'73 Notchback Road Racer

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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby SwedeSport » Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:03 pm

The owners manual from my 71 99 lists the curb weight for a 2 door manual trans car as 2425 and 52% of the weight on the front.

I figured sub 2k lbs in its final form.

Good to see you making progress on it.
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby Geoff » Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:06 pm

That reminds me of the Bernie sticker that was on Jordan's car.

When Tom B. had the yellow '76 rally car in Southern CA (which I bought and brought back to the North East) he had one of these on it
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I thought it was great to get a car from CA with a NH bumpah stickah on it
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby DrewP » Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:13 pm

Yes, need a moose crossing decal too!

I'm waiting for a Dukakis sticker to show up on eBay for my '85 as well....
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby Jordan » Thu Apr 19, 2012 7:16 am

I just got some scales at the shop and weighed my 99. 2150 fully wet (well 1/3 tank of gas). I didn't level out the floor yet to get exact corner weights, but it was something like 400lb each rear corner and 700lbs for the front corners. :lol:

Pretty much the same weight distro as Drew got. It totally needs a Kevlar composite hood :thumbsup:

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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby SwedeSport » Thu Apr 19, 2012 8:32 am

Put the radiator and fans in the trunk like that Global Rally Cross car. Make an aluminum frame to replace the radio support and get a light hood.
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby Geoff » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:20 pm

Who wants to make some aluminum blocks?

Seriously though, you could take 10 lbs out of the nose of one of these cars with a lightweight flywheel.
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby DrewP » Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:24 pm

That's true. I didn't even think of that when I put mine in. And ditching the cast iron exhaust manifold is probably good for another 10, battery to the trunk gets you another 30 or whatever....
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby SwedeSport » Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:00 pm

Just for comparison sake, my 86 900 weighed 2560 on the scale at the roller mills.
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby saabfan9 » Thu May 31, 2012 4:08 pm

any progress?

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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby DrewP » Thu May 31, 2012 7:01 pm

8(



Life is in the way right now, have two big jobs for old customers lined up, and putting in lots of overtime at work. Picked up a black on black 9000 Aero to flip and just found a gearbox for it, have just about everything I need to get the white 99 running, but haven't gotten that all back together yet.... I got my dirt bike running pretty good and went on a few weekend rides on that to get back into the thick of some kind of motorsport at least....

Summer's long daylight hours should lead to lots of productivity though. More will come soon!
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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby saabfan9 » Fri Jul 27, 2012 10:46 pm

any updates on either car? (yellow or white)...more on the yellow my twin

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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby DrewP » Wed Jan 09, 2013 6:05 pm

Bump this up finally.

Have some more parts waiting to go on.

Jordan is building me a T5 harness and flashing an N/A B202 tune (can't wait!) so I can drop that in and get started on electrical work.

Still have to make pedal box and pedals and run brake lines.

Still need fuel pumps.

Figure something out with the radiator. The stock one hits the front mount that I made.

Have to finish mounting steering column. I'll try to integrate the middle support mount into the pedal box like the stock one does and keep things tidy.

That's really all that's left. I'll have to add a sill bar to the cage for it to meet the revision to FIA-253 if I am going to get that logged, but that'll be quick.

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Re: '73 Notchback Road Racer

Postby DrewP » Mon Oct 21, 2013 6:30 pm

A man with a dream. A dangerous, awesome, yellow dream.


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