Here at Kelly’s Corvette Corral we do all sorts of projects. Our main focus is to “re-purpose” C4 corvettes into track cars. We’ll use these track cars to go to some of the road tracks to have lotsa racing fun and keep the cost of the car to a limit. If we can get anywhere near a 2200lb car with a 400hp engine on a tight budget I’ll be one happy camper.

OUR PLAN

The whole plan is to document the build as we go. Once finished we’ll post the video of the track run.  We will offer the parts and pieces that we build for any parts of your build that you need made easy for you, or we’ll build your project for you. Another option is we will offer for sale any of the projects we have already built.

BUT FIRST

But when I started to get ready for this project I had to get rid of the Pro Stock Circle track car to make room in the garage. That became Project 1-The Old Super Stock Race Car.

AND THE SECOND PROJECT

The next issue was hauling a corvette on a trailer. The hauling is easy, but imagine a big guy driving the vette up on the trailer and then having to pop the back so he can crawl out of the car because he can’t get the door open.  You could crawl out the window, or remove the roof panel, but then you haul the car with those open. So I wanted to set up a trailer with the car high enough to be able to open the door over the trailer fenders. Voila! Problem solved. And we have Project 2- The Corvette Car Hauler.

AND FINALLY THE C4 CORVETTE TRACK CAR PROJECT

But moving on to the Track Car. The inspiration comes from a youtube video of the Road Kill Garage boys. The video was removed from my site but you can look it up it was their corvette go-kart episode.

After viewing this video you can see how excited I am to be the owner of a cheap ’85 vette. I bought this car a few years ago for $2k. I did pull the engine out and had it “remanufactured”.

So I’m going to finish this car as a “track car”.

Now I don’t want to criticize their work ( the Road Kill Guys). They’ve made a hell of a car there, but they weren’t spinning out because of the brakes, but they didn’t balance the car. With the fuel cell placed over the rear axles like that they probably had a front to rear weight ratio of 60/40.  The fuel cell has to be placed about 24″ behind the axles and the battery needs to go back there to in order to bring the car closer to a 50/50 balance. Plus if they had a body on the car they could create some downforce. So move on to Project 3, the Track Car, and we’ll see if our Track Car Project can do even better than theirs.