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January 30th, 2022, 01:46 PM
#1
Godson - 2022 SCCA Time Trials Max3 build
Most of you guys know I am involved in the SCCA Time Trials National program. Nate got me involved around 3 years ago and I have been loving the format ever since.
After getting the Corvette going and having a blast with it, my hip strength limitations made running that car difficult and I needed a better answer.
I bought a Scion FRS, as a test to see if that car would work for me. I absolutely loved the cars on track personality.
Well except the fact it is SLOW in a straight line. I'm talking I have the chance to stop thinking about what is happening, and start thinking about what needs to happen next, while still in the present.
I also missed the sound of the V8 in the Vette.
LS swaps are SO done.
So, let's talk about rules, because that has a big factor in the build.
Engine swaps are allowed, but must be from a production car, classing is based on unmodified displacement. You may modify the engines, but that moves you up a class. You may boost the engine, but that moves you up a class also.
Now with the boring handled, let's talk fun.
I was originally planning on running a high revving Toyota 1UZ. Between 4 and 4.3 liters, 240-300hp. 400 lbs. Plenty of aftermarket support, but at a price.
The original plan was the 1UZ in stock form, and to build it as I get the car sorted in the off season. 400+hp, and 8k rpm, dry sump oiling, face ripping and wild. Initial estimate would be 15k for the engine build. 4 k for the dry sump oiling. I would be competing against unmodified engine vettes in Max2. That's a lot of cash for only 450hp.
I go back to the drawing board after I see a post complaining about Max3 rulesets allowing the new Cayman GT4RS being in the class.
I head back to the rules and read up. 4.5l unmodified, 2.9l turbo.
I start racking up my brain on V8 engines under 4.5l and make good power. That leads me to looking in Europe. BMW was the first thought, the S65 checks a lot of boxes, except one. It's 470lbs assembled. That's 100 more than the fa20 and the transmission choices would add another 75+ on the front end over the stock transmission.
I go look at Aston Martin, 4.2, dry sump, 400hp. 14k for engine...and who knows about the transmission.
I then start thinking about Italians. Maserati made a 4.2l and 385-395hp, 7500rpm, factory dry sump. I look up my recycler website to find the engines available all day long for $3-4k and only 30-60k miles.
So I start hunting for my Maserati v8.
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January 30th, 2022, 06:32 PM
#2
Administrator
Sell the Vette (to my brother).
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January 31st, 2022, 05:01 PM
#3
Where are my keys?
I was in Max 4 for my TT last summer. And I won the class!*
*position 1 of 1
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February 6th, 2022, 03:16 PM
#4
I'm gooder.
The Maserati V8 is a detuned Ferrari engine is it not?
Would be funny if you could replace the engine cover with one from Ferrari. Make the horsey fans lose thier minds.
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February 7th, 2022, 05:17 PM
#5
Is a cross plane version of the f430 engine.
There has already been a group who have swapped the exact engine into an FRS in Colorado. Group is called Sideways fab, out of Loveland, Colorado.
The swapped the Maserati intake for a Ferrari California, as well as the exhaust manifolds.
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February 7th, 2022, 05:37 PM
#6
Administrator
Imagine your penis being so small that faux Maserati isn't good enough, you have to mask it even further as a faux Ferrari.
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February 8th, 2022, 06:52 AM
#7
Lol.
I like the idea of Maserati badging all over the engine.
That, and I'm too cheap to spend money in basic penis shrinking things like that.
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February 8th, 2022, 07:02 AM
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Administrator
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February 8th, 2022, 01:18 PM
#9
反重力
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September 12th, 2022, 10:57 AM
#10
I'm gooder.
Whatever happened with this?
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