[GaryK]

Randy- I see from your sig that you run ITE with your Camaro. I'm just curious what all you've done to it. I don't see many fbods roadracing out here with NASA. There are of course more running with SCCA, but I've mostly been to NASA events so I don't get to see much of them. Its interesting to see what others are doing.

One thing in particular I'm wondering about is your front air dam, which I can see in your avatar. When I get done with everything else, I was going to look at building either a removable splitter or an air dam for the nose.

[rmackintosh]

Well, I can tell you anything you want about my car. I have about 180 pics of it being built from a car I bought on eBay in Kansas for $3500 and had shipped out to California a little over a year ago. The pics are not online (one of these days), but I can email anyone who wants pics of most of the car....gimme a specific area you want to look at. I will give the short story here:

I spent most of the initial build building a car that was structurally built as well as I could at the time. Assisting me was a fabricator who has spent 30+ years in the race car fabrication business building everything from Trans-Am/GT-1 cars to IT cars for the SCCA and other clubs. The roll cage is a work of art....much along the lines of a World Challenge car...looking at Gary's pics of Lou's car....I see a lot of the same principles...except it is all brand new! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif) I removed as much weight as I could...including all the front/rear bumper supports, extra sheet metal, brackets, etc. and fabricated new bumpers/supports out of roll bar tubing and square stock. The interior is gutted with the stock dash....plastic shell only....replaced with a set of fully mechanical Autometer guages fabbed into the dash. I got out the grinder and ground off EVERY seat belt bracket or other metal that is now unused in the car that came from the factory. The suspension is Ground Control...wanted LG, but couldn't afford to buy the adjustable shocks with the system so went with Ground Control/Koni....to get full adjustability. Went 32mm/Unbalanced Engineering 19mm swaybars...I LIKE adjustability. Springs 650/175. I don't have much time in the car but I believe that I will want it a lot stiffer in the future....I come from racing a SUPER STIFF Datsun 510 for years. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/rolleyes.gif) So stiffer springs/bars may be coming as the budget allows. The drivetrain was left stock except for the bolt ons, Dynatech headers, X-pipe dumped before the diff, 3.73's, and a T2R for budget reasons. Some of that was replaced due to breakage this year....new Griffen Race Radiator, new Spicer/custom aluminum driveshaft, used LG set up 5.5 Quartermaster triple disc going in, and I am rebuilding a 4 bolt main Vette motor with a ZZ4 forged crank, CC 227/233XL Cam, and some REAL NICE TPiS heads.....looking to touch 400rwhp with the light clutch! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)

Given my budget concerns and the fact that I did NOT want to overbuild the car for the ITE folks around here....did NOT want to get protested first time out....there is plenty I will be doing in the coming years to upgrade to include:

Fuel Cell/System
Roll Cage through firewall to shock towers
Random Tech/LG torque arm
Tube Rear Control Arms
Tube Front Lower Control Arms
LG front crossmember (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
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Too many parts, too little time...WAY too little money!

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