Today is October 4th, 2001 as I write this. Many of you have visited this site before this date. Thanks for coming back. For those, you may want to skip right to Update 6 where we pick up where we left off many months ago. For the rest of you, please enjoy your visit.

Thank's again, and enjoy! Dave Lindsey

We discussed the idea of building a road course/autocross racecar early in 1997. Being familiar with the different models of Porsche, the 944 Turbo seemed a very logical choice for the project that we were considering. It is a very well balanced, powerful and is very inexpensive in the used car market. We are located in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma. The closest track to us is Hallet Motor Racing Circuit which is a 1.8 mile road course located in the hills between Stillwater and Tulsa. Hallett is a very technical track with lots of elevation changes, all in all, a very fun and challenging track. Autocrossing is available locally with both the Porsche club and the SCCA. There are also several tracks within the area. Texas World Speedway, Heartland Topeka and Memphis. There were many goals in this project, the main one was to make the car reliable. We didn't want to build a car that we had to constantly tweaked and tuned. There fore we approached the car with the idea that making lots of horsepower was to come last. We focused on four main areas of upgrades.

1st ~ Vehicle weight with goal of 2500 pounds. Light equals fast.
2nd ~ Suspension upgrades, ie: sway bars, struts, springs and control arms.
3rd ~ Brake upgrade.
4th ~ Wheels and Tires.

Owning an Auto collision shop (Mirror Finish) in OKC which specializes in Porsche and BMW, all we had to do was to wait for the right car to come along, and in March of 1997, one did. The car was already advertised for sale when it was involved in a collision so the purchase was fairly easy. The car was a Guards Red 1988 944 Turbo with 50,000 original miles. We felt that with only 50k miles, the engine and drive train should be fairly tight and easily accept our immediate plans. The car had a recent clutch and was factory equipped with a limited slip differential. The damage was limited to the left front fender, suspension and wheel. Since our plans were to change all these items, this was the ideal car to start with. We started on the project almost immediately but the majority of the modifications were performed from November 1997 through February 1998. We intended to enjoy the car as we were building it, so by doing the upgrades in stages, it allowed us to analyze the gain in performance of each upgrade.