Volvo X (Pro-Touring 1967 Amazon)

[Volvo Canadian]

Hi Robert,

I hope everything holds together well for you in those first few hours, and good luck with the 'short' list of things to do. It will be nice to see that chrome strip on there, for example.

Although I can't compare my car with yours' they are at least similar in that the paint gets all of the attention, while by far, most of the work is underneath.

Drive it up here and I'll buy you lunch...? ( :

[MacPiper]

Looking good Robert, but could you please just spend 5 minutes of your time on sending me my refund.

[Burdekin]

Originally Posted by MacPiper

Looking good Robert, but could you please just spend 5 minutes of your time on sending me my refund.

Where in NQ are you? I'm originally from Ayr.

[MacPiper]

Originally Posted by Khe Sanh

Where in NQ are you? I'm originally from Ayr.

Airlie Beach, in the beautiful Whitsundays

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Here is a video of the Eagles Canyon Raceway, and I think it will do the trick for setup and testing..

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rFVWYQgKogI

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[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I am working with the some new factory door panels and my Upper Door top mod for the now larger oem style dash, and it all looks pretty good. The window crank does not have to rotate because I have power windows, and I have a conversion switch to turn the oem window crank into a bump switch, so if you bump it up or down the window will go the corresponding direction.

I don't plan on keeping this interior in the car, but I figured I would put something in the car until I can let loose of it long enough to put a full Retro/Custom red leather interior in the car.

The dash is temporarily painted until it can get leather wrapped, so I cant wait to break up some of that extreme silver dash..

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I am working on the Go Pro placement for the track day, so I did a couple of test video's of some Spirited Driving. LOL It may seem that I am been pretty aggressive with the car, but I am not actually pushing it to its full potential in these video's, because I don't want any major tickets.. LOL

Toward the middle of this first video, I do press the car just a bit, and the car bites the pavement way harder than I actually expected on street tires, and when the horsepower is supplied, the car stays very stable and straight.. I have had some high horsepower light weight cars in the past, and the ass end will tend to get away from you when you apply the power, but this setup doesn't need any wrangling at all..

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[Colonel Froth]

Those angles are ok, is there a position that could show a bit more rear tyre than the 2nd clip? I always like the internal view because it shows how hard the steering wheel's being worked, and if the track day has an overtake-right rule you get to see cars overtaking you, not just those you're overtaking. Tricky without a roll cage though.

That looks like a nice bumpy circuit with some fairly technical corners, it'll be good to see how much handling you can squeeze from the setup and how competitive it is. When are you planning on visiting?

[Iamtheonlyreal1]

Originally Posted by Colonel Froth

Those angles are ok, is there a position that could show a bit more rear tyre than the 2nd clip? I always like the internal view because it shows how hard the steering wheel's being worked, and if the track day has an overtake-right rule you get to see cars overtaking you, not just those you're overtaking. Tricky without a roll cage though.

That looks like a nice bumpy circuit with some fairly technical corners, it'll be good to see how much handling you can squeeze from the setup and how competitive it is. When are you planning on visiting?

I have two GoPro's, so there will be an internal view of some sort, because that is definitely a must with this sort of thing. The tricky part of catching the rear tire is having the camera extend past the flaring, and I have already lost one camera trying to do that, but luckily it was found several hours later.

As far as the track goes, we will not be racing other cars at this time and it will be more of test and tune time trial sort of thing, but the car will be pushed even harder because there isn't any obstacles in the way.. LOL Once we are done running the car, we will have a break down of times and performances to make an actual capability comparisons to other cars like Lamborghini, Ferrari, Roush Mustang, Corvette, Porsche, ect, because they all run on the track on a regular basis.

Here are a couple of videos that I tried to catch a bit more wheel and overall road perspective. And about halfway through the 1st video, you can see the car doing about 75mph on some rough Oklahoma road, and it is much rougher than the video appears, but you can tell that unless you watch the wheel because the body mounted camera is very stable like the car is.

These two videos were done at the same time with two cameras mounted, so you can see the front and rear suspension actions on this rough highway at speed.. On another note, at about 2:30 in the 2nd video and 3:30 in the first video during hard acceleration, I accidently went from 2nd gear to 5th gear at about 70mph with the short throw shifter.. LOL

The scrapping/dragging noise you can hear loudly during braking and turns in the first video is not the Tires Rubbing, it is actually the oem mud flaps dragging the ground during those times, and the camera really picked that up..

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[Iamtheonlyreal1]

I did a quick edit on the GoPro video's with the GoPro editor program, so here it is. I will have some 1/4 mile track video, along with the 2.5 mile road course video's coming soon, but I wanted to practice up a bit.. LOL

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