RE: barter's Ultima GTR

RE: barter's Ultima GTR

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Brian Stanley

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3 posts

263 months

Thursday 23rd May 2002
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Thinking of building Ultima. Why did you choose GTR over Cam am. How long do you estimte it will take you.

Good Luck

barter

246 posts

284 months

Thursday 23rd May 2002
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Never had a thread named after me. I'm honoured.

Why the GTR? I've had 2 Chimaeras for the last 6 years and have become very concience of what would happen if the car ended up on its roof. I rarely drove the TVR with the roof on and, believe me, over 140mph (on the track of course) it felt like it wants to immitate a Mercedes LeMans racer.
I love the shape of the true LeMans racers not these prototype things.
Third reason, I live in England! It rains.

At the Open Day last month I saw the CanAm and began wondering again. Then I remembered my first reason for having a roof.

Don't let me put you off going for the CanAm, its a fantastic car and AirCon isn't a necessity.

The factory recon on about 400 hours. I WILL have mine ready for LeMans next year. Fortunately I have friends who have offered to help me make a car a lot faster than theirs. There's friendship for you!

REV-EREND

21,415 posts

284 months

Friday 24th May 2002
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The best way to make sure it's not faster than my car is to be 'The Mole' and work from the inside - just substituting the distributor car for one with just
4 pickup points or I could puncture the hyrolastic suspension bubble...

That should get you down to only 250bhp...

he he...