PACE GT (GT40) First Public Unveiling at the Cobra Nationals

[400TT]

Originally Posted by Donunder

Craig I made a comment about this last pic of the GT on your Facebook page as to the roofline's profile or curvature.

Is it in fact flatter than the the roof on John's red car?

No, it is just an illusion with the reflections. It is same shape and profile as an original roof. So fully curved etc. We do not modify body shapes for additional cockpit space, buyers these days tend to want more original body shapes. And that is what we have provided.

Originally Posted by Modena

I sat in the GT, actually I spent a bit of time sitting in there, Im 6' and if I had a helmet on I would have needed a bubble, even though it was a hard plastic seat sitting on the floor.

Ben, the design is to lean the seat back to gain head height. That particular car has a shorter owner, so seating position was more upright. That seat was also mounted on seat sliders which add height to the seat. We have a serious amount of cockpit length, seating width and feet space, so larger guys can feel comfortable. We can fit seriously big guys into it and if more space is required we can always drop the floor and with larger diameter tyres you can keep enough ground clearance. The form fitting seat design also means less padding required for comfortable seating.

We had Paul(Gulf GT40 at Nationas) sit in there. He has just recently owned a RF and also a DRB and commented that it was larger in every dimension than those cars.

A helmet adds 1 1/2 to 2" inches to your seating height.

[sambo]

Originally Posted by 400TT

...and if more space is required we can always drop the floor and with larger diameter tyres you can keep enough ground clearance.

Craig, have you actually gone this route? Say you drop the floor an inch you're going to need to increase tyre diameter by 2". That's a pretty radical change to the tyre profile.

[400TT]

Originally Posted by sambo

Craig, have you actually gone this route? Say you drop the floor an inch you're going to need to increase tyre diameter by 2". That's a pretty radical change to the tyre profile.

We have dropped a stack of floors over the years. If you are running 15" wheels, you end up with about 15mm more ground clearance anyway than if you fit typical 17 & 18" tyre. Also you can just not run the car as low. With our bolt on suspension mounts we can supply an optimised suspension geometry for any desired ride height.

With our PACE GT you would be a pretty BIG individual to require a dropped floor. We are talking 6'5" plus individuals.