Jeep Srt8 Roll Cage
Last week at ART, we spent our time adding some safety equipment to one our one-off monster Turbo Builds.
Safety is a major concern on and off the track. Most tracks wont even allow you on their premises without the right safety equipment. A street driven vehicle certainly has different needs and demands that need to be met to keep the driver and occupants safe.
This roll cage install was done to a 2006 Jeep SRT8 that had previously been in the shop for the coolest Turbo and Motor combo a Jeep SUV has ever seen! All the functionality was kept in mind of the factory interior. With that in mind, the seats had to move their entire travel, head room had to stay the same for our tall driver, and last but not least the LCD screens had to remain functional!
After all that was fit and correct, next came the tedious step of welding the entire cage into the car and
Kuno Whittmer Drives the 240Mph Texas Mile Viper around Texas World Speedway.
Two weeks ago at the Dodge Viper Cup event in Texas, ART brought out the World's fastest viper ever to make some exhibition runs around the Texas World Speedway Oval. With Kuno Whittmer behind the wheel and Todd Nelson in the Passenger seat, they clocked over 230 mph on the straightaway.
This is just a Quick teaser, as the entire adventure was shot for an upcoming TV show, TBA.
ACR-X Conversion
This Pristine 2008 Dodge Viper ACR was brought to us for a complete Roll Cage install. The Car Is undergoing a facelift to be reborn as a track ready ACR-X. We had the priviledge of replicating the Roll cage in this car (aside from a few minor Changes and TIG welding).
We recieved the car with very little of the body assembled so we could work in and around the car. It's really
A.R.T. 2g Viper GTS Project.
The guys at ART decided to dust of this old project and get her running agian. The intent of the build is simply to showcase some ofour talents with some cool new parts, and most of all show it off beating up on other Vipers around the country.
Lets hope we can keep 1000+ whp from melting the car down on a road course.
Stay tuned for more details on the Build and Progress.
March 2011 Texas Mile Pictures
Check back as the Gallery gets updated as the pictures come in.
There were a ton of cool supercars at this years event, although not as many big hitters. The red Porsche was my next favorite next to the ART viper 
it would have been cool to see the cars run back to back of each other. Maybe next time someone can cordinate some of the fast cars to run together.
ART 1800 Viper on the dyno before Tx Mile.
Everything is looking great on the 1800 this year, we just put down more power than ever and everything is working great. Wish us luck in our quest to beat our existing record at 233 mph. Be sure to follow us on twitter for live updates from the event.
DIY Supercar: Factory Five GTM
Until Recently I have always wanted to build a car or a chassis of some sort just to test my skills and show people what I'm capable of. Just this weekend I finally put that desire towards a realistic goal.
Enter the Factory Five GTM. The GTM is a kit car intended to be built by the customer in their own garage. You need the kit from Factory Five and a c5 corvette for a donor car to complete the build. Most people opt to find wrecked or broken car for much cheaper to swap parts from.
After doing a small bit of research over the weekend, I quickly formed my own opinions on the car and the
Turbocharged Jeep SRT-8.
This jeep has been on-going project at A.R.T. over the last few months. The turbo on this Jeep will support 1400-1500whp and we intend on using every bit of it. Although the transmission and driveline is going to
A.R.T. Ballista goes 233.8 mph! Fastest Dodge Viper ever
Worlds Fastest Dodge Viper
This past weekend at the Texas Mile, the A.R.T. Twin Turbo Viper made its debut with some record breaking top speed passes. On its 3rd pass, she crossed the traps at an astonishing 233.8mph. That is faster than any other previous viper has run in a standing mile. It also eclipses any top speed record that has been run period over any amount of distance.
Stay tuned for more info on the buildup of this car.
Check out the video of the record pass in the mean time.
VIR 2010 dodge Viper Cup Pre-Race Preview
This last week back at the shop, we have been hard at work prepping the ACR-X for its first Race to be held at Virginia International Raceway. We are heading out of town tomorrow morning ready to KICK some butt with the car ready to go.
This Update we bring you a sneak peak of the new Color Scheme for the 2010 Season. The Car spend the last few days being vinyl wrapped while we installed the cool suit, radio systems, video systems, and a few alignments adjustments.
We Will be in Virginia on Thursday/Friday so be sure to check back over the weekend as we update from the TRACK!
Friday is Practice, Saturday is another round of practice and qualifying. Saturday evening will be host to one race and sunday should fall on the same schedule.
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