Project: LS1 Chevette

[mk-Zero]

10s... congrats man!

[romulus22]

Thanks guys. Here's a few more picture of the car from the night. Up next is getting it on an alignment rack and hope it makes it a little more stable. I wish I had an onboard camera to capture how much the car skates the lane.

Right before I realized I was in the street tires lane. I was about to embarrass some people.

[romulus22]

Not much progress to update. My new best is a 10.41 though. Friend took a cool video so I thought id share. Looks like I have a little more in it I just need to get it to hook a little better still.

[n20capri]

Awesome! Car rips!

[SLIDER]

Ive been following this build/thread for a long time! I was just watching Hoonigan Bonus on YouTube and I saw a Chevette and I was like I KNOW THAT CAR! Sure enough it was you man! Car looks good! Dont ever paint it, it looks so good with those wheels! Keep posting updates, I check for them about once a week!

Here is the link to the vid:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IF8TbGG-t0o

[DaveM]

Go to 10 mins : 30 seconds.

[romulus22]

I haven’t had much to update recently. I’ve done a little shock tuning and lowered my 60’ slightly but still haven’t beat my personal best. LS fest was fun but very busy and I’ve heard from many people the track was lacking the grip I was hoping it’d have. I only got two runs in cause I was only able to be there on Saturday. My best being a 10.46.

It was super cool to meet Larry Chen in person. I’ve been watching Hoonigan for a while and have seen a lot of his work on Speedhunters. The guy take some amazing pictures. I felt honored he flagged me down. Im hoping I can contact him and get some full size files so I can turn one into a poster for my wall lol

Here’s a few pictures a friend pulled from 1320 videos Facebook for me. This was my first run, racing and beating, lol, a whatever gen new bodystyle procharged Camaro. The grainy picture is a screenshot from a video a friends wife took.

[romulus22]

Good weather is here. Pulled the Chevette out for a small race last Friday. Set a bunch of new personal best with the best being a 10.29 @ 129mph. Here’s a short video of the final and me going .003 red on the light and taking myself out of the race.

[RC10th]

Very cool, impressive for a "low budget" built car....

[romulus22]

Very cool, impressive for a "low budget" built car....

It’s low budget compared to the nicer cars it was beating that night. But someone could definitely build the same car for much cheaper using much cheaper parts. In that aspect I wouldn’t really call it low budget.

[Hcp22]

Looking good!

[KidAgain]

Damn dude that is awesome I thought my 1200hp 70 camaro was badass I want your car.

[romulus22]

Damn dude that is awesome I thought my 1200hp 70 camaro was badass I want your car.

Hahaha, I don’t know if I’d go as far as to say it’s as awesome as a 1200hp Camaro. But it’s fun for what it is. Thanks man.

[romulus22]

I don’t have New any updates. And haven't even done much driving with this car in a while. I was just going through my photo album and realized I found some pictures online of that event I went to.

The class I entered was street stock. Rules were factory power adders only or slightly larger turbos on 4cyl cars. Street tires and no trans brake. So I was foot braking the car that night. I bought a set of 225 radials just for this class.

Loaded up my portable air tank and drove the hour drive to the track

The car still pops the wheels up on a little radial leaving on the foot brake.

I thought this was pretty funny. The event organizers is the shop who installed my cage. Super friendly guys and they are friends with another shop who brought out their Dodge Demon. I can’t remember which round I went up against them but they couldn’t resist razzing those guys about losing to my car

I’ve got big plans for this car. Just a waiting game at this point.

Anyways. Pointless update post, not much else for me to share on this site so I thought I’d post that little bit about this car.

[Diamond Dave]

Not pointless, great post!

The future looks bright man!