More Progress
While we had the car on the lift, Nick started fab work on the brake pedal mount , pedal and linkage. Tying the factory master cylinder support into the dash bar of the cage to add support to the firewall in that area. We settled on a 6.5:1 pedal ratio as Aerospace components (front and rear calipers) recommends 7:1 and Strange (master cylinder) recommends 6:1 Finalized front motor plate machining. Once on the ground, Nick finalized the steering shaft and began work on the "race exhaust" portion of the hot side. Can you guess where the exhaust will exit? Nick is fabricating stainless steel replicas of the fender air extractors where the 4" pipe will exit when in a race configuration. For the street, the exhaust will tie into a 3" oval exhaust system ending in traditional splitters. Stay tuned.
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1964 GTO
501, Edelbrock Heads NA, 3460 lbs.
9.76 @ 137mph
1971 Trans Am Lucy Blue, 11.56 @ 115
1966 LeMans. 462, SD prepped Kaufman D ports. 11.90 @ 112
1976 Trans Am twin turbo 462, SD Edelbrock heads 8.50@159
2009 G8 GT
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