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What are you going to build this time? I am doing a coupe this time, and am planning on a LSA in this one, unless I stumble across a LS9 at the right price.
Regards, John McGraw
John,
I am also building a 65 coupe, it's the one I have had for 3-4 years now. I currently have a LS7 for it, but am still looking at other options as well LS9 would be nice, but cost vs HP is not that impressive.
That was kind of what I was thinking as well. The extra premium for the LS9 is just too high for the additional HP gained. Even the LSA will probably fall by the wayside, unless I can find a nice pull-out. For less money than a LSA costs, I can take a LS3 and add a supercharger and get more HP.
John, what size 375 tire are you considering (diameter/profile) with the winters QC and 1" GTS quarters, thanks.
TD
Originally Posted by John McGraw
You can never go wrong with Mike building a chassis for you! He has built the last 2 chassis for me and will be building the one for my 65 coupe pretty soon. I am going to go inward on the wheelwells just like you, but am also going to be putting the GTS quarters on as well, for more tire.
If there is one thing I have learned on these cars, it that you can't ever get too much tire on one. I am shooting for 375 tires on the coupe.
I looked real hard at the Winters center section but after some conversations with the guy at Winters, I decided to go to a 9" Ford center section. The guy at Winters said that their rear end would take a lot of torque, but that it did not like shock loading very much. I am planning on drag racing the car with DOT slicks, so I opted for the 9".
Stingxray
How did you go with getting the B & J Narrow Quick change housing? Followed your posts over to race-dezert.com and looks like these units were slow to come through if at all. What did you end up going with?
Thanks
TD
Originally Posted by Stingxray
Great progress made and seen today. Mr. Stockdale sent photos of the frame..... thats now off the building jig. I went with C6 Suspension all the way around. Designed to fit within the stock 67 Quarter panels. B & J Narrow Quick change housing sent there for mock up. Ultimatly 8 inches wide at the CV flanges and can handle more torque than Winters best race unit.
Basically the QC has 10"ring 4.86 primary gearing, Porsche 934.5 CV flanged 40 spline all 300m. Looks like an Auburn gear style locker. Ujoint 1350 Mark Williams quick removel yoke. 8" flange-to-flange. The ring gear has two deflection bolts as I remember and new upgraded double lip outer seals. ( Can now be pressure washed without worry of water intrusion)
That sure is purty!
They did a nice job on polishing that QC I cheaped out and just had my Winter rear QC gear cover polished, but left the main housing as-cast.
12-06-2011, 07:29 PM
LS9 would be nice, but cost vs HP is not that impressive.
