| SouthernGT No8
Thought I would begin a thread to detail my building of a SouthernGT from Mick Sollis based near Southampton in the UK. Basically this has all come about after buying a GTD last June. After owning the car for some time I decided to start a slow upgrading to personalise the car as most owners do. A number of calls to Frank Catt at Wealden Engineering had my car booked in for the work to start. A rod gear change, tilton pedal set, clip off steering wheel were the main jobs. I visited Frank and Geoff (who incidentally works along side Frank) to help out for a few days and make those small decisions. Hmmm. Decisions,Decisions? I was struggling doing that. After a lot of head scratching we decided that the best course of action was to re-chassis my car with a new chassis from Mick as one of the larger mods not already mentioned I was wanting to do was too fit Franks suspension setup which was starting to look a little silly financially. Eventually after some more thought I decided that the most sensible route would be to build a complete new car thus allowing me to still use my current car till the new one was finished. Off to see Mick with Frank and Geoff too order a chassis and detail what I wanted extra on the car. ie a roll cage, zf gearbox mounting, lowered floor pan etc. I visited Mick recently to tie up some loose ends and see how the chassis was coming along. Well its very nearly finished and a superb job has been done by Mick and his son Adam. I am looking forward to getting stuck into the build and will keep regular updates going on the web site. In the meantime I am doing some small jobs on my current car while the UK weather is so bad. As soon as Frank has the chassis to fit his suspension I will update the build thread.
Martin. |