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.