How to turn a C4 Corvette Into a sucker car for just $2000

Never underestimate the power of a plan, particularly in competition. Every team that competes in our $200X Challenge events does so with some degree of premeditated intent. One peek at the Spotter’s Guide shows that the complexity of these schemes varies greatly from one team to another.

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Still on my Challenge “Top 5.” The car was inspiring, terrifying, and HILARIOUS to watch on the auto-x course. And the team was super cool. Wish we’d had the chance to duke it out with them on the strip :/ 

I took from this, "they made one solid run with the sucker system working." Yep, sounds about like Chaparral, and despite the troubles, it's still likely my favorite challenge car.

I think ol' Jim would have been proud.

Now I just need to get the idea of doing this myself with an auto-x car out of my head... the math alone is likely out of my wheel house. I do know a few engineers though... =P

So nobody else has done a similar car since?  Or did it suckcessfully emulate the Chaparral 2J by also getting its brand of innovation banned?

We have to run a blower at our autocross courses to clean off the racing line, so GRM just needed to let this car run first....  Of course it probably could use a rock-collector bin too.

In reply to PT_SHO :

IIRC they did run pretty early, and the rooster-tail was berkeleying glorious.

This is the car that started my obsession with the challenge and building cheap cars.

Thanks for the reminder to stick to my plan. 

Just bringing this back around since there's been so much talk about the McMurtry Spéirling recently 

And don't forget the small scale version. 

vwcorvette (Forum Supporter) said:

And don't forget the small scale version. 

OMG this amazing.

My favorite challenge car is still Gutty the CRX, but this is the build that I respect the most.

And yeah, when I watched the Spéirling rotate my first question was how far around the suckervette would go... 

Colin Wood said:

Just bringing this back around since there's been so much talk about the McMurtry Spéirling recently 

This is exactly what I thought of when I watch that thing fly around the track. The McMurtry looks like the video is being fast forwarded.

Andy Neuman said:

Colin Wood said:

Just bringing this back around since there's been so much talk about the McMurtry Spéirling recently 

This is exactly what I thought of when I watch that thing fly around the track. The McMurtry looks like the video is being fast forwarded.

I showed the Stig Lap to my DE students. Even the less than enthusiastic kids were impressed. Then I showed them the upside down video and they were confused to say the least.