Project Dream Car!

I am finally in a place where I can start thinking about and building my dream car of all dream car builds.

Goal: The goal for this build is pretty basic V8, manual transmission, and custom tube frame similar to an atom. The car will be a weekend fun car, track days, auto x maybe, 1/4 just because, and would love to take it down a standing mile.

Idea: I have been reading and searching out ideas and so far I am planning to buy a C5 or C6 corvette with some body damage and steal the drivetrain and use it to build around it gives me a v8 I am familiar with and a decent set of stock suspension and sub frames to build around. Would love to be sub 2,000 lbs and around 350hp to start with and grow the power because I know I will want a turbo. Now I know this also gives me limits so there were the question come from.

Anyone have any ideas on why this is a bad platform to start with? Is there a better base to start with?

Opinions and criticism welcome I am by no means an engineer so please chime in!

Well, not a criticism, but have you considered building a v8 exocet?

I THINK there are less than a dozen of them floating around, so it would still be hella-rare and quite custom. Plus you could drop in your LS-whatever and T56 and have all the cage-engineering and suspension stuff sorted waaaaay quicker than if you're backwards engineering it all yourself.

Alternately, see the Roadkill episode where they took an older C4 and stripped off the accoutrements. Added decent power and welded a cage around what was left. Not quite as fast as the Lingenfelter they compared it to, but close enough. Doing something similar with a C5 would maybe yield results only limited by your wallet. I think I've seen wrecked Z06s in the sub $8k range.

My two cents/ daydream cars. I think the exocet is as close to a V8 go cart this world has to offer so far (with any type of thought toward safety/drivability, that is.)

The exocet has been in consideration for sure my only concern is the fact I am not a small person 6'7 and about 250 lbs.

That episode of roadkill helped steer me down this path and I love that show!

The nice thing about the newer cars is the parts I don't need still have decent value to help recoup the cost of the chassis.

I know avid racing build a tube chassis Vette that has a body and from talking with them they use the stock geometry and suspension arms which seems easy enough if I have the car in front of me I can easily copy it. Plus a friend owns a shop that has built cages that have been certified by the scca and NHRA.

https://columbia.craigslist.org/cto/5297149217.html

Do it. Do it. Haha.

For some reason, exovette with a truck motor hoovering a E36 M3pile of boost sounds like the plan.

Jambo wrote: https://columbia.craigslist.org/cto/5297149217.html Do it. Do it. Haha.

That is a great deal! I want it!