http://www.vorshlag.com/forums This forum will outline all of our project cars that we are currently developing. en Thu, 09 Sep 2010 19:31:30 GMT vBulletin 60 http://www.vorshlag.com/forums/images/misc/rss.jpg http://www.vorshlag.com/forums http://www.vorshlag.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7745&goto=newpost Mon, 30 Aug 2010 05:32:16 GMT Figured I'd start a thread now I'm sporting AST doubles!!

The frame was made at the tail end of the 90s or 2000 and the previous owner bought it bare and began to assemble it and work/kids/life kept getting in the way. I bought it as a roller and with the help of some friends brought it to life.

The beginning: June 2005: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch42.htm
From storage to my garage: 06.06.06: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch57.htm
February 2007, TBA (Things Be Arriving!!): http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch71.htm
June 2007 : a 25$ can of rustoleum: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch74.htm
June 2007: Entering UTCC and CarDomain 'TOP RIDE' status: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch75.htm
June Thrash I: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch76.htm
June Body Chech: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch77.htm
June Thrash II: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch78.htm
July Thrash III: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch79.htm
July Pulled Out: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch79a.htm
July ROWDY: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch80.htm
July First Test: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch81.htm
July VIR Test/UTCC: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch82.htm
July UTCC rollout: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch82page2.htm
July UTCC rest of the story: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch83.htm
March 2008 - Dyno: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch95.htm
March 2008 SCCA Double National: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch96.htm
March 2008 ouch: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch99.htm
2006-2008 Free Bodywork: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch114.htm
Dec 2009: Snowmotor: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch153.htm
Feb - July 2010: prep: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch163.htm
Aug 2010: NASA SU and TTR running: http://www.witchdoctormotorsports.com/ch164.htm

(dang, didn't know I wrote/posted so much about this car...heh heh)

HUGE THANKS TO VORSHLAG AND AST!!! The new dampers are a DREAM and I look forward to sorting the car out more and going even faster!!!

VIDEO: http://vimeo.com/14079516

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]]> Vorshlag Team Cars Shortcutsleeping http://www.vorshlag.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7745 http://www.vorshlag.com/forums/showthread.php?t=7740&goto=newpost Wed, 25 Aug 2010 16:14:49 GMT _*Start of Build - August 25, 2010:*_ Matt bought this 1995 BMW M3 a while ago as a rolling chassis. The stock motor was long gone, and some of the interior was as well. This was a no sunroof, black car (diamond schwartz) in fairly good shape. Image:... Start of Build - August 25, 2010: Matt bought this 1995 BMW M3 a while ago as a rolling chassis. The stock motor was long gone, and some of the interior was as well. This was a no sunroof, black car (diamond schwartz) in fairly good shape.



There were some dings in the hood, holes in the trunk from an old factory rear spoler, and bubbles in the paint on the doors where a plasma cutter (facepalm) was used to remove about 2 pounds of door bar reinforcement (facepalm, again), and... ok, the body isn't perfect. But it had AP big brakes in front, some Kosei K1 wheels and Falken RT615 tires (which were the hot ticket back in... 2005?). :D



Matt had ridden in our E36 LS1 Alpha car years ago and was smitten - he bought the LS1 swap kit and a set of AST 4100s from us after finding this donor chassis. He had Dallas Performance build a nice 4-point "street cage" that also had some bits that tied the rear shock towers together and to the subframe mounts, but still had plenty of room for the front seats and people could ride up there safely without helmets. Dallas Performance took the junkyard 5.7L aluminum LS1 engine and T56 trans Matt had sourced and rebuilt everything, and installed ported heads and a larger camshaft in the process.



Then the car sat... and sat... and was moved 3 times, and became a storage container on wheels. In the meantime Matt started working for Vorshlag back in early 2008, and somehow in 2010 the car migrated into our shop. What the...??



We'll be doing the swap here in-house soon (starting after the 2010 Solo Nationals and GRM Challenge events), and developing some additional parts to go along with our LS1 swap kits. We will be taking photos and videos of the installaiton steps as well. Recently Matt rolled the car outside and washed all the years of dust off, and now it sits under a car cover in our shop awaiting some installaiton work.



Here's the 4-point roll bar/cage structure added to the car:



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