Pics of our new #16
 

Here is one of our 2 cars that we're running in the Grand Am Koni Challenge Series this year. Feel free to stop by the shop if you're ever in Indianapolis.

This is going to sound stupid, but that thing must weigh nothing. very cool and nice pics.

When do you put the tranny, engine, etc in?

Very nice, that first picture is great!

it looks great!

m m m m m. toasty :]

damn. kudos. rpf1s ftw!

needs clear corners. ;) i'm kidding - it looks awesome.

Ran the motor yesterday for an hour with the engine builder and everything was fine. We just put a fresh rebuilt trans in her with new synchros, shift forks and the usual consumables last week.

Today we fabbed up a custom exhaust to our header, installed the seat, belts, dash, power cut-off and some other jazz. This Tuesday is her maiden shake down up at the Autobahn CC outside of Chicago. Then to Mid-Ohio for more testing and her first race next weekend. Then Limerock. Then back to Indy to finish the second car.

I'm guessing it will weigh 2550 w/out driver, ballast or fuel. Watch here for more details:

http://www.meyer-motorsports.com/Blog/Blog.html

Amazing, the car the looks magnificent!

NIce, im in love.

Can I drive it?

lot of propz to you. looks real clean and mean! g00d luck.

I love it.

Sorry---but you could buy the suspension and a turbo will make more power than my N/A mill.

Speed Source Front Swaybars from Mazda Motorsports (there are 3 Mazda Swaybar options), you want the Speed Source front bar.

MSpeed rear sway bar (yes, the accessory sway bar). These cars don't need much of a rear sway bar.

Koni double adjustable shocks at about $800 per

Various spring rates.

Voila' other than 2-300 lbs of reduced weight, we have a stock RX8 (plus a very well designed and beefy cage of course). These cars are a blast to drive. Add suspension to them and they'll do stuff you could never imagine.

^couldn't agree with you more. What's the width of the tire?

When will you be at Mid-Ohio?

Glad to see another RX-8 on the track. We'll show them piston engines just what a rotary can do.

I need to start making some cash. haha :yelrotflm

That just looks amazing. good luck!

sick 8...i love those rims...:)

very nice Eric, looks good

That's great man! Good luck. It's always refreshing to see more 8s out there racing. are you going to race at Lime Rock next month?

Bob

Beautiful looking car. I will have to find you guys and come by to check it out!!

Those are 225/17/45 Grand Am Hoosiers mounted to 17X9 enkei's. The GAm hoosiers use a compound that is designed to last longer (the Koni races are typically 3.0 hours +/- They are not as fast as the Hoosiers (or the AutoX versions which typically run .5 second faster than the road racing versions---but don't last as long). I would say that GAm Hoosier compound is somewhere inbetween a shaved Toyo RA1 (which you can get about 15-20 open track heat cycles) and a race Hoosier (which you can get about 3-6 heat cycles out of).

This weekend with NASA Great Lakes region.