Excuse me as a bit of a Johnny come lately. This would be an awesome build but there are some major concerns I have and please dont take them as an insult or anything as I dont know you or your experience.
- If done properly, for a million rand it will only be half done. Thats a small budget for the level of car you require. A proper sequential gearbox will cost you around R400k alone, never mind proper suspension and brakes. To build my race car for example now from scratch you looking at over 1million and mine is pretty basic although it does have motec and most of the "proper" bits and pieces fitted to it.
- The second issue is why 1000hp? Do you realise the cost of running something like that? On my little E46 with around 700hp, that runs 3's now with me, a middle aged fat guy who is an average driver, on Zwartkops you looking at R20k per race day on tyres alone, never mind the back up crew who have to go through the car after every race, the prep work, fuel, stuff that break etc etc. I also could never have driven it competitively 5 years ago. One of the biggest things I see in club type racing is everyone chases power and yet they are not using their cars to their full potential. I never forget racing a guy in his Lambo Super Trefeo. He was driving like an absolute idiot. Useless racing lines and all over the track. He would pull away from me on the straights due to his extra power and out brake me on fast corners. When I passed him on the inside of a corner i left him far behind. he was running at least 3 seconds a lap slower. His car cost him 4 million Rand but he copuldnt drive it to 50% of its potential.
- but the biggest concern is have you much experience with driving race cars or something like that? Like I said I am not assuming you do or dont so please not insulting you. You need a lot of racing experience to race something like that properly, otherwise it is going to cost you huge. I know people that spend millions on supercars built to for example GT4 spec, and have all the right race kit and look like professional drivers and yet they are much much slower than People in lessor cars around a track, with my SA built BMW M3, which costs a third of their cars and I am a pretty average to useless driver.
Like I said, no assumptions or insults just some things to think about.
PS. Freddie is the best for a project like this. he does everything on my race car also.
