Rusty Slammington v2.0

[Oxer]

I still remember the afternoon spent at chucks, I felt like a little school kid, all giddy with excitement.

That was such a memorable trip. Remember the first night in TN?

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As most, I am a huge fan of seeing Rusty's reveal at SEMA as well as the build from the previous era.

It was one of the few cars that pushed me to sell my old truck and start new, continuously trying to break a stereotypical mold.

Happy to see another chapter.

[EasySpeed*Inc]

Massive respect, really love the direction rusty has taken!

[PassionGarage]

ahhh this build gets better and better !!!

[Meeve]

oh yes. I'm eager to read through all the build!

[Robitussin]

It's great to see you posting again, Mike! This thread is incedible already.

[JONOD]

Great read so far Mike, Looking forward to the rest of the post!

[SebastienPeek]

Welcome back kind sir.

[anti.engineered]

FUCK

why did you have to post this now

I have an eng final in 3 hours

dammit i'm reading it

[Mehowski]

I am witnessing Stance Works history, this is oh so exciting.
The original sketch of the car gave me goosebumps, theres just something very very special about Rusty

[M.Burroughs]

I'm off to a photo shoot, so the next bit comes (hopefully) tomorrow!

[M.Burroughs]

April 2, 2014



So, after several years of not working on the car, and having learned quite a bit, I, along with Byron, was ready to tackle what seemed like an impossible project: building a car from scratch.

If you look closely, you might notice that before bringing the car to California, we had cut and widened the rear fenders 2" - this was, at the time, a "wide body" and was the direction I was thinking of. The IMSA inspired side of the project surfaced in the interim, as I found my automotive passions.

For years, one of my favorite cars has been Porsche's 935 K3, which served as a huge inspiration moving forward in 2014.



The K3 introduced me to the Zakspeed Ford Capri, which probably currently stands as my favorite car.



It's cousin, the Zakspeed Mustang:


And of course, some inspiration from the BMW camp:


Obviously, there's a recurring theme. If you've seen the completed car, you hopefully see the sources of inspiration behind it. Everything from the boxed fenders, low rooflines, bodylines, wild aero, and especially the wheels. The 16/19 stagger is, in my eyes, a quintessential part of the Group 5 era, and so while the car was in Tennessee, I began collecting parts and pieces.



The wheels were the first piece of the new project. In 2012, I had purchased the centers, and from there, moved forward in collecting the halves, which took some time. I wish I had pictures of the process, but if I did, it wouldn't be very exciting anyways, because it's just wheel pieces.

The centers themselves are off the Brun Motorsports 956 Jagermeister car, and still have their BRUN stampings on lug sections of the wheels.



The rim halves, however, were collected separately, and are presumably off of a Porsche 935. The fronts, in the end, measure out to 16x12 and the rears are 19x14.5 in original spec.

With the wheels in hand and ready for the project's start in April 2014, I knew what I wanted to accomplish with the car. I wanted to build a Group 5 tribute. I had andrew sketch out to the best I could explain it to him, and this was the drawing I had to work with for the rest of the build:



My friend Roland at H&R Suspension has been a long-time fan of the car, and when I showed him my ideas, he was interested in partnering up on the car. I knew it wouldn't be possible without some help from some great minds, and Roland made sure we had what we needed to accomplish our goals.

[Average_Jerk]

Working on the second step now! I know a few people saw the partial chassis we did at Chuck's place, but upon arriving in CA, we scrapped it all and started over (which I hope is obvious)

Yea man, you can definitely see that

[PassionGarage]

so beautiful!!!
every part of this car is amazing, i love all the fab work Mike!!!!
Rusty is a beautiful monster!!!
resurrected from the dead
talk about built from the ground up !!!

[cblock406]

Congrats on everything, can't wait to see more of this build!