Night Owl Racing is back for the 2025 $2000 Challenge Season.
(2024 Season: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/2000-challenge/night-owl-racing-2024-2000-challenge/257811/page1/)
For this year we have new shop space, a new paint job, and most importantly a new transmission. Over the summer the team has regrouped and taken the time to sort out business related activities. After the failure of our automatic transmission in the 2024 competition, we carefully removed the auto and hastily threw it in the nearest dumpster. In place of that hunk of aluminum we installed a junkyard E153 manual transmission. It took its rightful place in the back of the car paired to a 3MZ from a ES330.
After mocking that up, we shifted our focus to the exterior. The once bare-metal body has now earned itself a paint job. We carefully removed the battle scarred widebody and hastily threw it in the dumpster next to the automatic transmission. After some light bodywork, the shop got turned into a temporary paint booth. After the fumes settled (in our lungs), we were left with a white car.
(Its blinding)
Next, the car went into the computer. The widebody was revived through CAD (Cardboard-Aided-Design), and perfected with CFD analysis. For the widebody this year, we graduated from angle grinding to CNC plasma cutting. Our metal of choice, aluminum.
(Its blinding)
So here we are.
