I need a cheaper hobby. Just ordered my Alpine Stars Fire Suit, Sparco PRO ADV seat, Scrothe harness, and few other things. More pics to come from tonights DESTRUCTION

 

Doors are gutted, will get some pics up after our Z meet tonight at Xtreme Indoor karting!

 

Do you drive your car to the track or trailer it?????
Also, can you post some pics with the door panels removed?
Thanks!

 

She is a trailer queen lol...current have a open deck trailer but want to upgrade to an enclosed end of the year.

I will get some pics up tonight, still got a few things to do before I take her to the cage shop!

 

Well she is ready for the CAGE!!!! Taking her up to Japtrix Wednesday for a few final preparations and then its time to DO WORK!!!





I was really surprised to see her fire right up on the first crank, I figured I would of had to unplugged something to upset her. Idled like a champ!

 

Heres a pic of the gutted door you requested! Point of advice, dont have your audio shop install dynamat with your sound system if you plan on gutting the car in the future lol. My installer got it everywhere and I dont look forward to removing it.

 

Well she is all loaded up on the trailer to take up to cage shop manana!!!

 

Great stuff.....can't wait to see pics with the cage in.

Are you going to put the glass in the door back in or just use a net?

 

Well a net over the driver window, as well as to the right of the driver are required. We may either use the stock glass, or use it as a stencil to make some lexan windows to put it while parked, being towed, etc.

 

Lexan would definantly save you some weight. Are you still using the stock rear hatch (and glass)?

 

Still going to use the stock hatch and glass, but I shaved the wiper years ago so that saves some weight. You cant have lexan side windows in NASA racing unless they came installed from the factory. Plus it would make hot as hell in the car. The only reason I would make some lexan replacements would be so that I dont have to be delicate with them putting them in and out for when the car is parked/being towed.

 

I am not overly familiar with NASA class racing rules....so alas I ask questions...lol. I think regardless it is going to be a scorcher inside the car in the florida summer. I would think going to a carbon/lexan rear hatch would be very beneficial in weight savings and lowering the center of gravity, but possibly throw off weight distribution a bit.

 

Its definitely something I am looking at, gotta get through a few races first before I am worrying about lowering my center of gravity. For most racing groups, windows have to be removed/down.

 

Took the car up today and had a long conversation with the cage builder...long story short, i have decided to just put the interior back and autocross the car...








NOT!!!! lol
Actually changed plans up a bit. First of all, the A/C is coming out. Just dont have the room underneath the dash to keep the factory dash bar and add the one for the roll cage. I want to keep the stock bar since it has all the brackets, etc. that hold the dash on. Second, we are cutting out the rear strut bar and making our own to tie the rear braces from the main hoop into.
Japtrix is going to finish the prep for the cage builder this week and the Z should go to the builder late next week. It will probably take about 2 weeks to build the cage since its all custom. From there, basic things like installing the seat to a steel permanent bracket, kill switch, relocate battery, and few other things. Pics to come!

 

you got me there, just for a second!!!!!!!!!

 

I got my new alpine stars racing suit in the mail yesterday....ill post up some pics!!

 

Here is my spur of the moment, "Victory Pose"! lol

Car should be back from the cage shop this Friday. Over the weekend, he cut out the rear speaker/storage frame and the rear strut bar. Pics to come in a few days

Joseph

 

Here a few pics after we cut out the rear strut brace and speaker/storage hump. Total weight removed here was about 60 lbs. The a/c is another 40-50 or so. She is going to super light! The plates he welded on the rear strut towers will be smoothed into the body so you wont be able to even tell. There is alot of undercoating that still needs to be removed as you can see in the trunk away. We are going to paint the entire interior silver, just a tad lighter than the outside color to give it a clean look. It took longer than expected to cut out the hump behind the seats so car should be be back at Japtrix by mid next week.

 

How are you doing in TTA? I plan on TTB with minor mods on my Track edition in AZ. What size wheel tires are you running? Rolled Fenders??

 

Havent competed yet, and its going to be PTA, going wheel to wheel! I am going to be on Hoosier R6 275/35/18s all around, fenders are rolled. Glad to see another NASA guy on here!