CCC - Colins Custom Car

CCC - Colins Custom Car

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Viper

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272 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Posted this up on facebook Colin, and repeating here for Mark wink
Colin had his first weekend at Silverstone in his new motor




and now for something completely different...Colin fancied modifying and customising his Gen1 Viper into a unique road legal vehicle. Colin's on going project is now nearing completion, it has really moved on in the last six months, and I cant imagine the time consumed even after seeing a huge photo album he has put together showing all the build









The high lights of the build includes an adapted RT chassis, galvanised and powder coated in purple. Billet CNC ali wishbones and uprights with a 2" hydraulic lift kit for getting over speed bumps. The engine has a bigger cam, ported valves, T&D roller rockers and a Gen3 intake. with Gen2 crate wiring and PCM, along custom headers and a exhaust that runs under the centre of the car





mated to a Quaife sequencial gearbox, Quaife Diff, custom prop and half shafts. The car also has a electric variable power steering and adjustable anti roll bars. The Fuel cell is custom, going to Gen3 injectors. The body is carbon fibre, sprayed with 2 pack orange paint and laquar, the stripes are the carbon fibre














the side windows are custom glass/electric, the rear screen is polycarbonate and the front screen is factory Gen1. Interior is carbon, with a race technology digital dash. AP Racing 6 pot brakes up front and 4 pot on the rear with integral handbrake, with 5 Stud TVR light weight wheels. There are lots of other features I haven't mentioned !! but Colin has put his car together in his own garage by the side of his house which quite remarkable, doing nearly all the work from chassis welding, clay sculpturing the shape of the car then taking moulds to make the CF body panels and spraying them, and a million other jobs too








Edited by Viper on Wednesday 30th July 16:35

Viper

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Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Viper

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Wednesday 30th July 2014
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hooked up to Colin's tow vehicle, ex: Keene Bells show car





getting lined up for the 1/4 mile sprint down the drive


fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Flippin Heck! yikes

So let me get this right.......
That Orange car WAS a Gen 1 Viper?

WOW, Respect Colin, that is one hell of a lot of work!

Looks Great, Where an earth did you start? Had you seen Nadines Comp Coupe and thought I would like one of those?

I dread to think how much time you must have put into that and the one of parts needed for the build?

Did you do all the body panels yourself or did you buy them and then make them fit?

So is it running yet?

ViperDave

5,520 posts

252 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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It begs the question now its nearly finished, what next? please don't tell me he has brought a Cessna and been spotted hanging around the airport with a telephoto lens and laser tape measure eying up the A380s.

Anyway, top stuff Colin

Viper

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272 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Mark, ill answer these to the best of my lowly ability until Colin pops up, so some of it will be wrong smile
he's out early in the morning for a well deserved holiday and im pretty sure he wont be online

Yes, it was a originally a red Gen1, which Colin has owned for something like 12 years.

Joel and I saw loads of the build pics, original Comp Coupe panels wouldn't fit so Colin made his own carbon fibre panels from scratch !! The only part of the body panels which is factory CC is the hood vents

the original RT was covered in clay which Colin worked into the shape of Comp Coupe, on the hood pic I guess it was about 70mm thick, several more processes, Colin had a mould which he could manufacture his own CF panels from. The roof/rear/bumper section is one huge piece(up to the window screen)

the car runs and everything works, though there was a slight issue with the clutch on Saturday


You could be right Dave, there was an Ex: Falklands Lynx helicopter on his front garden for a couple of years







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Edited by Viper on Wednesday 30th July 22:33

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Wednesday 30th July 2014
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Thanks for the info Neil, bloody hell. How the hell do you find time to do all that work!

What a project!

Look forward to seeing it one day smile

Dr-Bob

6,629 posts

259 months

Thursday 31st July 2014
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The Viper looked great at the pod on Sunday .. First time i had ever seen Colins car,

Great job

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Thursday 31st July 2014
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Is Colin a VOA Member? If so would be good to do a feature on the car in the Magazine smile

ViperDave

5,520 posts

252 months

Thursday 31st July 2014
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fatboy18 said:
Is Colin a VOA Member? If so would be good to do a feature on the car in the Magazine smile
And the web site, Don't forget the web site. Even if he isn't a voa member it would be nice to get an article on the web site.

VPRMAN

420 posts

242 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Hi Guys, I'm back and will try answer as many questions as possible. And will also put pen to paper for the website

I bought the car accident damage about 12 years ago, cat D, only panel damage, it did still drive. Initially my thoughts were to put it back to stock, but as it was accident damage and alot of people think that accident damage cars are the devil, plus I live in Scotland so an open top is not a great idea smilesmile my thoughts changed to converting it to a GTS. I always prefered to the look of the GTS. Then after more thought, which involved pricing all parts to covert it, I started to thing GTSR race replica, as the interior parts alone for the GTS conversion were getting very expensive. Race car, minimal interior smilesmile. I then attended VOI and saw some Comp Coupes and thought, why not smilesmile

I started with cutting MDF wood arches and mounting them in the correct position to give me the correct widths. Moulded a GTS roof to give me a start point and purchased GEN3 nose cone and lights. Oh and quite a bit of clay, fibreglass and catalloy smilesmile. When i was close to finishing the shaping, Nad asked me to mould their CC. This did help me in the details as the louvres in the bonnet, the area around the rear lights/numberplate.

There are many changes made to the car that i will try to list eventually but there is not one part on the car that hasn't been modified. I must thank Nad for what i think just finishes the car off when she offered me the Gen 3 intake. At least now when you lift the bonnet, it looks right.

I know many people will hate me for what i have done, and that is why i don't come on here very often, but i have done it for me. I changed the stering column to Vauxhall Corsa, because i wanted variable electric powder steering............

Please feel free to ask anything, or request any detail photo's




























Joelism

640 posts

256 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Awesome undertaking ! Need more pics smile

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Not sure who the haters are?

I think that's brilliant thumbup

Really impressed with the work smile

How did you work out the suspension set up?

Very interested to know what is involved with the hydraulic lifting,

I need that on my car smile

Loving the cross brace too.

Do you plan to track the car?

Dr-Bob

6,629 posts

259 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Great job and dread to think the man hours into it.....

Glad you didn't do a GTS-R rep wink wink......

Viper

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272 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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any more shiny pics smile

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Dr-Bob said:
Great job and dread to think the man hours into it.....

Glad you didn't do a GTS-R rep wink wink......
Yea, who the hell would want one of those! biggrin

VPRMAN

420 posts

242 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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fatboy18 said:
How did you work out the suspension set up?

I have read up about ideal suspension setup. I do a lot of drawings on CAD to design the most ideal geometry, wishbone lengths, hub positions etc. There is no guarantee but the theory is all good smilesmilesmile

Very interested to know what is involved with the hydraulic lifting,

I need that on my car smile

The lift was all designed into the suspension setup, I wanted to keep the coil over shock setup, so used hydraulic rams to lift the chassis mounting points for the shocks. If I was to do it again, I would look into the electric lifts similar to Lamborghini, as I have put a bit of weight into the car with the hydraulics. But it is definitely worth it, getting it on and off the trailer

Loving the cross brace too.

Do you plan to track the car?

No, I have no interest in track days, but I think Nad was measuring herself up to take it out for me smilesmilesmile

VPRMAN

420 posts

242 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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Joelism said:
Awesome undertaking ! Need more pics smile
You need to be more specific Joel, I have over 500 photo's of the build and can't work an easy way to post them smilesmilesmile

fatboy18

18,930 posts

210 months

Monday 18th August 2014
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VPRMAN said:
fatboy18 said:
How did you work out the suspension set up?

I have read up about ideal suspension setup. I do a lot of drawings on CAD to design the most ideal geometry, wishbone lengths, hub positions etc. There is no guarantee but the theory is all good smilesmilesmile

Very interested to know what is involved with the hydraulic lifting,

I need that on my car smile

The lift was all designed into the suspension setup, I wanted to keep the coil over shock setup, so used hydraulic rams to lift the chassis mounting points for the shocks. If I was to do it again, I would look into the electric lifts similar to Lamborghini, as I have put a bit of weight into the car with the hydraulics. But it is definitely worth it, getting it on and off the trailer

Loving the cross brace too.

Do you plan to track the car?

No, I have no interest in track days, but I think Nad was measuring herself up to take it out for me smilesmilesmile
Have to say producing something like that from scratch I bet there would be many motorsport engineering companies willing to offer you a job, Top work mate smile

BillyWhizz888

899 posts

152 months

Tuesday 19th August 2014
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Wow wow and wow

I looked at this at the mopars and bein a huge viper fan there were only 2 there
Including this one

I looked at every inch of the car and couldn't even see that it's a gen 1

Awesome job and great detail into the build

Think I would have creamer myself if I saw it ran