Racing Eclipse Shop Tour

Chris Santucci of Racing Eclipse recently let us tour the shop. It was an awesome experience and we are all really grateful for such a cool opportunity. Racing Eclipse specializes in sprint cars and have also branched out into industrial machining. They also have a pretty awesome racing history. Check out their site here.

Their shop is full of awesome things like this:

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Thats a customer’s Factory Five GTM. Its a mid-engined kit car that is currently set up with LS7 power and a Porsche transmission. Its an awesome build that Racing Eclipse currently took on.

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LS POWAHHHHH!!!!

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They also had this retired Indy Car sitting in the lobby

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Racing Eclipse’s retail selection is pretty big. Which is awesome because they’re a nice local shop that you can just drive up to.

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Thats Chris showing us a shock that was in for service. They rebuild all kinds of shocks (given they can be disassembled). They have pretty sweet pricing on rebuilds and they have a ton of experience in this area as well.

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Here is Zain with his racing face on

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Chris also showed us their awesome trailer. This thing was the size of an 18-wheeler and could probably hold 4 race cars, and it had a lounge as well!

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All in all, it was an awesome tour! After the tour we were all boosted and ready to get back to work on the baja car. We’ll check in later with more updates on that!

 

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Tiger Baja Build Update!

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A lot of things have been going on in the shop lately. Here are some pics of the progress!

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As of right now, all thats left to do on the main frame are the mounts for bolt on parts. This thing is coming along well! Look for another update soon!

Roll Cage = Complete

We always do awesome work after a good meal. We got in the shop and got things done yesterday. The roll cage is tacked together and now we can move towards building the engine compartment of the car and ordering our parts (brakes, shocks, pedals, etc).

This was the jig we put together for creating the “roof” of the roll cage.
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Getting ready for welding
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Zain thought the roll cage was a jungle gym
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Annnnnd done!
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Who said engineers don’t know what art is?
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And I’ll just leave these here…
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