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10-13-2009 #1
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Is this unreasonable?
My current fun car is a viper gts. I am selling it to build a new one. I plan to build a pro-touring mopar b-body to look and perform as good as that. I know there is custom coil over tubular suspensions, stiffner kits, 4 links,huge brakes, efi hemi swaps, 6 speed swaps, and all the other good stuff. But when it gets done, how well do they corner? I haven't seen any skid pad data or hard numbers for any of these after market company builds...anyone know?
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well, your biggest disadvantage is going to be that you're starting out with a lot more mass than the viper--which means you're at an inherent disadvantage.
That being said, I know that a lot of the high-level camaro builds end up turing 1+ g's on the skidpad...I would presume that, as it is in many ways a similar platform (dimensionally, at least) that similar numbers could be achieved. I haven't seen any hard numbers, though.
Still--to make a car like b-body and have it perform as well as a car engineered from the ground up to perform...you're pretty much going to have to engineer it from the ground up to perform, too. Gonna take a loooot of work.
JMO.
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talk to the guys at xv motorsports. I'm sure they can give you numbers on their parts.
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If you go all out and pay attention to your fr balance , weight and moments of inertia over 1G skidpad/braking is definately possible, I think that's right up there in viper territory. By the time you get to that point you'll probably have as much invested in the car as a new viper too.
Here's some hard numbers from a recent super-chevy article, once you get into the aftermarket suspensions and even full frame swaps a B body won't have trouble posting similar numbers.
https://www.pro-touring.com/forum/sh...hlight=skidpad
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good article, if I can get to 1g I would be satisfied.
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xv motorsports would be your company for parts, or even a done car
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I don't think it's unreasonable at all. I do agree with Wes though that you may not be able to do it with bolt-on stuff and may have to go ground up. I've got similar goals and am going the full chassis route from Art Morrison. Maybe you want to look into a full chassis for your project. Schwartz now offers a bolt-on frame for b bodies, http://www.schwartzperformance.com/news.aspx?newsid=33. I considered their chassis but they have nothing for chrysler A bodies.
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