I thought I might as well introduce myself by starting a thread on here,
So I've scrimpted and saved & had group 4 shell built (& the tax man gave me a massive rebate too ;D ), I've always wanted to build a tarmac spec rally car & did start one 10 years ago that ended up as your typical unfinished project so I figured I needed a headstart this time.
This isn't going to be a £50k build as I don't have that sort of money (I wish) & will probably take some time. Fortunately I have the skills to do the majority of the work myself so materials are going to be the major outlay.
Enough waffle, you want pictures!
Early days:
As it arrived to me:
The plan is to build it as close to a professional car as possible, 5 link rear, wide atlas, coilovers all round, etc etc. I'm having trouble with engine choice at the moment so the old Pinto will get dropped in for the shake down period.
The car has moved on a bit since the photos were taken, there's many parts of the motorsport shell I don't like - the attention to detail is missing & not normally needed as they end up in the trees more often than not.
This looks like an interesting forum with a good mixture of everything!
Keep it retro!
So I've scrimpted and saved & had group 4 shell built (& the tax man gave me a massive rebate too ;D ), I've always wanted to build a tarmac spec rally car & did start one 10 years ago that ended up as your typical unfinished project so I figured I needed a headstart this time.
This isn't going to be a £50k build as I don't have that sort of money (I wish) & will probably take some time. Fortunately I have the skills to do the majority of the work myself so materials are going to be the major outlay.
Enough waffle, you want pictures!
Early days:
As it arrived to me:
The plan is to build it as close to a professional car as possible, 5 link rear, wide atlas, coilovers all round, etc etc. I'm having trouble with engine choice at the moment so the old Pinto will get dropped in for the shake down period.
The car has moved on a bit since the photos were taken, there's many parts of the motorsport shell I don't like - the attention to detail is missing & not normally needed as they end up in the trees more often than not.
This looks like an interesting forum with a good mixture of everything!
Keep it retro!
MSA rules say you can only fit a "forced induction engine" if the vehicle left the factory with one. common rally lumps are vauxhall motors, pinto, N/A cossie, S2000 would be really good even just standard!
Since its ground up, i'd want the right enine from the start, but thats just me - it'd take me ages to sort out how to do a 'swap'. I guess the Pinto offers some reasons, but i'd want summat different. 
