A Chance to Spend $1M On Your Solo 2 Car.

[Greg F]

Suppose a very large company decided they wanted to sponsor you and your current car for Solo 2, and they were giving you a budget of $1M. How would you modify the vehicle?


The car must be your current one. (You cannot buy a new one.)
You can spend up to $1M on modifications.
The sponsor would be willing to transport the car to and from events, at no charge, and without affecting the $1M car-mod budget.


Hmm, what to do? :rolleyes:

[Keith-02Accord]

I'd settle for $100G :)

[13inches]

Built motor, bigger blower, wheels, tires, carbon fibre this, lightweight that... I might be able to spend $30k if I try hard enough.

So the rest goes to a bigass house and garage to work on it.... :D

[JoeT]

Cage,
Tube frame the sucker
Carbon Fibre all body panels
WRC Sequential Gear Box
WRC Style engine and management (All torque due to restrictor plates, woohoo!)
Lighweight suspension components
Short ratio steering gear
Make is look like a bone stock daily driver, but only weighing 2200 Lbs with 500 Lbs ft of torque.

That'll get it up to more than 1/2 million.

[Travis]

I'd hire a machanic, and a driver :D

I'd rather drive it myself, but I'm pretty sure I wouldn't be sponsored next season if I did.

[gatherer]

I dunno I think it's best if I just post a class

AMOD

I think that says it all...

[AlienDNA]

Hmmmm, probably purchase a donor Porsche Carrera GT, swap the VIN plates and I'm done. :D

[Doug Phillips]

Suppose a very large company decided they wanted to sponsor you and your current car for Solo 2, and they were giving you a budget of $1M. How would you modify the vehicle?


The car must be your current one. (You cannot buy a new one.)
You can spend up to $1M on modifications.
The sponsor would be willing to transport the car to and from events, at no charge, and without affecting the $1M car-mod budget.


Hmm, what to do? :rolleyes:

I already spent that much on my car. I would top off the gas tank and buy beer.

[1morelap]

uhm... buy land, buy off city officials, make a concrete pad about 1 mile by 1mile, get golf carts for hired marshalls and go test and tune for a couple hours. :D maybe invite some other pylon crushers.

[7plymaple]

Tube frame then replace all body panels with balsa wood frame covered with varnished tissue paper.

[soloZ]

I guess the quickest way to spend the money would be full Carbon fibre chassis,body. Have a Chevrolet Z06 engine mid mounted with maybe a supercharger for shits and giggles. Full Cantilever suspension ohlen shocks with some very large carbon rotors with BTCC sized calipers(or well maybe scale them down so they will fit an 18" rim) and run the car ooooooooon Methanol, I wonder if that would work? Oh and we can't forget the cone shreader front splitter the rear splitter and a nice purposefull wing mounted just a couple inches down on the rear glass(more like vented cover)

that would be sweet :)


edit: I have allways wanted a stackstackstack Instrument cluster add that too. oh and one of those system that record all the parameters while driving and sending information to my pit crew.

[B-Rock]

Tube frame then replace all body panels with balsa wood frame covered with varnished tissue paper.



WTF ????



I think i would have a fast car for 1M........... But i still got to learn how to drive it.

[TOYSRUS]

Cage,
Tube frame the sucker
Carbon Fibre all body panels
WRC Sequential Gear Box
WRC Style engine and management (All torque due to restrictor plates, woohoo!)
Lighweight suspension components
Short ratio steering gear
Make is look like a bone stock daily driver, but only weighing 2200 Lbs with 500 Lbs ft of torque.

That'll get it up to more than 1/2 million.
I like Joe's thinking here, there is a fellow south of the border however who is looking to install a STI drivettrain in a MR2. This would be my first step followed by Joe's list of mod's but I would pay closer attention to airflow modifications. 1800 lbs would be a realistic target for this project.

[JoeT]

I just happen to know where he can get a Forester XT drivetrain complete for about 5500 canadian. Those that know about Subies, know that this is the same engine as the STI.. Lots of potential.

Muahahahaha

[Greg F]

Front LSD;
Adjustable center diff;
Relocate suspension mounting points;
Modify uprights and necessary suspension members to allow massive wheels and tires to fit without increasing track width too much;
Assortment of V710 and Tech-RA tires;
Assortment of wheels;
Coilovers and shocks;
Extensive body lightening and weight addition to get 50-50 weight distribution, F/R and L/R, with driver;
Steering wheel mounted sequential shifter;
Sequential gearbox with high ratio final drive;
Ultra fast steering rack;
Electric P/S pump;
Electric brake booster vacuum pump w/accumulator;
Adjustable ABS;
Race prepped motor @ 35psig boost;
DSMlink;
Driver training courses.


I'll keep my A/C though.

[kwlsti]

i'll take one of what joes haveing :D

[JAYh]

1. Jack up radiator cap
2. Remove Corolla GT-S
3. Insert (original) Ford GT40
4. Lower radiator cap

I may be a little over budget for the million though. :D

- J

[John Powell]

A Courage-Mazda with a periphal port turbo 4 rotor Renesis. :D :D :D

[Greg F]

1. Jack up radiator cap
2. Remove Corolla GT-S
3. Insert (original) Ford GT40
4. Lower radiator cap

I may be a little over budget for the million though. :D

- J

Inspired by today's PINKS episode? :)

[fcracer]

I'd hire Joe Cheng of B.C. to build a new A/Mod monster. Here I am driving the Phantom Special during some wing testing. Needless to say, the wing was modified from this setup due to it not producing enough downforce!

http://www.fcracer.com/videos/phantom-farzaan.mpg

If you included all of his and his co-driver's time (Gary Milligan), the Phantom Special would have likely cost upwards of $250,000. The new Vancouver Special under construction is even more expensive and has been extremely time consuming for Joe.

For those who haven't been around for long, the Phantom Special redefined A/Mod across North America. To watch Gary Milligan drive that car is a magical experience.

Farzaan

[soloZ]

thats pretty cool, I wonder what the chances are of anything like that coming to Toronto for the Cacnats

[Greg F]

Cacnats

:D LOL

[soloZ]

:D LOL

you liked that eh

[Drtacura]

AWD supercharged K20 Gen2 teg :eek:

[TYSON]

Since we have to start with the car we already have, I'd build this, though I still might have enough left over for a coach with a stacker trailer. :D