Merlin522

I know you all have waited a long time for this. I appreciate your patience! The good news is that I am going to keep the car. I was eager to see just how horrible an investment customizing cars is & boy did I get my answer! The only reason to do something like this is because you love the car, you love performance & you want to keep the car forever. After driving it a few more times & really getting to enjoy the car, I love it. I'm keeping it. The car is pure adrenalin. After driving it Friday, I kept stomping on the pedal of the Viper on the way home screaming "Go Dammit!".

Major kudos to Aaron (WashingtonRacer) for his help with the video. There is a lot of background noise & other stuff, but I think you can get a pretty good idea for just how ***** this car is. To those that think the car is not real or not drivable- whatever, as my friend at work says "lick my sac"! :lol: Serriously, we still have some work to do. The car cools better, but the boost is just WAY too high to be practical. We are 100% overdriven right now (2:1 - 8" bottom with twin 4" tops). I'm having Whipple make me a 6" bottom which will result in a mildly overdriven scenario. That should make the car more streetable & will stay much cooler. Our present guess is that we are running about 18 psi right now - still on pump gas mind you. I think that's pretty amazing. If that is the case, the car is probably 1,300HP or more. Could be around 15psi which would a little less but still - WAY WAY too much boost for the street. At around 2:53 on the video you can just barely see where I blip the throttle in 3rd gear. The whole front end of the car started floating. Scary car but FUN!!! I'm feeling more & more confident every time I drive it. Soon, we'll go out & really stomp on it. This was a 35mph street, so I just wanted to cruise & see how the temp maintained. I am scheduled to dyno the car later this week. More vids to come!

CAUTION. VIDEO IS 75 MEGS. BROADBAND ONLY! If anyone has some server space out there and/or some editing tools - I could use some help mirroring the video & maybe reducing it. Please be patient as it downloads - the fiber is probably going to get another workout the next few days.
http://stevenkamis.com/Cars/MyVette/...tc/driving.mpg

Merlin522

Here's my other cluster if that first link is too slow:
http://66.235.62.124/cars/driving.mpg

groovyjay

YOU'RE DA MAN!!!!!! :cool: :cool: :cool:

'79ProwlerOrange

Ahhhhhh! Downloading at 1.5K a sec!!!! and i have cable! we need some more people to host it. :smash:

PatsLs1vette

downloading now. :yesnod: :cool: :cheers:

SuperFast80

Downloading now (at an insanely slow rate!) :cool:

'79ProwlerOrange

ok. ive got the 1st 38 seconds. i like how the body shines better than the glass :cool: and i now see what you meant about your multi-stage process of getting in the car :lol: im gonn keep watching bit by bit. :cheers:

Twin_Turbo

downloading at 3,5K/sec :) I'm at about 75% complete.... can't wait 'till it's finished

Eddie 70

I am probably gonna wait until a little later when so many arent on to watch. Maybe this will help the down load speed. I have cable too and didn`t see anything after about 3 minutes of download. This was on the first link. I have been waiting on this video for some time. :smash:

2nd link download speed 1.27kps. Only 20hr download. :eek:


[Modified by Eddie 96, 9:46 AM 12/22/2002]

BB wowbagger

yep yep..Only 20 hrs left... :smash: :smash: :cheers:

MassVette

My Download Accelerator says 8 hours to download the file. Wazzup?
:lol: :lol:

SuperFast80

I am 4MBs in with 19h50m left. :crazy: :lol: Worth the wait though. :thumbs:

BB wowbagger

Could anyone who has already downloaded it put it up on a FTP or something like that..MSN or ICQ?
Now downloading at the incredible rate of 927 b/sec.. :cheers: :cheers:

mrvette

snicker, 75 MEGS!!!...trying to fit an elephant through a keyhole are we????

oh well, I started on this funcy dial up at 4 am or so...and got to the point of pulling out of the garage...then it froze up.....

but the sound is really nice....smoother than I tought it would be....
I was expecting that dragster sound....

GENE

Twin_Turbo

NOOOO!!! Fricken NOOOOOOO!!!! :mad :mad :sad: :cry

my system crashed at 64Megs, damn I should learn not to play online games while killing the time when downloding something like that... boohooo :( :sad: :cry

dman535

If someone has it already, I have an ftp server that it can me put up on, after I shirk it with Windows Media.

email me !

Bob Turner

This is the best news ALL month long!!!!!!

I am happy you are keeping it!!

Now if I could only watch the video before tomorrow!! :jester

Bob :cool:

'79ProwlerOrange

Steve, how about another server just for your good friends :D just IM us the link ;) :thumbs:

:lol: down to 24hrs and .7k a sec. i wonder how bad dial up would be :eek:

BB wowbagger

Hate when that happens.. :cuss

Only 18 hours and 6 min left to showtime..

:cheers:

Eddie 70

We are some really excited people here. Someone host this blockbuster. :yesnod: We have got to see it.