Some shots from tonight. Awesome machine.

 

wtf is up with the front suspension on that car? where is the upper control arm, it looks like its attached to the framerail, lower than the bottom of the shock?

 

lol, damn honda guys. That's a macpherson strut style suspension, no upper control arm. The shock acts as the upper control arm.

 

are you sure tony? it looks like its got a fork on the bottom of the shock ??? usually the bottom of the shock would have a huge metal piece attached to it, with through bolts that would be holding the "hub housing" and the strut inplace.....

 

lol, i'm an idiot, the older eclipses were mac struts. I don't know what's goin on there.

 

maybe magnus or someone that knows them will chime in and explain whats going on int the front susp.

where did he get that stainless v-band exhuast housing??? and are they expensive?

 

Wondering why they did not post pics of the back of the car? It is now a back half car and still AWD.

You would enjoy checking it out Tony.

 

The suspension is built by them. Orignally the hub carrier extends above the tire and the upper control arm is attached near the top of the strut tower opening. That car has custom hubs, control arms and mounting points to reduce the weight of the suspension and allow it to clear larger tires.

It would be interesting to know how much time they actually put into modeling that suspension to retain safe alignment thru it's travel.

 

I don't know **** about Talon's, but I was wondering the same. Still AWD, slicks don't look that big..?

 

yes it still is AWD....and its one crazy machine.....

 

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So what has it run? The DSM AWD record is now 8.1@176. Can it beat John Shepherd's record?

 

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it is back halfed so it really won't beat shep since he is still unibody.

just a though they may have swaped over to the 1g suspension because of more/better parts availibility.

I thought the blue one was FWD? I know one of their cars is FWD for sure and this one appears to be on a 2wd dyno for the pics

 

Nah, there's an upper control arm, I see it now. Just got rid of the oem one and made a new one lower.

 

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I thought the blue one was FWD? I know one of their cars is FWD for sure and this one appears to be on a 2wd dyno for the pics</TD></TR></TABLE>

The green one (a customer's car) is FWD, this one is AWD.

 

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You forget, there's 4 contact patches.

 

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You would enjoy checking it out Tony. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Not really a back half, The suspension and subframe that holds the drivetrain is tubular, but the body and chassis remains unibody.

finally the car is done! Business has been busy for marco to time for the car has been tight, glad is finally done. Shakedown passes hopefully this sunday at a local event.

The fabrication on the car is second to none. From the subframe, hubs and suspension. Everything was done for a reason that helps relieve breakage from the stock AWD drivetrain that is notorious for breaking.

 

It's still not really comparable to Shep's car considering it does not retain the factory suspension mounting points. The tubular crossmembers moves the suspension mounting points.

It should be a pretty sweet Hotrod class car. Which, I beleive, is the same class Shep will be racing in.

 

The turbo look to be the same on Shep's car.

 

shep and magnus both cars are amazing

 

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just a though they may have swaped over to the 1g suspension because of more/better parts availibility.

I thought the blue one was FWD? I know one of their cars is FWD for sure and this one appears to be on a 2wd dyno for the pics</TD></TR></TABLE>

if you already have a locked center diff or a center spool, then all you have to do is just remove the transfercase to make the car fwd.

 

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Everything was done for a reason that helps relieve breakage from the stock AWD drivetrain that is notorious for breaking.
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Yea, we don't want another incident with the rear pumpkin letting loose at the top end again.

 

hey bicho does that setup look familar to you ?

bump for a nicley fab'd car

 

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Yea, we don't want another incident with the rear pumpkin letting loose at the top end again. </TD></TR></TABLE>

Classic Shootout 04 memories.

 

"OH MY GOD" Passante 2004 DSM shootout

That Video is priceless!

 

mm how i miss my boosted dsm's...