1SC Stripper Build by Heyfred

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Have not ran the car since the videos. Been waiting for parts.

The seat felt as if the back was flexing on the hard lauches, so I upgrade the seat. Just finished the install.

Was going to upgrade to a vaccum pump system. After talking to the manufacturer rep, it would not benifit me at this time with engine I am currently running . So, I did what I think is best for my current set-up.

Fittings should be here this week to finish the install.

9/13/2011

Have been working away getting the little things done.

Switched the passenger LS1 valve cover to LY6 valve cover, which only has 1breather tube. LS1 has 2 breather tubes.

Front control arm shock mount. Prep for limiters.

Front limiters.

Moved instant center. 

Car now wants to lift and go forward like a frog. I need to get to the track where I can get some real traction.

9/25/2011

Ran the car at Bremerton, was a test and tune night. Made adjustments on the car and was able to see how it reacted. Last pass was my best the car has done. 11.905.

Think I am going to have to go to a 15x28 tire. Need more side wall so I can soften the hit on the tires.

I have put 1500 miles on the car. You could drive this thing cross country comfortably, freeway gas mileage, 24mpg!

9/30/2011

Heading to the track tonight.

Checked to see if my oil was low. Before the PCV upgrade, I was approximatly 1/2 qt low after a night at the strip. After up grade, oil still on the full mark and no oil drained out of thecatch cans.

Made some chassis adjustments, hoping to get my 60' down.

10/11/2011

Spent the night at the track tuning for low traction conditions. Every pass, a change was made to see how the car reacted.

60' were all over.

Here are the R/T using the left lane the entire night, in order.

.305

.077

-.015

-.069

.280

.064

.064

.091

.140

-.072

.037

The next pass.

It happened.

Tuning with short side wall tires is a real eye opener.

Looking forward to 275/60/15 tires. Time to start saving.

10/1/2011

Thank you Heidi and Shawn (wws699) for the Breakin It vidieo. Heidi was in the stands filming.

In the video, the starter helped me stage. I was searching all night for traction.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkz1Q...layer_embedded

The one thing I noticed in the video, was how level the car left. The front limiters set with 3" of travel and the rear with 75% anti-squat. From my calculations, from a drawing I created in Solidworks (3d modeling program), I needed 2" of rise in the front. I didn't hit the limiters.

Afterwards, the starter came up to me and said, the previous weekend the same thing happen to one other car. 

Heidi and Shawn, thank you again for the video.

12/18/2011

The car is getting some changes, tires, wheels, brakes, rearend and some sheetmetal work.

Here is some of the sheetmetal work getting done. The torque is difficult to adjust for pinion angle.

Thought I had some 20ga sheetmetal and it turned out being a sheet of aluminum. So, I did the next best thing.

12/19/2011

Made some headway today. First thing, went and bought a sheet of 20ga. sheetmetal.

Came up with some ways to eliminate some welding. Formed the floor pieces up as one.

Before:

After:

Removable tunnel:

Next will be tacking the floor panels into place,getting some duz fasterners and mounting the removable tunnel. 

Then, remove the rearend and fabricate a 1" flange around the cutout above the rearend so the tunnel has something to seal against.