Getting ready for Bonneville(rebuild)

[revolutionary]

It's been too quiet over here. What's going on? You guys racing this year?

[jl222]

It's been too quiet over here. What's going on? You guys racing this year?

   We held off on El Mirage as Linda has been having radiation treatments since December and I need to be with her.

   Not making Bville either but hopefully Nov. El Mirage.

                         JL222

[desotoman]

John and Troy,

Sorry to hear about Linda. Thoughts and prayers for her.

Tom G.

[revolutionary]

Sorry to hear that. Best wishes and thoughts going out to yall

[bvillercr]

Looks like my photos are back up:)

[bvillercr]

Desoto and Rev, thanks for the well wishes it's a tough time right now.

[bvillercr]

Some future plans discussed tonight: before we race again we need to pull the engine and replace all of the sleeves and pistons, pull the water tanks out and modify the tin underneath to creat more space for the panhard bar, replace rear brake system.  Hopefully we will race again next May!

[jl222]

Some future plans discussed tonight: before we race again we need to pull the engine and replace all of the sleeves and pistons, pull the water tanks out and modify the tin underneath to creat more space for the panhard bar, replace rear brake system.  Hopefully we will race again next May!

 Maybe Nov? We got away from our original chassis tune because the sheet metal on the chassis was bottoming out on the panhard bar. there's adjustments on the shock mounts so we moved the shocks up + the spring platforms. this changed the set up to much + made the car to stiff. So by cutting the sheet metal to make space for the panhard bar we can get back to the original setup.

                  JL222

[jl222]

Every few pages I like to put up videos of our runs so if people want to find them they can locate them a little easier.  These are some of our better videos.

     These are in 2008

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mHUEA-pScY8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Udo7XM472Qk

                 2009

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=55XA0vrNNj0

                 2010

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yxkEtJ1b6AI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kLG0JFzazrs

More from the past

            JL222

  Rob...here's the videos. The 1st one is El Mirage, car hooks up and goes 152 mph in 10.2 sec. Then track turns bad which you can see from other video.

  Another year already

  The second video shows the in car view of the 1st video, you can see the throttle on left of hood and how busy Troy's
hands are steering back and forth, saving a spin.
  Makes me think that faster steering would help.
 
  Hurry up EL NINO and flood the lakebed, so the 222 Camaro could make a full pass 8-)

           JL222

I like to watch these videos, gets me inthused

                   JL222

[jl222]

The last two videos are the last until Monday where we will take some more.  

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Bcx2F6v4jog

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DFcpyvs5na4

Dyno results, more about dyno pulls around pgs 80-85 there abouts

[lvsalt]

 

[jl222]

  Troy came out today and we worked on installing new  hat, rotor and caliper on left rear. Of course it didn't just bolt right up.

  Housing ends must not have been welded  in the exact spot and a bit angled. So not parallel with rotor. caliper would not install without grinding down mounting pads on caliper. Almost got it just a few more thou of shaving. Plenty of metal left.

  Hope other side goes better.

              JL222

[bvillercr]

A few years back we noticed the panhard bar hitting the tin above it on the car, so we changed the shock position to help with clearance.  Ever since the car seemed to not handle as well.









The last photo with the panhard sticking through is an over exaggeration of how far it will come up, but you get the idea.

[jl222]

  The intercooler water tank sits above the cut out tin, so we need to cut out the bottom of tank to match. Thinking about using Flex Seal.

  Clean up tin and repaint.

 Also found out why rotors were rubbing on disk brakes. Ford 9'' Axle slipping on bearing

  JL222

         

[Peter Jack]

I always tig tack the retaining ring. It's an old oval track trick.

Pete