Nice color choice, that's what color mine is...I think it's jazz blue.
Nice color choice, that's what color mine is...I think it's jazz blue.
Driver School: Complete (April 2007)
Regional License requirements: Complete (June 2007)
Race Car: Renting, started building my own
First Win: TBD (3rd in Pumpkin enduro! ITA)
The running gear is going to have to be SOOOOOO clean to keep up with this paint job! It really looks awesome!
Wow.
Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
for sale: 2003 Audi A4 Quattro, clean, serviced, dark green, auto, sunroof, tan leather with 75K miles.
IT-7 #57 RX-7 race car
Porsche 1973 911E street/fun car
BMW 2003 M3 cab, sun car.
GMC Sierra Tow Vehicle
New England Region
lateapex911(at)gmail(dot)com
Kirk,
I don't want to be a wet blanket, and I hope I'm wrong, but in the first pic, is that a tab for the window net rod? Have you gone w/ the 'flip up' style or the 'drop down' style?
Oh yeah, the car looks awesome!
The window net is a drop down, not off the shelf parts.
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More pics Kirk! C'mon hook a brotha up!
Washington DC Region
Scuderia Tortuga
MARRS ITC Scirocco #12
Things are starting to move along quickly now, unfortunately Kirk is working in Jackson Mississippi all week, so he's not around to take pics, but he might have some from the weekend. We've got most of the wiring harness back in, the dash support, steering column and pedal assembly are in. I've been trying to get Kirk to quit his job so he can work on the car more, but he keeps mumbling something about this money stuff, WTF?? I don't get it. . .
Kirk and crew-
Looks great, hope to see you at an event someday!!!
Raymond
RST Performance Racing
www.rstperformance.com
Jazz Blue!!
Jazz Blue!!
Jazz Blue!!
:P
Spent a LOT of hours working on the wiring harness, cleaning things up, correcting problems, cleaning, and rewrapping bundles. But we're making good progress now...
Cameron Conover's just about finished the real, IT-spec engine, too. Won't know what to do with an engine that doesn't have 160K miles on it.
We're pretty bummed about not being at the VIR regional fandango this weekend but it will be worth it to have everything done right.
K
wish I had your time and money!!! Looks great Kirk and crew!!!
Raymond
RST Performance Racing
www.rstperformance.com
I'm sure I missed it somewhere along the way, but I just noticed no cross car tube. What's your thinking on that? The cage looks great BTW, as does the whole car. Shame to race it in a way!
Jake Gulick
CarriageHouse Motorsports
for sale: 2003 Audi A4 Quattro, clean, serviced, dark green, auto, sunroof, tan leather with 75K miles.
IT-7 #57 RX-7 race car
Porsche 1973 911E street/fun car
BMW 2003 M3 cab, sun car.
GMC Sierra Tow Vehicle
New England Region
lateapex911(at)gmail(dot)com
>> but I just noticed no cross car tube.
I see a bar between the main hoop legs.
Or did you mean a dash bar... I can tell you stories about broken wrists, hands, and legs from them. The large corregated beam under the window dissipates energy as Wolfsburg designed it to without buckling and throwing the steering wheel through the window or your legs like a dash bar can.
Not a fan of the dash bar.
Ditto.
Where some cars have a little bracket that holds up the dash, the Golf III has a fabricated beast that weighs 15 pounds and runs between hefty bolts in the door jams. The downtubes of the cage are outside of that structure - in notches, actually - so it comes into play immediately if there's a side impact. The firewall is also way heftier than on a lot of typical cars that end up getting IT'd.
Compound that with the compromises necessary to get a bar in there, absent the motivation to rip stuff out that some people enjoy. If I'm leaving the heater box, fan, and dash vents functional, that leaves room on top of the dash or under it. I'm totally not a fan of the latter and the former puts structure where it already is, to my mind.
K
Unfortionatly I am helping build a ITB VW right now, and have a question.Ditto.
Where some cars have a little bracket that holds up the dash, the Golf III has a fabricated beast that weighs 15 pounds and runs between hefty bolts in the door jams. The downtubes of the cage are outside of that structure - in notches, actually - so it comes into play immediately if there's a side impact. The firewall is also way heftier than on a lot of typical cars that end up getting IT'd.
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Is this leagal?
GCR 18.3.4.E states
"One (1) bar is required in a horizontal plane between forward
cage braces in the dash area."
Is this considered a bar? Will this pass tech?
Thanks in advance
You're looking at the Touring Section. The Showroom Stock Section says the bar is recommended.
18.2.5.E
Kirk, that car looks fantastic. VIR in May?
NC Region
1980 ITS Triumph TR8
We hope to make the Tarheel track day the first weekend of April, as a test and tune, and then that May race weekend...
K
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