The Wheelbase on this one is 170" after making some more room in front of the motor for the radiator. The front wheels and spindles are from a Jr. Dragster as the car doesn't need the 17" wheels with its light weight and the diameter of these keep the rear wheels from looking smaller than the fronts. The stering box is an SPE rack & pinion. I chose to build an aluminum nose for this one rather than the fiberglass one I offer simply because it fits better. Although it probably doesn't need the front wings, they give the 30" long nose some perpose.
This side view shows how the tire & wheel sizes play into the cars proportions. I thought about adding some engine side panels to this one but was afraid it might look like a bath tub. Without them, you get a better idea what powers it at a glance.
Looking at the back half here, this is a 2000 Kawasaki ZX-12R that makes around 190 hp stock. It's water cooled, fuel injected, has a 6-speed trans and rev's to about 12 Grand. If you look close, you can see where I built an outboard bearing support for countershaft and an idler sprocket to help simplify chain adjustment.
This shows how all the switches mount in the steering wheel while the wiring goes through the columb, the brake handle, master cylinder and the spring loaded hand shifter on the floor. By blipping the throttle while tugging on this shifter, I can hit all the shift points just as fast as an air shifter !
Although this car didn't need it, I build a simple cage around the rear axle. Others have had things like a wheelie bar, a rear wing and a parachute. The rear axle is a 1 3/4" .250 wall Chromolly tube with CNC machined hubs. The rear sprocket is split and indexed with master links at the seams. The rear tires are Mickey Thompson 24.5x7-13" on TQ dirt track 7" rims with special made centers to fit a on 4 3/4" bolt circle. This single 4-piston brake set up provides pleanty of stopping power for the cars 550 pounds without driver. In this case, the stock stainless steel exhaust pipe was able to be used with some slight modification to the collector to fit this tail pipe.
I'm glad I don't have to figure out the wiring on this one, between the fuel injection and all the fail safe switches, it will be a challenge. Based on my experience with these engines, I don't see why this car won't run mid to low 9 second 1/4 mile times at around 135 mph.
