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Old 05-15-2015, 03:59 AM
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Originally Posted by Is2scooby
I believe there was a Starkweather Camaro SS at Sacramento Raceway Park last night that ran 10.90's @ 127mph on 20" drag radials. Bad to the bone!

Made my 11.40 @ 127 seem sad in comparison! :-/
I didn't know you were out there. Looks like your getting your time down pretty consistently now.
Old 05-15-2015, 08:55 AM
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Originally Posted by Is2scooby
I believe there was a Starkweather Camaro SS at Sacramento Raceway Park last night that ran 10.90's @ 127mph on 20" drag radials. Bad to the bone!

Made my 11.40 @ 127 seem sad in comparison! :-/
Yes, Starkweather does a lot of Camaros. He does a lot of blower installs using the factory GM OE parts. He has guys coming to his shop from all over the West Coast. Twice when I was in his shop I have seen cars from out of state there having work done and being tuned. I was there Wednesday at his shop he had a guy there that just drove down from Seattle just to have a supercharger kit installed. His own Camaro ZL1 puts down 1378hp to the ground. All I can say is workmanship is impressive.
Old 05-16-2015, 05:16 PM
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Originally Posted by Kouasupra
I didn't know you were out there. Looks like your getting your time down pretty consistently now.
Ku, yep! I'm having a really bad wheel hop problem during my burnouts now though, so I don't even get any heat in the tires so I'm slipping and sliding all over the place.

Gonna see what I can do to rectify that before I get out to the track again.

Did you see the yellow C7 Z06 out there?

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Originally Posted by SPEEDEMON
Yes, Starkweather does a lot of Camaros. He does a lot of blower installs using the factory GM OE parts. He has guys coming to his shop from all over the West Coast. Twice when I was in his shop I have seen cars from out of state there having work done and being tuned. I was there Wednesday at his shop he had a guy there that just drove down from Seattle just to have a supercharger kit installed. His own Camaro ZL1 puts down 1378hp to the ground. All I can say is workmanship is impressive.
Now that's POWER!
Old 05-16-2015, 09:22 PM
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Originally Posted by Is2scooby
Ku, yep! I'm having a really bad wheel hop problem during my burnouts now though, so I don't even get any heat in the tires so I'm slipping and sliding all over the place.

Gonna see what I can to rectify that before I get out to the track again.

Did you see the yellow C7 Z06 out there?
I didn't get a chance to get out there again. So I didn't see any C7 Z06. BTW what did the C7Z run?

For myself, after I install the DRM Bilstein shocks I reduce my wheel hop quite a bit. Just a suggestion.
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Originally Posted by Kouasupra
I didn't get a chance to get out there again. So I didn't see any C7 Z06. BTW what did the C7Z run?

For myself, after I install the DRM Bilstein shocks I reduce my wheel hop quite a bit. Just a suggestion.
Ah, gotcha. It was surprisingly not very crowded considering there was a super jackpot going on for the bracket racers.

The C7Z got there late and had paper plates so I'm sure the gentleman was still learning his car and is going to be ripping it up soon, but it was traction limited that night to ~12.5 @ 120mph.

Thanks for the tip on the DRM Bilsteins! I think I'm going to replace my trans/diff mounts with Hinson polyurethane units and see if that helps. Shocks will be next on my list if I still have a problem. The last thing I want to do is race the car when it's wheel hopping and risk my axles/diff/etc.

Regards, Rich

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Old 05-17-2015, 09:31 AM
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Originally Posted by Is2scooby
Now that's POWER!
We'll have some kind of get together at Starkweather's Performance later this year. You should plan putting this on your schedule once we get a date.
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Anyone from the Sac area planning on going to this next Saturday?
Old 12-08-2015, 12:12 AM
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Originally Posted by Yellow1980



Anyone from the Sac area planning on going to this next Saturday?
same time as the Santa Parade in Sacramento and JFC will be in the parade.






Don't remember if I ever checked in to this thread before or not but EG here
Old 12-08-2015, 06:12 PM
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I'm off at 2 on sat, looking for something after

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Old 12-08-2015, 08:48 PM
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Too bad I didn't know about this sooner. I am out here in Woodland. Just made plans for Saturday. Would have been nice to take the corvette out.

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Anyone from the Sac area planning on going to this next Saturday?
Old 12-15-2015, 10:01 PM
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San Jose checking in!
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San Mateo here.

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Originally Posted by vetterdstr
San Jose checking in!
Honestly I'm not a big fan of white Corvettes but yours does look beautiful!
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Originally Posted by wolf10851
Honestly I'm not a big fan of white Corvettes but yours does look beautiful!
Thanks!
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Rocklin/Roseville CA checking in!

Just picked up my 04 Z16 a few weeks ago

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Originally Posted by ddawson
San Mateo here.

Badass Corvette
Old 12-25-2015, 10:04 AM
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I'm thinking about heading to next week's Cars & Coffee in Blackhawk, any of you guys interested on going:

http://www.blackhawkmuseum.org/#0931003

https://www.facebook.com/events/735669139867186/
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Anything this weekend?


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