Subject:After 18 years in the basement ...
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Posted On: 07/25/2013 11:19:30 AM
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Subject: After 18 years in the basement ...
| The Bull in the Basement Why is this article called The Bull in the Basement you ask Well its because Ken Imhoff of Oxford England decided to build a dream car in his basement which took 18 years. this is probably the majority of most of CIB readers lives. The build started in 1990 and finished in 2008. Upon finishing the car, the only way to get the car out and enjoy his creation was to knock out the wall in his basement and extract the car. "The project as it started in 1990. A wooden forming buck to shape the body panels to. I made it from the combination of a 1:16 scale model and measuring a real car. I spent a year on that wooden buck... I started at the back and worked my way to the front, hand forming the aluminum on an English wheel"  Here are the pictures of the chassis. A full tube frame supporting the aluminum body. Hand built stainless steel 180 deg. Headers with 12?long racing mufflers. All Corvette design suspension replaced with steel tube and rod ends for adjustments on caster, chamber and toe. Aluminum radiators with 2400cfm puller fans set to turn on at 180 degs or an override switch on the dash. 4 piston Wilwood calipers on 12? rotors. Full adjustable front and rear sway bars, and coil over shocks  Here are the pictures of the chassis. A full tube frame supporting the aluminum body. Hand built stainless steel 180 deg. Headers with 12?long racing mufflers. All Corvette design suspension replaced with steel tube and rod ends for adjustments on caster, chamber and toe. Aluminum radiators with 2400cfm puller fans set to turn on at 180 degs or an override switch on the dash. 4 piston Wilwood calipers on 12? rotors. Full adjustable front and rear sway bars, and coil over shocks  "Here are some shots of my wheels being machined. My friend Dale, who was a very good machinist, worked off my blueprints. They started out as 2? thick aluminum T6 billet and 10hrs of machining to make the centers. BBS rim shells and ARP fasteners finished them up. It was a shame in a way to cover up that beautiful finish with black powder coat but I think they turned out pretty good."           |
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