Entry/Update Date: Jan 15, 2012

Model: Satellite

Year: 1971

Weight: Wet w/driver 3500, with driver, full fuel load

Application: race

Engine Package briefly: 318

Estimate HP: Geez, like maybe 200, sea level

Trans: 727 auto

Speed: never fast enough

Gears:Stock 727

RE Ratio: 3:55

RE Type: Sure Grip



Front Tire Size Brand Model: Goodyear, 26x12 race slick

Front Rim width: 15x10

Rear tire Size Brand Model: Goodyear 26x12 race slick

Rear Rim Width: 15x10



Aftermarket Front End brand: OEM

Coil Rate: very few notes form this time, I'd guess .92" 130#

Front Shocks: Monroe Gas

Front Sway bar Dia: 1"


Rear Leaf Suspension Model Rate: stock leafs, 120#

Shocks: Monroe gas

Rear Sway bar Dia: na

Front Brakes: stock discs 10.75"

Rotor Dia Width: 10.75"

Caliper-Pistons: OEM iron single pot

Cooling Ducts: yes

Rear Brakes : stock drum

Drum Size Dia Width: 11x3

Rotor Dia:

Rotor width :

Caliper- Pistons :

Parking Brake:

Dual Circuit Dia MC: stock


Chassis: OEM

Subframe Connectors: yes, 3x3 fabbed

Torque Boxes: no

Roll bar, Roll Cage: bolt in four post cage

Aftermarket stiffeners:

Comments: Boy was I young and naive. I never knew you got paid to drive race cars until one day when I pulled in the gate and they handed me a check from the previous weekend. After that I was hooked.



1. Best above improvement: Racing seat. Nothign better to hold you in place.

2. Least effective above improvement The big stinking tires. Too much rubber for the application.

3.Next improvement

4. Above car handles IMO on a 1-10 ( 10 best Z06, 1 yugo): I'd give it a 5. I wasn't dead last but tended to be towards the rear of the pack.

Built in the early 80s, it was my first "handling" experience. Granted, it predominately turned left, but it was my first forray in to a car that didn't just go in a straight line. I beat the tar out of it and by the end of the year, decided to throw it away and build a new one, it was that rough. In hind sight, it wasn't as bad as others I've seen, but in 1983 you could buy these cars for a few hundred bucks so why put out the effort to fix it.