Matech GT3

[BBRGT]

As I recall from Thomas Mutch (Driver & Facility manager), the taillights, the rear bumper, and a support brace in the doors....& the chassis.

Actually the tail lights are just lexan covers with decals on them , the rear bumper is a carbon piece from Matech and my doors do not have any support brace .
The chassis , floors , rear frame extensions to the bumper and front bumper frame are from a production GT .
The rocker sills and rockers panels are stock GT and the side marker lights are from the street car ( which is a Land Rover part )
I think some of the early cars had stock GT taillights but perhaps the pricing from Ford was the reasoning for the switch , I am putting Ford taillights in mine

 

[BBRGT]

Just put the car on my scales ,these cars are light



At that weight I am missing the exhaust , rear and side lexan windows , no coolant and the taillights





The rear bumper that Sascha supplied

 

[BBRGT]

Not a lot of progress , mocked up the rear bumper and need to modify the taillight panel to fit the OEM taillights



Some photos of the super expensive taillights





Lowered the car closer to proper ride height , waiting on a new lexan windshield and getting the side and rear windows made at a local plastics shop using a cnc router

 

[Brombear]

Love this thread. It's like virtually having the car in my own garage. Keep em coming, please.

 

[BBRGT]

 

[BIGFOOT]

It's impressive that these can weigh 900-1000 pounds less than a street GT.
Holy cow!

 

[STORMCAT]

Thanks, I will race it on the west coast at Pacific Raceways , Portland International and The Ridge Motorsports Park. I may do some events in California but will mostly stay in the Pacific Northwest . There are some short enduro regional races at those tracks I mentioned and I have been running in those events with my Boss 302S with a fair amount of success.

Nice !! Was that the car that was in Miami for a while ? I was contacted by a broker to come check it out and if it's the same car we had another forum member who went to see it . I never made it down to look at the car.. Cool project thanks for sharing !!

 

[BBRGT]

Nice !! Was that the car that was in Miami for a while ? I was contacted by a broker to come check it out and if it's the same car we had another forum member who went to see it . I never made it down to look at the car.. Cool project thanks for sharing !!

Yes ,it is the same car and I spoke with the other forum member that had looked at the car , he actually sent me a copy of the homologation book

 

[TO AWSUM]

How does the clam shell open with the wing? Is the wing just attached to the clam shell or to the frame under the clam shell?

 

[STORMCAT]

Yes ,it is the same car and I spoke with the other forum member that had looked at the car , he actually sent me a copy of the homologation book

Cool, Good score!! Thanks for sharing the photos and the progress !! :thumbsup

 

[BBRGT]

How does the clam shell open with the wing? Is the wing just attached to the clam shell or to the frame under the clam shell?

The wing struts are bolted to the rear frame extensions and the clam shell has cut outs from the rear for the wing supports . The front top edge of the clam shell is held on with hood pins and the rear portion of the clam shell is held on with camlocs .

 

[Awsum GT]

Very cool... Wish I had more hands on knowledge on the build side... Can't wait to see the finished GT

 

[BBRGT]

Modifying the rear panel to fit the stock tail lamps

 

[BBRGT]

Not too much to report , hope to meet with the body shop that is painting the car this week.
Photos of the OEM tail lights fit in the rear panel

 

[BBRGT]

The carbon fibre inner door panel has a nice Matech logo

 

[RALPHIE]

The carbon fibre inner door panel has a nice Matech logo

You can download that font and recreate the Matech Logo for your car in any size - it is called "SpaceAge" and is available from DaFont for free -

http://www.dafont.com/search.php?q=SpaceAge

 

[racelance]

It's really starting to come together! You must be getting excited...

Cheers,

Lance

 

[BBRGT]

So we removed the floor pans to replace them with new ones and decided to pull the fuel cell as it was out of date .




Decided to cleanup the steering rack , crossmember , anti roll bar and tunnel area

 

[BIGFOOT]

Clean......

 

[BBRGT]

Clean......

Thanks ,it was pretty dirty from 3 years of racing , the centre tunnel had accumulated a fair amount of rubber , oil and dirt .