Another Ferrari Enzo Bites The Dust

[2002_Viper_GTS_ACR]

He had it converted into a targa. Notice the roof.

The roof (which is really just a big structural rib) is the same in his car and the photo of the yellow car. It looks like he just had the tops of the doors lopped off and the hinges re-done. That's an interesting mod to a 1.2 million dollar car.

To add some color to this, he did modify the Enzo, there was a write up in one of the car mags that I subscribe to. The acticle explained that he bought TWO new doors (which took a while) from Ferrari, and modified those, so the ORIGINAL doors were never touched, so that it could be put back to original if he ever wanted to. The doors were all that were changed to make this work from what i remember. The review of the car in this targa set up was pretty good, it was a nice modification, which was reversable, if you had the original doors to put back on, as he did. In this case, its a moot point, he would have been fine modifying the originals.

Jon

 

[V10SpeedLuvr]

He had it converted into a targa. Notice the roof.

The roof (which is really just a big structural rib) is the same in his car and the photo of the yellow car. It looks like he just had the tops of the doors lopped off and the hinges re-done. That's an interesting mod to a 1.2 million dollar car.

Were the hinges really redone or is it just a different looking angle when the door is open, since the new doors are missing the top part to them?

 

[2002_Viper_GTS_ACR]

He had it converted into a targa. Notice the roof.

The roof (which is really just a big structural rib) is the same in his car and the photo of the yellow car. It looks like he just had the tops of the doors lopped off and the hinges re-done. That's an interesting mod to a 1.2 million dollar car.

Were the hinges really redone or is it just a different looking angle when the door is open, since the new doors are missing the top part to them?

Read above, I addressed this question.

 

[kcobean]

He had it converted into a targa. Notice the roof.

The roof (which is really just a big structural rib) is the same in his car and the photo of the yellow car. It looks like he just had the tops of the doors lopped off and the hinges re-done. That's an interesting mod to a 1.2 million dollar car.

Were the hinges really redone or is it just a different looking angle when the door is open, since the new doors are missing the top part to them?

In the picture of his car, it looks as if the doors open "lambo style", i.e. straight up, where the factory hinge opens the door butterfly style...maybe it's just the picture playing tricks. Still an amazing car though...sad to see it destroyed.

 

[Fast Freddy]

that enzo was totaled at "the utah fast pass" open road racing event in utah last week. it was an open road racing event like the "bonneville 100" event that i did in nevada last month near the bonneville salt flats on highway 93A. he was goin 200 mph when he hit a bump and went flyin off the road and rolled his ferrari 7X he broke some of his neck & back vertebrae, 4 ribs, sternum and various other smaller bones. he refused pain medicine because he feels he should be punished for totalling a enzo.

usually what takes these cars out is blown tires. 2 years ago at the bonneville 100 a porsche went flyin off the road at 160 mph in a turn as a result of a blown tire and the driver was killed. one of the fastest cars at the bonneville 100 last month was a heavily modified C4 vette that had a parachute on the back. i was talkin to the driver in the pits and he showed me pix of how the chute saved his life. he had a tire blow out at 170+ mph in a straight and drifted off the road when he pulled the chute and it kept his car from gettin upside down.

in the case of the enzo the cars chassis and suspension is setup for short course road racing circuits that have ultra smooth pavement and very small bumps. the enzo does not like taking BIG bumps at high speed. as the wreck in malibu earlier this year demonstrated as well. when street racing or doin high speed road racing events the roads are crowned and even have frost heaves, etc in them so a cars chassis and suspension setup needs to be oriented in that way. the record car at the silver state that ran 90 miles in 25 mintues (thats an average speed of 207.78 mph) had 4.5 inches of ground clearance and the appropriate amount of suspension travel to go with it. now you know why i won't slam my viper to the ground.

i will be doin the silver state next month. i am registered for the top grand sport class and i will need to run the 90 miles course in 36 minutes flat to win. thats an average speed of 150 mph. i got a brand new set of michelin pilot sport cup tires on my forgeline VR1 wheels. wish me luck

Good luck! Do you have a roll bar?

i have the BTR roll bar. its a 4 point roll bar with a drivers side door bar. so technically its a 5 point roll bar.

 

[apun]

Sad to see another one go...but at least he's got 2 doors in good condition at home

 

[v10kingsnake]

that is a damn shame.

 

[KepRght]

im just glad he is OK.

I'm sad that my viper wont hold up the same. I need a roll bar/cage configured soon...

im a crazy driver, but 200mph+ is just insane on anything but salt flats.