GRM Exclusive Reveal: Exocet Spec-A

What's up with the fitment? The hood looks considerably higher in these photos than in some that I've seen from Exomotive. And what's going on between the hood and the nose?

It is sitting a little high, but there is no trim on the edges yet, and the pre-production nose mold wasn't stiff enough on the sides. The extra width is fixed with the production molds.

These were obviously an early set of panels, fitment was not ideal. We never did manage to get the gauge cover to fit, so it's rocking the stock NB part. I had to do some welding on the mounting bracket for the gauges to fit our NB cluster.

And yes, we did end up with the hood fairly high. The hood 'glass was too thick for the trim, so it's not going on.

Keith - I'm curious why you guys chose the VMaxx shocks over the Afco's you guys carry for this car. Any particular reason?

I assume it was because most builders will be using the vmaxx coilovers due to cost. I'm glad they went this route because I know little about suspension setup and plan to copy their setup.

Exactly. It's the setup most likely to be used by our customers, and we want to see how they work in this application. The math says they should and the driving experience so far agrees with it.

The supercharged XXXocet is on AFCOs, as is Exomotive's XP4 IIRC.

Moarrrrr V8 !!!

FYI: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Carbon-Fiber-COT-Race-Car-Spoiler-Wing-/151399264524?pt=Race_Car_Parts&hash=item234019710c&vxp=mtr

SteadFast wrote: FYI: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Carbon-Fiber-COT-Race-Car-Spoiler-Wing-/151399264524?pt=Race_Car_Parts&hash=item234019710c&vxp=mtr

Ha! Wants $1100.00 plus shipping and can't be bothered to upload some pictures.

Are the future Exocet wing mounts still going to work with the COT wings or are they going to be exclusively setup for APR Performance's custom GTC-200 Exocet wing? I have not seen pricing on the custom APR wing but a quick search for the style shows a fairly expensive wing. Personally, I like the look of the COT wing better.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hendrick-Motorsports-NASCAR-Carbon-Fiber-Rear-Wing-COT-Gen-5-Design-/301288039385?pt=US_Racing_Fan_Shop&hash=item46262aa3d9

Show car wing but half the price...

Scaled my Exocet yesterday 1441lbs 45 rear 55 front balance with 1/4 tank of fuel. I have 1.6 mtr. Steel floors with double diagonals & no body work. 2 17" kirkeys on sliders & extra steel on floors narrowing the tunel 2.5" dr side 1.5" pass side. I also have medium fire extinguisher at pass footwell that helped balance things as well as stock battery.

After adding 335 lbs steel weight simulating me & passenger car was 1777 51 front 49 rear with 1/4 tank of gas.

Meierznutz wrote: http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hendrick-Motorsports-NASCAR-Carbon-Fiber-Rear-Wing-COT-Gen-5-Design-/301288039385?pt=US_Racing_Fan_Shop&hash=item46262aa3d9 Show car wing but half the price...

But it's a show car wing. If it's like the one I have, I wouldn't trust it structurally above 15 mph.

Our Exocet is arriving in Monterey tomorrow, and it's going to be giving rides at the big Miatas at Mazda Raceway Laguna Seca event this weekend. If you're in the area, come check it out.

In reply to Keith Tanner:

Did not know you were giving rides! Now I have to come.

So I emailed Hendrick motorsports about the show car wings. This is what they had to say:

These wings are basically the same except for the main fact that NASCAR assigned wings to the teams at the track while these wings were built in house for our show cars. Despite not being NASCAR supplied race units, these wings were built in house to the same strength standards as the race versions.

So I picked one up. They did not accept a $400 offer, but did take $450.

The show car wing I have is a very different creature from both the race and test ones. It's just a flimsy shell with glued on end caps. I guess the teams out varying amounts of effort into them.

Same here, after owning both I cannot recommend using a show car wing. Although, there is more than one manufacturer out there so you could have found one that is designed for real usage.

I know there's been a lot of focus on bodywork and wings, but I just took a couple frame photos that I'd love to share with you guys. These cars are all going together very smoothly. I'm sure some of you have experience with tube notching, and, well, try not to pitch a tent.

You're not looking at a ringer, this just happens to be the car on table 1 right now. The last 30 or so have been this seamless with nearly zero grinding to make things fit. It's almost a shame that this level of fitment gets covered up with welds.

Big shout out to the team at Industrial Laser Solutions / Tie Down Engineering for their part consistency. It's great to see all that crazy engineering in real life, working in a repeatable process instead of just my computer screen.

LASERs for the win!

That is... Beautiful!

Warren v wrote: I know there's been a lot of focus on bodywork and wings, but I just took a couple frame photos that I'd love to share with you guys. These cars are all going together very smoothly. I'm sure some of you have experience with tube notching, and, well, try not to pitch a tent. You're not looking at a ringer, this just happens to be the car on table 1 right now. The last 30 or so have been this seamless with nearly zero grinding to make things fit. It's almost a shame that this level of fitment gets covered up with welds. Big shout out to the team at Industrial Laser Solutions / Tie Down Engineering for their part consistency. It's great to see all that crazy engineering in real life, working in a repeatable process instead of just my computer screen.

Thank you team Exomotive,

To date, it's been a pleasure working with you all and having the opportunity to utilize the best manufacturing technologies available and materials generally reserved for the defense and other niche industries to ultimately yield a product vastly superior to anything currently being fabricated for the 'kit' car industry.
With that said, It's certainly been a challenge giving everything you've engineered for production with the 11 some odd unique tube profiles, 'robbing' from our high tensile material inventory we're supposed to hold for our 'classified' customers, the 150+ unique part numbers and 700+ total parts per chassis... But you convinced us that they were all required to make something never done before. Plus, at least you worked with our current tube tooling inventory that we used for making parts meant for stopping RPG's shot at our GI's in current theaters of conflict.

GRM community, if you have not yet realized, you truly have something special here with the Exocet and future plans from the Exomotive team. And to all the kit car producers still stuck in mid 20th century mindset, it is time to step up your game.

this was the reason i chose mine along with a no paint body.

TieDown wrote: Thank you team Exomotive, To date, it's been a pleasure working with you GRM community, if you have not yet realized, you truly have something special here

Awwww... Group hug!

with the Exocet and future plans from the Exomotive team.

Did somebody say future plans? What future plans? I'm going through my last issues of Exomotive Customers Weekly, and not seeing any references to it.

"Did somebody say future plans? What future plans? I'm going through my last issues of Exomotive Customers Weekly, and not seeing any references to it."

Ok, that right there was funny. I don't care who you are. {Forgive me Jesus}

jsquared wrote: LASERs for the win!

$600 CoT wing: http://www.miataturbo.net/race-prep-75/new-wing-test-62253/page19/#post1164444