I know we all love roadkill from the hot rod magazine guys. They seem to be GRMers at heart.
I know we all love roadkill from the hot rod magazine guys. They seem to be GRMers at heart.
that was awesome!
What a hoot. Glad I watched the entire video... surprising off-road.
that was great fun...
because they didn't have a bigger smiley face
I need a desert.
My 5 year old daughter and I watch this show as daddy daughter bonding time. She lives it.
Im probably not a model father.
I think jmc14 and the roadkill guys are really onto something.
http://classicmotorsports.net/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/c4-corvette-sport-rod/88039/page1/
I thought everything was done and then they went to play in the desert with the caged vette buggy. Thats one job I'd love to have.
In other news, Chris Harris is back to producing free youtube content as well. Its been a good morning.
That was great! I have 2 stripped down C4s. One of them is being built with a single hoop roll bar the other with a full cage. I'm converting mine from the transverse leaf spring suspension to coil overs. This will let the car be lowered significantly. I don't plan to off road them. Just have fun.
All through the video I just wanted one of them to pop a repro Cheetah body over it . . .
https://www.google.com/search?q=cheetah+fiberglass+body&biw=1565&bih=1002&tbm=isch&tbo=u&source=univ&sa=X&ei=Hgl5VM3JJYbHsQTupYDwCQ&ved=0CDMQsAQ
So who else just spent time on Craigslist looking for cheap Vettes?
In reply to DeadSkunk:
I thought about it...
I picked up one of my C4's for free. It had the engine and transmission removed but it was a manual car and had a Dana 44.
The other one I purchased for $700. It was trashed inside and out but I drove it onto my trailer.
The Cheetah is not a great fit for a C4. The Cheetah had a 90 inch wheelbase was 60 inches wide (if I remember correctly) and the engine is moved so far to the rear that the transmission bolted directly to the diff.
There is a guy by the name of "Mr Bruce" that makes a wider, longer Cheetah body that uses a dedicated frame with C4 suspension.
If I could find a running Vette for under $1k I'd have my 2015 Challenge car.
Rick or Tim needs to invite them to the challenge. I am sure they could come up with something interesting...
pimpm3 wrote: Rick or Tim needs to invite them to the challenge. I am sure they could come up with something interesting...
they'd just bring General Mayhem and dominate..
is it under budget?
It looked like the lingenfelter vette had paddle shifters behind the steering wheel but was a manual.
that makes me want 2 things:
mothball my c4 and forget about it for 20 years
buy supercharged c7
unfortunately the more feasible thing budget wise is put an lsx and 6 speed in my c4 to get the glorious noises.
There was a comment in the video about having 10k into the c4. Could be done a lot cheaper.
Rusnak_322 wrote: It looked like the lingenfelter vette had paddle shifters behind the steering wheel but was a manual.
All manual-trans C7's have the same paddle-shifter steering wheel as the autos because Ma GM is a cost-cutting corporation.
In reply to oldtin:
true but they do have crazy built engines just lying around
Except that marshmallow 350 they stuck in it. Feiburger admitted its was weak. 350hp/350ft/lbs? That was from an even older article about making a 350 look cool. Hence the tunnel ram. Just goes to show you can stick a weak-sauce v-8 in something like that and have it go like stink.
In reply to Appleseed:
it doubles the NA Miata's power in the same-ish weight vehicle
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