First drive for my lakes style roadster: Finally!

Got the roadster on the road today, drove it up and down the driveway and around the section, still needs some tuning on the injection and she sets pretty low but it has been a long time coming!

Still have a few things to do but at least I know it runs.

Rex

 

congrats brother, nice work!

 

NICE!

What's the wheels?

Frank

 

Good job, Schimmer....that thing is WAY cool !

 

You're makin me a little jealous!....mine's not ready yet!....nice ride you got there!

 

Congradulations. A job well done.
G***er Girl

 

Hard work has paid off. Nice job.

 

Frank,
The wheels are 4-1/2 X15 fronts and 8 X18 rears with Coker Firestone dirt tires. I got the wheels from Chris at Wheel Smith in So. Cal. They are power painted the deep maroon and then a clear powder paint over that.
Rex

 

me likey! that rear crossmember is slick.

 

Looks good! And it looks as though you sit low enough in it that you DONT look like a monkey ******* a football on wheels!

Congrats on getting it running.

 

Very nice!!! Is that a Focus engine?

 

WOW! Congratulations Rex. I hope to see you running around town now that your up and running.

 

congratz man!

 

It has a very cool look.

 

Damn! that thing is neat, nice job.

 

I like it. Nice wheel/tire choice ,quickchange and extended cab.

 

Very cool! I know the feeling. Car looks good, congratulations!

 

What's that motor? Looks complicated,LOL!!! Car looks great. She running good? Always thought it would be cool to use one of those engines that are used in Midgets. I think they are called an Ilmore. The ones that use a single 350 Chevy head.

 

Veddy neat! That car looks like a lot of fun

I hafta say, youse guys here have the coolest cars. I came in here out of curiousity a little over a year ago after a friend posted a link elsewhere about the HAMBsters and since then I have seen some of the nicest and most interesting cars I have seen in my life (and I'm a regular at car shows and cruise nights) here on this board; plus lots of great hot rod building information & opinions too.

Rex's car is an excellent example of what I'm talking about........You guys rock......

Al in CT

 

Looks great!

Sam.

 

Ya got to be feeling good about now, great job!

 

love the proportions.

 

Motor is a 2 liter Ford Zetec, mine happens to be out of a 2000 ****** but it is the same motor as the Focus up until they started using the Durotec. The injection is Hilborn with electronic control, the ECU is from Lance at Pantera Inc. Cool guy. Lots of tunning to do and when you are an old "flange head" like myself doing tunning with a laptop seems kind of weird. I need to bolt the rest of the interior panels in, put in seat belts and some sort of E brake to get it street legal then down to do battle with the DMV to get a tag. Wish me luck!

Rex

 

Nice Job ,That is something you can be really proud of. It has a great look and cool details.

 

Man this just hits my hot ****on and for me this type of car is either right on or way off. I will say you did a great job with it. This is the first post i remember about the car, how about some details on it (tires and wheels, motor, frame etc..

 

definitely inspiration for my future project... thanks.

 

I like it, man that looks like it will be fun to drive and it ought to run away and hide from the big boys.

What did you have to do to hook the engine up to rear drive?

 

****** is a T5 from a Turbo Thunderbird, I got the adaptor from Quad 4 out of Denver. I was lucky that the car that donated the engine was a standard shift so I used the stock pressure plate and a Center Force disk that fit the flywheel and the ******.

Once I get the engine tune right I think it will be pretty quick, I am also going to go to a set of deeper gears in the QC as with the 33 inch rear tires I have plenty of gear.

Rex

 

Dang it, I was going to sell off my modified stuff until I saw these pics.
Nice job, it looks "right".

 

nice roadster,nothing more thrilling than the first drive