Great job!  I live about 20 miles from Spring Green and the Power Tour is going through on Friday. I am going to try and get to the Culvers  and watch a bunch of the cars passing  through town. Maybe I can get alook at the 66. I hope the roads are all good since we got hammerd hard by rain/storms last week end and some roads are closed.

I wanted to amend Kevin's post - I did run a 13.4 at 106.9 MPH.  There was wheelspin all the way thru 1st and 2nd gear - in second I was modulating the throttle to get it to hook...

then I was shifting manually, as the current trans tune would shift a bit early at WOT, and on the 2-3 shift I hit it a little late, so I lifted off the throttle totally to let it shift then got back on it.

It was only my 2nd time ever down the 1/4 mile, and the first time was just a few min earlier in the GTO... but that was just plain a bad run so I don't want to talk much about it, other than I was low on fuel.   

At the last stop of the tour I put the car up on the Dynomax dyno.  Two quick runs from 4000-6000rpm netted 346HP and 366TQ at the rear wheels.

The car scoots out nicely and I averaged 18-20MPG for the power tour.  My best tank was 25.3MPG and the worst was 11.  Most of the tanks were in the 17-18-19MPG range.

Keep in mind any time I floor the car there is fuel that sloshes out of the fuel filler neck- so I'm sure that cost me a little in the MPG department.

The GTO came to us in primer, but we didn't want it to hit the streets on the Hot Rod Power Tour in boring light gray.    So the decision was made to shoot the car with a fun 2-tone paint scheme of charcoal and Scarlet red in PPG basecoat to give the car an aggressive, satin look.   Other materials used include lots of 3M tape and mask paper.   Someday the car will receive some new bodywork and a more complete paint job, but this is the deal for now. 

Hey there!

We are going to post more GTO videos... we have several "on-deck" that we need to finish editing.     We'll try to get them up this month. 

Thanks for checking in!

- Kevin

Yeah, with multiple projects and events to cover things can stack up.    Plus we like to make sure the important items are included in the videos, so there's alot of "sifting".      Much more to come!

- KO

Assembling the GTO's Currie 9+ Crate Rear Axle... which does not take long.    Ours has a 3.89:1 gear, a Detroit TrueTrac differential, 31 spline axles, and Wilwood brakes, and it all came in one package from Currie. 

The buckets we used are from a 2004 GTO, and we had to make some mounts to bolt them to the floor, but it was not that big of a deal.   The important part was to make a "cage", a steel bracket that supported the stud attached to the floor which spreads the load around in case of an impact.   This way, if the car gets hit, the seat is retained by more than just the stud, and more importantly, the single hole in the sheetmetal floor.   This can tear easily and the seat can rip out of the floor.     Here's a couple snapshots... they're not that great, but I hope they help.

No problem, Chris.   Wish I had better ones for you.    How's your project?   Got pics?