Project F1 Car

[Caleb]

I've always thought it'd be cool to build one of these from scratch, not to the F1 level, but good enough to actually race with. I've seen people make chassies and drop in the busa motor, run auto-x and win. I was thinking of building from scratch(aluminum), but was wondering if anybody done this kind of thing before. How hard can it be? What do I need to fabricate a complete racing car to meet organization standards? What clubs do I need to look into for this kind of racing? I've beern wanting to get into racing whether it's motoGP or this sorta thing. I suppose something like this is closer to the F3 cars then F1, but you get the idea. Here's some sample pictures to show what I'm talking about:

[ashylarry]

Id go look on some SCCA forums. They have many different cars for different classes out there. That is what I would get into.

You can find cars on their classifieds or on ebay that are projects or turn key race cars.

[BennyBlown2v]

It's not that simple... Like Ashylarry suggested, checkout SCCA forums. I take it you man something like this, Race Ads | For Sale: Autocross, Formula Modified, Formula Vee

Race cars, of any kind, are extremely expensive and time consuming.

[Caleb]

Originally Posted by BennyBlown2v

It's not that simple... Like Ashylarry suggested, checkout SCCA forums. I take it you man something like this, Race Ads | For Sale: Autocross, Formula Modified, Formula Vee

Race cars, of any kind, are extremely expensive and time consuming.

sorta like that, but more of exampled pictures above...

EDIT:

[BennyBlown2v]

Originally Posted by Caleb

sorta like that, but more of exampled pictures above...

EDIT:

That would easily cost $50,000 used - and depending on the sort of class/motor/chassis you go with upwards of $100,000 EASILY for a professionally setup car.

[ashylarry]

Yea I want to do something like that eventually. ^^^

[ashylarry]

Thats going to cost you lots and lots of money.

[ashylarry]

here is a link to the SCCA forums SCCAForums.com - Forums

I would say 100k is on the low end for the last pictured car. I know the motors in the indy cars are 60k themselves.

I would just look into something like benny posted. There are many different body styles and those with a bike motor are insane.

[Caleb]

Even doing the fabrication myself and using a busa motor instead??

[ashylarry]

Originally Posted by Caleb

Even doing the fabrication myself and using a busa motor instead??

If you can do all the fabrication yourself it will be a lot cheaper. You will be making everything from scratch, people dont really like sharing information on race cars.

Here are a bunch of pictures of something that I would like to build eventually. jwwPhotos- powered by SmugMug

Much cheaper and smaller. I would just buy a roller of something like those.