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 Post subject: Raybestos GTO project
PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 5:11 pm 
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Would you guys have any interest in seeing some pics of the GTO we are building for Raybestos Brake and Chassis?

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 6:38 pm 
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Ummmm ya! There are tons of gear heads here that would enjoy that. Please post away and thank you!

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PostPosted: Tue Feb 15, 2011 7:26 pm 
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I second that!


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Definately Bangshift...er....WIX approved! :D

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Yes, please.


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Show us the goat! :shock:

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:21 am 
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Ok, cool!

Hey guys. Thought I'd hop over here and share our GTO project. I see tons of familar names over here, but for those that don't know me, I'm Chad from Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle and the Chrome Czars.

Here's the 2011 Give-A-Way car for the new upcoming Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle build for Raybestos Brakes. After the success of last year's '32 Ford RPU Give-A-Way car built by Hollywood Hot Rods, Raybestos wanted to do a GM muscle car. That's not really our thing as a shop, but if it were a race car... We're partnering up with some cool companies... Hilborn, GM, Moser Engineering, American Racing, just to name a few. I designed the look to be a modern interpretation of the vintage Road Racers. And as they say, this one will go to 11. So here it is the HRCC Road Racing GTO-R.

Here is our victim...

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Cutting away the floor/trunk to prepare the car for it's new uni-body chassis.

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My rendering of what the finished give-a-way car will look like. Anyone can enter to win. We're planning on debuting it on the PowerTour.


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The chassis will be a unitized type insert, with additional and healthy amounts of 4130 Chromoly tubing. Rear suspension will be our very own design seen in several of our builds. It hugs corners like it's on rails, launches very nicely and has awesome ride comfort. Front will be a custom designed double A-arm suspension with rack steering and Ridetechs' new triple adjustable, remote reservoir coil over shocks.

Power will be a new LSX454 that we're going to dress up and paint to look like a Hilborn Stack injected Poncho motor. The LS family was used in the last GTO's GM built. So the spin is the Last GTO motor in the First GTO body. Transmission will be a new TTC Magnum T56.

Not sure what the final HP number will be, but is looking like it will be slightly less than the 767 I used in the rendering, but somewhere north of 700 I'm sure.

There will be pics on the HRCC site. This is kind of a sneak peak since none of the marketing has kicked in yet, but for entry, keep an eye on the Raybestos site or the Raybestos Garage site, which is still promoting the '32 build. The winner of that one was flown to the SEMA show to see it for the first time in person. He was totally besides himself with excitement. Real nice guy and we were all happy for him. I believe he takes delivery at the Indy 500 this year. And this month's Street Rodder and Hot Rod both have feature articles on the truck.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:22 am 
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The rear chassis is coming together pretty well.

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This is just a mock up for the front end.

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The Hilborn injected GM Performance Parts LSX454. We're putting the Final GTO motor into the first gen GTO.

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Here you can see how the unitized construction is progressing. Quite a change from the factory 12 bolt...

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Rear Window.

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JW Rod Garage supplied the front end kit to our specs.

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New Quarters from Original Parts Group with American Racing 17" 200s with Nitto Tires.

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PostPosted: Thu Feb 17, 2011 11:23 am 
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We also had our first video shoot for RaybestosGarage.com last week. It was fun, but we all agreed we don't know how Boyd's crew got anything accomplished while filming American Hot Rod!

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Dropping in the motor for the camera.

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Django wrote:
The chassis will be a unitized type insert...

What does that mean? It looks to be made of all steel tubing.


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OHYEZ!!! What rear gear? Looks like a potential Power Tour car-

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 8:42 am 
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Wow, that is a very impressive build. Pretty cool to see you ditch the frame all together and go with the unibody.

I really like the concept drawing, it complements the 64's lines nicely. I'm also glad to see you dropping the LSX motor in and giving some mention to the 04-06 cars (I'd love to have a Barbados Blue 04...)

Just a quick question... about how many people do you think are working on the car? That looks like a ton of work.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 12:05 pm 
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bdk wrote:
Django wrote:
The chassis will be a unitized type insert...

What does that mean? It looks to be made of all steel tubing.


It's all chrome moly tubing. That means we pulled the body off the frame, and are making it a unibody car.

The rear gear is a 4.30 . The top speed calculations put it at 180mph. But it's a brick so we'll see.

It will definitely be on the Power Tour. On the last day, we're leaving and going to the Hunnert Car Heads Up vintage drags in Union Grove Wis at Great Lakes Dragaway. For the drags, it's getting some M&H slicks on 15" AR 200s. This summer it looks like we'll be going to Watkins Glenn to have some Nascar drivers beat the piss out of it. One of the key features is the full blown set of Nascar brakes. They are insanely huge.

We have 2 fabricators (one of which is my partner Kevin, and "Rocket" who used to build Mustang wings at Odegard Wing. In fact, he build Vlado's wings), 1 sheet metal guy, Dane, and 1 final assembly guy, Ryan, plus our shop manager Becky, and myself.
http://www.hotrodchassisandcycle.com/about.php We picked up the car in November. It came back from Redi-Strip in December. We weren't able to actually start work on it until the first week of January.

Yesterday we did our first Hot Rod TV shoot for SPEED, which will air in July.

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PostPosted: Fri Feb 18, 2011 2:59 pm 
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Now, get ahold of some famous old Tin Indian racers from the dark ages to autograph under the hood, liike Ray Fox, Bob Tullius (who ran a '64 in Trans Am), Richard Petty, Maybe Don Prudhomme -his last Top Fueler was sponsored by PONTIAC-and I hope that red will be a real 'hurts my eyes' shade.

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PostPosted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 9:49 am 
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Just a quick update, the GTO-R (in progress) will be at the Hot Rod & Restoration show in Indianapolis this weekend.

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