I purchased this car cheap engough that I am going to slowly turn it into a track car. I ordered lowering springs, bilstine shocks, 18X8 rims with R comps to follow shortly. For anyone that remembers fuzzyfish’s “super beater” 89 taurus SHO that was stripped to the bone this car takes inspiration from that. It is getting the full gutt treatment. I hope to have a race weight in the 3300-3400lbs with 255 R comp rubber. The car already has 13" brakes and 310 hp, and if it shares any of the tail happy traits of my W12 it should be a lot of fun on the road course.
for now it is a 4.2V8. It was the only engine available. The S8 had 360 hp but they do more money than I am willing to spend to strip on a car i am stripping out. The A8 handles fairly well for its size and with the car being all alum it should end up pretty light for its size. Its wide stance and massive wheel wells will allow for some pretty big rubber as well. I would not come up with a under 2K car that had this power couppled with a race weight this low. The all wheel drive was not really a deciding factor but we will see if I can get the natual understeer dialed out with suspension changes. My W12 would hang tail easily at mid ohio on power but it is a different chassis with gobbs more power and nearly 700lbs more weight so I don’t know if that even compares.
It is a L I removedalmost all of the interior today. The build quality is mind blowing on this car. I have never worked on a car where so much care was taken to make sure it is as quiet as it can be. every connecter is wrapped in foam so it can’t rattle, every possible spot where you can stuff foam or molded rubber there was something in there. even one of the C pillars was packed with foam. I am really happy with the progress I made today. probably another 2-3 hours and everything that can be removed will be other than wiring and some modules that I have not identified yet. I am interested to see what it comes in at for weight before I go at it under the hood. pulling stock exhaust and other BS I don’t need.
I removedalmost all of the interior today. The build quality is mind blowing on this car. I have never worked on a car where so much care was taken to make sure it is as quiet as it can be. every connecter is wrapped in foam so it can’t rattle, every possible spot where you can stuff foam or molded rubber there was something in there. even one of the C pillars was packed with foam. I am really happy with the progress I made today. probably another 2-3 hours and everything that can be removed will be other than wiring and some modules that I have not identified yet. I am interested to see what it comes in at for weight before I go at it under the hood. pulling stock exhaust and other BS I don’t need.