Project: Maverick
Posted: Wed Jan 04, 2012 9:29 pm
Well after today its finally been decided that i will be putting together this monster on a rolling GPX shell, not my own GPR.
Plans for the car are eventually a full spartan track car, with everything from fuel cell top stripped out electronic dash, full cage and carbon racing seats etc etc, all eventually as this will take a year or two with my current budget.
I will aim to get the car running with small mods by next August (time attack) possibly a bit sooner to have a few runs out at lakeside to try and get as much practice in as possible
Will be a 4g63t AWD car, aiming for 600hp, 800ft pounds when its all golden crispy and in its prime. Until then i wil; running a stock internal motor with everything else getting ready for the changeover.
As it stands i am going to put it into a storage facility and work off it there slowly but surely. First things first i will completely strip it down and prepare the chassis, then buy the half cut and slowly start to put it together then awd the sucker, then get the sucker running then start putting in everything from seats to cage etc etc.
Here some pics taken today when we took it off the trailer (which was surprisingly easy actually) willl get some more after the seagull day when its cleaned up a bit.
Bad points (not really for its purpose) are that the condenser is slightly bent as it was in a very minor accident, but the front bar is fine (needs a respray bit faded) and the bonnet needs a respray eventually (faded again, but good condition, not bent or warped) and just spotted when we got off the trailer was some bubbling on the roof - but so little and unnoticable we didnt see it when we initially inspected it, looks as though the paint is just slightly bubbled/raised - nothing to slow down the project, as the car is getting resprayed white or black.
Will update here regularly as the project gets on, so check in to see how its going.
Taz
Plans for the car are eventually a full spartan track car, with everything from fuel cell top stripped out electronic dash, full cage and carbon racing seats etc etc, all eventually as this will take a year or two with my current budget.
I will aim to get the car running with small mods by next August (time attack) possibly a bit sooner to have a few runs out at lakeside to try and get as much practice in as possible
Will be a 4g63t AWD car, aiming for 600hp, 800ft pounds when its all golden crispy and in its prime. Until then i wil; running a stock internal motor with everything else getting ready for the changeover.
As it stands i am going to put it into a storage facility and work off it there slowly but surely. First things first i will completely strip it down and prepare the chassis, then buy the half cut and slowly start to put it together then awd the sucker, then get the sucker running then start putting in everything from seats to cage etc etc.
Here some pics taken today when we took it off the trailer (which was surprisingly easy actually) willl get some more after the seagull day when its cleaned up a bit.
Bad points (not really for its purpose) are that the condenser is slightly bent as it was in a very minor accident, but the front bar is fine (needs a respray bit faded) and the bonnet needs a respray eventually (faded again, but good condition, not bent or warped) and just spotted when we got off the trailer was some bubbling on the roof - but so little and unnoticable we didnt see it when we initially inspected it, looks as though the paint is just slightly bubbled/raised - nothing to slow down the project, as the car is getting resprayed white or black.
Will update here regularly as the project gets on, so check in to see how its going.
Taz
are you going to be selling of all the parts you dont need?
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