Submitted by Seaninnh on Fri, 05/01/2009 - 10:24am.
"were looking at carrying 40 gallon of fuel n board, adding a 20 Gallon trunk mounted fuel cell in addition to the factory tank."
Be careful with those cells. I've seen baaaaaaaad things happen to people with added cells and you are talking a LOT of petro behind you. I'd hate to be reading a different type of post in a few weeks.
There is nothing wrong with a few more fuel stops if it takes away the chance of some possible problems.
The build looks great. That line just scared me for you though. Make sure they double check everything. Then make them check it again. And before the run go over the wiring to the cell yourself. Make sure everything is the way it sould be. Things come loose on long trips to get to the run.
Have fun, be safe, and take lots of pictures and video to share with us!
It is time to formally introduce our 2009 Bull Run Rally Project named TEAM PRODIGY. We are building this car (named Lucy) for Ted and James, Ted is a member here, team 68 chevelle here on the forum. Ted is signed up for Bull Run, paid, approved and confirmed for the 2009 Bull Run Rally! Now we are not talking about the reality TV show, but the real live Bull Run Race (I mean RALLY) many here know as Cannonball Run. Yes, this race (RALLY) is real! This year the Rally goes from Manhattan, NY to Austin, Tx and is a 7 day event broken into seven 1 day sprints about 400 miles each from location to location. Teams will find out the next location each morning. Drivers go city to city in a poker run of sorts, and while not "A Race", there is some pride in getting there quickest. Each night they will reside in 5 star resorts and have activities and parties each night. As I understand, surviving the parties every night is half the battle. This is a $20,000 to enter and nothing to win Rally strictly for pride. And one of those 100 things you gotta do before you die list!
I talked about this project briefly on one of my video updates a while back but did not have our final rendering or final plans yet on a couple things. We had some surprises come up that changed plans a little and pushed us a little deeper into the project then we planned. The body that we were going to try and "scuff and shoot" for the race, was just to rough to waste any time and money on. So my brother David put some new quarters and outer wheel houses on it, we got some new fenders, and are doing the full treatment to the body. A killer Maroon with flat black accents theme should look racy. Of coarse we are running Forgelines, we selected a set of killer 18" SP3 in matte black with brushed lips. With some high speed blast expected, we need the best brakes in the world to slow this thing so of coarse we selected a Prodigy Customs Total Car G Machine package with Wilwood 13" (6) piston front and 12.2" (6) piston rear brakes! Suspension will be a Air Ride Street Challenge package using some trick new parts no one has seen yet. Pretty exciting stuff indeed. We will also debut Air Rides new Chevelle Tiger Cage.
While I am continually reminded I cannot refer to this Rally as a race, a mistake I make often. We need some horsepower for this RALLY! We also need reliability and fuel mileage for sustained speeds of 100MPH +. Of coarse speeds like this will ONLY happen if they happen to run some place it is legal to run 100MPH to 150MPH? So making the power is one of our L76 6.0 litre engines and will make right at 480 ponies with a little help from Mast Motorsports. There may be some drag racing one night, so we are adding a little 100 shot of giggle gas for the drag strip activities! Keeping it a automatic, a 4L80E combo with a big old cooler should keep the transmission cool if any sustained high speed runs happen. We figure it will get 10 to 12 MPH at 100MPHto 120MPH (I have a officer friend that is going to help me with a 5AM Sunday morning 00 mile test for fuel mileage). So at 10 miles to the gallon and 400 miles between runs, were looking at carrying 40 gallon of fuel n board, adding a 20 Gallon trunk mounted fuel cell in addition to the factory tank.
Lucy is going to be decked with a awesome CB, Valentine, Radar detector, and some other toys to make sure we know where the coppers are.
So this one is going to be fun. And we will be seeing the guys off in NY, then heading to Austin to meet the boys for the finally party. I cannot wait.
Special thanks to Carter Hickman for another killer design!
And Ted....................................Thanks for selecting us to build Lucy!
June is the target, my guy thats building it will then be taking it to Michigan for a show their on the 8th. Hes going to drive it back putting atleast 1200 miles on her a hopefully break something so we get it corrected before july 10th.
We have added a magna charger for more power and well alot of other items you guys will have to check it out at the starting line..
Submitted by Racertci on Thu, 05/28/2009 - 9:30pm.
[Quote Team 68 Chevelle]
June is the target, my guy thats building it will then be taking it to Michigan for a show their on the 8th. Hes going to drive it back putting atleast 1200 miles on her a hopefully break something so we get it corrected before july 10th.
We have added a magna charger for more power and well alot of other items you guys will have to check it out at the starting line..
Yes I will indeed need to check it out at the starting line! See you then.
Information for those in the rally this year is starting to come in we got a few emails now. Just 42 days left...
Interesting fact they send the decals to you if you so wish so you may put them on yourself..intresting I didnt know that....
We will be getting them sent to us and putting them on before we transport her to NY.
They havn't done that before. Normally Bullrun has their team of grtaphics people (last year they were from West Coast Customs) do the decals and apply them properly (unlike the crew that was hired for the reality show).
Take some photos of the Chevelle and decals before you head off to NY. I want to see what the decal kit looks like this year. I loved last years and the year before.
Not sure what happened there,
Not sure what happened there, I wrote it but didnt show?
Will try again,We announced
Will try again,
We announced the build for 2009 rally on pro touring.com check out the thread.
http://www.pro-touring.com/forum/showthread.php?t=55101
Do you have any pictures of
Do you have any pictures of the build?
From those renderings, the car looks like it's going to rock the Bullrun! Keep us updated please!
"were looking at carrying 40
"were looking at carrying 40 gallon of fuel n board, adding a 20 Gallon trunk mounted fuel cell in addition to the factory tank."
Be careful with those cells. I've seen baaaaaaaad things happen to people with added cells and you are talking a LOT of petro behind you. I'd hate to be reading a different type of post in a few weeks.
There is nothing wrong with a few more fuel stops if it takes away the chance of some possible problems.
The build looks great. That line just scared me for you though. Make sure they double check everything. Then make them check it again. And before the run go over the wiring to the cell yourself. Make sure everything is the way it sould be. Things come loose on long trips to get to the run.
Have fun, be safe, and take lots of pictures and video to share with us!
It is time to formally
It is time to formally introduce our 2009 Bull Run Rally Project named TEAM PRODIGY. We are building this car (named Lucy) for Ted and James, Ted is a member here, team 68 chevelle here on the forum. Ted is signed up for Bull Run, paid, approved and confirmed for the 2009 Bull Run Rally! Now we are not talking about the reality TV show, but the real live Bull Run Race (I mean RALLY) many here know as Cannonball Run. Yes, this race (RALLY) is real! This year the Rally goes from Manhattan, NY to Austin, Tx and is a 7 day event broken into seven 1 day sprints about 400 miles each from location to location. Teams will find out the next location each morning. Drivers go city to city in a poker run of sorts, and while not "A Race", there is some pride in getting there quickest. Each night they will reside in 5 star resorts and have activities and parties each night. As I understand, surviving the parties every night is half the battle. This is a $20,000 to enter and nothing to win Rally strictly for pride. And one of those 100 things you gotta do before you die list!
gal_register('gal_2_518450', '1', '1', '0', '0', '0');I talked about this project briefly on one of my video updates a while back but did not have our final rendering or final plans yet on a couple things. We had some surprises come up that changed plans a little and pushed us a little deeper into the project then we planned. The body that we were going to try and "scuff and shoot" for the race, was just to rough to waste any time and money on. So my brother David put some new quarters and outer wheel houses on it, we got some new fenders, and are doing the full treatment to the body. A killer Maroon with flat black accents theme should look racy. Of coarse we are running Forgelines, we selected a set of killer 18" SP3 in matte black with brushed lips. With some high speed blast expected, we need the best brakes in the world to slow this thing so of coarse we selected a Prodigy Customs Total Car G Machine package with Wilwood 13" (6) piston front and 12.2" (6) piston rear brakes! Suspension will be a Air Ride Street Challenge package using some trick new parts no one has seen yet. Pretty exciting stuff indeed. We will also debut Air Rides new Chevelle Tiger Cage.
While I am continually reminded I cannot refer to this Rally as a race, a mistake I make often. We need some horsepower for this RALLY! We also need reliability and fuel mileage for sustained speeds of 100MPH +. Of coarse speeds like this will ONLY happen if they happen to run some place it is legal to run 100MPH to 150MPH? So making the power is one of our L76 6.0 litre engines and will make right at 480 ponies with a little help from Mast Motorsports. There may be some drag racing one night, so we are adding a little 100 shot of giggle gas for the drag strip activities! Keeping it a automatic, a 4L80E combo with a big old cooler should keep the transmission cool if any sustained high speed runs happen. We figure it will get 10 to 12 MPH at 100MPHto 120MPH (I have a officer friend that is going to help me with a 5AM Sunday morning 00 mile test for fuel mileage). So at 10 miles to the gallon and 400 miles between runs, were looking at carrying 40 gallon of fuel n board, adding a 20 Gallon trunk mounted fuel cell in addition to the factory tank.
Lucy is going to be decked with a awesome CB, Valentine, Radar detector, and some other toys to make sure we know where the coppers are.
So this one is going to be fun. And we will be seeing the guys off in NY, then heading to Austin to meet the boys for the finally party. I cannot wait.
Special thanks to Carter Hickman for another killer design!
And Ted....................................Thanks for selecting us to build Lucy!
Frank Serafine
Prodigy Customs
Pro Touring Muscle Car Specialist
New build pics added in
New build pics added in profile (not sure how to add them to this thread) enjoy! lot of work left to do!!
Looking good! What is the ETA
Looking good! What is the ETA for the project to be finished? You guys are going to have so much fun in that car on the rally!
June is the target, my guy
June is the target, my guy thats building it will then be taking it to Michigan for a show their on the 8th. Hes going to drive it back putting atleast 1200 miles on her a hopefully break something so we get it corrected before july 10th.
We have added a magna charger for more power and well alot of other items you guys will have to check it out at the starting line..
Can't wait to see the ride at
Can't wait to see the ride at the starting line. Its going to be a blast to see such a wonderful machine. See you in NY!
Information for those in the
Information for those in the rally this year is starting to come in we got a few emails now. Just 42 days left...
Interesting fact they send the decals to you if you so wish so you may put them on yourself..intresting I didnt know that....
We will be getting them sent to us and putting them on before we transport her to NY.
[Quote Team 68 Chevelle]June
[Quote Team 68 Chevelle]
June is the target, my guy thats building it will then be taking it to Michigan for a show their on the 8th. Hes going to drive it back putting atleast 1200 miles on her a hopefully break something so we get it corrected before july 10th.
We have added a magna charger for more power and well alot of other items you guys will have to check it out at the starting line..
Yes I will indeed need to check it out at the starting line! See you then.
[Quote Team 68
[Quote Team 68 Chevelle]
Information for those in the rally this year is starting to come in we got a few emails now. Just 42 days left...
Interesting fact they send the decals to you if you so wish so you may put them on yourself..intresting I didnt know that....
We will be getting them sent to us and putting them on before we transport her to NY.
They havn't done that before. Normally Bullrun has their team of grtaphics people (last year they were from West Coast Customs) do the decals and apply them properly (unlike the crew that was hired for the reality show).
Take some photos of the Chevelle and decals before you head off to NY. I want to see what the decal kit looks like this year. I loved last years and the year before.
Big news possibly
Big news possibly tomorrow...engine related for her on the run...stand by
WHATÂ the motor isn't in!
WHAT the motor isn't in!
Jesus so many worriers ...she
Jesus so many worriers ...she will be ready in time....see you in NY.
Of that I am sure. Can't wait
Of that I am sure. Can't wait to see ya.....