Our BMW E30 with the 5.3L LM7 V8 swap has sat in the corner of the shop for months, broken and ignored. After it (twice) shattered drivetrain parts at the drag race portion of the GRM $2010 Challenge event (Oct 2010), and killed our chances at a top 5 finish, we haven’t touched the thing. We recently found another 5-spd transmission and Costas cracked it open to inspect it closely…
After adding the optional CS lower fascia and a CDC rear trunk panel cover on Friday, we went Saturday Feb 19th to the Dallas Raceway 1/4 mile dragstrip. Our otherwise stock 2011 Mustang GT 6-spd 5.0 car and managed a 12.92@108.6 mph, which we were very happy with!
Read more about the recent parts added and the drag strip runs (including lots of pictures and video) in this project forum post.
Amy and Terry here at Vorshlag went down to Houston to run the first NASA Texas event for 2011 last weekend (Jan 29-30). We’ve got a good write-up of the event, with hundreds of pictures and some in-car video, all posted in our 2011 GT build thread on the Vorshlag Forum (and cross-posted on the forums at Corner-Carvers, SCCAforums, and roadraceautox.com) in post # 39. Continue reading →
Welcome to the new Vorshlag Blog! This first post is just a quick overview of the last 12 months of cars, projects and product development here at Vorshlag. We’ve definitely been busy here – making several new camber plate designs, new wheel stud coverage (Porsche, Subaru, & Mini were added to the BMW line-up), more products for our E36 LS1 V8 swap kits, selling lots of AST shocks, and building all sorts of new project cars.
