Ladoga 2008

Back to Russia in a Series 3

I made a video but Youtube didn't like it because of the music

Youtube does at least like this video - fresh for 2008 we made a whole new and much hairier car:

The story is long - almost as soon as Jez rolled off the last stage of 2007's event there were plans, discussions, and ponderings on what we could improve. As soon as we were back in Blighty, the internet was being scoured for parts and information.

The short version is that we started with a blank sheet, then added a Corvette Z06 LS1 V8 engine to it, good for around 400hp which was something like 3x what we'd been working with before.

In the course of the year, the lab was tooled up - judicious ebay scouring, trading favours, and other wheeling & dealing resulted in a very expensive TIG welder as well as a few other niceties that we'd had to do without before.

Although we used the middle section of a Range Rover chassis, everything else was custom fabricated tube-frame.

And Eddie got a few improvements too…