Apex Spotlight Archives - For Cab Drivers http://forcabdrivers.com/category/apex-spotlight/ Hot off the presses, fresh news from around automotive world. Our site features everything you want to know about cars! Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:33:39 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.5.2 214617072 LS Corvair Project: Getting Closer! Brake Lines … Do Them Right, Cause They Matter. http://forcabdrivers.com/2022/11/29/ls-corvair-project-getting-closer-brake-lines-do-them-right-cause-they-matter/ Tue, 29 Nov 2022 12:33:39 +0000 http://forcabdrivers.com/ls-corvair-project-getting-closer-brake-lines-do-them-right-cause-they-matter This project is getting closer as well as more detailed to a genuine operating as well as driving automobile. The brake lines are the subject…

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This project is getting closer as well as more detailed to a genuine operating as well as driving automobile. The brake lines are the subject of this video clip right here and also as you well know there are a great deal of means to handle them. Watch how John does it.John Reynolds is a poor ass. This is an amazing task with a great deal of fantastic thought and fab job going into it and you are going to want to inspect it out. It’s remarkable to view as well as we can’t wait to see this point transporting butt!

While I’ve heard of a couple of drivetrain swaps that practically screw right into various other makes and versions, that is not going to hold true when you are trying to put an LS4 into the back of a Corvair. These engines were in a front-wheel-drive application, with struts and guiding and also all sort of other things that just wouldn’t be ideal in the rear of the Corvair. The task is really starting to take shape as well as I understand this one is going to be a hell of an amazing trip when it’s all done.

V8 Corvairs are awesome, and I’ve seen numerous constructed over the years. Some are front-engine, some “mid” engine, but every person I’ve ever before seen has had the engine running in the appropriate instructions. This here however is going a totally different path. As well as by various I imply transverse mounting the LS. It’s an LS4, which came in front-wheel drive V8 Impalas, and also aside from a couple of minor points it is just like all the various other LS engines you recognize and enjoy.

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]]> 112 They REOPENED The Abandoned Racetrack! Here Is Black River Motorsports Park http://forcabdrivers.com/2022/11/09/they-reopened-the-abandoned-racetrack-here-is-black-river-motorsports-park/ Wed, 09 Nov 2022 15:53:14 +0000 http://forcabdrivers.com/they-reopened-the-abandoned-racetrack-here-is-black-river-motorsports-park They REOPENED The Abandoned Racetrack! Here Is Black River Motorsports Park Nov 09, 2022Chad ReynoldsApex Spotlight, BangShift APEX, HISTORIC, MISC, RACING & ACTION, Videos Well,…

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They REOPENED The Abandoned Racetrack! Here Is Black River Motorsports Park

Well, it’s happening. This once abandoned and almost forgotten race track, that Brian bought with the intention of having fun hosting private events and such, is now a full fledged race track that is going to be open to the public! Check out the latest video and help us congratulate Brian and all the folks who have helped make this a reality. We didn’t make it out there this year like we had hoped, but maybe he’ll have some winter snow races and let us come thrash on something. We’ll see. At any rate, we’re glad that it has worked out so well and hope this place is a successful and fun home for a lot of shenanigans and racing.

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This has been just over a year in the making, but as you’ll see here we FINALLY reopened the once-abandoned racetrack! Without you guys watching at home, our friends, family, and the amazing sponsors we have this would not be possible.

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]]> 96 OPTIMA BRINGS EXPANDED HIGH-PERFORMANCE ACTION TO THE 2022 SEMA SHOW http://forcabdrivers.com/2022/10/04/optima-brings-expanded-high-performance-action-to-the-2022-sema-show/ Tue, 04 Oct 2022 00:14:48 +0000 http://forcabdrivers.com/optima-brings-expanded-high-performance-action-to-the-2022-sema-show — SEMA Showgoers Get Front-Row Seats as the Top 100 Road-Worthy Vehicles Compete for the Title of the Ultimate Street Car– DIAMOND BAR, Calif.(Oct. 3,…

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— SEMA Showgoers Get Front-Row Seats as the Top 100 Road-Worthy Vehicles Compete for the Title of the Ultimate Street Car– DIAMOND BAR, Calif.(Oct. 3, 2022)– The OPTIMA Ultimate Street Car Invitational (OUSCI )is bringing live, action-packed exhilaration to the SEMA Show, expanding its activation with three of its five sectors unfolding throughout the 55th annual trade convention, Nov. 1-4, 2022, in Las Vegas, Nev. The competition’s Peak Performance Challenge (a timed segment)

and also the Lingenfelter Design & Engineering Challenge happened at the SEMA Show for the very first & time in 2021. Those two segments will go back to this year’s SEMA Show, while the Autocross portion of the competitors makes its launching at the Las Vegas Convention Center’s Bronze Lot throughout the special trade-only event. The rest of the OUSCI continues Nov. 5-7, 2022, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway. “As an expanded feature at the 2022 SEMA Show, OPTIMA’s Ultimate Street Car Invitational

is a legendary competition that will showcase the aftermarket’s potential,”claimed Tom Gattuso, SEMA vice head of state of occasions.”With modifications that boost the efficiency of the vehicles, the competing automobiles and trucks symbolize what the SEMA Show is everything about. It’s mosting likely to be interesting to watch the action up close and also personally.”With 6 regional qualifying occasions extending more than eight months, the OUSCI consists of the nation’s leading road-worthy customized lorries. Top performers from the regional occasions get sought after invitations to compete in the last competitors, with a handful of places scheduled for cars selected at the SEMA Show. Considering that 2008 when the OUSCI debuted, an added emphasize for Showgoers has been a screen of all 100 competition cars at the SEMA Show in an area referred to as Optima Alley. At the end of the Show, the automobiles parade out of the convention center as well as make their method to Las Vegas Motor Speedway, where they contend in a five-part competitors. Last year two of the sections began the competition and happened at the SEMA Show. This year, the SEMA Show will certainly host 3 of the five sections. “It’s uncommon to be able to witness a lot of vehicles press the limitations of performance as well as dexterity,”said Gattuso.” To see the competitors unravel online is exhilarating and inspiring

.”The Bronze Lot is located in the outside location south of South Hall. For details regarding the 2022 SEMA Show, including a layout revealing where the Bronze Lot is or to make an application for credentials to attend

the SEMA Show, browse through www.semashow.com.

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]]> 43 Solitary Seat Race Car Build Part 8: SPLIT WISHBONES as well as REAR TORQUE TUBE SHORTENING http://forcabdrivers.com/2022/09/14/solitary-seat-race-car-build-part-8-split-wishbones-as-well-as-rear-torque-tube-shortening/ Wed, 14 Sep 2022 08:21:35 +0000 http://forcabdrivers.com/solitary-seat-race-car-build-part-8-split-wishbones-as-well-as-rear-torque-tube-shortening Single Seat Race Car Build Part 8: SPLIT WISHBONES and also REAR TORQUE TUBE SHORTENING Sep 14, 2022Chad ReynoldsPinnacle Project Cars, Apex Spotlight, Apex Tech…

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Single Seat Race Car Build Part 8: SPLIT WISHBONES and REAR TORQUE TUBE SHORTENING

Bennett’s Customs is an Australian standard racer contractor that does some rather awesome auto and also motorbike projects, and they have started a new project that must be done by September in order to go competing at the Perkolilli Red Dust Revival. This is a single-seat race automobile construct, like one that you would have seen in the 1940s and also they are developing it from a mix of scratch-made parts, things that has been kicking back accumulating dust, as well as some more conventional parts they will certainly no doubt be wheeling as well as dealing for. If you are into conventional trips, like those we feature from Iron Trap Garage, after that you are mosting likely to dig what they are doing right here. I’m interested, and also influenced, by tasks such as this since all of us often tend to make projects that are so challenging and also huge that they take forever. If rather, we worked with some smaller sized projects, possibly we could obtain even more of them done.

This job here is no lightweight when it come to the work called for considering that they are doing this all from scratch, however it sure resembles it is mosting likely to be a fun one as well as we can’t wait to view it integrated.

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On this episode we split as well as fit the front desire bones, clean up the leaf springtime and start to reduce the rear torque tube on the Single seater race car. 63 days to go. Burning the twelve o’clock at night oil.