Bob Stanford bought this car directly from Earnhardt/Chip Ganassi Racing.  It was built in-house right next to all the other DEI/CGR cars you see in the Sprint Cup Series and Daytona Prototypes of the Rolex Grand Am Series.  The build quality of this car is INSANE.  It’s an absolute first class racecar and we are happy to help Bob maintain it and always have it ready to go to the track.  Since the car left the doors at Ganassi, PAS is the only place this car has been for service.  This is actually 1 of 2 Ganassi-built cars that PAS maintain for their customers. The other one…is a Mustang.

The first time we saw this car it had less than ONE mile on it.  When the car was delivered it wasn’t shortly after that we had it on the lift to remove the transmission only to find that the incorrect box was installed by Ganassi Racing.  A few phone calls back and forth and literally the very next morning a brand new transmission, clutch, pressure plate, flywheel, bellhousing, shifter, etc…all was sitting at our door step.  Thats service.  We installed all the new parts and let Bob go play with the car for a while.  But, soon after the car was back due to carb issues.

This car was driven by Grand Am driver Mike Skeen at the 2010 Ultimate Track Car Challenge, but never got to make a complete flying lap due to the aforementioned carb issues.  The car returned to PAS, the carb was taken to our local carb expert, rebuilt and ever since the car has been running flawlessly.

Lately the car just received another new transmission with different gear ratios to be a little more 1st gear friendly driving through a paddock since this car is merely a track car and with its previous 1st gear good up to 121mph, it was a little steep and resulted in worn out clutches attempting to get the car moving without stalling.  Along with the transmission Chris installed a Cool-Suit, a transmission temp gauge, and a new set of harnesses.

Bob is making more and more progress in the car getting the car down to the 2-min mark at VIR-full which isn’t too bad considering he was on track for the FIRST time only about 3 years ago. Talk about a steep learing curve!  Between Skeen driving it and doing the math of power to weight, the car should be good for laps in the 1:50′ish range, if not below!

Mike Skeen on his warm up laps at the 2010 UTCC – Car dies at the end and this was the end of the day for the car.

Here is the car on the PAS dyno during the 2011 Open House doing warming up rowing through the gears:

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