10/15/2011

70 NOVA








BODY:
Paint and body is of very high quality, Goodmark cowl induction hood.

IINTERIOR:
Original style buckets, and backseat covered in ultra leather. Front seats have added bolster support.  Bucks have new back and sides. New carpet, dash pad, door weather-stripping, window fuzzies, and rear window channels.  CD player in the glove box. Car has been totally re-wired using modern plug type fuse box. Stewart Warner performance gauges.
ENGINE/TRANSMISSION:
All new/rebuilt 383. Scat series 9000 crank, Scat I-bean 7/16” rods, Probe forged pistons, all balanced. RHS 200cc aluminum cylinder heads. Clay Smith Hydraulic roller cam, and Crane full roller rockers. Hooker ceramic coated Super Comp headers. Edelbrock Performer RPM intake and carb. Aluminum water pump and radiator, and never runs hot. Engine runs VERY strong, with no hesitations. Transmission is a T-56 from a’97 Camaro, works flawlessly. Transmission was installed using an ATS kit. New driveshaft and u-joints. New gas tank, straps and sending unit.
SUSPENSION:
Front sub-frame was pulled, blasted, and painted semi-gloss black. Guldstrand a-arm relocation modification. All new Moog wearable suspension pieces. Hotckis springs, and front sway bar. Bilstein shocks, give this car an excellent ride, while handling is very impressive. Detroit Speed and Engineering sub-frame connectors. Quick ratio power steering. Rear end has 4.11 posi, it was removed, blasted and painted base/clear.
BRAKES:
Front brakes are 13” rotors and C4 Corvette PBR calipers. Rear are 12” rotors, and PBR calipers. Brake set up is exactly the same as a Baer “track” system.
WHEELS/TIRES:
Wheels are 18x7 and 18x8 Budnik “Gassers.” The hoop is polished, while the spokes are satin. Tires are Nitto 555’s, 235/40 front, and 275/40 rears.

OWNER :
Serge/ LENS


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10/11/2011

ELEANOR MUSTANG








WHEELS:
- Boyd Coddington Smoothie's wheels
Front: 19 inch
Rear: 19 inch
BRAKES:
- Wilwood 14 inch disk brakes (front and rear)
SUSPENSION:
- Heidts II suspension kit (front and rear)
- Ford 9 inch with limited slip
ENGINE:
- Roush 427 engine
- Tremec 6 speed with hydraulic clutch
OTHERS:
- Rack and pinion
- Eleanor bodykit
- Flaming River steering column
- Cobra misona carbon seats
- Deleted rear seat with extra wheel
- Ringbrothers exhaust tips
- Ringbrothers electronic touch start
- Ringbrothers hood hinges
- Autometer cauges
- Ringbrothers scoops
- Flowmaster 44's series exhaust
OWNER:
Mathias/near BRUGES

57 BEL AIR





WHEELS:
- Forgeline wheels 19 inch
Front: 9 inch
Rear: 10 inch
- Toyo tires
BRAKES:
- Wilwood 6 piston brakes
Front 14 inch
Rear 13 inch
ENGINE:
- ZZ502 engine with Hillborn fuel injection system
- Richmond 5 speed with hydraulic clutch
- custom Ceramic coated heaters
- Flowmaster 44's series exhaust system
- Ford 9 inch with limited slip
SUSPENSION:
- Airride shockwave front & rear
- Airride sway bars front & rear
OTHERS:
- Rack and pinion
- Flaming River Steering column
- Hurst shifter
- Dakota digital cauges and console
- Custom interior
- Ringbrothers door handles
- Ringbrothers hood hinges

OWNER:
Mathias/near BRUGES

10/10/2011

1972 BUICK SKYLARK (under construction)




Car is Under construction


Engine:
V8 350ci,
-bored 0.30,
-TA Performance high volume oil pump and regulator,
-mild ported heads,
-Scott Brown cam

-TA intake,
-TA headers ceramic coated,
- 2,5" Flowmaster exhaust with Super 40 mufflers,
-MSD billet distributor with 6AL moul and MSD coil, BTM.
-TA (Ron Davis) radiator with dual 16" fans,
-ATI Procharger + Intercooler

-Quick Fuel blown through 650 carb
-Aeromotive fuel pump.

Wheels:
American Racing Salt Flat Painted/polished 8x17 and  9.5x17


Tires:
Hankook Ventus Sport 235-45-17 and 275-40-17


Brakes:
Baer
front: Track 13" ,
rear: Touring 12"


Chassis:
-Hotchkiss sway bars front.

-Hellwig sway bar rear.
-Eibach springs
-Prothane bushings suspension and body.
-Eaton LSD.
-TCI aluminum th-350 pan.

-Lower CPP arm
-Upper SC&C arm with tall ball joint.
Chassis will be sandblasted and powdercoated in satin black.


Interior:
-Recaro seats. Will be recover with the same design as the original bench seat to match the rear seat.
-B&M Pro-Stick.
-Autometer Monster tach and gauges .
-Center console.
-All the wood trim will be removed.


Owner :
David / Halle

Helpfull litterature


Magazine....


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10/08/2011

What do you need ?

BIG BRAKES :  BAER or WILWOOD are the most found on a Pro-Touring.




Discs are common in 13" diameter for the front and 11" in the rear.
Calipers start from 2 pistons to 6 like on those BAER 6S.



IIMPROVED SUSPENSION :


Tubular arms with coilovers.





Some components are very well engeneered.




Tubular arms will do the job, front and rear with polyurethane bushings.
Sport coil springs with quality shock absorbers.


 
SWAY-BARS :


Rear sway bar




Front sway bar



WHEELS :





Wheels start at 16" to 18-19" more is useless for a race/street car.
Big wheels are needed because of the diameter of the brakes.


 

ENGINE :





Engine is your choice....
Choose a normally aspirated, a supercharged or a turbo engine.
The more HP, the more fun....




GEARBOX :

Manual or automatic, take care that it can handle the horsepower!


REAR END :

10 or 12 bolts for GM, 9" Ford
Must be equipped with a Limited slip differential for better traction.










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10/07/2011

What is Pro-Touring ?

What is PRO-TOURING?

Pro-Touring is a 10-mile length of canyon road with no opposing traffic.

Pro Touring is an as-far-as-the-eye-can-see stretch of Montana Freeway, a full tank of gas, and overdrive transmission, and a tail wind.

Pro Touring is being proud of those rock chips all over your lower control arms.

Pro Touring is driving up the coast of California on a summer day with a stout small-block under the hood, a great-handling car, and your favorite lady by your side.

Pro Touring is being proud of your Bonderant-taught skill of the heel-and-toe-double-clutch-downshift technique.
Pro Touring is knowing what a Bonderant-taught skill of the heel-and-toe-double-clutch-downshift is and how to do it.

Pro Touring is knowing you apexed that corner better than you ever have before.

Pro Touring is entering that same corner a little bit faster the next time, just to see if you can.

Pro Touring is constantly looking for an excuse to demonstrate how your Baer-braked Camaro can rearrange your passenger's internal organs with a massive dose of deceleration.

Pro Touring is knowing you can dust that smug clown in the Porsche in any number of different ways without even breaking a sweat.
Pro Touring is calling the Pony Express 100 for an entry form.

Pro Touring means having to constantly answer the question, "How did you make those monster tires fit?"

Pro Touring is knowing you'll need a killer oil cooler.

Pro Touring is a heck of a lot more seat time than drag racing.

Pro Touring is scouting the road race pits for ideas for your street car.

Pro Touring is wishing you had a dry sump because the high lateral g's are literally making the oil climb the walls of the oil pan.
Pro Touring is wondering what aerodynamic tricks will be needed to push a '67 Camaro to 200 mph.

Pro Touring is all the right reasons for building brake ducts on your early Nova street car. Pro Touring is making those mods to your own '67 Camaro to see what happens to an early Camaro at 175 mph.

Pro Touring is so cool that Tommy Kendall wants to drive your car!

Pro Touring is a good excuse not to go straight.

Pro Touring is power steering, power brakes, and A/C for all the right reasons.
Pro Touring is spending more time enjoying your car than working on it.

Pro Touring is just plain fun.

**Jeff Smith (Chevy High Performance April 1998)-FAST TALK 




Pro-Touring:
A classic muscle car with upgraded and updated suspension components, brake system, drive train and aesthetics, including many of the creature comforts of a new car. Built to function as well or better than some of today’s best performance cars.
Pro-Touring cars are built to be driven.
Driven on the street, on the race track, on the drag strip, through cones at an auto-cross, no matter the setting, pro-touring cars are meant to be driven.


A classic muscle car with heavily modified and upgraded suspension and brake system components, powerful yet functional drive train, and little to no creature comforts. They lack A/C, big billet wheels, chromed-out engine bays and navigation systems, but sport forged wheels, a roll cage and fabricated parts. Anything not necessary to make the car accelerate, decelerate, or handle better is stripped from the vehicle.  Drivability is sometimes sacrificed for performance and function. In the simplest of fashions, some cars can be equated to street legal race cars, they can also be calles Street Fighters.


[Generally speaking, late model cars are not considered pro-touring due to their factory designed suspension and brake packages.]
There are an infinite number of ways to build a pro-touring car, and perhaps the single greatest thing about the pro-touring genre is the fact that the term is always open to interpretation.




Here are a few examples :
















and so on.....






















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