Towy's new race car

[Towmaster]

I am suspecting as this thread is not a direct Cobra build then it will probably get booed off the Forum..... anyways time will tell. If I don't feel there is any interest then I won't post any more updates.

A recent incident at Bathurst (blown sideways across the track down Conrod at 250) made me think again about my safety when racing my little car. I fully realise if I had come off the track at that point in time then I wouldn't be sitting here typing this article. No substantial rollover protection and the fact my helmet is at best level with my roll bar has always had me worried.

I had looked at race cars in the past, MX5's etc but I didn't want to end up going slower than my current pace.

I had a false run with a previous vehicle, seller sold it out from under me after I told him I would take it. So I flew down to Sydney last Friday, looked at and placed a 50% deposit on the following vehicle.

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The goal is to have a pretty cool track car, that I can race in sports sedans or a series up here called V8 sports and sedans. I can also compete in our A series sprints at Warwick with the rest of the Cobra gang.

Budget (i'm hoping) is $50k all up..... yeah I know who am i kidding...

Plan as follows.

Cost of car $40k (with a trailer load of spare body panels, front splitter, full exhaust etc etc.)
Cost of donor SS commodore $5000
Extras $5k......

Think about it. The car comes with everything else, brakes, fuel system, adjustable sway bars, air jacks (this alone will be the butt of many jacks.. i mean jokes) 9 inch diff with 2.5 degree camber wedges, Ohlins shocks, full cage, dry sump tank etc, fire bomb, fully log booked.

All I have to do is get the motor in as low and far back as possible, get new plates for the extractors and hopefully go racing...

Leaving myself 7 months to get the car running and ready to go.

I will post some more photos of the car if anyone is interested.