Hello everyone out there in rotary land. My name is Travis and I currently own a high end custom cycle business here in Texas called Iron Spade Cycles. I'm 40 years old with about 25 years experience building all kinds of race specific vehicles from rockets to race cars. I am a master fabricator with a BS in Mechanical Engineering and a BS in Industrial Design.

Although my business is motorcycle related in origin, I have been building some one-off custom cars as well in my spare time. My current auto related project is a radical design based on a Scott Robertson illustration I stumbled onto a couple years ago.



The body will be all hand formed 3003 aluminum with a 4130 space frame and suspension components. Suspension duties will be handled by a computer controlled active system similar to the Lotus Esprit of the 90's and 4130 twin A-Arms front and rear.

Wheels will comprise of a set of 19" center knock offs with 13" Baer Pro Plus brakes all around. Drive line will use a Corvette pumpkin in the rear and a 5speed box built for auto clutch and sequential shift paddle shifters.

I intend on building a 13B, or if I can find one a 20B, engine with a stand alone fuel management system and direct port injection. I will use a 50:1 Bel-Ray premixed, 105 octane, dedicated fuel source as this car will almost never see a fueling station. Ideally I would like to see around 300 HP as a peak and I'm not against Superchargers or Turbos but I would like to set it up as a natural intake.
I also plan to build this car as a Hybrid running a Hydrogen injection system as a co fuel to help extend fuel economy and increase HP output. This car will be very light (around 1500lbs. wet with 30+ gallons) with the CG riding very low in the chassis.

Back in 1990 to 95 I co-built and raced a Series 1 RX7 in SCCA GTS class here in Texas. Although Mazdatrix build our motors, I built the rest of the car and rebuilt the transmission for racing. We ran a spool in the rear end which was fast for the track but in hindsight I would run a limited slip in the future. On several occasions I had the engine apart inspecting the inner workings for damage and surprisingly it was always fine. Those motors could last through all but the most extreme conditions. Our car was fast turning top speeds in excess of 160 at Texas World Speedway, a track similar to Daytona International Speedway.

This project will consume most of the next couple of years to complete as it will require all of my spare time and spare cash. I will have questions, this I know!
Thanks in advance for all of your help and wish me luck. Updates to follow.

Later Travis.