All in a (couple) day's work. Went together very smoothly with help from the lead engineer at the Vintage Metal Works.
Not the best design, if you ask me. Few interesting points. All the dampers are a pain in the ass to get in and out, given that they're all vertically oriented, rather than horizontally (which has become the more popular trend these days). You can adjust the front dampers from the cockpit however, along with front and rear bars, and brake bias.
A total of 4 (!) bolts hold the monocoque to the engine. That's it. Not very large ones either, all less than 1/2" diameter if I remember right.
Also, for those curious... yes, it is this yellow car... which finished 4th at this particular race.
I really like the eye-level onboards better than the roll bar stuff. Much better feel for what the driver is seeing and doing. Feel free to watch the commercials from 1990 at the end, haha.
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I'm a newbie here, and don't want to be permanently labeled as a sniper dirtbag or anything, but... Assuming this work was preparing for an on-track session, and not just a static display, the front rotors needed to be swapped left for right.
It was, unfortunately, for static display. The whole car was cobbled together from bits and pieces of a few chassis.. mismatched aero bits, rotors swapped, and the whole thing of no engine internals.
I would have gone fuckin bananas for a chance to take one of those around a track here (e.g. Mid Ohio)
Wow seca used to look different... drove the sb2000 cars there in anger so it's not hard for me to get giddy about that video. Strong respect for having the balls to push indy cars that hard on what is essentially a motogp track from a safety standpoint.
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