Budget Build: Honda Challenge Part 2 – Safety, Safety, Safety
When building a racecar, you have to make the thing safe before you can make it fast. The major difference between the car you...
Top Tips for Building A Spec E46 Roll Cage
It might be overstating the obvious to say that a roll cage in a racecar is the last line of defense in a big...
Gutting a Door
Without a doubt, the biggest expense in building a racecar from a production car is having the roll cage installed. That step in the...
Innocence Lost – Turning a garage-queen BMW E92 M3 into a proper Time Trial...
It’s funny what racing does to the human mind. One minute we’re capable of making rational decisions and the next we’re tearing apart a...
Under The Gun: A Father-Son Duo Install a Cage In a Spec MX-5 Challenge...
With the racing season’s start less than two months away, Wyatt Couch and his father Dave were starting to sweat. The warm glow of...
How to Build a Spec3 From a Donor
In the interest of furthering renewed interest in Spec3, the series leader and series director put together a constructors guide for those interested in...
Project Spec E46: Sourcing and Stripping a Car
A few years ago, I wrote a series on building a Spec E30 as an average guy, doing a home build in his garage....
Project: Spec E30 – Finding a Donor and Getting Started on the Build
People ask me what it takes to build a Spec E30. Believe it or not, it’s a common question that people who are interested...
The Red Zed – Part 3: Fast and Phenomenally Fun
The transformation of the Red Zed from a basic 2007 Nissan Nismo 350Z to proper racecar is almost complete. It has gone from road...
Project Spec E46: Rear Suspension and Other Details
Before reassembling the rear subframe on a Spec E46, you must weld in a rear subframe reinforcement kit. I sourced mine from Condor Speed...
