Running a heads-up naturally aspirated car is equal parts art and brute force for any race team. There must be a balance struck between the chassis of the car, level of power created, and the application of the power to the ground. Darrel Peterson and Brian MacAfee are veterans of the naturally aspirated racing world, and recently had the wizards at Chassis Engineering prepare their 1993 Mustang to put some serious NA power down.
Curt Perry and the team at Chassis Engineering took the Fox body Mustang and worked their magic from front to back on the car. “We took the car and basically cut the back out, cut the front end off, and redid everything so it could run NA 10.5 with the stock suspension configuration,” Perry says.
To kick things off Chassis Engineering addressed the frame rails and rollcage bars in the rear of the car. A new floor was put in the Mustang along with a custom carbon-fiber transmission tunnel and wheel tubs. The back of the car was completed with a Chassis Engineering XTR chromoly rearend. At the front of the car, a brand new K-member was fabricated and matched to a full set of suspension components, including some Strange Engineering Ultra Struts.
The body of the car also got some massage work from the craftsmen at Chassis Engineering.
“There is tons of detail work in the car you don’t normally see. We took the hatch and tucked it into the roof line so there’s no gap as the air comes over the roof where it meets the hatch. The hatch is also separate from the wing so you can access everything under the deck-lid without taking the hatch off,” Perry explains.
Powering the Mustang will be a 430 cubic inch SBF mill built by Tim Eichhorn at MRP Racing Engines, and it will be backed by a G-Force transmission.
Look for this slippery Mustang to make its debut in the NMCA’s NA 10.5 class in the near future.