The car ready for the track!
The car ready for the track!
Here is the original car. The paint scheme is a special one to commemorate the
birthday of Tony the Tiger. It ran with this paint scheme at Michigan and California
Raceway in 1997.
It started on the bench. I built two cars at the same time for the Northland
500 race in the summer of 2003. Starting to read the rules and preparing the
parts. All parts where checked and weighted to see what the total weight of
the assembled car would be. Since the rules says it is okey to lighten a Profinish
kit since they are heavier (the blue Monte Carlo is a Profinish from the beginning),
a lot of work was done to get it down to the same weight as the standard Pennziol
Pontiac kit (the yellow car on the picture).
Pictures of the finished interior, all done by me.
Pictures of the finished body. I carved out a lot of weight from the body. The
body is painted by a professional car painter called Peter Bjurman and
all decaling, window frame painting and pre-priming work are made by me.
Body and interior ready to meet eachother.
On the track!
It turned out that this car was faster by 2/10 of a second per lap than the
Pennziol car at our club track - so I prepared this one for the race, but once
we got down to the track in Germany, it was the opposite on thier much more
twistier track so I raced with the Pennzoil instead which ended at a fifth place.
Also see the race report at another place on this site!
The Sakatsu chassis it was mounted on for the race in Germany. This is the only
chassis allowed according to the rules.
After the race in Germany where the Monte Carlo never was used, I needed a new
fighter for our SSC Nascar cup. So since the body was in mint shape I decided
to take the body and interior from the Kellogs car and use it but on another
chassi than the Sakatsu. On our track the Sakatsu chassis goes okey but Plafit
are quicker so I mounted the body on one of those instead. I put on as much
upgrade parts as possible as you can see with carbon fibre H-plate and carbon
fibre guider holder.
I had to put on more weight to get up to the minimum weight so I manufactured
a brass plate and screwed on. Since we have so much grip on our track (left
overs from tire glue from saloon/wing car races even if we clean the track before
each modelcar race) I put the weight as much as possible in the front to get
the car to slide instead of tilt when it was pushed to the limits. And it does
behave nice on the track
To get the interior to fit between the body holders I had to make modifications
to the interior (cut in and make an "L-shaped box" on each side as
you can see on the picture) but it looks really good and is hardly visable when
one looks through the windows. This car took over from my Dodge Coors/Kiss car
a little more than halfway through the season as my primary car. When all the
18 races where over I stood at the second place in the SSC Nascar cup 2003.
Not to bad.
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