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I think it’s about time this car gets its own thread. As some of you know, I’ve been racing this car for the past year or so in time attack, with my previous car being a B7 S4 to the same rule set.
That car has had about 6 years or so of track time and it was pretty maxed out on what it could be so around 2 years ago I was looking at options for the ultimate road legal time attack car since one of the major rules in the class I race in is that the car has to be registered for road use.
After going through numerous options I ended up going with an AMG GTS for a few different reasons. It’s very easy to get power with this platform, it handles incredibly and in my opinion the best performance and performance potential for the price point. On top of that, I’m all about unique track builds and the AMG GTS, even though capable, is something you rarely see being tracked let alone in a competition setting.
Starting out with a blank canvas last October, the first thing to focus on was getting together a game plan as to what the car exactly needed in order to be competitive that coming spring once the season started. Initially the plan was to run the car mostly stock but that plan changed very quickly. I knew in order to be even remotely competitive, we needed downforce, better suspension, power, tires, and brakes.
Having seen that APR makes a wing for this car, I got in contact with them and they were more than happy to be apart of the build, so not only were we able to get the rear down force sorted, they also supplied us with a custom front splitter and carbon GTR Pro vents. So we combined that with a set of splitter diffusers from Professional Awesome Racing. Things at this point were looking much more promising for a competitive first season.
With the aero sorted, the next step was suspension, personally my favorite part about the car. Verkline helped out with their tubular front subframe and KW made us a set of custom competition coilovers, essentially the same setup the GT4 car uses but built to our tire and downforce specs, although those weren’t on the car by the first event in February at Circuit of the Americas due to supply chain issues.
After cota, we were able to get the new livery put on, new downpipes, a full custom straight piped exhaust, a custom tune from eurocharged putting the car close to 600 whp, and finally the KW suspension on the car.
Recently, the car received new Titan 7 TS5 wheels, a new intake, and a new tune to run the car on E30 putting it right around 630 WHP. In the coming months it will have new turbos in order to get the car in the 720 WHP range.
So as the build list goes, it’s on KW Competition 2A coilovers, a Verkline subframe, APR aero, Titan 7 wheels, 285 rear RE71RS tires and 275 fronts, chromoly cage from Studio RSR, Girodisc brake rotors, Counter Space Garage brake pads, and a Black Boost intake.
Here’s some more pictures of the car!
That car has had about 6 years or so of track time and it was pretty maxed out on what it could be so around 2 years ago I was looking at options for the ultimate road legal time attack car since one of the major rules in the class I race in is that the car has to be registered for road use.
After going through numerous options I ended up going with an AMG GTS for a few different reasons. It’s very easy to get power with this platform, it handles incredibly and in my opinion the best performance and performance potential for the price point. On top of that, I’m all about unique track builds and the AMG GTS, even though capable, is something you rarely see being tracked let alone in a competition setting.
Starting out with a blank canvas last October, the first thing to focus on was getting together a game plan as to what the car exactly needed in order to be competitive that coming spring once the season started. Initially the plan was to run the car mostly stock but that plan changed very quickly. I knew in order to be even remotely competitive, we needed downforce, better suspension, power, tires, and brakes.
Having seen that APR makes a wing for this car, I got in contact with them and they were more than happy to be apart of the build, so not only were we able to get the rear down force sorted, they also supplied us with a custom front splitter and carbon GTR Pro vents. So we combined that with a set of splitter diffusers from Professional Awesome Racing. Things at this point were looking much more promising for a competitive first season.
With the aero sorted, the next step was suspension, personally my favorite part about the car. Verkline helped out with their tubular front subframe and KW made us a set of custom competition coilovers, essentially the same setup the GT4 car uses but built to our tire and downforce specs, although those weren’t on the car by the first event in February at Circuit of the Americas due to supply chain issues.
After cota, we were able to get the new livery put on, new downpipes, a full custom straight piped exhaust, a custom tune from eurocharged putting the car close to 600 whp, and finally the KW suspension on the car.
Recently, the car received new Titan 7 TS5 wheels, a new intake, and a new tune to run the car on E30 putting it right around 630 WHP. In the coming months it will have new turbos in order to get the car in the 720 WHP range.
So as the build list goes, it’s on KW Competition 2A coilovers, a Verkline subframe, APR aero, Titan 7 wheels, 285 rear RE71RS tires and 275 fronts, chromoly cage from Studio RSR, Girodisc brake rotors, Counter Space Garage brake pads, and a Black Boost intake.
Here’s some more pictures of the car!
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