It has been a while since I’ve posted some new info so now I am playing catch up with a bunch of new stuff to add over the next couple days. Buschur Racing had their annual spring Sport Compact race at Norwalk the last weekend of May. This year IDRC sanctioned the event and brought in a number of cars that we typically don’t see. It was a HOT day and to my surprise there were a lot of people out bearing the sun and heat to watch the show. By the end of the day I looked like a fricken lobster and was feeling the pain Monday morning. Enjoy the pics!
Here are some pictures of our prototype 3″ o2 housing. This is a true 3″ o2 housing with 2″ dumptube and is intended to be used with our turbo kit downpipe or your own modified downpipe. More detail will be available soon. Pricing is expected to be about $390 for the o2 housing and the downpipe currently sells for $282.
It’s been a long 36 hours here. It started off when we arrived at the shop Tuesday morning to hear a dog barking, howling, and crying like crazy. Upon further inspection we found the pup sitting on the sill of a second story window, outside the window crying bloody murder. There wasn’t much we could do at the moment so we tried talking to it and getting it to calm down and eventually it crawled back inside the window and quieted down. A couple hours later it was back at it and crying like crazy. That afternoon we bumped into the owner of the property and he informed us that the occupants were supposed to be moved out the previous Friday. I guess that explains why there was a bunch of their household crap thrown out on the tree lawn earlier last week. Sometime around 7pm the dog was back on the outside of the window crying again. I had enough at the point. I jumped the fence and Dan tossed a ladder over to me and I took the dog out of the window. The poor thing was almost skin and bones and you could tell it had not eaten or had water in days. These people left this puppy for dead. It’s a wonder why I like animals more than most humans! I have no intention of keeping it but it’s hard to fight the urge not to. We’re taking care of her for the moment and she is constantly playing with my two other dogs. This little shit is quite amazing, it’s 90% house trained already and has a solid 30″ vertical jump. She’s currently sleeping on my lap and we’re taking her to a friends this afternoon who is interested in adopting her. We’re going to see how she gets with their current dog, I hope it goes well as it would be a great home for her.
Doug from Topspeed in Georgia has been kicking ass in the One Lap of America this week with his Porsche GT2. Driver Leh Keen has put the Porsche at the front of the pack at every road course they’ve been to thus far. Doug called Tuesday afternoon saying they were in route to my place after the Gateway event. A bracket for there rear sway bar had broke and Leh had essentially been driving the car without a rear sway bar as the last event. They showed up about midnight and Doug and I went to work as Leh caught some much needed shut eye on the office floor. We got everything fixed up and they hit the road about 6am without a minute to spare. They had to be at Mid Ohio by 7:30 to make the first session. They cleaned house in both track sessions with the nearest competitor more than 5 seconds behind them! Those results make an all night effort well worth it. Congrats guys!
I was drained after a long night at the shop and getting basically no sleep. Just as I was ready to crash Wednesday night a wicked storm rolled across the lakefront of Cleveland. I grabbed the camera and the tripod and headed for the lake. I got some awesome pictures of the gods fighting before the camera battery died. What a way to end the day, the lightning was amazing!
Mike headed down to the NC DSM track day at Fayetteville Motorsports Park yesterday to get some passes in. The progress of the car may not be as fast as Mike wants as he’s been dealing with a bit of bad luck parts breakage the entire season that has slowed his progress down. He has run a number of mid to low 9’s this year only to have the weekend end early due to some shit luck. Well this weekend it all came together for him and he got his first 8 second pass. The promising part is there is a lot more to be had out of the car. The 60′ times keep dropping as Mike gets used to the car and gets it dialed in more and I’d guess to say that this car has a 8.2-8.3pass in her the way it sits.
Congrats Mike! I hope that your dedication and perseverance are starting to pay off as your goals are achieved. We’re proud of ya brother!
I’m excited to annouce that Shearer Fab is teaming up with SAM Racing for the buildup of a twin turbo 2010 Camaro SS build. The goal of the project is build a drag radial class car capable of running mid 7 second 1/4 mile passes. The progress of the project will be followed by Hot Rod Magazine as well! Here’s a copy of the press release from SAM…
“The School of Automotive Machinists is pleased to announce its latest project, a 2010 Camaro.
The School ordered a 2010 Camaro after the 2008 PRI show and it arrived in Houston this summer. Our Camaro 2SS/RS is victory red with white racing stripes. This Chevy came equipped with an LS3 paired with a manual transmission.
As you can see from the pictures below, the newest SAM project is a Hot Rod Test Car and the build-up will be followed by Hot Rod Magazine. SAM’s new Camaro will compete in the True Street class at the 2009 LSX Shootout in Memphis. For the Shootout, we will run a LMR cold air intake, a Comp Cams hydraulic roller cam, American Racing Headers, and LS3 Chevy Heads ported at SAM.
After Memphis, Ron Shearer with Shearer Fabrications and Brian Nutter with Wiseco will drive the car to Ohio where Ron will custom fabricate a twin turbo system. This will be the beginning of the Camaro’s transformation to a 7 second drag radial car. Although we have had much success with our naturally aspirated Camaros and Mustang, SAM is excited to have its first power adder join our team of high performance cars.
While the car is in Ohio, the SAM instructors and students will be working hard on the Camaro’s new engine, an ERL sleeved 440 ci aluminum block. We look forward to keeping you updated on this exciting project. For more information about this project, please visit our website at www.samracing.com or follow the project in Hot Rod Magazine.
Mike wanted to try out a new intake manifold from DV/DT and went up to P&L Motorsports to use there dyno. He’s still using the Borg Warner 74mm on the T4 set-up we built him a few years back. For 40psi this is a spectacular amount of power. The exciting part is that we have built him a new set-up for the car. It’s something a bit unconventional and IF it works the car should make another 200-300hp more.
Here’s another manifold that I’ve been wanting to build for a while. It’s not for the ultimate horsepower junkie but intended to provide a very wide power band, lower torque peak, and improve low RPM response & power. Auto-X, Road Race, and street car guys may find this manifold to fit there particular interests very well. It is built off of our EVO T3 fixture and fits up exactly the same as our extremely popular manifold T3 Manifold.Price is the same as our standard T3 manifold and is available for order immediately.
As usual with our product the attention to detail is the highest in the industry and the quality is second to none. One feature of this manifold that I feel makes it stand out from “the rest” of the small runner manifolds is the transition from the larger oval cylinder head port to the smaller diameter primary of the header. The entry to all of our headers feature the same large oval port size. The transition from this large port size to the smaller primary is achieved using a unique process to create a proper transition from the smaller runner to the larger port size. This is just one example of what makes our manifold stand out from the rest of the competition. Most companies offer an oval to round transition machined in the head flange. This transition takes place over the thickness of the head flange which is typically a distance of 1/2″, this creates a radical transition and is not optimal for exhaust flow. One manufacturer’s entry into the runner is actually SMALLER than the cylinder port and most definitely robs power. Cutting corners such as this isn’t acceptable in our eyes to make manufacturing easier/faster, or to make a few extra bucks.
We just finished up our 1g DSM Intercooler prototype and thought I’d share some pics. It is based off of Garrett’s 24×12x4.5 core, this is a big ass core and is not for the meek!
Improving yet and to add to the sex appeal the production units will have 1 piece CNC bent .125″ thick Endtanks and CNC turned billet 3″ inlet & outlet Hose Connections. We built another intercooler a while back for a customers car using the same Garrett core. The car makes a little over 1050hp to the wheels and typical intake temp increases are ~15deg throughout a 1/4 mile pass with nearly 50psi of intake manifold pressure. We find that very impressive for a car making such ridiculous power!
Sean Ivey brought his EVO out to Atco last night to make a few passes. His previous time at the track he found the clutch to be slipping and addressed the issue for last night. The car is a pretty basic build and is very much a near complete street car weighing in at 3050lbs. It is using our standard Divided T4 Manifold with a GT4294, E85 fuel, AWD Motorsports driveshaft, AMS intake, a few AMS lightweight goodies, has a full interior, all functional glass, and of course features an IVEY Tune on a HKS FCON.
Visit www.iveytune.com to check out Seans services. There isn’t a finer EVO shop in the New Jersey/New York area to get your work done at.
