first off.. this is an incredible effort. the best home-build groupe c car I've seen. The tub is spectacular looking. But..
While some details are wonderfully done there are a few issues I spot that I would never do on a car meant to be a proper endurance racer. I find these home builds consistent in the fact that they are done by people with considerable passion and fabrication skill and yet usually not the same engineering knowledge a factory car would have been built with. The way the rear upper A-arms are designed with the single plate triangle gusset and a threaded rod end on the outer joint isn't the way it's done. And the forward tube spliced into the other tube to sink anther rod end in it? Again, just not the way this is done.
The rear wing placement is far too far forwards even for an IMSA short tail car. Even on those cars the rear of the wing was about 8 inches rearwards of the rear of the body. With the wing that far forwards much of the effect the wing has on driving the diffuser is lost. *edit: just noticed it doesn't have the ground effect tunnels at all. That is the whole point of a 962! the tunnels!*
All the mixed hardware (socket head cap screws with black oxide coating mixed in with a few nice hex heads here and there?
) really gets to me too.
Sure the thing will run and drive but aggg I can't stand seeing these builds that could have really used someone who had worked on real 962's a while to coach the builder into not making design and setup mistakes.
/rant over.