Speed Academy’s Dave Pratte and Peter Tarach (formerly the editors at Modified Magazine) have just released the first of a series of videos chronicling their grassroots effort to transform a former Tuner Challenge Scion FR-S into a road-legal rally car they will be campaigning in one of the most challenging and unique motorsports events in the world, Targa Newfoundland.
According to Dave, "Competing at Targa Newfoundland has been a long-standing dream of ours, and we're doubly excited to be taking on this unique motorsports adventure in one of the best handling sports coupe on the market at any price, the Scion FR-S. We've also partnered with some of the finest performance parts manufacturers and distributors in the business as we prepare the FR-S for the extreme conditions it'll face in Newfoundland, including KW Suspension, Rays Engineering, Whiteline, Recaro, Takata, Motovicity, Essex, SPEC, Tomei, Downforce USA, Spyder, and Alpinestars."
Peter added, “Driving flat out on twisty public roads in a Scion FR-S is truly the stuff that car-guy dreams are made of. The fact that we get to modify our loaner FR-S ourselves also means we'll be able to dial it in to our specific needs while forming that special man-and-machine bond every gearhead can relate to.” As you’ll see in this project intro video, removing the old roll cage was a bit of a daunting task, but they’ve since moved on to bolting up some of the go-fast goodies you’ll see in the subsequent videos.
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