2008 Troyer Modified Hillclimb + Road Course

Hi Folks,

  First time post in GRM.  Some of you may be familiar with Kevin Gale's "1990 Troyer Hillclimber" thread.  Well.....  Lets just say that was a bad influence.  I bought my first mod in 2019, and now, after an unfortunate ending with a tree, I am now building my 2nd.  This one I bought earlier this August.  It's going to be a dual purpose Hill Climb and road course modified, so I need to make a bunch of changes to make it handle turning both directions.

I drove from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania to pick this up.  It was easily the farthest single-day Facebook Marketplace snatch I’ve done, but it was worth it.

So I brought it to my local makerspace and got to it.  First order of business was to put in caster-pedestals.  Not something I’ve ever seen on a race car, but it sure made it easier to work on.  No more sitting stationary on jackstands.  I can disassemble this baby and wheel it around anywhere.

Then I started the suspension geometry install.  Took quite a while to figure out how to jig everything up so it would be square and level.  Getting the LCA pins to drop into place without binding was a real trick.

Since brought the car home.  Now it’s time to send the rear end out and build the motor.  I'll probably have a few posts on just the motor build.

-Ian

Awesome. I'm looking forward to reading about this build. I used to actually promote annual events at Evergreen in Pennsylvania - although we didn't run modifieds there. Have fun with this!

What a beast.  Can't wait to hear about what that's like to drive!

Ian_Cook said:

Lets just say that was a bad influence. 

I think you'll fit in well here. Awesome project, can't wait to see more.

And sorry about the tree incident, though it sounds like you made it out okay.

i totally mis-read that you drove *it* from NH to PA and i was like berkeley yeah you did!  in for updates!

Sweet!

Hello from Somersworth, NH.

In reply to Colin Wood :

I wasn't right to begin with, so making it out okay was never an option.  I am, however, uninjured.  There are better videos on my channel than this, so do snoop around:
 

Looking forward to this. Kevin's thread was the thing that first drew my to this site. 
That was a hard crash, glad you are alright!

So, does the l/r balance work out? Kind of curious how much work it takes to make them not behave differently left to right.

In reply to Apexcarver :

The difference isn't as bad as you might think.  As long as you get the cross-weight equal and all the suspension geometry symmetric, it still will have similar L/R balance, just different absolute grip.  I think my last car was 52%-53% left side, so naturally I could corner harder to the left.

If I really wanted to get down to 50/50, I can mill a new motor plate to offset the engine to the right by about an inch.  That would also allow me to carve some more room out of the transmission tunnel so I can scooch my seat over.  I can also offset the rear end with different length axle tubes.  But there are bigger fish to fry in this build, so unless I need to change the rear axle width, I'm probably going to leave everything as-is.  For now.