Boxster project??

[Brad Roberts]

No build thread The car now resides in Austin TX and ran SCCA AutoX at Nationals multiple times. I believe the female driver won a National Championship at Lincoln in it a year after it was sold.

Steel doors

It had another 50lbs I could have pulled out for a true AutoX car (small fuel cell)

How serious was it? One radiator in the right front. The current owner put it back (they were running 3 drivers in it)

[Topless]

Originally Posted by Brad Roberts

No build thread The car now resides in Austin TX and ran SCCA AutoX at Nationals multiple times. I believe the female driver won a National Championship at Lincoln in it a year after it was sold.

Steel doors

It had another 50lbs I could have pulled out for a true AutoX car (small fuel cell)

How serious was it? One radiator in the right front. The current owner put it back (they were running 3 drivers in it)

Hehe, Grant's car.

http://986forum.com/forums/performance-technical-chat/30264-light-weight-boxster-racer.html

[3RotorRx7]

The car is currently at 2148lbs with only one radiator. (2116 lb goal for FP formula) It now has a 2003-2004 2.7 motor with the larger cooling pipes which added some weight. I also added fiberglass flared front fenders (heavy) and rear fender flares that added some weight, custom solid 28-spline heavier axles, as well as added bars on the roll cage that went forward to the front strut towers. The car has 16x11 front and 16x12 rear wheels with the new Hoosier R75A radial slick that are not very light. (Grant ran 16x10 on light bias Avon). And yes, Beth, my wife, won L1 Pro Solo Championship with it in 2012. I messed up the car last year with custom cams that made 20 less hp at Nationals with late year attempt at improvement. After figuring out the problem with slipped cam timing reluctor wheels and a custom tune, the car now makes 25 more hp, so hoping to add a few more championships going forward.
Btw, Brad, I'm interested in that light fuel cell idea. Do you have one built up?

Thanks,
Erik Strelnieks

Originally Posted by Brad Roberts

No build thread The car now resides in Austin TX and ran SCCA AutoX at Nationals multiple times. I believe the female driver won a National Championship at Lincoln in it a year after it was sold.

Steel doors

It had another 50lbs I could have pulled out for a true AutoX car (small fuel cell)

How serious was it? One radiator in the right front. The current owner put it back (they were running 3 drivers in it)

[Brad Roberts]

Erik, the car looks great. Thank you for moving the development forward I come from EP-FP SCCA road race cars.. and helped push through (w/ the technical help) the Boxster into production classes. Erik Madsen did 99% of the communication with SCCA pushing it through. I about puked when they decided on 2650 for the weight LOL WHAT WHAT WHAT!! LOL

I also knew a long time ago the 2.7 was needed. It breathes a lot better than the 2.5.

I wanted to apologize in person (but haven't seen you yet besides the '12 nationals) I wanted to apologize about the door coming off at the Austin track I'm not accustomed to putting the bolts back into the doors. I leave them out on purpose. Our west coast corner workers are told/taught they can lift the handle and pull the door off to get someone out of a car quickly if need be. The issue with that on your car? No windshield posts.. no posts to hold the door down.

I do apologize for that. It was a mistake on my part that should have never happened.

Hope all is well I'm in Austin several times a year for PCA events. A customer of mine lives there and we run his cars back forth for CA/TX events.

[Brad Roberts]

Small fuel tank:

I made a cardboard mockup a few years back for it. I *doubt* I can find it I did the mockup, then planned to have Fuel Safe find a tank that was close? or have one built for the car. It was designed to utilize the factory pump (I think they work pretty well) but I could think of 3-4 other pumps/pushers that would work. The mockup was designed to move the tank as far right from the driver as possible in the factory space. As I have found playing with the corner weights, just moving the stock battery over on its mounting plate above the stock tank can add 20+lbs to the right front tire (which is always light with the driver weight in place)

Just like in the past.. I'm now moving ALL weight into the passenger floorboard behind axle centerline and building a cover for it (per most rules orgs)

[3RotorRx7]

Don't worry about the door, I knew it came off that way, but would never guessed it would see off road work at an autocross. It made for a good laugh, and gave my dad something to work on in his retirement. ;-)

Erik

Originally Posted by Brad Roberts

Erik, the car looks great. Thank you for moving the development forward I come from EP-FP SCCA road race cars.. and helped push through (w/ the technical help) the Boxster into production classes. Erik Madsen did 99% of the communication with SCCA pushing it through. I about puked when they decided on 2650 for the weight LOL WHAT WHAT WHAT!! LOL

I also knew a long time ago the 2.7 was needed. It breathes a lot better than the 2.5.

I wanted to apologize in person (but haven't seen you yet besides the '12 nationals) I wanted to apologize about the door coming off at the Austin track I'm not accustomed to putting the bolts back into the doors. I leave them out on purpose. Our west coast corner workers are told/taught they can lift the handle and pull the door off to get someone out of a car quickly if need be. The issue with that on your car? No windshield posts.. no posts to hold the door down.

I do apologize for that. It was a mistake on my part that should have never happened.

Hope all is well I'm in Austin several times a year for PCA events. A customer of mine lives there and we run his cars back forth for CA/TX events.

[Brad Roberts]

Oh? The feedback I was getting "Erik is pissed" LOL

[stjoh]

It's been awhile since I last posted an update on this project but since the car is done (or as done as a track car ever gets) here's a couple.

Still have some fine tuning to do but the ugly duckling has turned in to a really fun track toy.