Ok, cool!
Hey guys. Thought I'd hop over here and share our GTO project. I see tons of familar names over here, but for those that don't know me, I'm Chad from Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle and the Chrome Czars.
Here's the 2011 Give-A-Way car for the new upcoming
Hot Rod Chassis & Cycle build for Raybestos Brakes. After the success of last year's '32 Ford RPU Give-A-Way car built by Hollywood Hot Rods, Raybestos wanted to do a GM muscle car. That's not really our thing as a shop, but if it were a race car... We're partnering up with some cool companies... Hilborn, GM, Moser Engineering, American Racing, just to name a few. I designed the look to be a modern interpretation of the vintage Road Racers. And as they say, this one will go to 11. So here it is the HRCC Road Racing GTO-R.
Here is our victim...
Cutting away the floor/trunk to prepare the car for it's new uni-body chassis.
My rendering of what the finished give-a-way car will look like. Anyone can enter to win. We're planning on debuting it on the PowerTour.
The chassis will be a unitized type insert, with additional and healthy amounts of 4130 Chromoly tubing. Rear suspension will be our very own design seen in several of our builds. It hugs corners like it's on rails, launches very nicely and has awesome ride comfort. Front will be a custom designed double A-arm suspension with rack steering and Ridetechs' new triple adjustable, remote reservoir coil over shocks.
Power will be a new LSX454 that we're going to dress up and paint to look like a Hilborn Stack injected Poncho motor. The LS family was used in the last GTO's GM built. So the spin is the Last GTO motor in the First GTO body. Transmission will be a new TTC Magnum T56.
Not sure what the final HP number will be, but is looking like it will be slightly less than the 767 I used in the rendering, but somewhere north of 700 I'm sure.
There will be pics on the
HRCC site. This is kind of a sneak peak since none of the marketing has kicked in yet, but for entry, keep an eye on the
Raybestos site or the
Raybestos Garage site, which is still promoting the '32 build. The winner of that one was flown to the SEMA show to see it for the first time in person. He was totally besides himself with excitement. Real nice guy and we were all happy for him. I believe he takes delivery at the Indy 500 this year. And this month's Street Rodder and Hot Rod both have feature articles on the truck.