Build A Faster Car - helping drivers engineer

Probably not considering the thing weights 3364 lbs with driver and half fuel, but I intend to show it can be balanced, surprisingly fast, and fun to drive.

The weight of the car is high (near it's stock weight) by design because I left most of the original uni-body structure intact. I come from the school that has learned over the years that engineers really do know what they are doing most of the time. When I started the build I decided a stiff chassis that would allow what ever suspension geometery was bolted to it to do it's job was more important than a light weight car that would twist and distort with every load applied. Sure it's possible to build a cage that will adequitly reinforce the sub-frame, but you will need to be a skilled engineer to design it, or build a complex chassis jig to test your "cut and try" design and then "cut and try" and "cut and try" until you get it right. By tying the original structure into a minimal SCCA GCR legal cage at 25 points I believe I have produced a chassis that will allow my tuning efforts to be predictable using chassis tuning theory.

So now it's time to put a set up under the car that will be balanced and tunable right out of the box. My resources are, "How to Build the Ultimate Super Street Mopar" Mike Martin, 1988, "How to Make Your Car Handle" Fred Puhn, 1981, "Competition Car Suspension" Allan Staniforth, 1988, and sights like this.

I sure hope this sight picks up a bit of speed. I'd love to spend time here and bounce my ideas off others. It's great to read info from folks who seem to know what they are talking about and how to apply math to race cars. I encourage anyone who stumbles across this sight as I did to join, it's free, and post anything appropriate. If the traffic picks up lots of great ideas can be shared helping us all go faster.