25.3 Outlaw Drag Radial Camaro Build by Eddie Krawiec

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I have a few things but have not had a whole lot of time. Quite a few things are finished up and honestly I haven't had a chance to post some of it. As mentioned I was going to get the car (Feb 15th) 2 weeks ago and all my travel got screwed by weather. Someone actually drove my truck out and was on the way to DMC and my flights got cancelled. The bad weather was for that whole week since that storm traveled east and they couldn't get me onto a flight until the following Thursday. I couldn't leave town this past weekend so I was kind of stuck on what I could do. As of now my truck is in NJ and I have to set plans to head out and pick it up and bring the car back. My only issue now is I head out next weekend to go testing and then off to the Gainesville NHRA race the following weekend. So I'm going to be out for the next 2 weeks as of now.

The car is really close at this time. It needs a few small things buttoned up, some paint work and fired up and a base tune done. Now hopefully during the time I can't get it Dennis and the guys at DMC can get the paint on it and maybe even have a chance to get it on the dyno. We will see. As of right now it is at DMC until I can get some time and get back up to get it. It looks to be in the later part of March.

Well anyway here are some of the update pictures.

Eric at MidWest Chassis built all the suspension stuff and finished up the rear housing for the car. As always Eric & the guy at MWC make some really nice proven products. Here is a few pictures of it in the works.





MWC Tig welds the housing resulting in a much nicer finish than a mig'ed housing



Talked about packing your product nicely



With the housing bolted into the car we were able to get in onto the ground to see how the car will sit. Here is it on the ground for the first time.









Well that is what I have for right now and hopefully I can get some more pictures on progress from DMC. Once I have them I will be sure to post them. Hopefully I can have this thing running and at a track early spring. If all works out well on my end I do plan on hitting the May NMCA Chicago event. I have my fingers crossed.

Thanks

3-20-2014

Sorry man. I have been quite busy the last 2 weeks with racing etc... I hope to have a few updates in the next week to post. I just need all the pictures of it going back together 100% and final things getting finished up.

The top of the wing was made by Joe Van O. We used just the top and not the side spill plates supplied. DMC racing did all the install & made the side spill plates to match the car and the look we were going for. The plates that came with the wing were flat carbon and I wanted the sides to follow the bodylines and curve of the car so they were made from aluminum. Dennis did a killer on it and I'm really happy with the way it came out. Here are a few pictures.

4-6-2014

So I got a few updates.

I know some were asking about the rear suspension & underside of the car so that is what I'm going to post today. The first thing was to get the whole underside clear of everything and to start with a clean slate.



So the rear lower control arm mounts are not really reinforced very well on the F Body cars. DMC Racing wanted something that was built into the frame support so Dennis did a little fab work. First he took some measurements and then removed the stock one



Next thing was to fab up a plate and put some solid mounting point under it



In the end the mounting point was tied into some structure and our fabed up mounting plate had a few extra holes.



The Midwest Chassis Torque Arm uses a swinging style front mount rather than a slide mount in the tube. One of the things that this does is minimize the chance of any type of binding. DMC made a mount on the crossmember to bolt the whole set up to. Here is what it looked like when finished



The final thing to get finished up was on the rear end. Dennis wanted to keep things tracking straight by using a wishbone in the back. He cut and welded some tubes up and it ended up looking like this



Here is a shot of the bottom side from the front to the back



Next up the painting of the underside