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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    Regarding "race" specifications. What are your prices for a full-race configuration with legal roll cage, side-impact protection (meaning NASCAR bars and fuel system fully contained within the chassis) and fuel system for a roller? Each company I have contacted has claimed a "race" version...
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    The problem is that in the US we don't have the choice of taking the risk. It's not about wether or not I would accept the risk but they simply won't let me out on the track unless my vehicle meets ALL the safety standards...especially fuel safety. We can be penalized 30 seconds (or more) for...
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    I was thinking about putting a 911 type cell in the front but how did you account for the crush space etc? I'd love to see pictures of that since it's sort of the most logical configuration. I am "pitching" configurations to NASA in order to not end up with a car that doesn't pass tech so am...
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    Don't know if this is old news but ATL makes fuel cells...

    Re: Don\'t know if this is old news but ATL makes fuel cells... The biggest downsides to the ATL fuel cells is they only last 5 years and fumes have to be managed since there's a certain amount of outgassing. Important information
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    Why is a Radical and a GTD different? They start as simple tube-frame chassis with suspension and a fiberglass shell. The GT40 is more complex in that it has windows and doors and cladding etc...but it's not a different animal at all...GT40 was first and foremost a race car and was altered to...
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    That's what I'm saying...this original LoLa has additional safety equipment required to meet current safety specs ADDED and yet the tube-frame kits do not seem to be available with the same modern safety equipment and are therefore not raceable. As you know, Ford insisted on roll cages being...
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    Car videos

    booo...I want my 10 minutes back. Those two would get smoked on any of our drives driving so slowly.
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    Don't know if this is old news but ATL makes fuel cells...

    Don\'t know if this is old news but ATL makes fuel cells... For GT40s and replicas. One problem I'm having with a racing configuration is replacing the Monza style caps to a modern racing cap and then figuring out what to do with the fuel filler neck but that's another problem. Scroll down to...
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    Hehehe Chris, dem disposable race cars are in the form of salvage title Civics.
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    Ron, it has turned out that I have three distinct options but they're all "in the works". Was originally thinking turnkey-minus CAV but the more I looked at that beautiful car, the less I wanted to be driving it down the street and get rear-ended and have it sitting in the garage not being...
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    Building a car and wanna know the costs....

    Out of curiosity, and that is great info thanks...which kit did you get? I don't see a kit configuration that's $35k on the RF website.
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    Pics for "Lola GT mk6, Ring, Le Mans, Aerodynamics" posted by Andre 40 Feb 15

    Is that Ruth Buzzy standing on the wall?
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    Importing a completed kit car from outside the US...

    So...if I read this correctly, if the engine is more than 21 years old it's exempt from smog standards by the EPA but otherwise it's considered a car that has to meet EPA standards? Anyone understand this or know about importing a car from the UK or Europe to the US? EPA website regarding...
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    Question on this video...

    Well that's why I was baffled...it's like a shifter kart not a le mans car
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    Question on this video...

    Found this on a website and it is "shifts at 6000rpm" but I cant BELIEVE how low the speed in gears is...is this a Audi 3V box (does anyone know)? Not that the car isn't quick (looks like around 10 seconds 0-100mph) but it appears it would be about done at 130 and one would spend all day...
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    Sparking Gun 2003

    How is the progress on your car going? The last entry on your website seems to be Feb 2002. How would you rate the NZ car and the overall quality?
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    Burning Lady?Daytona?CAV

    Hehehe Gordon, I'll answer that. As a kid, I was a WW2 plane nut...particularly Spitfires (my parents were kids in England during WW2 and my dad ended up working at Rolls Royce). Then I happened to see the movie LeMans when I was about 10 and was swayed into racing...I raced Karts and Formula...
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    Burning Lady?Daytona?CAV

    Hehehe well since we're this far off subject. This is a former "toy" which I later sold to fund my pilot's license. Thats my wife there.
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    Tremic gearboxes?

    Hehehe you know what...that was exactly what confused me...AND that the yahoo at the motor shop I was corresponding with didn't seem to understand what mid-engine WAS. Do'oh!
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    Tremic gearboxes?

    While researching transmissions, someone suggested Tremic for mating with the Ford 302 or 351W. According to this, the gearbox can be used in a mid-engine application. Any knowledge/opinions? TREMIC gearboxes
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