MotoIQ Staff Report
Afterhours Automotive is one of the shops MotoIQ uses when we have a special project. Master fabricator Brian Kono, owner of Afterhours is a very capable guy, Brian has built race cars from a pile of tubes and can do anything from paint to custom one off composite parts. We frequently visit his shop and during one of our last visits we spotted a project so cool, we just had to share it with our readers!
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By Mike Kojima, photos by Jeff Naeyaert
In a Time Attack car, the brake system is just as critical for a winning car as the engine. The same is true for a street car but under differing parameters. A successful race car has to slow down rapidly and repeatedly from high speeds. A street car has to do the same but for 100,000 miles with little maintenance.
By Billy Johnson
Rebuilding the brakes is not as challenging as it may seem. There are only a few more steps beyond simply changing out brake pads and rotors. This is an information only step-by-step guide, undertake it at your own risk. If you do not feel comfortable with the below steps, I would suggest getting help. If you are remotely mechanically inclined and do oil changes and maintenance yourself, it really is not that bad at all.
Text and photos by Jeff Naeyaert
When Berk Technology set out to build a time attack car, their intent was not to build some sort of exotic open class killer; it was more to build a rolling test bed for their exhaust products and something that their high performance street customers could relate to. Thus it was decided that their efforts would evolve around building a car to compete in Redline Time Attack's Rear Wheel Drive Street Class. Street Class is something that Berk's customer base could identify with and would be a more powerful marketing statement.
Thanks to our friends at Volk Wheels, the technical staff at MotoIQ had a special opportunity to get a close insider's look at BMW's uber-trick factory works BMW M3's that Rahal-Letterman racing campaign in ALMS's GT class. If you do a google search on these cars, you will not find much information on them because until now, no one that cares has gotten a really close look at these amazing machines. Most reports have pretty pictures of the cars and stuff about the "Story of Joy" marketing campaign that the cars are promoting but in typical MotoIQ form, we will take you inside like no one else has before.
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