A race car is born - With a difference

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:07 am

IIRC that one was a VX underneath...?

ABZ-Elise · Post by **ABZ-Elise** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:56 am

I thought the one that was a VX underneath was the S2 Exige that was at Le Mans...

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 12:06 pm

Yeah, that's right. The VX was turned into a GT3 Exige.

The first one pictured looks like an original Autobytel Motorsport Elise race car (they were built as central seaters) but looks like it has an Exige roof and possibly a one-piece rear clam so it could be converted Exige.

I know of 3 cars that have been converted to central seat but they have all been out and out race cars without heaters or handbrakes etc. My plan was to build a car that had everything a road car needs and keep it road legal so sorting the handbrake and the air distribution for the heater was a challenge.

Dan

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:40 pm

ABZ-Elise wrote:I thought the one that was a VX underneath was the S2 Exige that was at Le Mans...

You're right of course! Sorry for the slight dose of the tuts.

alicrozier · Post by **alicrozier** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 1:44 pm

Dan,
I assume the regs for the class you want to run in are OK with the central seat position? I'm not that up on the blue book but that would be a bit of a blow!

dirkpitt · Post by **dirkpitt** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 2:41 pm

fab idea and work so far dan, cant wait for the finished item

oh spotted this on exiges.com and thought it might be a idea to add to the project ...if in the budget ....
farringdon steering wheel

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roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 3:37 pm

Not keen on those steering wheels to be honest. Ok on a proper "slicks and wings" single seater with a really quick rack but could see that being an issue in the Elise.

I was going to put a Race Technology Dash2 in but decided to save my money in the end and have made some modifications to the original stack so it does everything I need it to and keeps the dash very neat with no extra gauges.

I'll document this in the near future.

Dan

p.s. Ali, yeah the regs are pretty free for the championship so it won't be a problem.

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 9:16 pm

Updated the first post with some more progress.

Dan

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:00 pm

You work fast!

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:09 pm

Lol! I didn't do the blog in real time Rich as there were months at a time where I made no progress at all on this so it would have been a bit disjointed.

Made a huge amount of progress over the last couple of weeks so nearly finished now.

Dan

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Thu Aug 11, 2011 11:46 pm

kept it all on the QT then!

roadboy · Post by **roadboy** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 12:48 am

Updated the first post again.

Not too much more to add. Will try to get a couple of decent interior shots to post up.

Any question, feel free to ask.

Dan

Daveb · Post by **Daveb** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 10:37 am

Its looking really good Dan, good work.

Love the handbrake solution.

Rich H · Post by **Rich H** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 2:21 pm

So what is it like to drive then?

GBOBM · Post by **GBOBM** » Sun Aug 14, 2011 3:49 pm

How's the 1.6 performance wise Dan?

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