- Sep 1, 2005
- 704
Just got a few photos from Jason Heffner on our awesome TT project.
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, would you look at those honkin' turbos...
During all the years that I owned my previous GTs, I always lusted after the twin turbo set up, especially after I watched Apollo and Skyrex go ballistic at the Mojave Mile. When I found a perfectly unmolested, still-in-the-wrapper car at Shelby's store, the next obvious step was to mod the cuss out of it and fulfill a long held desire to build a fire breathing monster, just the way I wanted it, and to heck with everything else.
So, the car went straight into a transporter from Shelby in Jonesboro to Heffner in Sarasota. Here are a few progress pictures, and you can see the immense care that Jason takes during the install. We are doing something really special on this version by using intricately fabricated titanium for certain sections of both the intake and exhaust components. Those components are not pictured here; I'll save that for later, but suffice it to say that the system is super light, super cool, and totally one-off. Once it's done at Jason's house of miracles, it will go back to Shelby for a few days to get the final touches, including short shift, lowering, double DIN, and some carbon goodies. A set of 20"/21" HRE P101 light weights (another one-off operation that HRE had to engineer just for this project ) will finish it all off.
Looks like I'll get to put my greedy phalanges all over it this weekend in sunny Florida and I can't wait. I'll keep you posted...
FOR THE LOVE OF PETE, would you look at those honkin' turbos...
During all the years that I owned my previous GTs, I always lusted after the twin turbo set up, especially after I watched Apollo and Skyrex go ballistic at the Mojave Mile. When I found a perfectly unmolested, still-in-the-wrapper car at Shelby's store, the next obvious step was to mod the cuss out of it and fulfill a long held desire to build a fire breathing monster, just the way I wanted it, and to heck with everything else.
So, the car went straight into a transporter from Shelby in Jonesboro to Heffner in Sarasota. Here are a few progress pictures, and you can see the immense care that Jason takes during the install. We are doing something really special on this version by using intricately fabricated titanium for certain sections of both the intake and exhaust components. Those components are not pictured here; I'll save that for later, but suffice it to say that the system is super light, super cool, and totally one-off. Once it's done at Jason's house of miracles, it will go back to Shelby for a few days to get the final touches, including short shift, lowering, double DIN, and some carbon goodies. A set of 20"/21" HRE P101 light weights (another one-off operation that HRE had to engineer just for this project ) will finish it all off.
Looks like I'll get to put my greedy phalanges all over it this weekend in sunny Florida and I can't wait. I'll keep you posted...
