Re: [DMCForum] Project FoxFire?

[Doc Hudkins <dochudkins@xxxxxxxxx>]

Since there's a FoxFire browser already and Google is
looking at getting involved as well, I'd recommend
something more tangentially connected with the word
"fox" but still related to speed.

How about "Project TailSpin"?

Farrar
--- Dave Stragand <dave.stragand@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
wrote:

> Hi All,
>  
> After speaking to John Lane for several hours this
> weekend, it looks like I
> may actually begin putting together this 500-horse
> PRV, tentatively named
> Project FoxFire*.
>  
> I have found a 1987 Volvo 760 with the requisite
> B280 PRV-6.  It is a
> complete and running vehicle, with some funky
> intermittent electrical
> problems which would be irrelevant to this project. 
> It will only cost me
> $200 for the complete car.  I already have contacted
> a fellow who may give
> me up to $250 for the rest of the car minus the
> engine.  Do the math and
> that means I'd make $50 by buying it. I'm going to
> go look at it tomorrow.
>  
> My budget plan calls for a cost of around $10,000. 
> I'm usually pretty good
> with the estimates.  For Project Vixen, I planned on
> putting $20k into the
> car, and spent about $22k. That is pretty close to
> my normal 10-15% budget
> overrun margin that I have seen on most of my cars. 
> That makes around an
> $11k realistic estimate.  I'm sure I'll go over, but
> with the cost of parts
> I'll be selling off, it may run close to the same.
>  
> I have everything figured out so far except for the
> potential AWD...
> MARTIN!!!  Please find a way to make this car the
> test bed for your AWD
> conversion, mate!  =)  All kinds of little sketches
> and blueprints are
> tacked up on the walls of my home office...
> intercoolers and air boxes,
> transmission upgrades and wiring diagrams, TEC3 and
> SDS and MoTec software
> and specs... This could all get verrrryyyy
> interesting if it comes to
> fruition.
>  
> How stupid am I to spend 5 years putting my car
> together only to rip it
> apart again?  Yeah, stupid doesn't begin to describe
> it.  BUT... no one ever
> thought I'd be able to get that car back together
> again... and I did.  Maybe
> I'm crazy enough to pull -this- off, too.  Maybe I
> can do it for under $10k,
> and maybe I can do it in time for Pheasant Run?  Who
> knows, but it is gonna
> be fun trying.
>  
> -Dave
>  
> * If you can think of a better name than "Project
> FoxFire", please let me
> know.  I did like the name "FoxFire Twin Turbo" as
> the name of the engine,
> but it doesn't have to be the name of the whole
> insanely expensive and
> relatively pointless project.  Suggestions welcome!
> 
> 
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> 
> 



      
            
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