New Build

[Ian Clark]

After all these years of posting parts, responding to questions asked and finding a better way to build these cars, we've decided to make available the ultimate spec CAV GT40 for the Canadian market. As work progresses we'll post pics of efforts and really neat bits going into this car. More details are posted in Vendor Announcements.

Cheers

Ian

 

[Cliff Beer]

Hi Ian,

Great looking car. And, no doubt fast and capable too!

I hear you Canadians are sitting on tons of money from all that shale oil in Alberta....no doubt some lucky Canuck will snap her up!

 

[Ian Clark]

Hi Cliff,

She ought to move out pretty well. We've done a few 347/ZFs a couple with Webers and couple with 8 Stack EFI. It's enough power that you can actually drive the car and put the power down.

Personally I think the 347 is as big as you'd need to go, then again our Gulf promo car has a 392 that came off the dyno at 550/550. It's ridiculously fast yet still predictable.

ALL the new stuff (as fitted to the Gulf car) is going in this car so it will be something special. I'd really like to see a customer order for RHD although we can build it either way.

I saw 1051 at Road America last summer, took lots of pics, no doubt a great looking car!

Cheers

Ian

 

[Ian Clark]

Some new things happening. Also you get to see a bare naked CAV GT monocoque up close and personal. These are really strong cars.

What we have here is the new rad cradle, this differs from the stock CAV in many ways. The Series 100 cars had no upper cross tube, lower diagonal tube or tubes connecting the top of the rad support tubes up to the cowl. Basically the stainless cladding was tying the rad cradle to the cowl, with just two mounting bolts going sideways into the lower front suspension mount area and a few pop rivets.

A high ramp angle driveway or bump could bend the cradle and or distort the stainless cladding resulting in misalignment, squeaks, possible paint/composite damage.

The post 100 cars have the top connecting tubes and the whole affair is weldled onto the chassis, big improvement in strength.

This is the third one we've made, but the first from part files generated in CAD. It also allows us to make the new rad cradle fit with ANY generation CAV GT as we have the data. It is a bolt on part, easily replaced or removed for repair.

There are a few bits coming in from laser cutting this week to finish it up. I'll post the finished part asap.

As a sidebar, the new rad cradle will be available as a service replacement part as Autofutura no longer makes the pre 100 rad cradle, FYI.

Cheers

Ian

 

[Garry]

Ian,
Good show. Keep us posted.
Garry

 

[Ian Clark]

Thanks Garry, will do. There's going to be a lot of "extreme" parts put on this car. Since we're starting from a bare shell, it's going to have parts added that require cutting and welding to install, not for the faint of heart or already assembled car

Cheers

Ian

 

[Paul Butvila]

Hey Ian, If you are looking for an Artist to do a cool painting of this very cool car...I know a guy...wink wink

 

[Ian Clark]

Great idea Paul, we should do one for each car sold, give me a call thanks. Cheers

 

[Paul Butvila]

will do...I saw Partners car, looks great BTW

 

[Ian Clark]

We've been working on a few sub systems for this car. It will receive all the latest greatest updates, mods and spy gear (ooops wasn't supposed to say that, sorry M.)

The pics below show our ZF Transaxle Bracket prior to tig welding with the new rear body subframe under construction. This subframe will unbolt and leave all the suspension on the car.

Also the weight and torque load of the drivetrain is carried by the transaxle bracket and motor mounts, no trans mounts on the subframe with ZF or Quaife applications.

We've already done one on our Gulf car with the quick lift tongues so it was a natural choice. This time we're going with the roll off pivot / mount instead of a pivot bolt. It's less work to R&R the rear clip should the occasion arise. More pics as the parts come in from water jet and time permits.

Cheers

 

[Ian Clark]

Here's the pics, had to resize them. Cheers

 

[Ian Clark]

This is the front subframe fully tig welded, with lower triangulation tube, rad mount pockets and front hinge slots. This subframe also unbolts from the chassis in case of replacement, no need to zip disc off the old part and weld on new. More pics to follow... Cheers