Lot of start for the money. Looks pretty square in pictures.
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Lot of start for the money. Looks pretty square in pictures.
https://www.facebook.com/share/16UvFRrydz/
Buy that and John Brown's cheapo Vette. Hang the Vette body panels on this and swap over the engine and trans. Cheap track day car.
Edit: ....or a MINI Cooper body is the same wheel base......with an LS........
That looks like a really good start, at a good price. Am I missing something?
Im 2 hours away, and I have both a MINI AND an LS!
...and my trailer is empty!
No you pretty much nailed it Paul. It's actually a way better starting chassis than the one I started with
In reply to Dusterbd13 :
I really like the idea, but I'm not sure where I'd use it...
In reply to SV reX :
Oh, just build it first and figure out what to do with it later......we'll give you all kinds of free, unsolicited advice.
In reply to DeadSkunk (Warren) :
Of course! You've been enabling my bad decisions for over 20 years!
I've got too many dead projects around and truly don't need another.
But I LIKE this one!
If the mini has a title, street legal stock car!!!
Doesn't it say 101" wheelbase? I suppose 98" is close enough.
Scott Weaver Goody's Dash roller.brand new.located in Canton ga 101 inch wheel base $2900
In reply to VolvoHeretic :
Oops...you're right, it does say 101"....I responded to the 97" in the thread title.
Crap. I missed the listing wheelbase. I actually went searching old records to find the wheelbase so I could give it to you guys!!
First gen MINI is 97.1, but a third gen is 101.1
In reply to SV reX :
Extending the nose of a 1st gen wouldn't be hard either.
I spoke to the owner today. He said it was setup for a V6, and that he can give me whatever spring rates and rear end ratio I want.
Enable me...
Most of my racing has been autocross or the Challenge. Occasional drag racing. Nothing serious.
I live in oval dirt track land, but don't have much interest. I like corners and asphalt.
I have most parts to make this complete with an LS, but I'm not sure how I'd use it.
Challenge car? Hard to make the budget work.
Beach cruiser? Be more fun with a passenger seat.
Mountain road canyon carver? Hard to get it registered.
Dirt track? Rallycross? HPDE?
I don't really want another project with no end goal that sits around forever.
Suggestions? How would you build this?
Anyone have any info on the Goody's dash series?
Cut the passengers side open, skin, title as skin, run hpde/cruise night/whatever motorsports you want
When I saw this my first thought was build a better version of my Challenge Corolla. I'd end up doing track days in this with a suitable body just cuz I prefer a closed car, versus any sort of Exocet concept. The cheap way is gut a steel shell, the better way would be a complete fiberglass body, like that build of the 67 Camaro on an ASA chassis that was on here a couple of years ago. Here in Michigan I can road register damn near anything if I wanted to.
I don't see it specified but is this a perimeter chassis? Otherwise more work to get it "centered" from my understanding.
Neat cars, but - as you're doing - make sure you have some kind of plan before you get it. I don't know the roundy-round chassis that well, but what little I know is it'll be fairly heavy/big in race car terms. Consumables are weird unless you re-engineer. Classes are hard because it's "real race car" with lots of tubes outside of the cage, most classes move that up several. Hill climb is probably the most friendly to this type of car, or HPDE if that's what you're interested in doing, though unless you're in love there are a lot of cars that'll be cheaper in the long run than this for both of those types of racing.
Caveat, as always - depends on your goals/what you enjoy - you can make this into something neat, I don't doubt and building it into such would be fun!
I assume you'd end up with somnething like this?
https://www.facebook.com/marketplace/item/1166938264942238/
I've found most owners are willing to talk about their builds, so might ping some folks with a similiar build to what you're thinking and/or find a facebook group.
I just verified... it's a perimeter chassis.
@Accordianfolder... I'm glad you mentioned that. Reminded me how much I like nimble cars. A heavy chassis isn't necessarily good.
In reply to SV reX :
Wasn't a few hundred pounds of those types of stock car's race weight lead?
In reply to VolvoHeretic :
I have no idea
Sometimes there's ballast, but the basic chassis is built really stout. Just look at the door bars, the extra bar in the center of the windshield, and the rectangular tube across the top of the firewall. It's likely all 0.120" wall ,too, where 0.090 would be fine.
Apologies, I didn't realize "Goody's Dash" series meant baby-grand cars. I know even less about those! Most of the above advice still holds (they get stuck with "real race cars" in most series, etc), but I think the footprint is much smaller.
https://tb98nj.wordpress.com/2022/08/31/the-history-of-the-nascar-goodys-dash-series/
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