New Race Car Build - zossy1's Black NB8B
Posted: Mon Sep 29, 2014 4:39 pm
Hi guys,
Thought I'd post a garage thread for this one...
Many of you know that after a few years of karting, I've been racing the ex-Douglass, ex-Otten "Blue Rocket" for the past 8 months. I've been steadily building up pace with the car, though it has been a bit of a learning curve as the car has some unique characteristics. First logged in 2001, it has had a lot of development and I'm not sure there is much left in it (my best so far has been 1:06.76 at WP). Sadly, I crashed it last month (brake failure coming down the hill into the fish hook at WP) - but the repairs are coming along slowly and we hope to have it ready for the AASA State Titles in November:
So I have decided to embark on a new project - in the midst of having our first child, studying my Masters, and trying to keep the blue one on the track...
This is my 2003 NB8B. It is bog stock and as clean as they come, having done only 65,000kms and pretty much immaculate inside and out. I bought it a few months back - it was a fresh water damaged stat write off. Easy fix but sadly it can't be re registered. I have been tossing up whether to part it out or not... But have decided to make a race car out of it.
Plan at this stage is to strip it out, put coilovers in it, and maybe a pod filter and exhaust, BD bar, 4.3 diff, put some semis on it, and run it in some super sprints. Over time, I might cage it and turn it into an SE replica 2B car, or maybe keep it atmo, build a high comp engine with ITBs, and develop it to replace the blue rocket. Not quite sure yet.
Whatever we end up doing, it will take time. This project will take years with all my other commitments, but I'm hoping to have some fun building my own race car from the ground up.
Thought I'd post a garage thread for this one...
Many of you know that after a few years of karting, I've been racing the ex-Douglass, ex-Otten "Blue Rocket" for the past 8 months. I've been steadily building up pace with the car, though it has been a bit of a learning curve as the car has some unique characteristics. First logged in 2001, it has had a lot of development and I'm not sure there is much left in it (my best so far has been 1:06.76 at WP). Sadly, I crashed it last month (brake failure coming down the hill into the fish hook at WP) - but the repairs are coming along slowly and we hope to have it ready for the AASA State Titles in November:
So I have decided to embark on a new project - in the midst of having our first child, studying my Masters, and trying to keep the blue one on the track...
This is my 2003 NB8B. It is bog stock and as clean as they come, having done only 65,000kms and pretty much immaculate inside and out. I bought it a few months back - it was a fresh water damaged stat write off. Easy fix but sadly it can't be re registered. I have been tossing up whether to part it out or not... But have decided to make a race car out of it.
Plan at this stage is to strip it out, put coilovers in it, and maybe a pod filter and exhaust, BD bar, 4.3 diff, put some semis on it, and run it in some super sprints. Over time, I might cage it and turn it into an SE replica 2B car, or maybe keep it atmo, build a high comp engine with ITBs, and develop it to replace the blue rocket. Not quite sure yet.
Whatever we end up doing, it will take time. This project will take years with all my other commitments, but I'm hoping to have some fun building my own race car from the ground up.
