Re: [AMC-list] SoCal TT videos (Sunday)

[Wrambler <wrambler242@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

That's pretty cool.
Theres a road here in Wv that looks a lot like those.
Nothing but hours of switchbacks, over and over again.
Would make an awesome rally run...
Might have to go give it a blast someday, just on my own!

Mark Price
Morgantown, WV 26508
1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5
2004 Grand Cherokee Laredo, 4.7L, Quadratrac II
"I realize that death is inevitable.
I just don't want to be around when it happens!"

----- "tom jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> From: "tom jennings" <tomj@xxxxxxx>
> To: "Rambler AMC, Nash, Jeep and family" <amc-list@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Sent: Friday, October 16, 2009 9:30:14 PM GMT -05:00 US/Canada Eastern
> Subject: [AMC-list] SoCal TT videos (Sunday)
>
> Took me all !@!@!$! day (actually, all week, multiple attempts) as
> this was
> the first time I've ever used iMovie. I didn't realize video
> processing was
> still so slow (new Macbook Pro). Source was HD video from my Aiptek
> flash
> camcorder mounted on a dash magmount
> http://wps.com/AMC/1963-Rambler-American/Interior/images/tach-dv-mount.JPG.
> (New pics of the nearly-done interior at
> http://wps.com/AMC/1963-Rambler-American/Interior/ ) I'll complete
> the
> Monday (2nd day) vids later this weekend. It'll all get a webpage on
> wps.combut for now here's a few pootube vids:
> 
> little tujunga cyn http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RZvUQqAprhs
> 
> elizabeth lake rd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AbrZs4T9TNA
> 
> pine cyn rd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBZFxE-zYbk
> 
> tepesquet cyn rd http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j8PlWrNDh3U
> 
> The Tepesquet vid is the longest at 2 minutes.
> 
> Tepesquet Canyon Road was unbelievable! The first half above is uphil
> (sloooow...) after the fade to black is downhill -- and the return
> trip
> Monday (down the "up" section) was A TOTAL BLAST!
> 
> OK I can tell you with authority now -- drilled drums are as good as
> small
> (emphasis on small) discs. The Tepesquet downhill return run is long
> and
> fast (50+ is the "straights" between turns) and I do not do engine
> braking
> --  it upsets front/rear loading, without compression it doesn't do
> much,
> and no way I'm gonna wrestle a T-96 into it. So I was on the brakes
> HARD and
> OFTEN and they DID NOT FADE AT ALL. Sweet. But I might have cooked
> 'em, so I
> will pop a drum this weekend and look.
> 
> I don't know how to post the route itself, but it was a spectacular
> drive,
> just under 300 miles a day. If you search PooTube for "SoCal TT" or
> "SoCalTT" you'll find more videos from other people, 2009 and other
> years.
> (There's a cycle TT also.) There's http://socaltt510.shutterfly.com/
> and
> other pages if you care. Only two people this year received paper
> awards
> from Highway Patrol.
> 
> What pleases me the most is that the American appears in pages of
> rally car
> photos as if it was a peer -- it was!
> 
> I've spent good money trying to get later AMC cars to handle well (79
> 304v8
> Spirit mainly) and it wasn't even half as good as this breadbox
> American. Go
> figure. I most definitely will be turboing this engine, ASAP. I will
> also
> address handling shortcomings:
> 
> * panhard or something for the sloppy rear (typical leaf spring
> setup)
> * understeer ("raise" effective rear spring rear perch height, maybe
> rear
> sway bar)
> * sloppy steering box (wear)
> 
> New springs like Frank points out, but not til spring ($$$) and one
> change
> at a time, esp. slop has to go so I have some basis for comparison.
> 
> 
> PS: The bobbing ugly thing in the center of all the videos is my new
> hood
> talisman -- better pics to follow but here's a quickie:
> 
> http://wps.com/temp/hood%20talisman2.JPG
> 
> That's a pulverized 195.6 ohv piston (from a head-donor car in
> U-Pull-It)
> and a snapped off fuel pump lever (I did that, putting a 195.6 pump in
> a 232
> :-). There's two blue LEDs for eyes...
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