99 GT Road Race Build

I bought this car from Nick(slvr35th) in June 2011 with the intention of making it an all out race car. I didn't really have the motivation to dump a lot of money into it during summer so it's been sitting in my garage collecting dust up until a couple months ago. Now that I'm actually making some progress I figured I would start a build thread. I'm hoping to have it done by June 2012, but I'm getting married in April so I won't be holding my breath on that. The car is a 99 GT that I got as a roller with a new Cervini's hood, cobra brakes, Mach 1 rearend, H&R springs, subframe connectors, and some other misc extras. I'm building it mostly according to NASA CMC2 rules and should be a pretty fun track car when completed. It's going to have all Maximum Motorsports suspension, and will be powered by a forged 306 with a B cam, GT40 heads, and a 650 carb. Nothing real special, but I'm trying to keep it within the rules of CMC2 so if I ever try to sell it I should have better luck since it will pretty much be a ready to go car and won't need to be redone. I will try to update as much as possible. Here's how it started...
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This is the interior look I'm going for when completed...
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Got the interior and sound deadening all stripped out...
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Dash pulled out...
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One of the Corbeau's mounted in...
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New Nitto NT01 Road Race Tires...
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Got my new strut tower brace, caster camber plates, and bumpsteer kit...
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Suede wrapped Sparco steering wheel...
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Steeda race wing installed and also some lettering...
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I ordered a complete weld in road race cage from Autopower a couple weeks ago so hopefully I see it by mid January and I ordered the Maximum Motorsports panhard bar today so that should be in next week...

Cool man car looks great

cough use efi cough

wow!! big change from starting out

Well I brought the car up to my work and made some progress with it these past couple weeks so here's a few pics...

The panhard bar finally came in along with a window net and some othe misc stuff
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I gutted the dash as much as possible and put it back in
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Got the Autopower cage welded in
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Painted the hood, spoiler, and trunk of the car
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Hopefully this weekend I will have a chance to paint the inside of the car and the cage.

Looks nasty man! What size tires are your Nittos? What wheels you mounting them on?

They're 275/40R17's. I'm still trying to decide on what wheels to order. I can't make up my mind between all black 03-04 cobras, black fr500's, or black 10 anniversary cobras. Those are pretty much what I've narrowed my decision down to.

Nice man all three are awesome looking wheels. What made ya go with the Nittos over something like Hoosiers? Id deff like to see this thing done off to a great start!

Well I was originally going to go with the Toyo RA1's, but I keep reading good reviews on the Nitto's and I would like to maybe drive the car on the street every once in a great while so I leaned more towards the Nitto's. Thanks man I'm ready to see it done also!

I here ya there would be a blast driving something like that on the street would make it hard not to take evey cornner at WOT!

Thats really bad ass man!!!

Thank you sir!

EFI would be a better idea for road racing. Looks good though!!

Yeah that could be true and I might end up converting it to EFI later on, but right now I'm just wanting to get it running and get some seat time. Maybe next winter I will tear it down and switch it over so I'll have a project.