[Rob Petrie E395]

My initial goals were to
1. complete the car
2. Pass Tech
3. Be able to run the index or better

I am almost done now. This is the second one I have built. The first was destroyed along with my entire shop in a Tornado 2 years ago so that did not help the process. I should have started this thread a long time ago. But thought I would post some pictures as I have time to do so for anyone who might want to see it. If you see something I have done that is not Legal or Correct. Please feel free to point out my mistakes. My biggest Fear in the whole deal is that I will make a mistake building it. And get a years vacation and my name in National Dragster for it. I am 99.99999% sure its right especially the engine as I do not have the equipment to do machine work so it had to be farmed out to those that can do that work. Other than machine work I have done it all myself so there is no one for me to blame but myself if its not right. And that's kind of how I like to do things. Right now I pretty much just have the wiring to finish and install some interior panels, Align the front end and it should be ready to go start shaking it down. My original plan was to strip the car and do all of the body work from the get go. But after sitting in 2 different body shops for long periods of time with no work done. I said screw it and painted the engine compartment and a few other pieces myself and started building it. Its not going to set any records and will not win best appearing even if I took it to a show at the salvage yard LOL. But I have to start somewhere and this is what I got. Its been a long process. Mainly because I am still bracket racing one of my current cars every weekend. Plus I have multiple businesses to run at the same time. So I often times go days, weeks or even months last winter. Where I just have no time to work on it. I should have most likely just bought a car that was done and ready to race. Although I did try that and got ripped off, went to court and won. And I need to start the process of garnishing his wages and seizing any assets he might have to get the money back I won in my lawsuit. But that's another story for another day. I have had TONS of help from so many people along the way its hard to remember them all. But most of them are people who while I have not met in person. I "met" them through Class Racer. So to avoid the chance of leaving someone out. I will just say thank you to everybody who has helped me. I secretly blame Ed Wright for the bug that got in me to do this. I went down to have one of my bracket cars tuned on his chassis dyno. And he was nice enough to take me up and show me his SS car. That was all it took to set the hook and get me started down the path to a Stocker. So here goes hopefully these pictures will load. I was hoping to make the divisional at Bowling Green in a few weeks. But have had absolutely NO time in the last 5 days to even look at it. So we will see about that. If not maybe I can make the race at Ohio Valley or the Fall Classic at Indy in October. It really just depends on free time and how the car acts once I get it to the track. My other 2 cars are also LT1 cars and one uses all the same suspension stuff that is in this car so that will help speed things up there. The big unknowns are the converter and engine tuning. And God only knows what else will pop up once I get it running. So here goes please dont laugh to hard when you see it. I will try and post a beginning picture of my $675 Ebay car I started with and how it currently sits and then fill in the blanks with more pictures as I have time.

Edit: I know I cant run it in D with this hood. I was originally going to run the steel hood because I was having trouble finding a factory ram air hood. But I found this one a few weeks ago over by Louisville KY. So I need to call and order some different letters.