The GT2 has been moving ahead at a glacial pace!  There is now a renewed push to get this car finished and on the track, so I dusted the cobwebs off the chassis and finished off the rear wing and engine mounts and a lot of those fiddly jobs that take so much time yet are never seen.

I decided to keep the turbos in a reasonably standard position but just make the headers so there was enough room for the external wastegates.  It is a tight squeeze!  There is just enough room so they don’t become intimate with the massive wheels when at full bump travel.    It is simple and more efficient compared to the standard Turbo pipe work.  The intercoolers have an o-ring seal onto the larger GT2 drive by wire throttle body to make mounting simple and the location is perfect to take advantage of the big roof mounted air scoop.

I am not looking to the next jobs of fabricating the fiddly firewall infill panels, replacing the firewall template with a carbon one with rear window, and then trying to work out how to mount the widened rear body work.  It will be exciting to see it looking like a car again though!

The GT2 is progressing.  Slowly.  It looks like it is still only half a car, but it will be twice the car it was…

Unfortunately, the panels that we ordered were the worst quality I have come across in twenty years so a considerable amount of time has had to be spent on getting them to fit.  I really want to make the rear panels clip off in one piece but I am behind schedule already so I cant deviate from the brief…  At least the front is mainly fitted up and I am just need to keep the CNC running to make all of the little brackets and smaller parts.

While the rear firewall and panels are not yet finally mounted, it is easier to do the plumbing and mount the suspension.  The rear links will be fitted in the next week so the new engine can be fitted and the turbo manifolds for the EFR turbos fabricated.  The intercooler will be fed by the massive air scoop that was used previously so that can be fitted at the same time.  The engine can be then dynoed and fitted…

There is still a few long days ahead before it looks like a car again!