{"id":1745,"date":"2013-02-18T22:30:51","date_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:30:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1745"},"modified":"2013-02-18T22:30:51","modified_gmt":"2013-02-19T06:30:51","slug":"couple-videos-of-first-drive","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/?p=1745","title":{"rendered":"Couple videos of first drive"},"content":{"rendered":"

The family was kind enough to come outside and do some camera work as I maneuvered the Camaro out onto the street:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kmWIYpJrp8A<\/a><\/p>\n

and around the block:<\/p>\n

http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ET-FRcrcH-w<\/a><\/p>\n

for the first time.<\/p>\n

Fortunately the car made it off the crazy curb we have without scraping anything…not sure the story would have been the same with the subframe connectors still in place.<\/p>\n

In the first video it is amusing to see how freely the rear axle articulates as the car descends the curb\/gutter.\u00a0 That’s what having zero rebound will do for you!\u00a0 \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Embarrassingly, I did stall the car on the driveway (mostly due to a small wheel interference issue I’ll soon fix) –\u00a0and the lesson there, was it needs a new battery.\u00a0 I’d let the PC680<\/a> in it now run down a couple times, and while it will\u00a0rise to and hold a normal voltage, it doesn’t deliver diddly-squat when it comes time to turn over the motor.\u00a0 Even with a plug-in battery tender\/jump-starter at its max 80A setting, the motor wouldn’t turn over after the stall.\u00a0\u00a0I thought this was some kind of dreaded starter heat-soak issue,\u00a0but as soon as I supplied a battery-based jumpstarter multi kit (which is also an air compressor, light, and 12V DC\/110V AC power source) it turned right over and fired.<\/p>\n

Given how much a pain getting\u00a0it going in that situation was, I’ve decided to go to a much larger (and unfortunately, heavier) battery for the time being – an Odyssey PC1200.\u00a0 At 38 lbs. it’s about 2.5x the weight of the PC680, but delivers over 3x the reserve and more than 2x the cold-cranking-amps needed to get this high compression motor turning.\u00a0 Will have to save the 4lb. lithium-ion PC680 equivalent for Nationals.<\/p>\n

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The family was kind enough to come outside and do some camera work as I maneuvered the Camaro out onto the street: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=kmWIYpJrp8A and around the block: http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=ET-FRcrcH-w for the first time. Fortunately the car made it off the crazy curb we have without scraping anything…not sure the story would have been the same with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1745"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1754,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1745\/revisions\/1754"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1745"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1745"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.rhoadescamaro.com\/build\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1745"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}