Have time to decide on tires, but current thought is the Nitto NT05’s.īefore I started I had read every post on S65/85 swaps and potential swaps and knew how rare they were, but until I got into it did not have a full appreciation for how every single tab, bracket, attachment point, pulley, etc etc etc would have to be custom built to make the project work.
#1933 for rodstar chassis Patch#
I found a set of HRE wheels on EBAY off a wrecked Lamborghini (same 5 x 120 bolt pattern as BMW) that was OEM matched for 200 plus mile performance with just the right track width for the ff chassis, traction patch and that hot rod look of monster wheels in the back and smaller up front: 19 X 13.5 (335/30/19) rears and 18 X 8.5 (235/35/18) fronts. In short, the basic theme of the project is a street legal hot rod that has that traditional hot rod look from 20 feet away – no roof, hood, fenders, very sparse racecar like interior, light on creature comforts, monster rear and littler front wheels, etc, with no clue as to its supercar handling and performance. Even luckier that the donor S65 already had the Gintani rear exhaust and I was blown away by that sound.
#1933 for rodstar chassis manual#
Wasn’t as sure of the chassis I’d use as a starting point, but just after I found a low mileage complete drivetrain at the right price, came across an article on Bret Voelkel’s Ridetech 1933 Ford Hot Rod beating a Lambo on the track at 204 mph ( ) and the handling he got from a Factory Five 1933 Ford with its tubular spaceframe chassis and the plan was complete: a car weighing 2100 pounds with an S65, the manual 6 (just more fun in a hot rod IMHO) and the full 5-link 3.85 geared M3 rear in a fenderless 1933 Ford Roadster.
Before long I was bidding on Copart on wrecked e9x M3’s. When a few years ago my kids sent me to Skip Barber's formula racing school at Laguna as a father's day present, a long dormant itch was really awakened.Ībout two years ago, when my youngest went away to school (and long-since divorced), started to think I had the time to do this project and began looking in earnest at drivetrains and suspension packages. Life (career, kids, marriage) intervened and that dream was put on hold. The result was that for the next three and a half decades I have had the dream of building a lightweight American Hot Rod body matched with a European sports car drivetrain and suspension to get both the performance and look I wanted.
The car was fast and with its IRS and large heavily cambered rear wheels could handle curves like it was on rails - I fell in love with that top down two seater sportscar ride at high speed!!!!! I bored and stroked the engine and did a full frame off restoration in my parents garage. When I blew the engine some months after it was on the road, I picked up a Triumph TR-6, 2400 pounds with a straight 6 and dual carbs. Car went super fast, but only in a straight line. Spent the next two years, while waiting to get my license, completely rebuilding the car and souping up the drivetrain. Have had a buildpage up on the forum documenting progress, a site more targeted to builders ( ).īy way of background, as a 1970’s teen, I purchased a 66 Buick Riviera with a 425 nailhead that was wrecked in a head on collision for $75. I’ve been lurking around this site (and that other one) for the past several months as I’ve been thinking forward, while I’ve been busy doing the heavy lifting of fabricating motor and transmission mounts, building the rear cradle of the chassis to accept the subframe, etc., all to accept the complete drivetrain of a 14.6K mile wrecked manual trans 2008 e90 M3 into a 1933 based Ford Hot Rod. As this is an S65 forum and I’m moving into the mock-up phase of the performance aspects of my S65 based project, I thought its time to introduce it to this forum.
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