Anyone know about the USCC by SCC???

It's from the magazine, Sport Compact Car. This month's and the previous month's issue had a big feature on their "Ultimate Street Car Challenge." It's a contest between 10 "street legal" cars. I'd recommend a visit to your local store that carries Sport Compact Car and at least take a quick glimpse of the feature.

15 Tests determine the winner of this contest and is dubbed the "Ultimate Street Car." A few tests that are off the top fo my head are: show, dyno, driveability, Granny's comfort level, gas efficiency, how interesting and high tech your car is, 1/4 mile drag, 0-60 sprint, braking from 60-0, and road course.... Remember.. there are 15 tests in all.. So I'm missing a few... Pretty damn interesting contest!!!

The point of my post is that practically anyone can be in this contest, and anyone can apply. I do think that Hybridsol should consider to apply to this contest. The only thing he may be lacking in order to do well in all of the 15 tests is some cool ass audio equipment. And maybe some trick supsension and stoppers.




I vote Hybridsol to do this. Anyone else feel the same? Or would like to vote for someone else?

Hybridsol

Damn.. does no one find this challenge interesting at all? :( I'm gonna start crying......

Actually, I have the article, and have been considering that a Layla-clone should become a competitor in a few years. Here's the plan.

First and foremost, A full Sebring bodykit is in order. This consists of flares, deep valances, and a sweet chin spoiler. All of these parts are replicas of the MGB GT's that ran at Sebring in 1967. The paint scheme will be Layla's Royale Blue, but with Graphite Metallic and Lime Green accents (current MG factory colors, you know). All the bright work will be removed or replaced with brushed aluminum. This should give the car an edge in the appearance department.

The real fun, though, comes in the mechanicals. Behind lovely Minilite wheels will be large Girling discs all around, grabbing slotted, ventilated rotors. You don't need much stopping power for a car as light as a B. Stronger rear leaf springs, higher rated front coils, adjustable front control arms, and a tube shock conversion to mount adjustable Konis will give the car plenty of grip. It's enough to theoretically bump the current paltry skidpad number of 0.79g's (three inch wide dunlop bias plies do that to such numbers) to somewhere in the area of 0.97g's. Credible for a thirty-two year old car with its stock style suspension, no? A tighter steering rack will help me toss the car through the corners faster and easier.

Now, what fun is more grip if you can't go faster? Now, even a full race MG 1800cc pushrod four (naturally aspirated, as if there's any other induction for a classic like this) is limited to around 320hp. A streetable engine will make around 250hp, tops. So, what to do? Easy, the factory solved this one in 1974.

The Rover 215ci all aluminum V-8. Easily tuned to 410+ tractable ponies. It's a fairly easy bolt in, and weighs practically the same as the MG four. Coupled to the bullet-proof and well-ratioed four-speed non-overdrive gearbox, this should make for Skyline/Camaro embarassing acceleration.

With classy Stewart-Warner gauges, Sparco racing buckets, five-point Sabelt harnesses, six-point rollcage, and keeping my stout Pioneer sound system (all swathed in classy blacks and dark blues), the interior will be plenty comfortable and safe for track work.

Of course, the sweetest thing about all of this is that even with all of the modifications, I'm looking at a total invesment of around 25K. Not bad, and at the very least it will bury any of the less exotic machinery to show up (like this year's Integra, 510, and probably that 3000GT convertible).

Oh yeah, and it's name shall be Valkyrie.

Sounds pretty good Octagon.. Do you have any pics of Layla in her current state?? You may want to consider and OD trans if possible... for there is a fuel efficiency test..

I'm afraid I don't have pics. I wish I did, so that people could see that there's no bullshit here about my Layla, especially with her new used Weber 4CV and intake manifold.

As for the overdrive tranny, not a good idea. The B's had an electric overdrive that was finicky to engage at best. Layla's a non-overdrive B GT, which I thank god for since that means there's one thing that won't go wrong. I was thinking about simply using the Rover V-8's natural torque and a 3.73:1 rear end gear ratio to better the fuel economy. Plus if I find a more recent Rover V-8, (like say, from an early eighties TVR) I get EFI. Hooray for technology.