It is amazing how quickly time has passed but the Veeteor LSR was last run in anger at Santa Pod in 2008, where with its body fitted for the first time it ran 11.9s @ 136.75 mph, with rather a lot of wheel spin on 3 year old tyres...a year earlier without the body it went 11.42 @ 118.43 mph, so with some slicks it should easily be in the 10s.
Since then it has been sadly rather neglected, but I have been inspired recently by seeing one of my fellow competitors from the old UK Street Racer Series "Monkeyboy" getting the bits for his Pro Street mk3 Cortina project together. Now that I can devote some time to it I finally pulled my finger out and made quite a long to do' list.
Pulling the covers off, I found a box containing 3 pairs of rectangular aeroclips to join the bodywork together, so a straight forward job is to fit them on. Before I can do that I need to trim the bonnet edges to get the correct panel fit, and while I am at it I will cut out the hole in the bonnet scoop to allow air to be rammed into the intake. On close inspection there are lots of chips on edges of the body & wheel arches to fill so that the body is ready for paint.
The wiring behind the gauges is a bit of a snakes nest, so I need to tidy that up; I need to make up a dashboard and dash-top cover, and also fit a cover for the B&M ratchet gearchange to finish the interior. The Stack dashboard needs a new piece of glass fitting, which has to be done at the factory for correct sealing.
Then, when funds allow, it needs paint - I always planned on Ford Focus RS Mk1 blue, with black details, though the shade of blue that the old V10 BMW M5 came in would work just as well. The car needs a pair of exhaust silencers, and a torque converter stall speed tuned to the cars mass and power, which I will have done by none other than Penn Auto's Andy Frost. Should I fit the Fiat Grand Punto headlights on, the shape of which the bonnet was modelled around, and some rear lights? Hmmm...
Since then it has been sadly rather neglected, but I have been inspired recently by seeing one of my fellow competitors from the old UK Street Racer Series "Monkeyboy" getting the bits for his Pro Street mk3 Cortina project together. Now that I can devote some time to it I finally pulled my finger out and made quite a long to do' list.
Pulling the covers off, I found a box containing 3 pairs of rectangular aeroclips to join the bodywork together, so a straight forward job is to fit them on. Before I can do that I need to trim the bonnet edges to get the correct panel fit, and while I am at it I will cut out the hole in the bonnet scoop to allow air to be rammed into the intake. On close inspection there are lots of chips on edges of the body & wheel arches to fill so that the body is ready for paint.
The wiring behind the gauges is a bit of a snakes nest, so I need to tidy that up; I need to make up a dashboard and dash-top cover, and also fit a cover for the B&M ratchet gearchange to finish the interior. The Stack dashboard needs a new piece of glass fitting, which has to be done at the factory for correct sealing.
Then, when funds allow, it needs paint - I always planned on Ford Focus RS Mk1 blue, with black details, though the shade of blue that the old V10 BMW M5 came in would work just as well. The car needs a pair of exhaust silencers, and a torque converter stall speed tuned to the cars mass and power, which I will have done by none other than Penn Auto's Andy Frost. Should I fit the Fiat Grand Punto headlights on, the shape of which the bonnet was modelled around, and some rear lights? Hmmm...
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