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Old 04-18-2013, 12:06 PM
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Over the winter, I had my ST2 corvette overhauled by TC Design in Milpitas, CA. They installed a new and improved cage because my old one was not up to safety specs. And we installed the LG Motorsports monoball bearings along with some moton shocks. WOW! What a difference these make. My car is so easy to control now and I've dropped seconds off my lap times from last year. My ST2 car is still running a stock LS6 engine from my 04 vette you see in my avatar. The car weighs in at 3200+ lbs. However, I'm able to hang with the SU cars in Norcal due to how well my car is setup. I'm in the process of installing the LG trans and diff coolers now that I'm racing the car more often (last year was mostly T1 racing).

Here are some HD videos of the car at Sonoma this year. The fast lap was on fresh tires, but the race was on heat cycled scrubs. I don't have any vids from Thunderhill, but we put the car on pole out of 5 SU cars with a 1:49.2 lap (I was on a 1:47 lap pace until I hit traffic in the last 2 turns before the final straight). We were winning that race until my unfortunate mistake and contact. Thanks to LG Motorsports, TC Design, Abel Chevrolet, and Hoosier Tires . This car will be heading to Miller in Sept. for the national race.

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Old 04-18-2013, 08:32 PM
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Thanks Bill for sharing. As usual, great driving.

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Nice driving Bill. Always enjoy watching your races
Old 04-20-2013, 09:24 PM
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Thanks guys. I wanted to mention a couple other things. First, thanks to Wolfe Vinyl for doing a great job on my wrap! Also, I took LG's advice and kept the stock rubber shock bushings in the rear when we installed their monoball control arm bearings. I remember there was a debate going on about that and I just wanted to say that I'm not having any issues with it and my car feels really good. I was going to swap them out to poly if I noticed any lack of grip, but I'm happy with them the way they are.
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Let's see the new wrap.

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