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Race Car Replicas offers Superlight Coupe kit car

Posted Mon Jan 5 2009 5:23 AM by Viknesh Vijayenthiran

Race Car Replicas recommends a GM LS V8 or a twin-turbocharged Lexus V8 for its Superlight Coupe kit car

American company Race Car Replicas (RCR) has unveiled its handsome Superlite Coupe sports car that starts at just $43,995 for a rolling kit package. The package includes hung suspension, steering, fitted brake calipers and rotors, brake lines, the body, and fitted wheels and tires, while the engine, gearbox and interior will all be up to the customer to provide.

The "engine bay will accept any longitudinal engine trans package", but RCR themselves recommend something from GM's line of LS engines, such as the mighty 7.0L LS7 from the Corvette Z06. Alternatively, the engine bay will also take a twin-turbocharged Lexus V8 engine, which is RCR's second choice for what to put under the hood.

With air-conditioning, G-force sensors and a 6-point rollcage, the RCR comes with most features you would expect in an upmarket sports car, however, purchasers will have the option of putting in their own gearboxes, and specifying the interior layout and feel. A popular choice is the Porsche G50 gearbox, however the engine bay is also large enough to hold the larger and stronger Ricardo gearbox from the Ford GT.

RCR will also be providing as an option a fully trimmed production supercar-type interior, with a choice of colors and materials available, including leather and suede. In terms of actually registering the car in accordance with compliance requirements, the Superlite Coupe comes with approved glass and lighting, a front splitter with an approved radius for safety, a compliant digital instrument cluster, compliant latches and other features that should make registering the car simple.
Via: Autoblog.it

Story Tags:

• G50 gearbox
• kit car
• LS7
• LS7 V8
• Modified
• Race Car Replicas
• Race Car Replicas Superlite Coupe
• RCR
• RCR Superlite Coupe
• Ricardo gearbox
• Supercars
• Superlite Coupe

Reader Comments

• Mon Jan 5 2009 10:18 AM

  Mike says

  Approved glass and lighting? I don't see any headlights on the car in the pic. Anyway, put GM's LSX crate motor in it, it's basically the ZR-1s LS9, but you don't have to try and find a wrecked ZR-1 and hope the engine's good.

• Mon Jan 5 2009 4:28 PM

  mburleigh8 says

  Look very good, but what about the safty aspects of the car, and once you get the motor and interior,lights and instrument panels you are probably going to spend about 100,000$

• Mon Jan 5 2009 6:15 PM

  Layne says

  Ahh nice to see one of my favorite cars getting attention on Motorauthority! I've been looking into these for several months and drooling over them. BTW that $43k is literally everything required to complete the car except the engine/tranny. No need to spend extra for lighting or anything. I would imagine custom interiors would add a bit though.
  
  In case anyone is wondering, Race Car Replicas also makes GT40, Porsche 917 and Ferrari P3/P4 replicas, among others, and they have among the best customer satisfaction in the industry with extremely high quality across all their products and the owner of the company, Fran, has a very good personal reputation as well.
  
  Oh and the LSX is not the LS9. The LSX is an iron block NA version of the LS engines. The LS9 is aluminum block and supercharged. Not even close to the same thing.

• Mon Jan 5 2009 9:52 PM

  Mike says

  Oops, don't know where I got that from. The P3 replica sounds very appealing.