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Back in 2009, my racing partner (Squeak Kennedy) and I commissioned Woody at Bemco Fab to build us a tube frame C6 Corvette to the then Grand Am Rolex GT rules. It was to be used as a club racer but legal for GA should we find some funding.
Woody constructed us a square tube frame type similar to SCCA GT-1/Trans Am chassis. The motor was a forged, stock dimension LS6 per the Rolex GT rules of the time. The motor was built by Schwanke Racing Engines and dyno'd about 470 HP at the flywheel. It took until 2011 to complete the car as Woody built it in his spare time. By the time we completed it, the rules had changed and the cost of competing had gone up significantly. It would be a club racer !
We raced it in the SE Div of SCCA, at Sebring, Daytona, PBIR, Homestead and Roebling Road. As the LS6 was not really legal for GT-1 (despite being about 350 HP down in power), we raced it in the SPO class. The car handles and stops well, can hit about 180 mph at Daytona with sub 2:00 laps. My best lap at Sebring was about 2:19, but that was starting from last (not qualifying) and coming through traffic. I think the car is capable of about 2:15 there. Performance of the car is on par with the SCCA GTA cars.
The car is getting repowered with a near 600 HP carbureted LS3, and re-bodied with the wide body ALMS type body.
specs:
* Tube frame by Bemco Fab
* modified ALMS GT2 type body
* 600 HP LS3 with Edelbrock Vic Jr manifold and 750 Holley 4150, 3 stage dry sump
* Daytona Sensors ignition
* Quartermaster 3 disc 7.25 clutch
* G Force T101 A tranny with Long shifter
* 9 inch Ford rear end with Nascar chunk (3.08 for Daytona, 3.40 for most everywhere else)
* Nascar Brembo Calipers and 13" rotors
* 18x12 CCW wheels
* 2500 # minus driver
* Kirkey seat
* Custom 22 gal ATL fuel cell
Pic: Sebring 2014
Woody constructed us a square tube frame type similar to SCCA GT-1/Trans Am chassis. The motor was a forged, stock dimension LS6 per the Rolex GT rules of the time. The motor was built by Schwanke Racing Engines and dyno'd about 470 HP at the flywheel. It took until 2011 to complete the car as Woody built it in his spare time. By the time we completed it, the rules had changed and the cost of competing had gone up significantly. It would be a club racer !
We raced it in the SE Div of SCCA, at Sebring, Daytona, PBIR, Homestead and Roebling Road. As the LS6 was not really legal for GT-1 (despite being about 350 HP down in power), we raced it in the SPO class. The car handles and stops well, can hit about 180 mph at Daytona with sub 2:00 laps. My best lap at Sebring was about 2:19, but that was starting from last (not qualifying) and coming through traffic. I think the car is capable of about 2:15 there. Performance of the car is on par with the SCCA GTA cars.
The car is getting repowered with a near 600 HP carbureted LS3, and re-bodied with the wide body ALMS type body.
specs:
* Tube frame by Bemco Fab
* modified ALMS GT2 type body
* 600 HP LS3 with Edelbrock Vic Jr manifold and 750 Holley 4150, 3 stage dry sump
* Daytona Sensors ignition
* Quartermaster 3 disc 7.25 clutch
* G Force T101 A tranny with Long shifter
* 9 inch Ford rear end with Nascar chunk (3.08 for Daytona, 3.40 for most everywhere else)
* Nascar Brembo Calipers and 13" rotors
* 18x12 CCW wheels
* 2500 # minus driver
* Kirkey seat
* Custom 22 gal ATL fuel cell
Pic: Sebring 2014
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