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Old 12-03-2004, 08:11 AM
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Well this did stir up a few responses. I did not see the car Dad was talking about or the kids Accura. All in all I must just be getting old not to have responded because mine is very heavily modified. The "mine is bigger than yours" line usually gets me every time.
My toy is a Cobray-C3 built on a complete Corvette C3 chassis at 98 inches not a 90-inch wheelbase and a 60-inch width or 5 wider than a Shelby. The engineers at Vette Brake Products brought the complete suspension package into the 21st century. VBP specifically designed this package for our car using race proven components and today’s computer technologies. This 2400 pound rocket rides on custom valved shocks, front and rear fiberglass monospring conversions with matched sway bars The front coil springs and control arms have been replaced with lightweight upper and lower tube parts with modified geometry, all tied together with the fiberglass monospring conversions. Monosprings allow incremental +/- rate changes of up to 480 pounds. Moving a pivot pin/block allows easy and fast track adjustments. The IRS rear has lightweight offset tubular control arms allowing the 17-inch rims with a 12-inch footprint to be centered over the spindle using alloy parts to reduce the sprung weight. Adjustable four corner weight jacking with computer specified baseline settings and sway bars allow final tweaking so the power can be put to the road. Braking is controlled via assist from a Buick PowerMaster unit with ceramic pads on the 4 wheel 4 piston calipers modified by VBP on the 12-inch gas slotted rotors. Power is supplied from a Sportsman engine built by Scott Shafiroff Racing. http://www.shafiroff.com/sportsman_engines.asp The Dart 540 inch Gen 6 has a dyno sheet showing 876 HP at the flywheel. This setup was on alky and now running gas as the alky is just such a pain for street driving and so corrosive. It is not your average toy and may be a handful for the Honda in this case.
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