TEAM PRODIGY Bull Run Rally Project

[Kenova]

No paddle shifters this time, truthfully I must have the original horse shoe shifter in her...to me its a big part of the chevelle.

Can you not have both?

Ken

[ProdigyCustoms]

Can you not have both?

Ken

Oh sure you can. In fact you still need some kind of shifter for a paddle shift set up to do Park, reverse, neutral, drive. But Ted likes to hold on to the shifter.

[team 68 chevelle]

I like to hold me shifter.......

[team 68 chevelle]

Update pics...26 days left.......In Frank we trust!!

[team 68 chevelle]

Update pics...26 days left.......In Frank we trust!!

updated pics

[tom_a]

That Chevelle looks lonely in there with all the F-Bodies . Gonna be nice. You got the right team that seems to work better under pressure.

[ProdigyCustoms]

So it has been a little while since I posted any updates. I had some family stuff come up that put me a bit behind so I have not had much time to update. We have been going pretty hard on Ted's Bull Run racer. With the race 10 days away now were in full on thrash mode. We had some killer parts show up and more coming in. Tomorrow we have something really special coming that was a 11th hour change...........for the better.

The newest and coolest product to debut on The bull Run Racer has come from air ride. That being their awesome new Titanium Series Street Challenge kit including the new remote reservoir shocks, with internal ride height sensors. Our kit also includes the new front splined sway bar kit. The Titanuim series Shockwaves and splined sway bar are upgrades available on the Street Challenge kit . The shocks are a work of art and should only improve a already killer suspension package, and the splined bar, well......................just wow!

We are happy to announce we are now number 9 in Moser sales and heading to number 8 in sales soon, so it is only fitting we would use one of Moser's double throw down, badd to the bone, 33 Spline Tru Track 12 bolts complete with Big Ford End and a Performance cover for good measure. Stuffed with 3.55 Gog's, this thing will have to be game on for whats coming at it! Were putting a little power in front of it, but not worried about the rear which is pretty much bullet proof.

Being Wilwood's biggest distributor in the Pro Touring market, it was obvious we would only use the best brakes. We did not go crazy and over do / over size the brakes. We used one of our most popular selling Prodigy Customs Total Car G Machine Brake Packages including 13" (6) piston front kit and a 12.2" (4) piston rear, along with a Wilwood Billet tandem master cylinder.

Tomorrow I will post up some more really cool parts.

In the meantime, this is some live action of where we are tonight. My hope is to start driving it Friday afternoon, make a quick 500 mile trip this weekend, see if anything falls off, LOL! Nut and bolt the car and send it on another 500 mile trip. The guys are all flipping over who gets to make those test runs. Sunday morning, EARLY, we plan to make a hard run in a special location, around 5:45 just before shift change, and do a little 33 mile sprint to see how she acts at speed for a few miles. Then Weds morning early, Lisa and I will drive the racer up to New York City to meet Ted (who will not have seen it finished yet) to get him re acquainted with the car a couple days before the race (I mean rally).

I have to thank my good customer Bill Hearder for the paint color. The color is amazing and I need to get it in the sun to capture the color. When Carter Hickman rendered the car, we had no idea what color it was, but we knew it was fantastic in the rendering and would be hard to duplicate. Bill called as soon as he saw the rendering and told me what the color was, a special PPG color he was using on his own beautiful GTO project. Thanks Bill, it is dead nuts on.

Enjoy the pics, as usual we have a lot to do and short time to do it. Our 11th hour change has a bit under the 8 ball. But when you see our 11th our change tomorrow, you will see why it was worth the added pressure.


Brand New Titanium shocks debut on the Bull Run Racer!


air ride going together


Badd Ass moser 33 spline 12 bolt, painted and ready to install


Color is simply awesome. 13" Wilwoods ain't bad either.





Ready for the motor.........soon, very soon!


And the view the other Bull Runner's will get! The Matte black just JUMPS of the super high metalic marron.

[Larry Callahan]

Freaking awesome!!!!!

[Motown 454]

OH SO SWEET !! They all look good but that last picture is killer. Very Nice... What a beautiful color and paint scheme.

[GHOSTDANCER]

Amazing work. The color is killer

[madmax]

Frank. Wow. WOW. Awesome work man. What else can I say. You guys have taste!!!

[team 68 chevelle]

Im calling it now...this will be the baddest ride in Bullrun 2009..massive thanks to Frank and the team..without it would not be half of what you see now.

[jy211]

Looking good. Getting any sleep? LOL

[wmhjr]

Hey, Frank! That color looks real familiar Actually, you've jumped ahead of me in terms of progress. I'm jealous!

Bill

[ProdigyCustoms]

OK, so yesterday I mentioned a very important HUGE 11th hour change to the Bull Run car. A while back we discovered Wegner Motorsports front drive system and became a dealer for their full product line including engines and accessories. We were talking with Wegner about running their really cool accessories drive on the Bull Run Racer. Wegner makes one of the coolest LSX front drive systems out there. A system designed to run high RPMs for extended periods of time. These front drive set ups are a smokin deal, priced like less expensive systems and built to the highest quality of the most expensive systems out there. We were ordering the front drive for the Bull Run Racer. So during the conversation about the front drive, the conversation about the project and what engine we are going to run came up.

Carl Wegner got on the phone and quizzed me on our set up and had some questions about the durability of the engine in a car racing 3000 miles across the country. Carl thought we should consider a little more motor then just a stock engine with a cam. Sure we could make some good power, but what would happen if the ring lands on factory Hypertectic pistons decided they were tired of running extended high RPMS? What if the stock crank got tired of 30 to 50 hours of abuse in a short period of time? And how are we going to hand some Lambo his ass with only 475HP to 500HP we were planning. Now if you don't know who Carl Wegner and Wegner Motorsports is, I will tell you. Carl has been building Nascar and endurance racing engines longer then most of us have been breathing. Carl is used to building engines that run 300 to 500 miles at wide open throttle. Carl knows about building engines that will survive in a endurance contest, and that is what Bull Run can be.

So when Carl speaks, I have listen. So next thing I know there is a motor being assembled in record time, and that motor is on a airplane heading to Florida. Stuffed with goodies, this engine is built with a lot of the same technology that goes into there Nascar Spec engines, except de tuned a bit. Compression has been lowered in case we get into some crappy low octane fuel. We are using a automatic transmission and big tight converter to control transmission heat at extended high RPM's, so a very mild camshaft was used to increase low end torque and bring the power range down a bit for more bottom end grunt. The motor still made 601HP and still turned 6900 RPM, but all that is done with technology learned from their Nascar program. So Wegner can make killer power without crazy compression and cam specs! There are tricks inside the motor I need to keep to myself, and more tricks I do not know. But let's just say there are a few exotic parts made of titanium inside, an some custom porting of this and that to help make 600HP with a little baby camshaft and mild compression less then 10:1.

We got our 415CI / 601HP beast today and had it in the car within minutes of unloading it off the Fed Ex truck. As we speak we are finished hooking up the wiring from our good friends at Street and Performance, and getting it ready to fire tomorrow. My celebrity tuner and great friend Mike Norris paid a visit today to look things over, and will save us yet again doing extended hours tomorrow night doing some base tuning before doing some full rear wheel dyno tuning over the weekend.

I cannot thank the guys at Wegner enough. They really have jumped through hoops and have over delivered in every way imaginable. This is a pretty big company with a lot going on and you would swear on our end this was the only thing they had to think about! I have done 100s of motors in 28 years of owning my own shop, and NEVER , EVER have I dealt with guys that were so concerned about our project, and what is best for our project. We have talked 10 times a day for the last couple weeks, Carl or Casey calling, "Frank, Ya know....I was thinking................" And every single thought, every single suggestion, is a good one.

Carl, Casey, and your entire team, you my friends are amazing!

Here is a little dyno video, the dyno sheet, and some pics getting installed.

Excited...............Oh man am I excited!


Michael unloads after a little cross country trip.


There it is, there it is! Pay no attention to the multi colored pulleys, all black are on the way. This was a dyno set to get us running quick. A easy swap of the pulley Monday.


A better shot of the awesomer front drive on another engine


1 hour after hitting the ground Michael and crew are locking it down


The dyno sheet is a impressive combination of low end torque, a stunning flat torque curve maintaining 480LBFT or more from the start of the run to peak HP, peaking at 525LBFT. And what a amazing peak HP curve maintining 585HP from 6000RPM, Peaking at 6600RPM to 6800RPM and maintaining 588HP though the 7200RPM cut of! Find a motor that does that!

Enjoy the video.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sUpiD4Gf-MU

Oh man this is going to be some kind of fun!

More to come tomorrow

[team 68 chevelle]

[QUOTE=team 68 chevelle;544021]Im calling it now...this will be the baddest ride in Bullrun 2009..massive thanks to Frank and the team..

[Johnny C.]

Awesome car. Can't wait to see how it does. Great build.

[Damn True]

The Matte/Maroon looks fantastic!

[Motown 454]

Beautiful engine. My favorite sound is a high winding sbc , Boy is that video music to my ears. Nice work mr Wegner .

[MrQuick]

he he he he slobber slobber he he he....that just makes me nutty.

so.....Frank....Prodigy Custom plug and run crate motors next?????