Mark's LS2 2nd Gen Camaro build by Marktainium

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Video from the road course.

It's only 1 lap, not a fast lap, but cool anyway. The speedometer is in MPH, at 12 o'clock is 80mph and the fastest it reads in this lap (at the end on the front straight) is 120mph.
I was driving cautiously as it was a kind of shakedown day for the car. The Saleen guy came up to me in the pits later, looked under the hood, then looked at me and said "Oh..." (that explains it). His car 'was' the fast car there...
http://contour.com/stories/mission-r...x&height=540px

9/25/2011

A member was asking me about my hood latch...

Hood latch mod.

It's from pre-turbo, but I think you get the idea. I got the latch from a hot rod supply shop.

6/27/2012

These are the parameters I used to get my fans to work with my E38 ecm.
Operating system 12614676. From the 2 fan outputs from the ecm, using standard relays, on/off on each fan. (we'll call them the low temp fan and high temp fan)

Hope this helps...

8/12/2012

Well, if my tires arrive in time, and fit, then August 17th, 2012 I will be running my car down the 1/4 mile. I ordered a pair of 285/40-18 Nitto NT05r drag radials for it. I've never tried to launch my car before so it should be interesting. I'm thinking I may try starting out in 2nd gear as 1st gear is really low and I don't imagine I'll get much traction. Any tips or suggestions out there? Anyone want to guess my et? Mission raceway friday night street legals. Should get there around 6pm.

8/18/2012

August 17th. Mission Drags Race 1. Everyone always asks me "what does it do in the 1/4?" Now I know. 11.304 @ 133.45mph. I've never drag raced the car before or even done a burnout. (not from a standing start anyway) I've always rolled out slow then got on the gas in higher gears as the tires always break lose anyway. So my burnout was a total fail. For the record the teperature at the track was around 30c (86f) and the humidity was very high. My tires were brand new Nitto NT05r's at 18 psi (285/40-18) running 15 psi boost.
I got some last minute coaching from another driver while in pre-grid ( thanks Ivan in the Black procharged TA ) and was super nervous. It was fun though and although my transmission is noisier than before nothing broke and I drove it home. Sounds Like a win to me!

Here's the on board video... so embarrassing...

http://contour.com/stories/august-17...n-drags-race-1

4/25/2013

I've been driving the Camaro pretty much every sunny day and my transmission sounds like it's going to blow up soon. Anyone reading this thread have any personal experience on T56 upgrades?

5/31/2013

It's true... I'm looking into a sequential... That MTI unit looks good but so far no pricing and it's corvette only... The quaife is do-able, over $12k though, so I need to sell some of my other toys to pay for it...

6/12/2013

It's been a while since I did any work on my car and I felt like it was time for some upgrades....soooooooo.....

New Cam as spec'd by Martin at Tick Performance, and an Aquamist HFS4 as spec'd by me. I'm gonna go for broke and see what happens when I use all the boost I can muster!!

Spencer approved!!! (woof)

Wow! It took me over 3 hours just to clean the garage to be able to put my car back into it! Should start on the cam tomorrow night.

6/16/2013

I used the 5/16 dowel trick to hold up the lifters and yes, it works!

There was just enough room to get the cam out without removing my intercoolers.

The cam is in, drove it around the block but no real test yet. The computer still needs to do some more self tuning. Sounds good though...

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