I’ve coated Stanceworks’ Mike Burroughs and his unbelievable Honda K24-powered Ferrari 308 on a couple of events. I checked in with him simply earlier than SEMA final 12 months, which he managed to idle the automobile into. Now although, the automobile is able to hit the road, or extra precisely, the observe, as a result of, because the automobile was invited to take part within the World Time Assault Problem in Australia this summer season (or winter, when you occur to be in Australia), the automobile has needed to get extra track-focused.
In case you haven’t paid consideration to the construct, the automobile began as a reasonably good yellow Ferrari 308 however didn’t keep that manner for lengthy. Mike pulled the Ferrari’s motor and transmission and lower out a bunch of pointless stuff to have the ability to slap in a 1,000-hp-capable turbocharged Honda K24 engine and sequential handbook transmission. He’s designed and fabricated the whole lot from a suspension to his personal water-to-air intercooler and, general, the automobile guidelines.
On this video, Mike winds up a couple of odds and ends, redoes a couple of issues that he wasn’t pleased with the primary time round, and, most significantly, takes the automobile on its first road drive. Now earlier than you get too excited, the road drive amounted to little greater than a few laps round his block, however that is all in preparation for the automobile’s first actual shakedown at Southern California’s Buttonwillow raceway, which needs to be within the subsequent video.
Positive, I’m somewhat bummed to see this factor flip into such a race automobile, particularly because it was initially meant to be form of a dual-purpose construct, however the outcomes are gorgeous, and I’m tremendous stoked for Mike. I can’t wait to see it pushed in anger.