Larry Cable

all desirable traits

va122

Same engine dude. Just cuz it's a street car doesn't mean you shouldn't rebuild...

Carrera GT

Air-jacks would be great (especially with on-board compressed air ... : )

And if I was going that far to strip the car, I'd have a go at doing an integrated roll cage instead of the conventional separate tube cage. I guess if you were building to particular rules, it would dictate the cage design, but otherwise, I'd build in a foot box and tie front and rear to the suspension.

Looks like very tidy welds in those tricky recesses.

What's the plan for this project? Apparently still street legal -- is it going lightweight? Fuel cell? I imagine there's a healthy budget just from this first stage and starting with an RS with ceramics and 'spensive bits like black wheels, not a cheap "donor" even at todays' prices.

tcsracing1

A street legal race car. It is a clubsport on steroids!

A 997.1 CUP tub would have be an alternative for the swap, but the VIN tag swap would be questionable and of course you would have had to cut the CUP fenders off and install RS rear fenders for the fatness anyhow....

Kudos on the build!

If you decide on swapping the hood for GT2 Carbon hood or CUP hood with fuel cell inlets let me know, i need a orange hood badly for my RS......

sin911

I thought it was different internally and the cup engines needed more upkeep. My bad

All engines require rebuild for sure!

FFaust

Wonder who's next

floridaBMW

Well put, good luck with the build.

Ken

mooty

i have a 6 stripper. when i say stripper it's really stripped and 95% cup car in areas with far better suspension than oem cup.

it's towed everywhere, but it is also street register'd. trust me, you can have *** of steel and ***** of steel, there is no fk'g way to drive it on the street. i tried to bed pads once, after 2 miles, i turned back. it's just too painful, too low, too loud, too dangerous on street (this is a secluded private street too).

cheaper to buy? not always true.
cheaper to maintain, not always true.

cup car doesn't need 50 hour rebuild on engine.

now the sequential...... is another story.

it is very $$$ to build like RWK or what i did. VERY $$$
but it is FUN.

RWK

the suspesion on this car is actually much more developed than a cup.
( posted on an older thread)

modified subframes, rsr wheel carriers, full monoballs, JRZ multi adj race suspension, etc.. It would be 30-40K to bring the cup suspension to this level spec

yup trans is stone stock, no hassles

this car has 40+ track days on it ( gently driven ( into a wall once!)
and leakdown is still well within factory spec. seems that without mishap, should last 3 seasons of fun

dynos aprox 390 rwhp with M&M exhasut open ( full header / no cat / center muffler only / ECU

aussie jimmy

need videos

RWK

Full cage completed

aussie jimmy

you don't need doors!

996FLT6

Rwk- guess it's too late but have u thought of removing the rear chassis bar? Mike

RWK

yes we did, but it provides very efficent tub ridigity (stiffness / at a low weight penalty) with some good t bone protection also

996FLT6

Better off not removing it because when I had mine removed my mechanic was cussing like no tomorrow. But sucker is heavy. With bar and inside steel beam bracket it was close to 25 lbs. The thickness of the in some parts was as thicks as my dasport bar. But man nice beautiful job- I love strippers. Who did the paint and how much that run. Mike