more dash...

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ear suspension back up and in...

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Sparco Pro2000 seats in the car and a wheel mounted....

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me backing the car out of the drive way for an 11:30pm test spin...

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Stage I of car build completed. We took it from street car to ready for cage install in a time period of 28 hours. 9am Saturday to 1:00pm Sunday....

Here's what "Lucille" looks like now....

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things temporarily zip tied together for transport to TC Design for the cage install....

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3 days later I got the car back with a handbuilt TIG welded safety cage inside the car. We decided on a custom cage versus the bolt in types due to wanting to make the car as easy as possible to get in and out of and to help with driver visibility.

side view...the bars are hidden...

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TC Design did my cage. The do great work and went the extra mile in designing the cage to fit the car.

rear view....x brace

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driver's side....where's the roll cage? :)

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passenger intrusion x brace...

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"A" pillar....notice how close to the A pillar the bar is...the AC grill is untouched and sides are not damaged...

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Let's go inside and see all the custom bends on a hand built cage....notice how Tony snugged everything up to the top...and the latch is free and clear!

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Continuing the tour....

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All the points meet up...

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and the rear mounts...

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Here's the trick part....the knee bar is up behind the lower dash pad, but he did not trim the lower pad. It fits perfectly between the back of where the CD player used to be and in front of the AC/fresh air diverter. I definitely can use some flexible hose to the outer vents if I choose to....don't know if I will but I may....

Take a look....

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Now with the build completed it was time to drive...

My race partner and I took our Spec Boxster out for it's maiden voyage at an AX the following weekend. This is the car that we took from bone stock to Spec Boxster trim in 8 calendar days. Out of 100+ cars we met our goal as we both put the car in the top 10 overall. We ended up 6th and 7th overall and coming in 1st and 2nd in class. We were the highest placing Boxster overall and beat all the Cayman's. All this with a bone stock 68K mile 2.5 liter motor. We did put on a gutted muffler...but that probably hurt our low end.

We were on Victoracers. Overall the car was a delight to drive, very easy to turn and toss and the platform was extremely balanced.

Here are a few pics of my co-driver Randal and I in action.

Action picks from the AX....from street car to Spec in 8 days.....

One of the folks that helped with the build, Dan Thompson and I at the sweeper at end of course....

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Braking and turn in after the high speed section of the course....

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Me trying to find the limits....

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Randal starting in on the backside of the course...

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