Innovaspeed

Not much interesting to show yet. Still waiting for engine parts. Also still cutting heavy s**t out with today's victim being the chassis X-brace which I stupidly made out of .250 wall steel tube. 1 single 4ft piece is over 15lbs. Thicker doesn't solve a lack of triangulation. Then grinding everything smooth has resulted in about 2lbs of dust swept up and 5 clogged AC filters. This is the very non-sexy part of building (rebuilding) custom cars. Pretty close to done with cutting. Cab drop is the next big task.

But hey, enjoy Finn learning to be a shop dog!

Im fortune to have some awesome friends that also love racing! With their help, we got most of the remaining disassembly and cutting done yesterday. So far we are over my 200lbs goal, but some weight will be added back as the new suspension goes in and brackets get built to hold everything together. Should be a pretty noticeable difference when it hits the track again

Finally nearing the end of disassembly. It's been a slower process than I hoped, but I am still waiting on critical parts anyway. The coming transformation should be pretty awesome. End goal is to be about 200lbs lighter than it was in January. Might be tough with all the new dry sump equipment. But seeing 2/3 of the front cross member gone and taking over 21lbs away is a nice start. I wayyyyy overbuilt originally.

Big weekend coming this week with some of the local racing family coming to help with some of the punch list. Can't wait to see how much gets done.

In an unexpected turn of events, Innovaspeed is now a Fragola Performance Systems dealer. I wanted to use high end, USA materials for all the new plumbing on the race cars in house, and the Fragola Race-rite hose is absolutely incredible stuff. But the catch is that to run the -16an hoses the Armstrong Race Engineering 4 stage system needs, I can only buy crimp-style fittings. So a giant order later including their hydraulic crimper, and now I can make the best possible hoses.

Couple of fun deliveries for the arrived. The pieces needed to tack together the V5 front suspension using the S550 epas rack is what I am most excited about. Some supporting parts for the engine refresh/upgrade are good to have ready for when gets the heads and cam delivered to the shop.

More disassembly this weekend to prep the old F150rr for it's long list of upgrades inbound. Just about time to hack up the bed and cut off the V4 front suspension. Also mocked up some of the components to see what else has to move. So excited to make a few changes I've thought about for years.

Fun fact: the bed cover hasn't been off since 2021 when I made it.

A big chunk of the new dry sump parts arrived for the and Im super excited to get to work setting this all up. I've already learned a ton about these real motorsport oil systems and will continue to learn even more!

Anything you guys want to know or see as I get into converting this truck from a wet to dry sump?

Side note: somehow the drive mandrel perfectly fits the wraptor crank pulley. Not sure if the depth will work yet, but I'll definitely figure that out soon.

Semi-patiently waiting for the parts to arrive so the can be put back together even stronger. 6yrs of abuse and it really has held up excellent! But, refreshed heads with new parts, more compression, and a much better custom cam should wake this thing up more with a MUCH more usable powerband. And you can see some of the gorgeous parts I have already here ready to be installed.

Wow its been too long without any updates!

Truck has been missing the top half of the engine since early March when started on some head repairs and upgrades as well as an all new custom cam.

But also, I've been trying to redesign the front suspension for the 2015+ mustang electric steering rack (among some geometry changes to help turn-in). Which I'm anxious to finish and get installed. If it fits and drives like I plan, I'll finally turn on website orders for this version.

Grabbed the 1 decent external video from last weekend's event along with the lap data. Pretty sweet tool for seeing where I vary lap to lap.