New chumpcar in the works... (Page 2/11)
pontiackid86 OCT 02, 09:20 PM

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Originally posted by FTF Engineering:


Maybe that WAS an option.


Damn dude havent heard from you in... years how have you been?
FTF Engineering OCT 03, 09:33 PM
Yeah, it's probably been a while. Maybe last year's Lititz?

I'm doing pretty well and really trying to keep on top of things, but I've always been mostly a lurker. I missed Carlisle this year and I'm not sure if I'm going to make it to Lititz. If I miss Lititz, it will be the first ever. I've been to all of them so far.

I'm going to post over in the Lititz thread so we don't hijack this guys Chump Car thread (any more than we already have)

http://www.fiero.nl/forum/Forum1/HTML/090265.html
hairballrm OCT 04, 01:47 AM
You guys are gold, thanks for watching.

About this project.. I am super pleased.
Sunday morning, in, we tear.

DOT , even e-code rules no longer apply. only tech.
We are endurance racing.
We shall rule the night

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"Now you too can see in the dark."
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thedrue OCT 04, 11:36 PM
Well I have done some tinkering this week. The real work starts this weekend. The whole team should be here all weekend and we will get the car torn down and start making some plans.


The two sisters seem to be getting along well!




The car had two different plugs in it. The firewall side had the autolites and the trunk side had the Bosch double platinums. It got a shiny new set of NGK's as well as a cap and rotor.


Justin got me a matching rear bumper, along with all the related parts at pick n pull. An hour or so with a hammer and pry bars and the car almost looks complete!

More to come this weekend!
thedrue OCT 04, 11:37 PM
Justin also pointed out that the car has four different tires on it. All of them raised white letter tires but all different brands. I have to say that is a first for me!
thedrue OCT 13, 03:04 PM
This last weekend much progress was made! The team got together to discuss our strategy and begin teardown.

We ate some pizza and decided what theme we were going with. Since we will be racing with team PontiAxed we wanted to build another tribute car. So many of the chumpcar teams have ridiculous themes and I wanted a car I would be proud to show off and have in my shop. We all decided we will be building a tribute of the #4 Valvoline car.



I know the real car is a fastback and ours is a notchie, its chumpcar... deal with it!

Then we settled into the shop and started teardown!













We started removing anything that is not necessary, AC, interior, accessories, soundsystem everything! You can how high it is sitting in the front. I will not be weighing every individual part but my friend has a very similarly optioned 86 SE and when the car is done we will be comparing the two to find out how the race prep effected the weight.

I also installed new spark plug wires and a new fuelpump and filter. Car is running better but I will put some fresh gas in it today and keep tracing issues. There are many exhaust leaks, that will be a project getting the exhaust all sorted!

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FTF Engineering OCT 14, 10:07 PM
Are you familiar with Doug Chase at Chase Race? http://www.chaserace.com/

He's in the Seattle area so he's not that close to you, but he raced Fieros for years and he's got a shop that does custom work.
thedrue OCT 15, 02:13 AM
I know the name. He does great work! I definitely plan on keeping Doug Chase in mind if we need anything.
thedrue NOV 29, 12:21 AM
Well Things have been moving on slowly but surely.




Here is a very big reason I moved forward with this racecar, It just so happens that there was a cage built for a fiero available in the area. This cage is very nicely built and will give us a real head start on the build. It was in a chump car a few years ago, that car was in a fairly big front end wreck so they cut the cage out before scrapping the car. The team built a new cage for their new car so this has been lying around. Should work very nicely!




I just finished installing the battery tray/box. It is very solid and the tray can be removed with 4 bolts from the bottom.



These rims came from a friend. Unless we find something better we will use these for now. Wrapped in some star specs they should work great and give us plenty of room to upgrade the brakes...

Thats all for now.

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mitchjl22 NOV 29, 01:03 AM
Yay. I miss you guys. Fiero fest couldn't come sooner!