Along with our restoration shop we offer competition preparation for club level motor sports participation. With over 40 years
involvement in motor sport we have the experience to prepare cars for the rigors of competition with the owners budget in mind.
Motor racing will never be an inexpensive endeavor however, it needn’t be prohibitively expensive either. Fun can be had even
on a rather limited budget. The cars display here are all club level competition cars. The majority of our customers are on a
budget and it is our aim to help them obtain the utmost enjoyment from their hobby investment without going broke. We are
currently involved in several forms of motorsport and will be more than happy to discuss the many options for enjoying active
participation in motorsports. Really, it’s lots more fun on the other side of the fence. (Click on Pictures to Enlarge)
involvement in motor sport we have the experience to prepare cars for the rigors of competition with the owners budget in mind.
Motor racing will never be an inexpensive endeavor however, it needn’t be prohibitively expensive either. Fun can be had even
on a rather limited budget. The cars display here are all club level competition cars. The majority of our customers are on a
budget and it is our aim to help them obtain the utmost enjoyment from their hobby investment without going broke. We are
currently involved in several forms of motorsport and will be more than happy to discuss the many options for enjoying active
participation in motorsports. Really, it’s lots more fun on the other side of the fence. (Click on Pictures to Enlarge)
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| Project: Rally Neon Project: ITB Alfa Romeo GTV |
| Project: F/P Volvo 142E Project: ITB Volvo 142E |
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| Enthusiasm and over excitement sometimes result in rumpled race cars. This Alfa was considerably “wrinkled” in a rollover at Summit Point. The damage was entirely cosmetic but it looked simply awful. The owner fortunately was able to supply a replacement roof panel. This simplified the work considerably as hammering out the crushed roof would have been time consuming to say the least. Hammer work was required on the fenders however. The front fender has been hammered out as close as possible to its original configuration. This car however, is an long lived racer and the fenders have been worked over numerous times making hammer work difficult. A skim of “Bondo” is applied to smooth the much abused metal and the car is ready for paint. The finished racer ready for battle once more. |
| It never pays to scrimp on the roll cage, especially when you plan on running stage rallies. Trees can be very unforgiving, as the owner of this car unfortunately found out. Here you can see several of the features that go into strengthening a rally cage. You can see the “dash” bar for reducing lateral compression, the triangulated braces going through the firewall to the front strut towers, and the door “X” braces as well as the gussets for the windshield bar. Here is a better look at the secondary brace for the cage side hoops and the brace tying the side hoops into the A pillars with stitch welds. The main hoop was built with “V” bars going down to the floor center from just below shoulder height as well as another lateral bar triangulating them. The rear diagonal supports had full X bracing as well. At the time we designed this cage it was the latest in thinking, however a few things have changed pertaining to X braces in the years since At this time, they were made with one diagonal being solid, and the other split in the middle and welded on other side. Now we build them with both tubes being solid but with slight bends in the middle to fit around each other. They can still be welded together and gussets installed, but they remain stronger as there are no breaks in either tube. Another service we provide for cars heading for unimproved roads is custom skid plate fabrication and mounting. This plate is made out of 3/8” thick “T 6061” aluminum plate. This particular alloy is best for making skid plates as it is stiffer than standard aluminum and resists being bent much better. The leading edge on this one is tilted up to reduce the chances of getting caugh on something, and there are sever more bends to get it past the engine/transaxle and down to where it is mounted in the rear. |
| A second hand competition car can often be purchased rather reasonably. This Volvo 142E was originally set up as an autocross special. It’s present owner purchased it for use as an SCCA, F/production class race car. The rules for the two types of competition are quite different. The car was brought to us bring the bodywork up to spec for it’s new role as a production class track racer. The fenders wheel openings had been cut out to allow for the wide tires and track allowed in autocross competition. Production class racing allows fender modification to allow wide wheels/tires but the opening itself must be of the original configuration. Stock replacement patch panels were welded in place after reconstruction of the inner fender. The owner wanted stripes so we designed a unique striped paint scheme for the car. The owner also had light weight fiberglass hood and trunk lids to be installed. We fitted the car with Dzuz fasteners to secure the panels and the hood reinforcement brace also had to be modified to fit down over the radiator. The front fenders were simply replaced with uncut stock units. The fenders were then hammer formed to allow for the wide wheels/tires permitted under the production class rules. |
| Our own Improved Touring B race car. |
