Recent content by JonathanFaught

I went to a bookstore last night and happened to find a book devoted to the Chaparrals. The way the book put the story Chaparral approached a composites engineer from Boeing's B-58 bomber program. The engineer wanted to get out of aerospace engineering and start making composite yachts...

While I love the idea of the weight and rigidity of using composites, I have the concern of repairs, I love to race and while in a perfect world we would never hit the tires, I have to admit its a issue that has to be addressed. I think that you may be on to some thing Jim, but the amount of...

I had no idea that you were being forced to run 225's in racing, I too believe that it’s unhealthy. I run 225's when I race a fwd 115hp car, to think of trying to make a 350hp+ car be competitive is crazy. Let me know if there is anything I can do from the states to help get the cars approved...

i have a friend that runs 425hp in his daily driver, so don't feel that you can have too much for the street

The Elise is not sold in the US, you can import them but they can't be registered for the street. There is a place that brings them in and converts them to US safety standard and puts in an Acura/Honda Integra type R motor, in all adding I think 55k to the price, its that or the total is then...

one company that i have worked with in geting a header for my other car is Hot Shot in CA. There were some fit and finish isues but they were solved after the second production run. They do a number of headers for cars that don't normaly have headers produced. their web site is www.hotshot.com

thank you all very much, this will be a great help in planning the project. thanks again, Jonathan

I'm starting to research different kits to build and would appreciate if anyone could give me a list of makers and their web sites if they have them. thank you, Jonathan Faught