Bang!

[67HEAVEN]

Bob,

At least it wasn't the oil pan!

Rich Lagasse

Thank God*. Fortunately, the scattershield is quite a bit lower than the pan.

 

[Mac]

What have I been doing with my spare time? D-r-i-v-i-n-g, spending more time with my wife, and getting ready for some real estate projects.

You have spare time? How do you manage that?? sigh....

-Mac

ps: great video, Barry!

 

[JohnZ]

Thank God*. Fortunately, the scattershield is quite a bit lower than the pan.

I had the same issue with the Lakewood bellhousing on my Grand Sport; after snagging the bottom of the bolting flange (lightly) on a railroad crossing, I cut the entire flange off the bottom with a straight-across cut about 6" wide, and had no more problems. Also solved my trailer-loading problem; I had a beavertail floor in the trailer, but it still snagged on the rear edge of the beavertail until I cut off the flange. Never tried a speed bump, but it probably would have hit.

 

[BarryK]

ps: great video, Barry!

Mac, I love the part where the guy filming say's "I think he's scared" than the Z06 blows by them like they were in reverse!

 

[Mac]

Mac, I love the part where the guy filming say's "I think he's scared" than the Z06 blows by them like they were in reverse!

Exactly!! Funny how their tune changed.... :L

Unless my ear is gone completely, the guy in the Vette didn't push his engine even close to the redline... whereas the ricer was pinned... and losing...

-Mac

 

[BarryK]

last year at Carlisle I was parked at the very end of the '63-'67 registry and across from me there were a number of Lingenfelter Vettes. At noontime on Sat they took 1 minute and honored Chip Miller by everyone starting their motors and revving them than a moment of silence. During the revving, I couldn't even hear my car with side pipes revved up to about 4000 rpms because of a supercharged Lingenfelter right across from me - his whine from the supercharger was so loud it was unbelievable! The Z06 in the vid was less than 1/4 volume of that car at Carlisle so you are probably right - the guy in the Z06 was just playing with the ricer big time and wasn't showing any of his cars real potential. And why should he against a ricer!

 

[magicv8]

67heaven quote " If I had it to do again, I'd chose a rear gear ratio in the 2's rather than the 3.08:1. In first gear, the Richmond 5-speed causes me to hit 3,500 rpm at 20mph. And, even lower rpms at 85mph on the freeway would be nice -- approximately 3,000rpm right now."

Where do you get a gearset in the 2's to fit in the housing? I also use 3.08s in my diff but my 2.5:1 1st gear muncie winds higher in first with about the same rpm at 80.

PS I knew there was a reason these cars came with 5 inch ground clearance.