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That's awesome! I've spent hundreds of hours motherf¥£€ing that track from a 2 dimensional perspective playing games and always had the dream of running it for real in my firebird.
Much respect!
I've spent hundreds of hours motherf¥£€ing that track from a 2 dimensional perspective playing games.
I just started Iracing on a sim to keep the rust off.
The Camaro and the Iracing 5 year old Australian super car has about the same shift points and lap times.
I use paddle shifting only on the sim.
The Laguna Seca track on Iracing felt just like the real track.
Even saw some of my real track reference points, painted lines and telephone poles.
Down the front straight over the blind hill, keep it full throttle and aim at the telephone poles far ahead on the right.
Love it, awesome . Is there a build thread? or a chassis rundown?
For Sale – 1985 Camaro Z28 Brief Summary: 1985 (3rd generation) Camaro Z28 – Victory (Tahoe) Red. Light flames. 355 professionally built engine. Turbo 350 automatic. 10 point professional cage & subframe connectors. Ford 9”. –Rick Walford – 719-three three two – 4508, ricwalford”at”aol.com 355 professionally built engine –MSD ignition. Brodix Track II intake/aluminum heads. Custom headers. Electric water pump/fan/Aluminum radiator. Remote oil filter. Race type power steering pump. Mini starter. . Engine block an early high zinc content truck block. Holly race prepped four barrel. 8 gallon fuel tank. Holly fuel pump. Automatic – Turbo 350 3000 Stall converter with remote cooler. B&M slap shifter. 4.56 gears in custom axle housing Ford 9”. Tru-Trac differential. 12:1 ARE steering box replacement. 10 point professional cage with integrated subframe connectors, engine bay cross brace and door entrance side tubes. Lexan windows, fiberglass cowl hood. Gutted doors with brace open and close. Metal fender flares. Aluminum rear deck. Weight 3070 . Car weighed 2700 when completed but with 355 and 12” rims minimum weight is 3030. Lead ballast added on rear passenger floor. Weight is 52% front and 48% rear. With me in car was 1 lb difference right to left and 25# heavier on left front than right. 12” Weld Wheels with Original offset Z28’s had (front and rear different). Hoosiers (bias) on there now and has about 30 runs on them. Baer Front brakes, spindle and rotor kit from Barer road race kit. Willwood discs on rear. Willwood brake cylinder. Separate cylinder for front and rear brakes. Brake bias. Passenger aluminum seat. Optum battery. MSD box and distributor. Herb Adams – suspension, Global West metal bushings, Eibach springs adjustable spring perches. Trac-bar (sprung traction bar). Basically the car still has strut suspension, Koni yellow single adjustable front struts, through caster/camber plates. Rear shocks 3 way Koni Yellows. Front lower A-arms have perched up ball joint housing to help bump steer and angle geometry.
I posted this in the for sale section but maybe it needs to be in here as well. I wish I had the money to devote to this...it would be an awesome project and a cool car to just have in a finished state. Not to mention, what a hell of a deal for all the stuff you get.
For Sale – 1985 Camaro Z28 Brief Summary: 1985 (3rd generation) Camaro Z28 – Victory (Tahoe) Red. Light flames. 355 professionally built engine. Turbo 350 automatic. 10 point professional cage & subframe connectors. Ford 9”. –Rick Walford – 719-three three two – 4508, ricwalford”at”aol.com 355 professionally built engine –MSD ignition. Brodix Track II intake/aluminum heads. Custom headers. Electric water pump/fan/Aluminum radiator. Remote oil filter. Race type power steering pump. Mini starter. . Engine block an early high zinc content truck block. Holly race prepped four barrel. 8 gallon fuel tank. Holly fuel pump. Automatic – Turbo 350 3000 Stall converter with remote cooler. B&M slap shifter. 4.56 gears in custom axle housing Ford 9”. Tru-Trac differential. 12:1 ARE steering box replacement. 10 point professional cage with integrated subframe connectors, engine bay cross brace and door entrance side tubes. Lexan windows, fiberglass cowl hood. Gutted doors with brace open and close. Metal fender flares. Aluminum rear deck. Weight 3070 . Car weighed 2700 when completed but with 355 and 12” rims minimum weight is 3030. Lead ballast added on rear passenger floor. Weight is 52% front and 48% rear. With me in car was 1 lb difference right to left and 25# heavier on left front than right. 12” Weld Wheels with Original offset Z28’s had (front and rear different). Hoosiers (bias) on there now and has about 30 runs on them. Baer Front brakes, spindle and rotor kit from Barer road race kit. Willwood discs on rear. Willwood brake cylinder. Separate cylinder for front and rear brakes. Brake bias. Passenger aluminum seat. Optum battery. MSD box and distributor. Herb Adams – suspension, Global West metal bushings, Eibach springs adjustable spring perches. Trac-bar (sprung traction bar). Basically the car still has strut suspension, Koni yellow single adjustable front struts, through caster/camber plates. Rear shocks 3 way Koni Yellows. Front lower A-arms have perched up ball joint housing to help bump steer and angle geometry.
I posted this in the for sale section but maybe it needs to be in here as well. I wish I had the money to devote to this...it would be an awesome project and a cool car to just have in a finished state. Not to mention, what a hell of a deal for all the stuff you get.
"Offset chassis" means upwards of 64% of the weight of the car is on the left side. Really good for an oval car, not so good if you want to turn left and right! just sayin'
"Offset chassis" means upwards of 64% of the weight of the car is on the left side. Really good for an oval car, not so good if you want to turn left and right! just sayin'
Thanks for just sayin'. Learn something new every day. I figured something was different on the chassis just wasn't sure how.
Virtually everything on this car is made one off... The suspision is all built from scratch.. Including the coilover internals front and rear upper camber plates as well as the adoptable ride height strut to spindle mounts . Lower control arms are custom made with a stretched width to add a few inches on each side pushing the total width of the front track over all 6 inches wider than stock... Using a 4th gen rear and matching suspension in the rear with 1.25 spacers to match the front width. I'm running 295 30 18 r888 front and rear and I love them... As for sway bars I'm using the hotchkis big bar up front and an iroc rear bar. Splitter, spoiler, blown diffuser and hood Louvers also made from scratch
Morrow, great work on all your mods. We have all been looking for GOOD, WORKING examples of splitters and diffusers, and front suspension mods that would allow us to run wider tires up front and also give us add adjustability. It looks like you have developed some very marketable products for the 3rd gen community. If the quality is good and they are priced reasonably you could sell quite a few of your creations.
Morrow, great work on all your mods. We have all been looking for GOOD, WORKING examples of splitters and diffusers, and front suspension mods that would allow us to run wider tires up front and also give us add adjustability. It looks like you have developed some very marketable products for the 3rd gen community. If the quality is good and they are priced reasonably you could sell quite a few of your creations.
Dave
Thanks Dave . . . Currently I am building the hood lovers and wicket bill spoilers to sell.. The diffuser is still being tested but I am will to build and sell them.. As for the splitter.. That all depends on how many people are willing to spring for one, 1000 a peice with turnbuckles and upper weld in mounts... Each one is 32x68 inches 100%carbon fiber hollow core.. I'm not sure how well it would mount up to the 80's body graphics though due to it being molded to the 92
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Virtually everything on this car is made one off... The suspision is all built from scratch.. Including the coilover internals front and rear upper camber plates as well as the adoptable ride height strut to spindle mounts . Lower control arms are custom made with a stretched width to add a few inches on each side pushing the total width of the front track over all 6 inches wider than stock... Using a 4th gen rear and matching suspension in the rear with 1.25 spacers to match the front width. I'm running 295 30 18 r888 front and rear and I love them... As for sway bars I'm using the hotchkis big bar up front and an iroc rear bar. Splitter, spoiler, blown diffuser and hood Louvers also made from scratch
That is one of the coolest 3rd gens I have ever seen. Congrats on a fantastic car.
Not exactly sure how much we went back maybe 1 inch but the engine is also loerred about an inch too.
13.4 Corvette brakes up front
12.0 Wilwoods in the rear
800lbs and 200lbs springs
nascar style screw Jack's front and rear.
weight is about 2940 lbs full of fuel
Super T-10 4speed
3.00 final drive
275/40-17 Toyo R1Rs
Custom built LaJoie seat
More of an Autocross car but I'll contribute to an ancient thread.
Austin's Red Camaro was my inspiration for going racing in my 92.
I'll be ditching the 245 street tires for some 315s on all 4 corners spoon
That's cool. This car raced through Canada and into NY as well. It's sporting a 350 TPI with a modern Holley HP computer and upgraded electronics and other things. I'm plotting suspension and other upgrades but struggling with departing from its original racing heritage
04-16-2016, 11:28 AM
