KInsler fuel injection unit on top of ls6 engine



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bet that thing has some mad power oversteer

 

weighs - 1980lbs

53.8 rear weight

335 rear tire 315 front tire



pic of the frame up on its side

 

heavier than I expected....my GT6 weighs less than that (and would weigh even less with an LS1 in place of the iron block I6)...but that's a sick weight distro!

 

I'm just concerned about the "T" handle steering wheel in pic 4

 

I would kill myself in that thing.

 

Looks VERY competitive but yes too heavy.

The ultimate in autocrossing designs is still Bowland's BBR Shark which often wins events by a margin of 5-10 seconds over any other vehicle. It is one reason the A-Mod class exists. A shifter cart driver I know was fortunate enough to drive it at the Natl Tour last year. Even he came out shaking from excitement.

2003 auto-x video I found

Oct 05 Hillclimb video

 

where would one obtain instructions on how to build a "Shark"?

 

very cool car, but heavier than i expected.

 

I'm not understanding what is going on with that thing's tranny. Please clarify.

 

It's a snowmobile engine, with one gear... when it's redlined, the wheels can't turn any faster... let off, the car slows down, tap the gas, it matches the rev... kind of a cool idea.

 

at the last autoX I went to, a rx7 (FD) chassis showed up...the body was a three piece CF only thin shell...no fiberglass bonded to the cf so it flexed...the frame and the front shock mounts were still FD according to the guy, but the rest of the car was completely custom fab but still had the turbo rotary of course (putting out 430whp on race gas)...it weighed in at 1300lbs with driver and he was running some crazy width V710's which were tracked out about a foot from the body! including 3 piece forged hre wheels (the ones you see in le mans on the porsche's! lol) rediculous! he said he takes it out late at night around his neighborhood for a quick spin occassionally...otherwise it's trailored of course being not street legal...everything was foam filled according to him and everything else that wasn't was "swiss-cheesed" to save weight...

wish I had my camera that day!

 

funny he takes out a cone on that hillclimb video

 

I bet the guy in the 5.0 felt silly running after that 2003 video was shot. "and next up we have a rustang..."

 

At fort devens earlier this year there was a strippied out CRX that weighed.....

get ready for this.....


are you ready......





1450lbs!!!!!

 

My GT6 will weigh less than that in "race trim"

stock 1700lbs
- fiberglass hood replacing steel hood (-30lbs)
- Keihin carbs replacing Webers (-10lbs)
-passenger seat out (-35lbs)
-driver seat replaced with race seat (-15lbs)
-aluminum spindles and wishbones (-35lbs total)
-fiberglass body panels vs. steel (-50lbs)
-full-size spare out (-25lbs)
-lightweight wheels (-20lbs)
-chrome bumpers removed (-20lbs)
-other stuff.....(-10lbs)

=1450lbs

could drop even more without the heavy iron-block inline-6 and 6 carbs replacing it with a rotary engine like some LBC guys do (take off another 200 lbs)

 

Ah yes, the phantom GT6 we keep hearing about

 

I could have done significantly better than the guy doing the hillclimb. And the gearing was terrible for that event, he topped out on every single straight.

 

I wonder how a radical would do on the autocross course (wonder if it would be better suited for road coarse) or even perhaps the ariel atoms...

 

Its really set up for autoX, he brought that car to an autoX i went to in the blue ridge region and took FTD by far:
http://www.brr-scca.org/Results/04302006.htm

I was driving the DSP 2.5 RS, a little off the pace

Here are some pics from that event:

http://www.imagestation.com/album/pi...?id=2106832136

 

me too...