Search results

Clearly Fran sunk a lot of $ in this to get it as far as it got. I agree with Justin that the kit car market is just damn tough and I would argue never really recovered and probably will not in the near future either from the recession. The donor's are getting old for sure and harder to find a...

I'm not knocking of the points being made, only that this thread is 87 pages and it's run long enough. When the car is ready, let's start the new one.

we should let this thread die, there is nothing more to be said until we hear what the production version will look/be like. This is at least 1 year after the announcement of this car being made.

less concerned with getting attention, more concerned with having a lot of fun driving :) I'd love a porsche 914 to throw around and have fun on the street! there is a lot to be said for simple/light/quick = fun fun fun :)

I know there was a thread somewhere where Fran had built 15 cars for the need for speed movie that is coming out in in the next 6-8 weeks. Saw this article on jalopnik, pretty interesting how they built the replica's. I'm curious where the fiberglass bodies came from. The Need For...

i think the z06 wheels are a home run, they look absolutely perfect on there, true DD perspective. Wonder what the 09 spyders would look like?

Love your build! This has been a car build I would love to do for a long long time. Do keep posting in here. Where are you located? Also...When you finish, let me know how much ;)

clearly there is a car that is being made and customers have already dropped money down to get one, I wouldn't be worried. If he wants to wait to introduce it so that he can get the quality up, I don't see an issue. I think he'd be happy to show any of us pictures if we actually gave him money...

congrats, can't wait to see what you do with it and see what it does on full boost

This is awesome... For me, I trust you guys will figure out the exterior suspension/mechanics. What I'd like to see is a car that is comfortable (big enough) and creature comforts. I would say go for the Ford GT size, to make it more comfortable overall, reuse as much of the SL-C (e.g...

nice start and thank you for doing this! Can you put some corvette c5 rims on it? like the thin 5 spokes or the wagon wheels or the z06 wheels if you can find them?

how bout a white one with a black roof (a/b pillars as well) not sure how it flows into the actual rear, but in the rendering it looks like it would work.

looks really good from that angle. When do we get the 360 view :)

I'm 6'3" 33" inseam, tried to sit in a superformance and could not get in it. I'm 270lbs so I'm sure that did not help me. A few years ago, when I was 240 lbs, I did sit in a superformance and it was snug.

yikes...scouring CL for potential donors, mostly 'tasteless' modded cars and mostly automatics. may be hard to find a proper donor around Chicagoland. yikes... 96 Talon tsi Turbo this one looks good but 7k... 1996 Eclipse GST/GSX Built 400hp

i want v8 torque is the primary reason to put a v8 in it :)

Fieroguru is the guy on ls1tech and he makes parts he sells, I would contact him if going the 6sp route. I've seen in person the fiero lt1 with the same 6sp, so not impossible, but will need some work too.

I say awesome Fran! the ls4 is no slouch either, there are at least two guys I know running the g5 6sp in fiero's with lt1 and ls1 type setups. The lt1 is a 383 turbo monster in a '85 fiero.

fantastic news Fran!

So...back on topic...Apex - go or no go?