Originally Posted by mariofromnewyork (Post 39394)

What are you doing Friday or Saturday night I need to stop buy and go shoping?

Mario

Originally Posted by Munch (Post 39395)

Damn, you don't mess around.:cheers:

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 39551)

Air pump assembly... in case anyone's wondering it injects air into the exhaust manifold at startup to allow the cats to fire off more quickly for cold start emissions. Worth about 15 lbs.
http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...6/DSCF4050.jpg

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 41295)

Thanks man.... whenever you're back in town come by and I'll trade you your pushrods for that 02-04 airbox lid :)

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 41921)

Was commenting on another forum that there were no cost-effective 2-piece rotors available for the fronts... well found some... so ordered a pair of these w/ spare rotor rings. Will keep the front rotors off the car as super last ditch track spares and return the NAPA fronts I allready purchased.

http://www.knsbrakes.com/core/item/i...ckSLR-5067.jpg

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 42239)

Installed some DEI heat shield on the tunnel plate and sides of the tunnel etc.

http://i39.photobucket.com/albums/e1...6/DSCF4141.jpg

Originally Posted by Munch (Post 42515)

Looking good. :cheers:

How much longer till it's on the track?

Originally Posted by Stormrider (Post 42521)

That tunnel plate looks familiar :leaving:

As usual, great write up :cheers:

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 6499770)

I'm setting this car up around an actual timetrials class and the corresponding wheel to wheel racing class. It's all based on power/weight ratio and then you have modification points you can "spend".

For TTA (timetrials class A) and the coresponding PTA race class (same modification rules as TTA, but actual wheel to wheel racing) A C5 Z06 Corvette can have a minimum competition weight of 3118lbs. Min comp weight is the weight of the car as it would come off track after a race. So that's with dirver and safety stuff and remaining fuel load.

Based on that I can have a minimum power/weight ratio of 8.7 lbs/power. 3118/358 = 8.71. The heavier I run the car the more power I can run.

Now on top of all of this stuff in the TTA class I can spend modification points. In this case I can spend 19 before I'd ahve to move up to the next class which is TTS which is where I ran the Panoz. In TTS there are no modification points... it's "anything goes" so long as you stay above 8.7lbs/horse. I've spent my 19 points as follows:

1. 7pts - C5 Z06 is docked 7 pts from the start for simply being what it is.
2. 9pts - Hoosier A6 tires 13pts, however since I'm running a smaller 275 all around I get 4pts back so it's actually 9pts. Running the smaller tire also allows me 0.4 back on the hp/weight ratio. So by running them I can be at 8.3 lbs/horse which is where I get the previously mentioned 370-375 max figure.
3. 2pts - T1 swaybars
4. 1pts - ATI Superdamper UD pulley/balancer
Total = 19

So I'm done.... that's why I'm running stock manifolds and a stock air intake w/ a drop-in filter etc. Everything else done to the car is a no-points mod. Updating to the 2004 spec shocks, '02-'04 spec H-pipe, '02-'04 spec air intake, fresh springs/oil pump/timing chain, etc. etc. are all "free" mods.

The nice thing about TTA vs. TTS is it controls cost. To compete in TTS I'd need coil-overs, a bit more power, and full aero.... another $10k in the car minimum.

Hope this helps some.... if you really want to learn more about it venture over to nasaforums.com • Index page and read up on it all.

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 43914)

Problem I'm now facing is ride height... I have the car lowered to the max w/ the stock adjusters and it's still riding really high.

Originally Posted by Toque (Post 43951)

Put on the C6 front bolts, and the longer rear bolts I gave you. :D

Looking great BTW ! :cheers:

Toque

Originally Posted by paulp (Post 43961)

congrats brian im sure your happy to have it drivable now, awesome build by the way. Finally seeing one of your build threads and how detailed they are shows me how much time and work went into my car. Keep up the good work!
:cheers:

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 44439)

Started stickering-up the car too[/IMG]

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 44450)

Hey when there's contingency money on the line you sort of have to have their stickers on the car :)

Originally Posted by Toque (Post 44460)

I'm thinking more along the lines of.....

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:lolsmile:

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 44477)

Just got the call from Virginia Speed.... 361 rwhp on whatever their idea of a "very conservative road racing tune" is. Dropped her off this AM as it ws the only appointment they had open for the past 1.5 weeks before this weekend's event.

Good thing I didn't put that CAI on the car.... I can't make more than 370 rwhp baed on mhy calculations : 3118/370 = 8.43.

Not bad for a darned near stock 2001 w/ almost 120k on her.

Originally Posted by Cobra4B (Post 44507)

Guys minimum competition weight is the car's weight just as it comes off track.... so the car + whatever fuel is left, plus you in the car. When you come off track you can't weight less than 3118lbs. So 2840 w/ about 1/2 tank plus me w/ my stuff on = 240 = 3080 which means I need to run a full tank to make weight. Figure 8 gallons of fuel to top it off @ 6.6 lbs per gallon = 46.2 lbs = 3126.2. So I'll probably need to add some ballast back to give myself a margin of error. The car really needs to be 3120 w/ 1/2 tank of gas.

Originally Posted by Garb55 (Post 44562)

Looks Good; have fun and be safe. Is the plate for show or is it still street legal?

Originally Posted by Munch (Post 48180)

Is that so they can gps you on the track or what?

Originally Posted by Munch (Post 48180)

Is that so they can gps you on the track or what?

Originally Posted by DropTheTop (Post 48222)

I think it's for lap times, but I could be wrong. :confused5: