S/ST-S/G Alfa Romeo Spider Roadster

[tommy d]

Gonna be cool. Lone wolf car builder.

[nickh]

Fun Build to follow, with the wind blowing your helmet around on the top end LOL

You have been holding back on us all this time...LOL

[BKSG1198]

I can say Keith has sent me some pics through the build (keeping them Top Secret) and it’s a pretty need car and cool looking!

[Kirk Morgan]

I love it. I saw a Spider at the Winter Nationals in the late 70s running Modified Production with a VW engine and it was a sight to see. I talked to the owner and he could not figure out why his 60 foot times were bad and i said it looked like he was pulling the wheels past the 60 foot beam.

[Nick_Siebert]

You certainly have a flair for the unique. That will be a best engineered award winner for sure.

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by Nick_Siebert

You certainly have a flair for the unique. That will be a best engineered award winner for sure.

Thank you sir but I’m not sure on that. I thought the Porsche would have gotten an award but home built cars seem to take a back seat to the high dollar builds or at least a best appearing for the 4 different paint jobs over the last 26 years. seems like I get overlooked but I’m not in the clique

[Keith 944]

Here is a bit more, collected parts and getting the body ready, last 2pics I decided to stretch the front end 7” so added some sheet metal, will have to add same amount to the hood later in the build

[Keith 944]

Originally Posted by Nick_Siebert

You certainly have a flair for the unique. That will be a best engineered award winner for sure.

Well I was wrong, it seems they did like it after all
Every one except those running super street lmao.
I was awarded with the best engineered award!
Biggest compliment I got was someone thought it was a suncoast car
Not bad for some rednecks with a plan.

[Keith 944]

Summary from the first outing
We were really unsure of the true weight, I had tried a truck scale and it came up to 2900#s even. I really couldn’t believe that. I built it heavy but gezzz, so Friday morning I went to the scale and they said it wasn’t quite right (water issues). Said i could get a close estimate so I drove on and They said it was flopping from 25-2600#s. Now I felt a little better but still not sure as how much weight to put in. My friend Richard preiser had brought his scales for his stocker and asked if I wanted to use them. Well surprise it was 2912 Oh my! 51% front corner weights were real close so no adjustments were made to the suspension. Car goes dead straight and with the windshield i don’t feel any difference from the other car except the visibility and fun factor!
We made it to the quarter finals loosing by .003.
I do have a list of things to change, re-arrange or flat out fix, but without having to turn a single bar or shock adjustment I was very happy.
So now the plan is to put the aluminum motor from the Porsche in and swap this back, that will bring the weight down to the minimum and settle the Porsche down a bit too. This car did go 10.88@153 with the steel engine so it should be fine at 158 or so.
I have 2 weeks to get these swapped and all fixed up.
I really had a blast and have to thank Scott Sapp (shaggy) my friend and crew for all his help. It was funny how we all fall into a routine and with the new car it seems every thing was totally different.