hey guys, thought i would start to pass along some of the build process happening over the past few weeks and where it's moving along into some of the final action coming within the next 30-45 days before we hit the track LIVE at our first test at VIR in Feb. 15th weekend....
thought some of you might enjoy seeing where we started on 1 of the 2 cars and the process to follow moving forward. both cars were just picked up from the Acid Dip facility in North Carolina last week and then the other day, they were taken along to Richmond, VA to the cage builder who is working very quick and hard for us over the next few days to complete the cage structures... this process is all moving VERY, VERY Fast as we have major deadlines on the horizon and so far, all is going exactly as planned.... Acid Dip / Re-Stitch of the chassis weld points per Nissan's input to our team, are getting underway over the next several days and then the cars get picked up in Richmond, VA and taken down to the race shop in Virginia Beach, VA where all of the parts start to roll back into the cars and outfitted w/ everything Nismo and Penske 4-Way shock packages, etc.etc!!
Things are going to be a big Thrash for the team over the next few weeks to get them all put back together, dyno tune, corner balance/align and start off w/ a solid 'baseline' setting on ride heights and suspension tweaks to make sure they are as close to 'shakedown' status as possible for our first test coming up in a little less than 45 days now and counting... this will all take place at VIR on Feb. 14th weekend w/ the NASA Group there as we'll be there w/ the whole team and drivers starting to get a quick handle on 'what we have' to start making them handle and zip around the ultra fast 3.2 mile circuit just south of Danville, VA........ Only thing that could stand in our way during that test, is the possible cold weather that doesn't work so well for World Challenge Pirelli Slicks being run once again for this 2012 Season.
Stay tuned and we'll be posting out more and more build progress photos here for now on this link, until we open up the Official 370z World Challenge Team Post on a seperate thread, but at least for now, you can get an idea of what we are up to and realize how much we have been doing to bring all these 'take-off' parts to market for you on the used side of things.
Cheers guys...
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proposed graphics image for completed project in World Challenge, several sponsors pending, but just a quick idea of how the cars will look when completed in Nissan Motorsports livery:
