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Pirelli World Challenge/Trans-Am Camaro Build Thread
Welcome to the build thread for our new Camaro race car. This car will be built as a Pirelli World Challenge GTS car as well as in Trans-Am race series as a TA3 car.
I currently run a Mini Cooper in World Challenge on Breathless Performance Pro Racing Team. Last season was my first ever race season and I finished in 5th place over all. This Camaro is an awesome step up from the Mini Cooper. I will be running both of these cars next season. If you would like updates on the build please subscribe to this thread. I will try to update it frequently as things get done to the car. If you would like updates on my racing please take a look at my racing page on Facebook. https://www.facebook.com/jfichterracing As of right now sponsorship opportunities are available for both of these cars. If anyone is interested, or you have any suggestions of sponsors I should pursue please PM me. We are also looking for some design ideas if anyone is good with photoshop. We are looking to stick to the same colors as my other car. This is my car I run now. We bought the car as a theft car. The car had the engine and transmission stripped as well as most of the interior. Its not much now but it has a lot of potential. Sorry to keep everyone waiting. The Arrival The white beauty is my street car Here is one set of racing rims that we have bought so far just to get the car rolling. The original set if rims was from an old firebird and they didn't fit over the brakes. The Damage Because we bought the car sight unseen we apparently missed an important detail, it had a sunroof. They also neglected to tell us that once the car had the engine and tranny removed the driveshaft was left in place while it was towed. This means that the driveshaft spun as the back wheels did and tore apart the transmission tunnel. We aren't complaining because this is the fun in building the car. Here are some pics of the damage to the transmission tunnel. You can see the it not only destroyed the inside, but also the lip on the tunnel and the outside of the tunnel. This is half of the shaft. The first half of the shaft fell off while we were pushing it because it was so damaged. Here is a picture of the biggest problem right here. The Fix We began stripping the rest of the interior out. There wasn't a whole lot left so it didn't take long. The dash and all the bars were pulled so everything behind the dash could be removed. The first attempts for the body shop to fill in the roof were unsuccessful. Luckily they blamed themselves and fixed it for the original price. They eventually decided it was better to replace the entire roof rather than to fill in the sunroof. The First Attempt The Second And Final Attempt Transmission Tunnel Fix It has been welded and reworked to look factory. Sorry I forgot to get pictures before it was fixed. Tomorrow the car comes back from the body shop and thats when the real fun begins. Once it is back there will be no more repairs, only racing improvements. I promise the fun is only just starting. The transmission pieces were delivered to the builder 2 weeks ago meaning it should be done in about a week and a half. The pieces for the engine builder have just started arriving. Update 1: Steering Wheel Has Arrived All of the wires have been removed. This is only 1/4 of it. The doors have been trimmed down to fit the roll cage door bars. They will be trimmed much more later on. Front crash bars have been removed and will be custom fabricated to be lighter We are in the process of putting some heat reflecting material on the firewall and the transmission tunnel. This is what we have done so far. Last edited by jasonfichter; 09-27-2014 at 09:36 PM. |
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Seat has been mounted. It is ready to go to get the cage put in tomorrow. Last edited by jasonfichter; 09-30-2014 at 08:02 PM. |
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Jason, cool pics. thanks
What are the rules for WC GTS? Are you allowed to mess with the suspension much, like pick up points, and geometry? apparently the CTSCC cars are not allowed to do much with suspension geometry. I wonder if you guys will raise RC after lowering the car, or just leave it lower and use a bigger bar? |
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09-24-2014, 08:38 PM | #8 |
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Good luck in the new class Jason. It's good to see that your street car is a Camaro too! I get the feeling that a lot of drivers don't care what car they are in, as long as they can race.
I'm assuming that you'll replace the engine with a stock LS3? Do you have to run restrictors, or will you be able to boost the HP? As for the livery, you could always do some sort of contest on the Forza forums. Some of those artists are extremely creative and talented.
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The forza idea sounds great. Im sure plenty of people will want to design the car. Thanks for the advice |
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10-27-2014, 09:42 PM | #10 |
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Not sure why some pics are upside down. Sorry about that. The cage was put in last week as well as the window net and steering wheel. This weekend the dry sump was mounted and a custom box was fabricated to cover it up. We also made a floor pan with a custom dead pedal. Next thing is to have the radio delete panel built. Also a panel needs to be made to cover up the access from the passenger compartment to the trunk. The tranny is completely built and ready but the engine has taken slightly longer than expected to build. Hopefully it will be done in 2 weeks. |
10-28-2014, 03:03 PM | #11 |
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Wow, I'm really excited to see this come together, thanks for letting us follow along. About what weight are you shooting for?
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Awesome!
Fishing rods in the shop? Get back to work!
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Nice thread.
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Update
Car is getting closer to being ready for next season. Still some minor issues with the tranny and engine being built but hopefully it will be done this week. We should be done painting tomorrow. All of the glass was pulled from car to get ready for paint Excess metal was removed and bondoed Car was prepped for paint Cage was painted black |
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