Common, you know that would be cool! Imagine passing the cops on the way to get slupie or something and they'd be like WTF?

 

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X2!! epic thread

 

damn, pure ******* sickness.

 

Sweet!!!!

 

It has actually been tough to find good driving gear for the car. Around town I just wear a set of Davida Aviator goggles and regular clothes. But for cold or wet weather its hard to find much. The motorcycle gear would be good except 99% of it is armored. When you are strapped into a recaro racing seat with 6 point harness back and shoulder armor are very uncomfortable. Last year when I drove across country I had a full piece gortex aerostich motorcycle suit where I removed all the armor. Even then I got to hate that thing after 2000 miles

No one makes "drive your convertible with the top down in the rain" gear for some reason.

I have these prescription davida goggles which are great. I have a second set for passengers and make it mandatory that they wear eye protection:

 

******* nice holy **** i want the paddle shifter.

 

The drag racing leathers we use are 100% pure leather with no armor...heh, dragracers only need them in CASE they go down, not WHEN they go down like road-racers, lol. Comfy!

 

this may be cooler than rods build

 

that's blasphemy

 

Lol^

 

ok,my bad, i just the new pics and that thing is a BEAST.i wish he would hurry up and finish

 

It may only have half the power, but it will also weigh less than half as much

 

I hear you...

 

damn, i wonder how close that thing is to being street illegal, btw, what bikes could you hang with in that thing?

Hmm i just noticed, does the atom only generate downforce by having the flat bottom?

 

holy ***** thats gonna be crazy.

 

Street legal? look up the page a little to see the pic with the license plate on the car

There is a wing package for it. The front wing generates something like 150lbs of downforce and the rear around 300. But the wings cost $6K

But the wingless Atom will still take turns at over 2 g's. That's is plenty for me.

 

I'd be custom making a set of canards for the front and a spoiler for the back if I were you. With the amount of power you'll have, and weight and aerodynamic slipperiness of that car. I'd say with proper gearing 200 mph is definitely reachable, I'd definitely want some downforce at that speed!

 

We should be done this week with the build and then tuning next week.

Exhaust version with CAT


custom side tank for the methanol.


If we get the car running it will be at the next Atom club meet at Reno-Fernley 6/11-6/13. Probably wont have it tuned in time to run on the track though. But the paddle shifter will get demo'd if anyone is close and wants to see the car. the 475hp honda will be there running though
http://forum.atomclub.com/index.php/topic,6987.0.html

 

[QUOTE=bolus;2382760]We should be done this week with the build and then tuning next week. QUOTE]

does this thing come with special axles or same stock axles as the LSJ?

 

[QUOTE=Mnatvyc1223;2382790]The US made Atom has a custom axle made by www.driveshaftshop.com This is what they say about the axles

"Brammo has spared no expence on ordering the strongest axles avalible for the cars. we have been manufacturing axles like this for most of the Pro Front wheel drive Drag teams for 10 years now and not had a problem with this design"

 

You're a sick individual,Bolus. Does Tom have a "kit" together for this swap?

 

I need a towel

 

whoa DANGER TO TEH MANIFOLD!!!11!one! one!! zomg

 

Short answer yes, but long answer is it would still need some customization like the tune and engine internals if you did everything I did.


Bill Hahn would supply the basic turbo parts - exhaust manifold custom built for the Atom, turbo, boost controller, bov, oil lines, etc (pictured at the end of my first post). Another owner is waiting for my build to finish to order his parts but already has a quote from Bill.

Then Tom can supply charge tubing, intercooler and now they know all the little parts needed to hook everything up. You would not get a tune though unless you have them install the kit or have a tuner do one from scratch. My tune would not work unless you do the high compression pistons and methanol injection.

The water injection system is a separate kit they could supply with one or two tanks, tubing and the water injection pump. Tom has an extra Perrin kit like mine to sell.

The paddle shifter would be a separate kit they could make for you.

Then there are all the internal engine components that need to be done separately if you would want.

email me if you want details or Toms contact info. eric.murray at gmail.com