We had stripped the white car down to bare metal, and sent it off to K&W Autobody for paint. Red is faster, however, we came to a color agreement of red inside and and a white exterior color.
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| Back from the body shop |
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| Unloading the "white car" |
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The Red car and the White Car
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| The white car is very red, very clean |
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| Three R34's. Two race cars and a movie car |
So the easy part was over. Breaking the white car down, and the start of preparing both cars for the 2006 World Challenge season. Then came the hard part, making the two cars into legal race cars for SCCA. Just looking at these pictures, its hard to realize how much work actually goes into putting together the cars. We did about a month straight, no weekends, no days off. Just work on the cars. Getting them and everything we needed to have them ready for the season.
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| Heat shielding the firewall and trans tunnel |
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| Bling bling |
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| Renderings |
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| 18x10.5 with 305 RA1's |
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| Front and rear subframes in the car | | |
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| Engine in |
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| Josh working on the white car |
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| Trans in, notice all the extra spot welds |
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| Coolers and carbon fiber driveshaft |
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| Getting the bumpers and fenders fitted |
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| Rear bumper on |
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| Fitting the titanium exhaust |
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| Test fitting doors |
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| Fitting the splitter |
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| Coin slot , 100yen sticker, and 1 man button |
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| Victor and Merritt talking about the car |
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| More test fitting parts |
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| Tailights in |
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Working on the rollcage. Adding the SCCA required elements
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The FIA rollcage did not have all the elements we needed to race it in World Challenge. Instead of cutting it out and starting all over, we built a cage within the cage.
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| Its a pink box in the middle to cover the G .... sensor |
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| Getting closer |
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| A couple of spare engines |
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| Jungle gym |
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| Wing, bumpers, sideskirts on. |
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| From the front, the hood is not installed |
During the build process, there is a lot of fitting, taking apart, fitting again. Making sure that everything interacts. In the case of the race car, we wanted to make sure that a lot of the parts were easy to remove and replace in case of damage.
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| The race rig getting stickered |
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| More stickers |
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| All stickered up |
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| Stickers going on the car |
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| Windows in, stickers on. Almost ready for World Challenge |
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| Its a $19,000 box from Japan |
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| One Super Taikyu spec RB26. Spare turbos, ready to go |
During one test in 2005, we blew up an RB26. We packaged the engine up, and sent it to Japan to have Nismo rebuild it. We got it back, I think it was the day we were leaving. Right on time.
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| Loaded up and headed East |
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Both the cars, all the spares were loaded and we headed out for our six week journey. Our first stop was going to be Roebling Road for a test weekend, then Sebring, and St. Petersburg. Stay tuned for whatever part of this story interests me next.
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