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If you want to keep tabs on the action this week, there will be livestreams ongoing. Click the day to go the livestream details! Wednesday Thursday Friday The live streams are also available on the Optima Channel on your Roku device, Channel Info here!
The goal was to prove you could run the OPTIMA Batteries and Ultimate Street Car Association Search for the Ultimate Street Car and get into the big show on a “normal” person’s budget, and we did it. We pointed in after finishing the season 6th overall in the GTC Class. This is a big deal …
Woah! What a rush! Round six of the 2023 Optima Search For the Ultimate Street Car visited Daytona International Speedway this year, running the road course configuration… at night! This was going to be a test. The Probe had never been taxed like this. The closest would probably have been our trips to Road America …
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This is a reproduction of a post I made at CorvetteForum about building my own adjustable rod-end style rear trailing arms for my 1992 Corvette. The original post can be found here: https://www.corvetteforum.com/forums/c4-tech-performance/4718559-rear-trailing-arm-parts-list-banski.html#post1606398882 Hey all, I did search for this and didn’t find it, so thought I’d share. Rear trailing arms for the C4 are …
For the last twenty years, I’ve been doing more with less. I’ve turned a V6 sedan into a track car that’s made it to the top of the Pro-Touring heap twice with trips to SEMA and the OUSCI. Managing that required overcoming deficiencies inherent the platform itself. The Buick Regal was a sedan designed in …
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It happened. The new pistons for the Probe’s engine have finally arrived, and boy are they pretty. These puppies are 85mm in diameter, 9.3:1 compression, forged aluminium copies of the OE piston. They feature improved quench areas and reinforced pin bosses. CP Carillo even sent back the rod and piston I sent them so they …
I was honored to be featured on the latest episode of the Classic Car Corner Podcast! Check it out! https://gdherring.com/journal/the-buick-grand-national-with-andrew-scott/
In our last post, we mentioned the car wasn’t running right beginning in the second road course session. Once we got home and had some time, we compression checked the engine and got a nasty surprise. Yes, positive evidence of a blown head gasket. Unfortunately, I put ARP head studs in this engine. That means …
What a weekend. With the demise of the Probe’s second engine at Time Trials, we’ve been campaigning the Buick. We had an encouraging event at Atlanta Motorsports Park, with a solid 385 point performance despite the car giving us fits, basically refusing to run properly at wide open throttle. But, we did well enough, and …
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Long time, no write, because I’ve been BUSY. Work has not let up like it usually does towards the end of the year, but the lack of a commute due to the transition to work-at-home still leaves me time to wrench. And boy, have I been wrenching. And cutting. And welding. First, the reasons. The …