Making some good use out of a pair of old 10 spokes. I figure these will hit the lugs a little softer then the radial giving the lugs a chance to survive plus they are sticky as hell so traction shouldnt be a fight like it was with the 18s. This is a Hoosier full slick 28x10x17.

 

yes there sharp rims from an ss ,guy has 3 of them for sale in 4th gen wheel tires ,like I said to him ,I would buy them as replacements ,over time the front ones where out faster then the rear ones ,may get them cheap,i like the tires they look great how good are they on the highway

 

Kill mode!

 

need some 370 or 390 gears for the rear. you need to retorque the lugs after a while when they are new. wonder if that had something to do with it. i had a rear come off on the streets one night, rear jumped up a couple feet. i think some idiot losened the lug nuts at the party... anyways torque them down at 90-100 ft lbs and do it again after a days driving. that is unless you feel a vibration,,, lol, you are so lucky.

 

Rear has 373s in it now. The lugs werent new, they were well seasoned....couple years old.

 

Delay from technical difficulties.

I took off work for the race saturday, I had everything ready on the car. Car was washed, truck and trailer were washed and loaded.....and the weather just wouldn't cooperate. Friday night all cleaned up we sat in the garage hoping things would clear for the race the next morning....



They decided to postpone the race till the afternoon and around lunchtime when we thought the weather was going to break we headed to the track. That didn't work out and we ended up coming home dripping wet and the race postponed.



Around midnight the weather finally got moving and they had a fresh water logged track to prep for an early AM race day.



Sunday morning the weather was fantastic, temp in the 60s, and DA ranged from negative 400 or so to around 500 last time I checked.



Couple of random staging lane pics:







Fastest pass of the day, but I only ran 3 times. It went .08, .09, .08 in that order.









And finally some go pro footage:

I'm at 3:25 on XXX Motorsports footage:

 

wow good stuff those rear tires helped alot I am sure,left them in the dust ? so you raced another 4gen ls1 an a gto sounds great,looks like some of the less experienced drivers just lost out ,but that was cool ,makes me re think my position on raceing ,the track is the way to go ,safer I think then street raceing? are you running a glass pack style muffler full bore ,I have single chamber since putting true duals ,an blew the chamber so now I need to run a full bore of some kind ,I was thinking magnaflow wich I have now ,an will trade them for the full or glass pack ,one good thing is they have life time warranty

 

Buried up in the pics somewhere is the muffler. Its a 4 inch Dynomax bullet.

 

So I figured while I was doing a gear swap I'd freshen up a little bit. I've always hated the fact that I spray painted the rear end in this car. Money was tight when I ordered it so saving money was important, now I can go back and undue that mistake. So ordered up some Richmond 4.10s. Gonna hold onto the Motive 3.73s for now, they may end up going back in one day.



Got it pulled and hung up for full disassembly.



And off to the powder coat shop!



Going more low key this go round, went with gloss black.



And that little custom touch that makes it your own and unique.



Been running a turn down for a while. I'm not about that life anymore. So I extended the 4" all the way out the back with a little heat wrap to help the gas tank.



All that hard work, lets relax by the BBQ grill with some LSX buddies.



Should have it reassembled this week, a few tuning tweaks, and off to the track March 11th weather permitting of course.

 

woh,,, all that food,,, how much help you got,,,