What do you do after winning the Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge presented by Tire Rack? You enter your low-buck racer in even more motorsport events, of course.
Daniel Cummings, creator of the wild Subaru 360-based mid-engine LMP360 that won the 2022 Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge, hasn’t left his creation in the corner of the shop to collect dust. Instead, he’s been …
Woot!
I don't know what I'm looking forward to more, seeing it run at the UTCC or appear on Larry Chen's YouTube Channel.
In reply to Colin Wood :
Right there with you. I am excited that I am going to be at the UTCC this year and will get to see it in person.
I think its the coolest and most impressive $2k Challenge build to date!
You could see skateboarder/Rally driver Bucky Lasek's mind blow in his Mid-West Subiefest video when he ran into Dan and his LMP360.
The LMP360, such a fantastic story.
In reply to preach :
Bucky is also fluent in autocross. He’s totally one of us. :)
LRP is such a great facility. The LRP people really enjoyed seeing the car, and public reaction was again crazy.
I have seen a lot of social media of the car on track at speed which is great because I just don't get to see it from that view.
Here is a recent one with some very Artistic shots.
I'm particularly relieved that the revised sidepods photographed well. That is literally the exposed mounts and ducting with the old sidepods just kinda hacked up and attached. They worked really good also.
I should have incar up today.
Thanks GRM for letting the car fly the banner. It looks really cool with the flag on the fin and I'm so glad the revised radiators allow the fin to stay on on track.
I was hopeful I would get Bucky a chance to drive it this year but Subiefest Midwest overlaps with Gridlife Heartland Park.
One of my favorite Challenge builds, so it's awesome to see it still getting flogged. It was cool to wander around it at PRI, and see so many cool details that really don't show up in magazine articles.
It really is an amazing build with incredible attention to detail with regards to planning, vision and execution.
Early on in the build process I chirped up that I felt that it was going to be, quite frankly, a death trap. Because we see a lot of people with grand ideas with regards to chassis fabrication and execution that I wouldn't allow my worst enemy to strap in the seat of. And I firmly felt that this was going to end up being one of those instances. I couldn't have been more wrong. And I'm glad that I was wrong. Because the end result could not be further from what I frankly feared it would be. The road to hell is paved with good intentions, the end result of this build shows when planning, focus attention to detail and execution all come together and the end result is simply angelic. I couldn't be happier to be proven wrong and I tip my hat.
Also, can we arrange getting it made into a hotwheel car? Hot Wheels is really missing the mark not having a GRM Challenge collection.
Thanks so much everyone. It's been an amazing journey and I'm humbled that so many have followed along. It's always been my hope that the build would demonstrate to people that you don't have to spend $100k+ to build something amazing. You just have to have an idea and learn whatever it takes to build it. I know the builds cost have risen but I feel it still flys that flag of low budget performance.
Here is the incar action from GL Circuit Legends. Thanks to Nukem for the exterior shots.
In reply to nocones :
Wow, spending a lot of time at 80, 90, 100+ mph. With that little of car around you the speed must feel extreme!
Very cool!!!
nocones said:Thanks so much everyone. It's been an amazing journey and I'm humbled that so many have followed along. It's always been my hope that the build would demonstrate to people that you don't have to spend $100k+ to build something amazing. You just have to have an idea and learn whatever it takes to build it. I know the builds cost have risen but I feel it still flys that flag of low budget performance.
Here is the incar action from GL Circuit Legends. Thanks to Nukem for the exterior shots.
Peak lateral acceleration: 1.84G If that doesn't tell you that the aero is working, I don't know what does. 
(And yes, I get that there's a difference between peak (momentary) and sustained lateral acceleration.)
msterbeau said:Peak lateral acceleration: 1.84G If that doesn't tell you that the aero is working, I don't know what does.
I've noticed in watching some data from AiM systems that they tend to "feed" what Aircraft Simulator systems call "heave" (or Vertical/Normal Acceleration) into the Lateral/Longitudinal values at times. I reckon that's probably what's happening with the 1.76-1.84G readings seen in the video.
nocones has stated elsewhere that ~1.65G is his expectation, and that seems in-line with what I see. still awesome stuff to pull off on 200tw street tires!
No if I can just get this poison ivy and my kids to leave me alone so I can crack on with some foil analysis. 
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