Originally Posted by
RedMisted
Three things here to think about:
A. The theoretical IT-optimized HP rating at the front of one of these things is approx. 238. If that is true, given that I have all the peripheral stuff done, then I only have another 8 ponies to gain. Not enough to get me excited for the car's prospects.
B. Granted, the weight thing can't be known until it is done. But you keep talking about stripping the entire car down to bare metal. It has been suggested that, in respect to my car, some of the return on performance is going to be negated because the stripping is going to compromise an already flimsy chassis. Whether that is true or not, I do not know, but it does make some sense.
C. And don't forget that the antiquated Ford sedan platform the car sits on basically limits what you can do with it. Other cars such as the 944s and the 325is were designed more as performance cars using newer and better platform technologies and components.
Even if I'm wrong about the car's potential, and I hope I am, it's still gonna take a killing to make it competitive. That is for sure. This brings up what Dick said before about the sanity/insanity issue. And my philosophy has always been: If I'm going to go completely mad building a car, it's certainly going to be in a category that might earn me a higher return, whatever that return may be.
Not dissing IT as a category, but I agree with Dick that something seems incongruent when you're talking about IT and big dollahs in the same sentence. Just sayin'