I am going to guess you don’t have kids. You are throwing out accusations of inadequate supervision with no clue what actually happened.

Yeah, I could care less about super cars. If someone wants to build a 500k car in their garage, I will watch that all day- Otherwise it’s just marketing for a rich guy toy bought by people who think that they are “Driving 10/10ths” “Near the limit” or whatever other delusional bullshit they use to sound like they have…

Google says the 97 3.2L euro spec cars were rated at 321 hp. Assuming that engine, 279 at the wheels is very good. This reminds me of the time top gear “tested” their old porsches and didn’t understand drivetrain losses.

How did these people get onto a track in a supercar with no helmet, instructor, or experience? The track organization that allowed this to happen needs to be shamed and should be avoided by all.

The first three issues listed are really one issue and should have been covered under warranty (assuming the cracked radiator wasn’t obviously something stupid the owners did)

Hating on HF is fun but I don’t know a single person who works on their own cars that doesn’t own a bunch of HF tools. Personally I have their shop crane, floor jacks, tool chest, engine stand, corded 1/2 impact, dozens of boxes of their rubber gloves, occasional use odd sized sockets...

I run a roomba in my shop. It does a great job cleaning up dirt, metal chips, grinder dust.. It also works really well cleaning my workbench tops since it won’t fall off the edge.

1. Buy a cordless impact

This. You need pressure differential to move air through the radiator. Not open air.

Yeah, a tech inspection and post race impound would elminate this. Like in motorsports, top finishing cyclists would be required to head straight to the impound after the race. Add in some kind of tamper resistant geo location device to each riders bike to make sure the one in the impound is the same bike they road on.

I would rather have car with a passable engine and purpose built chassis than a commuter car with a big turbo and some fake aero bits.

4130 is great if you are going to heat treat, which is a pain in the ass for a production car. Most roll cages are mild steel and many of them are mig.

I didn’t see his bender in action- its not the standard JD2 or similar bender everyone else uses for roll cages? Also, BOO not putting holes in your dimple die gussets. Looks way less cool that way.

It will be less than that. Consider that the softop and frame is going to be about 40lb (which gets pulled out for the hardtop). Weight difference will probably be in the 50-80lb range.

You are correct. The caterham kits are super overpriced. This is why we have locost.

I think for the right owner the time is now. I have considered picking up a clean early body style (pre 928s), ditching the mechanical fuel injection for a megasquirt, and dropping the lsd from the later year cars into it. Realistically, you could get there for 12-13k, and have a 300 some horsepower V8 2+2 that…

It’s too bad that the cage is so badly designed. No race car fabricator would build a cage that was this unsafe. It looks like a DIY job from someone who couldn’t read a rule book or their harness install instructions. Fun idea, but the first thing a new owner needs to do is cut out the cage and weld in a new one.

I am excited to see some drift cars running EGR, charcoal canisters, stock manifolds, and stock PCV systems with unmodified OEM engine managment.

The word “weight” comes up 6 times in this article but nowhere does it mention that this thing is a porky 3500 lb.

Nissan doubles down on being the least interesting car manufacturer.