Wow Brant, your car is very nice. I'm getting there but I still have a ways to go before I have all the goodies you do.

What I wanna know is... who gave Brant my home phone number!

Did you ask your wife???

Andy,
too much really... probably not worth it
although the craftsmanship is very impressive

Phoenix,
thanks sir

Eric,
a ha...
even though I can't remember my own name I write things down
thanks for your advice and time !

brant

Yep, whenever I think I have something nice, I just review Brants thread and I realize.....I have a bunch of junk.

Colorado Eric, Brett,
not true

salmon eric... hmmm... WWSD (what would slits do)

Are you refering to Rich's post? Slits would probably be fooling around with my wife too you "home-wreckers!"

Slits knows your home phone too!!!



Rich

Me thinks salmon boy should be in Torrey to settle the score.

I think my daughter looks more like Ron than me. I really don't want to know

Okay, in a seriousness. So Brant, what do you think was the biggest weight savings you did? I basically have my car stripped but nothing really removed.

Brant....tell Jon about your secret drill bit size VS horsepower ratio formula.

Jon,

no one thing was the "simple" answer to weight savings
I think I took about 400 - 450lbs total out of the stock chassis
(I figure I'm about 300 below the stock 4 weight, and thats with a motor that is 150 heavier than my old 4 racecar)

but that 400 was no single one thing
all of the undercoat, engine bay sheetmetal, lack of bondo, brackets welded tabs probably totaled a few hundred of that... and that was labour intensive weight

my secret formula was $50 per a pound.
(I figure my labour is worth basically nothing, so it was easier to put 100 hours into scraping tar than spend money)
when it came to buying lighter weight components, I calculated out what the weight savings would be and used the $50=pound formula to see if it was worth it.

taking off weight can get real expensive at some point.

Thanks Brant. I figured as much. I have my car down to 2050lbs and now it is time to get creative.

The new flywheel (not installed yet)
its the 4th different flywheel now
we upgraded once
we broke one
3rd one is not to be discussed
and here is the 4th, lightest one yet.

this one is for the new motor in a few months:
its actually used and came from Frank Beck's race car....

and:

Dude, that's pornographic.

Everything in this build is true porn quality!

Updates Wanted!!!!!!

Dude thats not a clutch its so tiny.......?

I don't have many updates to make....
today we did "out with the old"

the old is tired and dirty.
I don't have any "in with the new"
but hope to in a few months.....

another:

last dirty picture for now....
things will look better in the future:

Brant,

Your concept of "dirty" qualifies you for a white cotton glove courtesy of Ferg...

That motor looks cleaner than most fresh rebuilds that are put back -into- cars. And that one is coming -out-...

-Josh2

Motor is "OK" but that Trans does not pass the test

When is that yellow car gonna be in my garage?

Ferg

Ferg,
It's all dirty... although you must realize that trans is painted black and even cleaned up it doesn't look "normal"

when can yellow car come to your house.
she is pretty much ready to join your herd:

Anytime. Room in the Garage.

Ferg

whew...
found my thread in a search for something else
I need to get with it..

a year later:
-orange car is still running the old motor
-orange car has been hit again and both rear fenders are stripped currently.
-and I drive yellow car daily... (need to sell it)

time to start following through and doing!

Brant,

Are you going to try and make Hastings this year. I am out there next weekend for the Great Plains Carrera GT. Then in August we are going to have a "national" 924 gathering starting with a track day at Mid America Motorplex near Glenwood, Iowa. Let me know how your other little problem turned out.

Tom

Tom,

its great to see you again
I really do hope to make hastings
current goal is for car to be back on track mid july, and then definitely attend hastings...

really nice to see you again
the 924 gathering sounds very cool
good to see 924's getting some attention!

brant

need to store these somewhere...
here is post-accident..... the day of.
now both rear fenders are re-worked and in primer
going in for top coat tomorrow-ish

torn weld:

and:

new motor is still coming together
here is the new distributor:

Who made that one? I have an Electromotive crank-fire unit ready for my Twin-plug, but thinking of selling it and getting a 12 Dizzy from J-B Racing

T.C.

funny.. I bought an electromotive too (for sale soon)
this one is from Aaron at Rennworks. We did a lot of research and found out that many of the manufactured units don't have upper bearings. The heavier than single plug rotors are causing lower bearing failures and upper wiggle due to racing and extended high rpm. This one has an upper bearing unit installed to prevent that

Time for an update.
Last summer was rough.
Above are the pictures of the wreck in the first event of last year (april)
well we did body work (again) and paint (again) and brought the car back out last July 2010.... well first day back the motor let go
nothing catastrophic.... just a smoke cloud and down on compression in one cylinder. We are hoping its only a broken ring or something that didn't damage too many parts. 100 race hours, 5 years (and all at high rpm) so I'm not unhappy at all.

Well today I installed the new motor
were taking 4 days vacation to wrench in grand junction and hope to pour oil in tomorrow...

here is the new tilton (all new plates, discs, and housing) bolted to mr. Becks used flywheel:

Carbs were rebushed last year...
new ITG foams
(I painted the shroud)
New upper and lower valve covers
a mild compression full motor
pauter rods, trick heads, 81mm bore
Mr. Shea had all of the zinc plating done for me
1973 7R case
PMO tall manifolds (ported)
rennwork distributor
all replated fan, etc.....

should probably be safe to 8k

a couple more I need to store here:

and

Hopefully I'll be on the dyno saturday

Thats purdy Brant!

thank you sir
and the mag case should be 20lbs (or so) lighter.....

Looking real nice there Brant.

Dang'd computers ... Is there a way to DELETE duplicate posts?

EDIT: Thanks Gint ...

That's sweet Brant Can't wait to hear how you do

Looking great Brant! Come to Coffee and Cars Saturday so we can chat.


What duplicate post?

Cool, say Hi to AJ for me

Looks real clean

Great looking motor, what's the size? I'm guessing rather high c:r with the twin plugs.

Is that the Patrick Motorsports engine mount...looks cool.

Was that this Saturday? Never mind my C&C comment then.