ok I didnt want to "start" a new thread about my race car interior conversion (see elsewhere) or bury this in Dez's weight loss thread so I posted a new thread.
mainly because the numbers I would like to share are not usually associated with this car and are still NOT THE FINAL NUMBERS so thought it would just be interesting.

car started out at about 3250 and we stripped it to a little over 2500 pounds!!!!!!

cage when in and added close to 200 pounds ( yea heavy safe cage)

currently sits at 2700 with too much gas (little over half a tank)

lexan windows, doors, CF roof and hood, firesuppression, and one seat and dash to go back in

we are guessing about 2900 to finish

when the doors convert to Cup doors should be around 2800 pounds

just thought I would share!!!

here is what it currently looks like





thanks for looking

tom

 

That's awesome!!

What are the cup doors made of?

 

crap! That's going to be almost cheating! yow.

 

So between 2900-2950 to play it safe... That's pretty darned impressive Tom!

Should really fly man!

Mike

 

M A - M A


Certainly worthy of the last thread, and the one after that, and this one, and the shakedown thread, and the first race thread, and all consecutive race threads and updates after that. It's a forum dude, if people can't appreciate a fine example of the 996 TT in our section then they can leave. We need to catch up with the new "Drag race record" threads.

 

Freaking awesome. That thing is going to scream. I can just imagine how much fun you're going to have getting used to it.

 

Wow. You may not want a cup car....


Congratulations.



Jeff

 

wow... thanks for sharing Tom...

 

Looks killer Tom, a lot of work but great results. Can't wait to see where she ends up.

 

Any pics of the finished CF roof yet?

 

thanks, CF with Lexan windows in place of nets.

 

had them re-clear coat it today, hopefully tomorrow.

thank you all for the comments

I really feel a little pressure now cause am really out of excuses. if this car is not one of the fastest cars on any track any where it will be because of my lack of driving talent not the cars fault.

I am making sure that everything is set up as well as it can to pretty much have a GT2 CUP car.

Dez, if everyone puts up with my blogging I will continue to give the updates that you mentioned.

sharing the journey of this car with you guys is half the fun! (well almost!)

 

Haha... I can almost picture your face when posting that thread title. Thats awesome, you keep raising the bar. Way to commit to this project and congrats on the results.

 

Looks great!! keep us posted.

 

Hats off to you...that is very impressive no matter how you measure it.