Finally got my car

I picked up my car just outside Denver from Tim (comeauracing.com). When we got the car home we started to go over the car. We found some serious problems with the car as delivered.

The first big problem was the alignment. The car was leaning heavily to the left. The right side of the car was about 1 3/4 inches high and the left side was very low. This concerned me although Tim said the alignment guy said it was normal. My local race shop, carraige house customs in Wanamingo looked it over and said it wasn't ok. They figured out the rear sway bar drop links were very short on the driver side and long on the passenger side. This let the sway bar pull the rear driver corner down which caused the lean. They reckon the previous alignment shop didn't fix this issue and then corner balanced with the ride height resulting in the leaning power of Stuttgart. So, the Zumbrota guys first switched my cat for a test pipe and then fixed the alignment. The car looks great and is as it should be now. I also asked them to tech the car. They found the steering lock was still enabled which they say isn't NASA legal but Tim disputes this. The total cost for the diagnosis, corner balance/alignment, switching the cat was 915 dollars.

The other issue they found was the cage wasn't legal. Tim paid a builder to put in a NASA legal cage. The cage is Chromoly and very tight with the car. The problem is where the cage is tight with the car body, they didn't weld all the way around the tubes. NASA requires the welds to be all the way around. The carraige guys reckon this will cost about 1200 bucks to fix because they will need to cut pieces of the car off where the cage is and then weld the cage all the way around and then weld the car piece back on. Plus, it's all Chromoly so everything has to be TIGed which costs 3x in labor.

I'm going to get this work done this week and while they are at it, I'll get the top front bar on top of the windscreen moved tighter to the windscreen for more head room. I also ordered a Kevlar Safety net for an inside driver net which I'll get in also. I want to buy a 5L AFFF fire system also. It's going to be an expensive week.

Tim already offered a kilo buck towards the cage so I'm hoping he follows through which I'm sure he will.