Probably cut as much of the bottom of the car out as possible, added carbon fiber doors, trunk, hood and fenders and painted them to look OEM. Add in light weight wheels, strip the interior, bumper supports, light weight battery, no stereo equipment or any other non essential items to do it. That’s a huge weight break right there. 3200# with a good power plant is like a missile down the 1/4 mile.
Yea I assume it had an aftermarket k-member as it looked like I could see through more of the front than I normally could and I noticed the lack of exhaust tips at the back which tells me the exhaust probably ends near the diff or something which also saves weight.
The brakes are tiny too. Seems sacrelidge on the 350, but to each their own!
i agree and i do have plans to toss a built motor into this cara catastrophic crank failure will be well north of 10k. Really comes down to long-term goals, I think. If you'll eventually chase big power and get serious, there's no real reason to do a S/C first. But if you're still wanting to just have fun and are comfortable planning for a motor build, then S/C will be more fun.
I don't say this just because of the FPC - anyone racing should be ready to buy a new motor
To be honest, it doesn't look like they did much, just a set of wheels, drag brakes from aerospace exhaust dumps, and a simple gut. from the look of it, it seems to have stock doors hood, etc.
Front strut brace is missing from the engine bay pics but agrred no sign of lightweight doors or hood. Assuming bumper supports may be gone but can't see that.
that or replacement light weight bumper supports
well i lied about vmp on may 9th its actually at mri
I will post a more detailed update later today. I'm datalogging the pmas tune with Lund atm
Lots going on out there and it’s easy to forget a step or turn something off that can ruin a pass. Stay with it.Well, Friday night didn't go the best. My Draggy wouldn't log anything, and the track got oiled down 3 times, so we only got 2 runs in but forgot to turn off my TC on the first one.
So you can guess what the car did. Yep, that's right, it bogged hard. I guess dumping the clutch with launch control set to 4000 rpm and TC turned on doesn't mix too well, but I will tell you this: the MT Street S/S bit that track hard. Unfortunately, we only got one more pass, and the car ran slower but trapped faster. It ran a 13.1 @ 116, and then it all went downhill from there. The next 2 cars oiled down the track in front, which only left us 20 minutes until the track closed. So they ran out the rest of the test and tune. And when they did, I was in the car to run after the pair in front, and the car in front of me oiled down the track, so we packed the car back up, aired up the tires, and went home. That's the end of the bad news. on to some good news
i can't remember i know it was 2.3 or a 2.5
