SRD art
10-27-2012, 08:08 PM
Life has been incredibly busy since we arrived in GA about 2 months ago, and a car related break was big time in order. Last night our shop manager, my 14 year old son, and I took a 4 hour road trip up to NC to Detroit Speed's open house. I wish I could explain how inspiring being in their shop was. So inspiring I snuck away with my son and a camera today in a warehouse district to finally try to get an idea of how my suspension is working, the action starts around 0:10 sec into the vid...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXXKL44XX8o&feature=plcp
At this point it was obvious the factory 7.5" open rear is a limiting factor, hard to see what kind of stick the car has when the right tire is frying. One thing I see in the vids is that the car seems to hold a fairly level stance when cornering. I really need to get starting on building my 9" so I can try to keep the tires gripping and pull some hard corners. Since we couldn't get traction I decided to just play a little and warm up the tire a bit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PomV7g_Mg&feature=plcp
Too bad the camera missed the first part of this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIM8aJPhTHo&feature=plcp
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PomV7g_Mg&feature=plcp)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iXXKL44XX8o&feature=plcp
At this point it was obvious the factory 7.5" open rear is a limiting factor, hard to see what kind of stick the car has when the right tire is frying. One thing I see in the vids is that the car seems to hold a fairly level stance when cornering. I really need to get starting on building my 9" so I can try to keep the tires gripping and pull some hard corners. Since we couldn't get traction I decided to just play a little and warm up the tire a bit...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PomV7g_Mg&feature=plcp
Too bad the camera missed the first part of this one...
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gIM8aJPhTHo&feature=plcp
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_PomV7g_Mg&feature=plcp)