Awsome man, Ill be there. I laughed because you said low 13s what bad. Thats what Im looking for this weekend or mabey even hitting the 12's for the first time. But you do have a V8 and a clean car too!! Ill look for ya out there, heres my car.

 

Hi Folks,

What is going on at norwalk that you can run your cars on the track?
I would like to try that.
I live in Lakewood.

Jeff

 

Just a normal test and tune on friday starting at 6pm till 11pm.

Then a ponts race on saturday(all day)

Its called Summit Motorsparts Park now, insted of norwalk raceway, if you wana look it up. More thirdgens the better. I've got too many Ford friends as it is...lol

 

is this every friday?

 

I'll come join you guys soon, I will be getting my parts I need this week and installing my rear diff asap.

 

Usually its every other weekend since there are other events. This weekend yes, next weekend no, the weekend after yes. and so on.

 

So you just show up at the track, is there an inspection process?
Is there a fee involved? any special equipment?
Are you allowed to have a lap top in the car to gather data?

thanks for your tips!

 

Yes you can use the laptop on friday. There is no tech inspection for that day. The only thing you need is a helment if you run 13.99 or under, and a roll cage if you go 11.49 or faster. Just show up at the track to get in, gates open at 4:30pm trials start at 6pm.

This is for friday.

 

I'll be out there tomorrow around 5, hope to see some of you guys out there. I gotta figure out my tree again since I bolted my lower control arms...First run after bolting them, I was .009 on the tree, then started redlighting -.075 and -.099 lol. Might launch at a lower RPM so I can keep my spot on the tree, I was just getting used to that...

 

i'll be over at about 6

 

dont forget to bring the video camera

 

Ill get some videos, im hoping that phoenixfirebird will take some of me..good ones burnout and all. On saturday Ive got another guy who loves to take vids.

 

if u got other ppl taking vids stick ur camera up on the dash of the car or rubber band it to the backside of the mirror inside the car facing down track

 

Good idea, I strap the camera in the can for the runs, see how that goes. Ill load then up on here late tonight. Wish the bust of luck. I better be back in the 13's or Ill be Pi$$ed off...lmao

 

It's like you living through this guy lol I call low thirteens, burnouts with no load are one thing, but when you have a load its an entirely different story...

 

Yes dave is loving this as much as me I think. I call the same mid low 13's I hope. Just as long as its not the 14's again, thats too slow. Im off to there now.

 

yeah well its not like i can just hop on my car and goto the track anymore, both the tracks near me are over 300 mile drive one way .

 

I know dave, If you lived near me, youd be taking it down the track to teach me the launch.

Im just lucky to have a nice track 20 min from me.

 

I'm just busting your chops bro lol. Why not just come back to the East Coast, is it because of work that your out there? Don't you miss being 5 minutes from e-town...?

 

yeah i make big money out here working on the pipeline in the spring/summer.
fall and winter i work up at one of the pig farms and still clear about 1g a week.
i do miss being so close to the track but its so much nicer out here no sitting in traffic for 2 hours to go a few miles.no getting pulled over for stupid ****, and noone bothers ya.

and if i moved back id have to get rid of about half my guns since they wouldnt be allowed in nj

 

I hear ya. I'm from the city though, I wouldn't last in the sticks for too long, I'd be going crazy without any night clubs, or places like seaside, Great Adventure, the beach, etc. If the money is good though, that's all that really matters. You shouldn't be messing with 3rd gens though if the money is good, just buy a C6 Corvette, turbo charge it, and be done with it...

 

lmao well if id stop buying guns and other toys i prolly would buy a vette
dam class 3 firearms and nfa items arent cheap

yeah there aint **** to do around here at night really but if i drive a few hours i can be in vegas, and this summer im deffinatly heading out to cali to hit the beach and do some surfing

 

well spill the beans man what did it run

 

I wanna say 13.31, I know it was a new best, but in the 13.3s. He'll correct me if I'm wrong.

In other news...


First perfect light, bring on the ego

 

Also saw you out there, was nice seeing another 3rd gen. Not sure if you saw me or Mark. Nice 12.76 pass though, I'm impressed

 

Yes 12's looked nice with the GTA.

Heres a few videos.

Mine with a 13.31@104.7Mph, chasing that vette and doing a nice burnout.

Here's phoenixf-bird and a friend Derek in his V6 camaro. Both running 15's.

Oh yea I got one over on a new 2010+ V8 Camaro last night, it was an automatic one but I dont care, I just beat a 40K$ car!! Phoenixfirebrd is a witness... Got him by a hair but still I got him.

 

Thanks, I did see you guys out there. I need a lot of practice with reaction time and launching though. That 12.76 pass was my best, but I still bogged coming out of the hole with a 2.0 60'. I guess I'm not used to getting traction.

My 1st run I almost stalled at the launch b/c the rpms were too low. My 2nd run, I blew the coupler off the throttle body so I had to let off. It would be much easier if I had an auto.

 

Just bought ported SLP runners, ported Edelbrock High Flow intake, and a ported plenum. Hopefully here by Wednesday so I can race with them that night. That should keep me in the 14s for good!

 

Went over to Winks/Thano's in Barberton today. I was pretty happy with the response my Z-28 got. I had 5-6 people come up and talk to me, asking me questions and complimenting me on how it looked. Out of around 70 cars there I was the only 3rd gen Camaro.
Best thing I saw: a 1913 Buick.

 

Nice run though. Your 60ft time is def killing you. Im calling mid-low12's all day when you get down to 1.80's BTW nice car, looked sharp.

 

Just got back from Smokeys Dyno down in north canton. My car is now running like it should finally. Love the power it has, and it hasn't even been dyno tuned yet. Should be getting the dyno tune done here in the next 2 weeks.

 

Nice. Is Smokeys gonna tune it or who is doing it? How much are they charging for dyno time and so on?

 

Yeah smokeys is going to tune it. My buddy Jamy is co-owner and the best tuner i've ever met. I think a full tune runs 500+tax. I'm not sure what they charge just to do some dyno runs for hp/tq readings.

On a side note, i think i might have broken my torque converter on the way home. At first I thought it was the tranny mount, but now I don't think so. It drives fine under normal load. As soon as i romp on it, i can feel a real bad shake through the shifter and center console.

 

if you broke the converter you would be on the side of the road

 

Could be a U joint, or you might have an internal issue. What tranny is in it? How many miles? Does it do it in all gears?

 

not if you just break some fins on the inside.

 

700r4 tranny with 120k miles as far as i know. I've put a 2500 stall converter, shift kit, and corvette servo in it myself. It works fine and shifts through all the gears fine under normal load. I'm going outside right now to put the car up in the air and see if i can figure out what's wrong with it. Whenever you mash the gas, you can feel alot of shaking from the shift lever. I was on my way home yesterday and pulling away from a stop light, just pulled away... didn't mash it. At about 30 mph i heard what sounded like a piece of metal hit the ground and go bouncing. I didn't see anything out of the mirror so I pulled over. I checked the underside of the car but didn't see anything wrong so I drove the rest of the way home. The car had no issue until I heard the metal sound.

 

Hhmm, perhaps a retainer on the U joint cap at the rearend, or perhaps the nut off your tranny mount?

 

Turns out both the bolts that hold the mount to the tranny were missing, also my DS loop was slightly loose. Threw in two new bolts and tightened everything up, problem is fixed.

On a side note, stage 8 locking header bolts really do need to be locked in, or the damn things back out like nothing i've ever seen before. And i'll never use a set of the percy seal-4-good header gaskets again. Everybody raved about how great they are, not in my opinion...

 

Glad it was an easy fix.

I know what you mean, I recently blew a header gasket and when I checked the bolts a few were loose, especially the 2 where the blowout happened.

 

It's always one thing or another. I guess I should have done more research before buy a 50 dollar set of locking header bolts. I bought a set of stage 8 locking header bolts, thinking it would be a good move. Come to find out... they don't work with hooker super comp LT headers. I finally tried to put the locks and retainers on, no dice. DAMN!

 

get some stainless allen headed bolts and stainless lock washers and use copper seal on both side of stock type ex gaskets u will never have an issue again

what i like to do is get longer then needed allen head bolts and screw a nut onto the bolt and i stick a lock washer under the nut, i screw the allen head bolt in untill it bottoms out in the head then use a wrench to lock the nut against the header flange doing this the nut will never back out unles su loosen it with a wrench.

its basically the same things as putting studs in except doing it this way u can lock the bolt and nut together so it wont loosen and they are very east to remove just loosen the nut and use an allen socket or wrench to uncrew the whole thing out


btw if u use stainless bolts/nuts make sure u put grphite lube or antisieze on them before u put them in

 

Dave i got the car started up today, ran strong but i blew a gasket on the x over to the header. Im thinking of why the f that happend as they were trqed to the max they would. Its still lean as crap when boost goes and needs tuned better but at least its getting there with the little time i have at the momtent.

 

ditch the gasket and try copper seal only, if u had copperseal on there with the gasket and it still blew out chances are the flange is really warped

 

Yea I had coper seal on it, that effin x over is starting to be a real PITA

 

the main problem, is that the pipe almost seemed to move from letting it warm up a few times on the car(warping), I made a few light pulls with no issue then on the last pull i heard the car pop the gasket, sure enough look down there and there it lies have blow out.

 

try using the copper seal without the gasket

heres what i would do

drop the xover and clean everything off it well, and make sure the flanges are flat , then start the engine and let it run tillthe 2 headers get really warm.
shut the engine off and put the coipperseal on the xover pipe flanges and bolt it up while the headers are still warm.

this will cure the coperseal much faster specially if there is a gap the copper seal has to fill
if that blows out to u will have to fix the flanges or build a new x over

 

Ok dave will try that, thanks again. Hopefully that works out well as this is begining to be a PITA.

 

if modifying cars wasnt a a pita everyone would do it

 

Good point!