(Excuse the Little cut and paste from a previous thread) Fran and I have been working on this for a long time now. As many of you know I've been a client and friend of Fran's since the early days. In the past I have owned the chassis number 1 and chassis number 33 GT40. The 40 was the fastest car I had ever driven. It had no expense spared and was a great track/street, well, track car. It was a faithful representation of a modern race car skinned in a vintage body.
As many of you know, to keep a vintage look, you give up some performance features that just wouldn't look right in a vintage replica. I had a chance to drive what was the SLC test mule at Run and Gun in 2007 and then again in 2008. (It was more of a boat that year with all the rain!) That car was insane! I was able to run within 2 seconds of my best GT40 times with cold tires on a warm up lap! The GT40 won the pro class overall with those times! Anyway, it was an amazing day in the SLC.
So, the goal was to build a race car, yes, race car for the weekend warriors budget. This is not a street legal car but it could be if you wanted to add the weight. This will be a LS3 480hp crate engine with the new 2010 Porsche twin turbo six speed gear box, sparse race car interior and all of the race car upgrades needed to go fast. Not the extra stuff, just what you need. This car has the upgraded wheels, same as Fran's race car. It has all the splitters and rear wing with the new street tail cut just like green car. I will be running stock brakes because I really believe that's all that's needed. It will have the Digidash data logger with GPS.
I am going to call this one version 2.0 because it is the next step for me with Fran's company. The car number will be "v2.0"
Here we go!
Thats it out of the trailer which was no small task. Even with a 4 foot extension on the door, it took a pile of lumber to get it out with out rubbing. I moved it into the garage and started unpacking. Apparently I left some stuff at Fran's shop.:shrug: It was getting pretty late and I had a long drive ahead of me. No big deal, there's plenty to do.
(I can't upload any more pictures so I need to figure that out before I go any further. They are Iphone pictures, is that format a problem? PM me if you can help.)
As many of you know, to keep a vintage look, you give up some performance features that just wouldn't look right in a vintage replica. I had a chance to drive what was the SLC test mule at Run and Gun in 2007 and then again in 2008. (It was more of a boat that year with all the rain!) That car was insane! I was able to run within 2 seconds of my best GT40 times with cold tires on a warm up lap! The GT40 won the pro class overall with those times! Anyway, it was an amazing day in the SLC.
So, the goal was to build a race car, yes, race car for the weekend warriors budget. This is not a street legal car but it could be if you wanted to add the weight. This will be a LS3 480hp crate engine with the new 2010 Porsche twin turbo six speed gear box, sparse race car interior and all of the race car upgrades needed to go fast. Not the extra stuff, just what you need. This car has the upgraded wheels, same as Fran's race car. It has all the splitters and rear wing with the new street tail cut just like green car. I will be running stock brakes because I really believe that's all that's needed. It will have the Digidash data logger with GPS.
I am going to call this one version 2.0 because it is the next step for me with Fran's company. The car number will be "v2.0"
Here we go!
Thats it out of the trailer which was no small task. Even with a 4 foot extension on the door, it took a pile of lumber to get it out with out rubbing. I moved it into the garage and started unpacking. Apparently I left some stuff at Fran's shop.:shrug: It was getting pretty late and I had a long drive ahead of me. No big deal, there's plenty to do.
(I can't upload any more pictures so I need to figure that out before I go any further. They are Iphone pictures, is that format a problem? PM me if you can help.)
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