| VEHICLE |
| Year and type/model: | RCR40 MkI replica
of 1969 GT 40 MkI
(#1083) |
| PRICING |
| Price of Kit: | $48,000 |
| Total Price as Completed: | A lot more than that! |
| Owner’s Estimate of Hours to Build/Complete |
| Vehicle: | 1,100 hours |
| CHASSIS |
| Frame: | TIG-welded polished aluminum monocoque |
| Wheelbase: | 95” |
| Rearend: | ZF transaxle |
| Rear Suspension: | Fully adjustable billet spindles and arms, Corvettebearing assemblies |
| Front Suspension: | same as above |
| Shocks: | QA1 dual adjustable with Hypertech coilover springs. |
| Rear Brakes: | Wilwood four-piston Dynalite calipers with Hawk Blue pads, custom hats with 1.25” thick NASCAR rotors. |
| Front Brakes: | Wilwood six-piston billet calipers with Hawk Blue pads, same hats and rotors |
| Brake Lines: | Stainless steel hard lines with braided stainless to the calipers |
| Master Cylinder: | Front—Wilwood 7/8”, Rear Wilwood 1” with balance bar and remote adjustment control on the dash |
| Brake Booster: | N/A |
| Steering: | Custom RCR rack with Steeda bumpsteer kit adapted for the GT40 with custom modified steering arm from Cooksey Racing in Centralia, IL, chassis set to less than .009” of bumpsteer per inch of travel |
| Front Wheel Make & Size: | 17x8 BRM Vintage wheels with custom powdercoated “Magnesium” gold centers |
| Rear Wheel Make & Size: | 17x11.5 BRM Vintage wheels with custom powdercoated “Magnesium” gold centers |
| Front Tire Make & Size: | Hoosier R6 225/40’s |
| Rear Tire Make & Size: | Hoosier R6 315/35’s |
| BODY |
| Paint Brand/Type: | Ford 2008 Torch Red/Wimbledon White and black pinstripes painted by Mike Meyers, owner of Central City Auto Body |
| Windshield/Glass: | included |
| Rollbar: | Custom six-point cage |
| Lights: | CIBIE headlights |
| Mirrors: | SPA GT/Le Mans series |
| Fuel System: | Dual system race and street. The race system has a 15-gallon tank with a bladder that pumps into a swirl pot that feeds the carburetors and then passes through a bypass regulator from Kinsler Engineering to the swirl pot, where excess fuel can overflow back to the main race tank. The system has three pumps, two 15-gallon tanks, a swirl pot built into the chassis, two inline filters, one canister filter, two Aeromotive check valves, an electric return valve, a bypass regulator and “miles” of braided line all monitored with one fuel level gauge, fuel pressure gauge, and a switch on the dash! |
| Fuel Tank: | sponsoons integrated into the chassis |
| INTERIOR |
| Gauges: | Classic Instruments, designed by Fran Hall of RCR—tachometer with a 7,500 redline (engine turns to 9,000 but 7,500 is safe!), volts, fuel level, fuel pressure, oil pressure, oil temp (on a switch to monitor both engine and transaxle oil temp), water temp (on a switch to monitor in and out temperature), and a speedometer that goes to 200! The dash has low oil pressure warning lights triggered at 20 psi and low water pressure triggered at 4 psi. Also wired into the armrest are the ignition system controls. These switches allow me to run the timing lock or use a computer controlled timing curve. The driver can also choose to switch a timing retard toggle to reduce timing advance by two, three, or four degrees. This is used in conjunction with the fuel systems and the level of octane in each tank (110 octane in the race system and 93 octane in the street system). |
| Wiring: | Hotwire |
| Steering Wheel: | MOMO steering wheel with billet RCR quick release hub. |
| Seating: | Leather GT40 reproductions |
| Upholstery: | RCR |
| Other: | G Force Pro camlock seatbelts, Phoenix fire suppression system |
| DRIVETRAIN |
| Engine Brand: | Ford built by Performance Motorsports Systems in Greenville, Illinois. The owner who goes by “Lumpy” is a nationally known circle track engine builder. It was all of his ideas and experience that went into this “ultimate” road race engine. |
| Engine Type: | Ford SVO Aluminum dry sump 302ci block with 8.7” deck, Robert Yates racing heads with titanium valvetrain and spray bars in the vale covers, Jesel shaft rockers, Custom Diamond pistons, billet steel Oliver rods, custom-ground cam from Comp Cams, Billet crank with Honda journals, full set of Clevite bearings, custom three-piece intake from Price Motorsports in Indiana, vintage Italian Weber carburetors, Custom Aviad dry sump GT40 pan, Weaver 5-stage oil pump, Peterson dry sump tank, Setrab oil cooler, McLeod magnum force dual disk clutch with aluminum spoke flywheel MSD Pro distributor |
| Water Pump: | Ford SVO short shaft with Gilmer cog belt pulley |
| Radiator: | Custom aluminum RCR |
| Air Cleaner: | none |
| Ignition: | MSD 6600 box with HVC 6600 coil, MSD programmable timing computer, soft touch rev limiter set for 8000 rpm |
| Headers: | True custom 180 degree 1 7/8” steel ceramic coated Wrapped with DEI header wrap and silicone sealer, Dynomax billet race mufflers Transmission Type: ZF, 4.22 ring-and-pinion |
| Driveshaft: | custom heavy-duty half shafts with Spicer 1350 universal joints |
| Shifter: | Custom Brandwood cable shifter with reverse lock-out |
| Air Conditioning: | Hot Rod Air |
| Battery: | Optima Red Top |
| Engines Brackets: | Billet aluminum from Performance Motorsports |