Been quite a while since I have had a street car, and with my racecar not seeing much track time lately I decided to get one of my projects back on the front burner so I can enjoy driving on a daily basis vs. "commuting" in my ¾ ton pickup. I still have a few projects to knock out for other people before I can devote full attention to this project, but I have at least started moving forward enough with the build to get a thread started.
This is originally a Cirrus Blue car that belonged to a good friend of mine, back when my racecar was still a street/AX/DE car. At one point it was actually a very nice car with only an average respray (with a few hail dents) holding it back. My buddy parked it on jack stands, stripped it down and basically sanded the entire car down to metal in anticipation of painting it. Life got in the way, it sat, and eventually he started selling off all the parts until not much but the shell was left. He finally decided it needed to go so we threw enough parts on it to get it rolling and moved it over to a mutual friend’s house where it sat for a couple more years in his backyard in anticipation of being built back up. The car landed in my lap a and I’ve been storing it until recently when I decided it was time to get it back on the road.
Here is what I am starting with - dragging the car to my buddies shop:
My plans are pretty simple - make it fun and track worthy but keep it reasonably comfortable for the street. Original plans were to drop in an S52 that has been passed around friends, but now it looks like it will be a v8 of some variant. It will have AC. I had a lot of 5-lug "stuff" so it's going that route with m-coupe trailing arms and a mix of stuff up front. BC coilovers (e36) seemed to be a good bang for the buck so it's going to sit on those unless I decide to borrow the 5300's from the race car :-D. I have a few goodies for the interior I bartered for when we stuffed the S65 in my friends racecar (think e92 m3).
What it looks like now with a weekend of throwing parts at it:
BC Coilovers/IE 25mm sway, e36 M Knuckle:
E46M3 Rotor/996 Caliper:
Throw some freshly restored Style 68 wheels on it for the street and Bob's your uncle:
I am hoping to have this thing rolling in the next few months and back in full Cirrus glory by end of summer.
This is originally a Cirrus Blue car that belonged to a good friend of mine, back when my racecar was still a street/AX/DE car. At one point it was actually a very nice car with only an average respray (with a few hail dents) holding it back. My buddy parked it on jack stands, stripped it down and basically sanded the entire car down to metal in anticipation of painting it. Life got in the way, it sat, and eventually he started selling off all the parts until not much but the shell was left. He finally decided it needed to go so we threw enough parts on it to get it rolling and moved it over to a mutual friend’s house where it sat for a couple more years in his backyard in anticipation of being built back up. The car landed in my lap a and I’ve been storing it until recently when I decided it was time to get it back on the road.
Here is what I am starting with - dragging the car to my buddies shop:
My plans are pretty simple - make it fun and track worthy but keep it reasonably comfortable for the street. Original plans were to drop in an S52 that has been passed around friends, but now it looks like it will be a v8 of some variant. It will have AC. I had a lot of 5-lug "stuff" so it's going that route with m-coupe trailing arms and a mix of stuff up front. BC coilovers (e36) seemed to be a good bang for the buck so it's going to sit on those unless I decide to borrow the 5300's from the race car :-D. I have a few goodies for the interior I bartered for when we stuffed the S65 in my friends racecar (think e92 m3).
What it looks like now with a weekend of throwing parts at it:
BC Coilovers/IE 25mm sway, e36 M Knuckle:
E46M3 Rotor/996 Caliper:
Throw some freshly restored Style 68 wheels on it for the street and Bob's your uncle:
I am hoping to have this thing rolling in the next few months and back in full Cirrus glory by end of summer.
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