How To Build An Exo Car
My biggest group of friends are racers, and when nosotros get together … or thanks to The Virus, nosotros DON'T get together … nosotros find ourselves chatting well-nigh … racing.
How do yous make a car faster? Add horsepower? That works to a point. A "BBK"? Big brake kits help, but… Let's take a tip from the legendary British Formula ane team owner and designer Colin Chapman. His mantra was to "Add lightness." Lightening a car makes information technology accelerate faster, brake quicker and handle better. Seems to exist the right course of action.
And that brings up exo cars. I hate calling it a "craze," but over the by few years, it's growing in popularity for the exact reasons nosotros just talked nigh: taking mass away from a machine raises every performance factor. Most exo cars are built from old hatchbacks and sedans that were destined for the scrap heap, cost nothing to buy and could be rebuilt. So you accept a reciprocating saw, cut the body off and weld on a roll cage, leaving the running gear in place. In fact, I've done that myself, edifice an exo car with my buddy.
Years ago at a Viper Owners Invitational, SRT® engineer Erich Heuschele showed upwardly with a Gen four Viper ACR that didn't accept a body on it. I remember him telling me about information technology: it was otherwise stock; the V10 engine fabricated 600 horsepower and the car only weighed 2,700 pounds! He drove it on the street, but had to wear a helmet to continue the rocks from flying up in his face up … how crawly is that?!
So now nosotros're dreaming: We want an exo car with Musculus! What if we institute a Dodge Challenger that was wrecked in the rear? You're going to take almost of that off anyhow. Then, cutting off the body, weld upwardly a cage and have at it! Are you with me? The looks y'all'd get on the street would exist epic, pushing the limits of the "WTH Gene" … when folks wait at you lot driving it and oral fissure the words "Due west. T. H."…
A quick search at Threescore Forums shows this rear-wrecked '08 Challenger at the Cleveland Choice A Office one thousand that would be a perfect candidate for this project.
Folks who don't know our cars ever complain that they're as well heavy … well, a Sawzall can gear up that!
What if you went all out and threw an SRT Hellcat engine at information technology? 700+ horsepower and style lighter than stock. Dale Schwartz at Schwartz Functioning sells chassis with SRT Hellcat power; simply looking at this photo gives all kinds of crazy ideas.
I'm the son of an automotive engineer and I've always worked better with a visual reference. I am NOT a graphics guy, but imagine if you volition, what could exist if we cut up a Challenger…
Hopefully this gives you ideas and starts your encephalon churning. Someone out in that location knows where the perfect donor car is. Someone has the fabrication skills to weld upwards some bars. And I've got a agglomeration of blades for the reciprocating saw.
Please, someone build this!
Accept you congenital an exo car? Transport u.s.a. pics and let us know what yous've got!
Source: https://www.dodgegarage.com/news/article/how-to/2020/04/lets-build-an-exo-car.html
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