What COM folks are building...

[breakaway500]

[ctkag]

That should be quite the ride. That engine looks like it fits like a glove.

[timmmy]

That should be quite the ride. That engine looks like it fits like a glove.

It fits like a glove once the chassis rails, firewall, inner fenders and floor, transmission tunnel, strut towers etc etc are cut out and replaced

[timmmy]

I'm upgrading my supercharger to a Harrop TVS 1320,adding a better exhaust(3" ported),larger injectors(60lb),new custom ECM tune.Upgrading the intercooler system for lower IAT's,adding stronger suspension pushrods,stronger bellcranks,adding a front wing, adding a better brake bias system,adding a Masterlube oiling system(better engine oiling protection) and making a throttle blipper.Also adding a WATER only injection system. Hope I still fit in the car by spring...

It looks like I am building either a very sturdy boat or a very strange T bucket...

I love how my car looks naked..

As it just wasn't fast enough before

I love these things BTW. My next, or one after next project will be a tube frame no body car with more than one engine. Building monocoque cars is just a PITA!

[timmmy]

Another shot I like of my projects....



Not that I have an Audi problem or anything.

The other project car is a 1990 V8Q replica of the 1990-1994 DTM machines but with a modern twist. That is the long term GT1 project that got put on hold in April to do the S4K project

A few more shots while I recover from moving snow.









No. of days I can work in the shop between now and April = not very many!

[breakaway500]

Wow.I must say,you really like to start from the ground up. You do seem to be an Audi aficionado.

I'm too old to do that any more... I need a head start...

Fast is a relative term. I would like to see just how fast I can make my Atom,without major alterations.

Some have stuffed big HP in their Atoms..and they are fast..but I want my Atom to be fast everywhere,not just in a straight line.

What better place than COM to experiment...

[Kai Noeske]

Even in the original Audi racing colors... the ones I knew when I was a little boy, watching Walter Roehrl tear up the rally courses in his original Quattro... wow.

[Kai Noeske]

I'm upgrading my supercharger to a Harrop TVS 1320,adding a better exhaust(3" ported),larger injectors(60lb),new custom ECM tune.Upgrading the intercooler system for lower IAT's,adding stronger suspension pushrods,stronger bellcranks,adding a front wing, adding a better brake bias system,adding a Masterlube oiling system(better engine oiling protection) and making a throttle blipper.Also adding a WATER only injection system. Hope I still fit in the car by spring...

Aren't you afraid of next winter, when there will be nothing left to mod on the atoms? The boredom will drive you insane - or worse, you may decide to make your very own, better atom-on-steroids from scratch ... with an engine from a Veyron or a 737 ... not sure which COM class that is, but heaven help us!!!

[breakaway500]

There will always be something to tweak on the Atom... I am contemplating a build on an exo skelletal single seater car..in the idea of the Atom,only a lot lighter...not sure about power.Maybe a Hayabusa/Bking drivetrain..which I would run in FP.Fun to dream...

[breakaway500]

Oops..hit the wrong button...

[Kai Noeske]

Exactly what I was thinking... You mean, like a Radical SR8 ...

[breakaway500]

The SR8 uses a pretty wild drivetrain,read that as BIG $$$$$$! That's the same drivetrain the Atom500 uses.I'm thinking more along the lines of just a plain ole 185hp Hayabusa powertrain, as they are much more inexpensive and readily available. Before I got the Atom,I was going to bulid a Sonic kit car and use the Focus drivetrain to power it...but all that changed once I drove the Atom.That damn car alters your car DNA forever.You start to refer to a Miata as being heavy...and anything over 3k. lbs is downright porko! (no offense to all the pork owners.. )

[breakaway500]

Damn..hit the wrong button..again...

[DanDarcy]

I've been working on my Elise , had it out today to do some more work. Have front clam (whole nose) coming from Ca. , already have rear clam .





I am also going to be working on my Mustang . Since the new rules allow I think I will install a torque arm

[breakaway500]

It looks like the "horses" get to stay in the barn,I see..