Everyone remembers the scary and horrible fire at Long Beach with Boris behind the wheel of our GT2 Corvette. I am happy to announce that the car is going back together now and will make it's first appearance at the Corvette's of Carlisle show then onto Watkins for it's first shake down runs before Atlanta.
Fire!!
Blasted and Cleaned Frame
Blasted and Cleaned Frame
Frame being Primed
Frame being painted
Frame complete in red
Front Suspension mounted
Rear suspension going together
Center Switch panel stack
Dash rebuilt and ready for install
Pedals, Steering column, and shifter being installed
Louis and myself are going at it pretty quickly now, so I will be updating the thread with new pictures as the car comes together so STAY TUNED!!!
In GT2 we have to use iron rotors were as the GT1 cars are allowed to use carbon units.
I believe size is the only limiting factor, as we do use a 15" front rotor on the car.
StopTech has been great to work with, and for the W.C. cars they provided one of the best braking units we have used in a long time. For street cars and home racers they are one of the best bangs for the buck you can find.
They do not however make a caliper quite this size. As you can see the pad cage is HUGE, I can almost fit the Brembo inside this one. They use a 30mm thick pad on each side, where as the largest the StopTech can fit is a 20mm (compared to a 15mm stock thickness pad). This is done so you can try and make it through a race like the 10 HRS of Atlanta without a pad change. At the same time, there are no tools required for pad changes with these so if you do have to make a pad change, it is very quick to do so.
By comparison, you can almost get a four wheel StopTech kit for what is in this picture....
Well things are moving along, Louis has been finalizing a lot of the wiring so not a lot of exciting update pictures for you just yet, but be looking for a lot of movement next week!
To give you an idea the floor of these cars has to be completely flat, we are given roughly a 5mm tolerance from this. You can see this in the pictures below as we string the car front to back and pick points along the floor before mounting.
To cut down on heat we are going a few more steps and covering the firewall with Ti, and it will be covered in gold just like the tunnel of the car was as well.
She started last night (Louis will have video today). It should be sitting on it's tires by tonight and then concentrating on cleaning up the remaining hoses and wires so this weekend the body can go on for good and the car can get a complete polish and wax.
Saturday night. All systems go. Car runs, drives and is now on the dyno. Tomorrow final detail and systems check. Body detail and mounting tomorrow after noon.
Rear suspension going together
Ready for air boxes
Air boxes on, Notice the tiny restrictors
Rear suspension, fueling, wiring, tires on!
Passenger side compartment detail
On the Dyno
Other than that...it's late and I will see you all on here tomorrow...then in Carlisle in just a few short days.
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