LaunchPad's Super Stalker

[LaunchPad]

Ladies and Gents! Typically, since starting our Goblin project OldB1 and I dedicate our Wednesdays to working on it but this last Wednesday we took it off so I could wrap up the remounting of body panels for the Super Stalker and get it to a show on Sunday. the car was posted on some other threads here in unpainted. . . . but NOW. . . After a lot of work here is the car with its paint.

There are still a few items to go: the hood SCOOP will be wrapped in black with "92" inside a transparent circle race style and a 92 will be put on each side. The paint is still "curing" and there was not time to generate the files for my vinyl cutter. The side mirrors need replaced because the mirror glass is delaminated om the back sides. I need to 3d print a clamp for the center mirror to grab the top of the windshield because it is quite wobbly. the head lights will and mounts will be changed out for more "Cat-like" projector lights lower and to the front of the front suspension. But all that can wait until winter because my specialty car insurance says i only have til 1 Oct to drive it.

 

[LaunchPad]

I am going to give a HUGE shout out and public THANK YOU to forum member Dale E for all the help and advice he gave me over the cooling issues I was having and the last-minute radiator replacement/conversion.

Thank you, Dale! i would not have made the show again this year without your help!

 

[Sebnuts]

Looks sharp! What does it have under the hood?

 

[LaunchPad]

Here is me at the show. I think I recall the announcer saying there we over 400 cars registered. This is an annual show in Nebraska City, Nebraska during their "Apple Jack's" festival.

OldB1 had to come bail me out because driving the car for the longest trip (29 miles) I have made in it to date we found the bolts that I missed Loctite on. the adapter from the transmission to shifter knob came loose right as I pull to the final stop sign to enter the show. Pretty humbling experience to have folks push me into my parking place while I mashed the clutch!! I was kind of stuck in second gear until he showed up with some tools.

It didn't help I parked next to a cranky old hater with a primer covered mustang missing door handles, interior and marker lights that told me he hated foreign cars and mine was the ugliest he had ever seen.

OldB1 was very unimpressed and had some words of his own about the folks (sadly greater majority of the cars) like the guy here across the street from me posting his window sticker- AND having trailered his car. . . .

i say to each their own cause at the end of the awards ceremony the announcer waived a picture of MY car over his head and said it was the one he most wanted to drive ANYWHERE.

 

[LaunchPad]

Looks sharp! What does it have under the hood?

thank you!

Super charged GM 3800 attached to a "T5 WorldClass"

 

[LaunchPad]

I never was a fan of the "dune buggy" style headlights so i whipped up something a bit more fitting to the stalker look while waiting on goblin parts. what ya all think?

i ran into a few issues. . . apparently i had the hood open sooooo darn long that it warped the shape of the fiberglass so now it is not sitting right on the frame rails- so a fix to that needs to be handled really soon. Also, I used trailer marker lights for my front turn signals - turns out over the road trucks WHITE is the ground. soooo i had to re-wire that circuit TWICE. And as you can see the car is still waiting for my "Stalker" decals and wrap for the hood.

 

[LaunchPad]

Stand by. . . in next few days some big mods for the Stalker. . . i am using a Donkervoort for some inspiration. . . all my needed parts are out for delivery to add all the aero effects (diffuser, and both wings) . . . later after the meet up around mid oct the hard top should be wrapped up as well.

here is what i am talking about:

i know i am partial. . . but i think mine looks better. LOL

 

[Rttoys]

Those handle so well. Looks good

 

[LaunchPad]

About 830 pm I got both front and rear wings mounted just in time to drive an hour North to the other house for a "cars-and coffee" event scheduled for 7AM this morning. Many of the parts only arrived the day before at 5pm. So, the whole project was a bit of a rush. The lighting isn't the greatest and the setting could certainly be a bit better. After the "shake-down" drive I have some more alterations needed in addition to actually painting the parts. . . but here is how it worked out so far:

The rear wing feels pretty high. . . .but according to my seated height with a helmet (I am 6'3") it would only be like an inch above a roof line. . . oy! and the front wing makes it so I can only pull into the other houses driveway in reverse. . . the smaller parts of each wing also need some support near the position of the main mount points. If running with any downforce the smaller portion deflects and resonates above 70mph. The car scoots really nicely tho!

The defuser is only at the pattern stage so far and all the cleanup/paint work is going to have to wait for a few weeks due to other critical daily driver obligations and this epic move happening between now and mid-July while immersed in a re-model of the destination house. <sigh>