Tex Blackwell

Heres a little something we have been working on. We showed the car off at the PRI show.

Then Speedhunters.com nominated the car for "Reader car of the year award"

Vote for us if you get a chance!

http://speedhunters.com/archive/2011...-year-wip.aspx

As I get all these pictures sorted out I'll put them in order and show all the stages of the car.

We go into: Custom engine/trans mounts for the ls7 engine
Chemical dipping the entire car to eliminate everything but steel
Custom sheet metal one off wide body
Cross member raising and solid with chassis
One off BRE coilovers with full hime ends
Fuel cell by ATL
Fire wall modifications (front/rear)
Fabricating seat mounts
Dry sump system
Steering column and aftermarket brake/clutch/throttle pedals
Custom brake system
Many more to come...

TinyT

What inspired the widebody? its uh, umm.... I can appreciate the time put into it and I'm sure it will perform well but, damn.

drift2004

sick! simply sick

W!d3b0dYr3X

i agree with TinyT, and you guys used sheet metal? wtf? wth is this car designed for now that you have added about 500lbs of extra material? you added a ton of weight and put an ls7 motor in it? congrats you just made it as fast as it was stock body with the stock ka in it.

nice fab work, but next time you want to do a widebody you should look into fiberglass.

weiRtech

i'm not a body guy, but i can really appreciate the work that has gone into this. wow. this car may not get love from all people who look at it, but it has certainly gotten a lot of love from the hands that built it. great metal working skills!

hoochhenry

doesnt look the best imo ,and i can only image the weight of the car now ,looked a whole better factory style body

9bells

That is some great metal fab.

HellaFab

fab work is well executed. thanks for some ideas.

RadekSkylark

Definetely design is not for everyone, have to say that not for my taste either, but fab skills and work put into it is just amazing. Great job guys

Cheers

lopez286

looks like you guys put in alot of work, good luck

Tex Blackwell

When we set the car at ride height which was 4 inches from the ground, our charge speed wide body kit wasn't going to work at all. The fenders and quarter panels were no where near wide enough once the car was so low to the ground.

Thank you!

Once we started cutting out the wheel area we had to cut the entire inner portion of the wheel wells to clear the tires, the wheel openings of our body kit we had just wasn't going to work.

The sheet metal is 24GA pretty thin, even more thin than the factory sheet metal, and all the layers that go into it. We haven't added 500lbs of extra material. Plus the new crush panels will be made out of aluminum.

The LS7 is mounted lower and than the KA and farther back so that's how we ended up compensating for that. I was thinking the same thing.

We do build fiberglass and carbon fiber products in house. We will be building molds and reproducing the body and installing after he get's some body damage. There was a large amount of interest in purchasing the body at the PRI show in Orlando, FL.

Thank you so much! Yes, we have learned a ton going through this adventure and we are thankfull to have the opportunity to have it!

Factory body just wasn't going to work, that's what we wanted to stick with but it turned into this master piece!

The car is way lighter than you think. We have removed an enormous amount of metal we didn't need.

Thanks!

Thank you!, That's what we are here for. This pure passion.

Thanks!

phunhaus

I'm glad to see Oscar and Pierre have decided to finally call it a track car and not worry about keeping stuff that doesn't belong - like A/C!

0sc_at_QuaifeUS

It was great to see you again Tex. That car is sick!

Freshdot

i appreciate the time, effort, and fab.

but this thing just made me throw up in my mouth a bit.

builtboosted

it would be a nice track car. but the color is awfull. nice fab though

Steven Perry

Is this what you teach in your apprentice program?
http://www.bremotorsports.com/resour...entice-program

And why is all the fab work taking place in another shop?

Tex Blackwell

We offer hands on experience to many students in our area, which is something almost none of them actually get.

We started and finished doing our sheet metal work along with the rest of the car but we needed to use a big sheet metal brake and shear that we just don't have yet.

I rented equipment at a closed down fabrication shop to get some of the big stuff done.

We are in process of getting our chassis dyno and construction built inside the shop.

I'll post pics of our new engine room later. Chassis dyno cell next along with our fab room being built on the other side of the shop.

essex

I loved every picture thanks for posting! Anymore big projects like this you have pics of?

I went to the speed hunters link and voted :D

HellaFab

Looking at this again, the fab work is cool.

holy **** you ruined a potentially nice car though.

Golfball

dang thats legit. nice work.