Whenever I take on a major project, I always ask myself "What did you learn from the last one?" I have built a track Mustang before, a 302 V8 swapped 97 V6 car, and I spent months researching the effort before I bought the car. Even after seeing friends SCCA and NASA cars see their completion, I still made mistakes and had to learn the hard way how to do things. There was no Watson Racing or Vorshlag back then, or maybe there was and they weren't mainstream yet, so a lot of the project was trial and error. I built my own SCCA legal roll cage, and almost trapped myself in it after welding in the X brace, and my brake package was a Frankenstein setup with Wilwood 6 piston fronts with 13" rotors, and the rears were 4 piston Wilwoods and after some master cylinder tuning the car stopped like nothing I'd ever driven.
Anyway, you guys who have got your cars to the track have probably got things you've learned and would or would not do again, and guys who are tackling their first track car project have probably done things one way and regretted it. If you were to start over with your car, what would you do differently?
I'll go first. The one thing I'm doing differently this time is buying a roll cage, not building it from scratch. The second thing I'm doing differently is taking the advice of championship winning drivers and builders instead of believing 100% of what I read on the internet.
Anyway, you guys who have got your cars to the track have probably got things you've learned and would or would not do again, and guys who are tackling their first track car project have probably done things one way and regretted it. If you were to start over with your car, what would you do differently?
I'll go first. The one thing I'm doing differently this time is buying a roll cage, not building it from scratch. The second thing I'm doing differently is taking the advice of championship winning drivers and builders instead of believing 100% of what I read on the internet.