mostly on Spohn's shoulders because I believe that they require like 8 days before they have to ship them because of the custom nature of the part. I called Byunspeed anyways just to check up on it, and they had it shipped on the 11th, and it arrived yesterday on the 17th. It would have been here sooner but they made a small mistake by getting my ZIP wrong so it delayed it an extra day. Over all, I was happy. I didn't mind waiting a few extra days because the shipping was free. +1 in my book.

 

my guess is that someone tried to jack from the LCA's and that bent them...
lots of wheel hop could do it too i suppose.
if it were me, i would have gotten the rod ended LCA's instead of the urethane ended ones because supposedly the urethane ends can cause some weird handling issues if you want to do anything other than drag racing.
honestly, without knowing a lot more detail you cannot simply say boxed or tubular is stronger.
the beefiest ones are solid blocks of aluminum found at metco
http://www.metcomotorsports.com/prod...CA0008&cat=113
the weakest ones are the stock ones.
anything else falls somewhere inbetween and will do just fine as far as strength goes.

 

I've never heard of those metco control arms before.

 

keeping my build alive.
winter is near. my ac worked great!
so is my heater

had my car detailed today.
took some pics





no track times yet. i don't think ill break anything but it doesn't have a full tune. and im thinking of going with a new exhaust set up from the y pipe and back .
some sticky tires would help out as well.

 

finally got the car tuned at cms in lake elsinore, ca.
got some good results for just a cold air intake and ported tb.
my restrictions are the manifolds
but i was pretty impressed.




definately worth it.
and 365.8 tq
more pics to come
as well.

 

so i did a little upgrade. and i really liked it.
i am now running a new exhaust. and it opened up the car pretty darn good especially through exhaust manifolds.






and ill be runing new exhaust tips when i get a chance.
lmk what u guys think ?

 

Wow, sick looking setup.

 

I think they are off center but they look cool. Will be awesome with those tips.

 

yeah they are. im ganna take off about 2 or 3 inches from the center on the drivers side. adjust it a bit towards the middle. . and see what i can do from there. im pretty sure with those tips you wont be able to notice much .

heres a quick sound clip. sounds a bit fuzzy with this camera.

 

updates

 

 

I think the rear diffuser with those tips looks really good. My only complaint (me being extremely picky), is that you should look into maybe having the edge of the tips cut to sit flush with the rear bumper. The one picture where the camera is looking almost straight down on the tips makes them look out of place.

 

the tips themselves are very weird. weird angles but they kinda throw you off.
they are aluminum and i can probably cut at the angle of the bumper. but kinda scared !

 

I'm sure you could get some help if you wanted to try and cut them. I've got a porter cable band saw that makes straight clean cuts, something like that would be perfect for cutting those tips. THen you could take a file and smooth them down and then polish them again.

 

NIce car man hopefully mine one day looks like yours

 

Mind me asking what brand / where you got the tips?

 

In those videos you posted...racing the WS6, Z06, etc... were you spraying N20? Or was that just the cold air intake doing the work?

 

the car has been all motor since day one.
ill be setting up the nitrous with a safe set up soon.

 

looks good.
got an underside shot of how the exhaust is routed?

on a side note, im not sure i like the GM badges behind the doors... possibly if they were much lower, but im not really feeling it...

oh, and you will love those tires

 

Well I am impressed. In some of the engine bay photos you previously posted, it looked like you had nitrous hooked up.

 

yeah my nitrous is wired but not used yet.
im looking at the hsw interface controller.

 

i don't really like the tires.
they're good in the rain but you actually have to warm them up pretty good for those to grab.

but im afraid to break that rear end.

i did pick up some ets this week though

 

dude just to let you know im on my way now to steal that car