If you get a chance, try to take that bar out of the door. It weighs a TON! you'll be amazed when you have it out. drill out the spot welds and it comes right out.

The car looks good. Now you'll need to call Paul at Nissan Motorsports and order the Carbaon/Kevlar NISMO body kit for it!

-Rich

 

ordered those asbestos shoes yet?

 

It seems that the positioning of the fire suppression lever could be conducive to accidental activation in heated driving/shifting situations. Or is it more recessed than it looks?

 

Nah, I just keep more stuff between me and the headers.

 

I have a ? for the OP, what is your target weight? I'm looking for 2600# wet, realistically I'll settle for 2800# but my target is to slay Z06s. I so do not fit into any other class than SM2, which will kill me to be competitive in, but I don't really care for too many rules and certainly don't like someone telling me I can or cannot do this to my car.

If you haven't read I'm starting a HR motor swap this winter (should take delivery of HR longblock labor day weekend) and plan on some minor upgrades to try 350WHP with a gutted car. I have no realistic dreams of competing, I'm happy just going fast and having fun doing it.

 

Car looks great especially at that height. Can't wait to see how you do.

 

good freaking LUCK

 

Hey there...curious if you could do some posts/pics on how the brake ducts are in?

 

Nice job. Love the door bars. Turned out well.




You make the brake ducts yourself???

 

Yeah, just used some wet/dry vac hose from lowes or home depot. I'll have to find some better pics of how it's routed.

 

Looks great, any plans for more aero mods? A simple front lip wouldn't hurt.

 

Eventually I hope to get a front splitter, full undertray and rear diffuser. Bank account needs a little recovery time right now though.

 

that's nice and all, but where are you gonna mount your sub box now?

 

you're lucky in that you got your dash in. my dash will not fit anymore with my cage looks great though! i'm going to start a new thread and post up pics of what i've got done.

 

I'd like to know too. Getting the car down to even 2800 lbs wet, is impossible to do (I think) without going to lexan, and swapping out as many body panels as possible with carbon. We stripped a car down to 2800lbs, but without the cage, seats, or safety equipment. The cage adds about 120lbs. and the seats and hardware about 60lbs.

In the rear world, without resorting to massive body modifications, I think a target weight of about 2900-3000lbs is about as light as you can possible go. Once the big stuff comes out of the car, it's so freaken hard to pull that last 50lbs of so out....just go on a diet!!

 

I'll have it on the scales at Roebling this coming weekend.

It has actually inspired me to go on a long needed diet. I've lost ~20lbs and I have another 15 to go.

 

Very Nice Roll Cage Fabrications Sweet Track Set-up!!!!

 

looks good wish I had the ***** to do that.

 

have you thought about a cool shirt system like this to keep cool:

http://www.apexperformance.net/CartGenie/prod-71.htm


where can i buy this? i looked on website but couldn't find anything about buying it, just info on it

 

I have looked at the cool suits. A few friends of mine use them and they highly recommend them. Just a matter of money and the additional weight. The next few events shouldn't be as bad but I might try to get this setup for next summer

Regarding the Torvec LSD, they are working on getting them into production and estimate it will be at least 6-8 months before the first diffs are ready to go on sale to the public. Keep checking their website for updates and I will let everyone know if I hear of any news.