Being the upright citizens that we are, McTaggart and I got to the 2017 Performance Racing bright and early anticipating (rightly) a big crowd. There are exhibitors in the main hallway outside the actual convention hall and one of them is Sin Cars with their completely and utterly bad ass R1. The R1 is a track day style car that can be had as a pretty hardcore and blazingly fast two seater or you can go all in and spec it out as a full on racing machine. We’re not guys who typically seek out cars like this but when we had more than a couple of minutes to paw this thing, drool on it, and then give it a look-see, we came away impressed. This is not some janky, halfway modified version of another car. Nope, this thing is a full kill, stand-alone boss that has a real presence to it.
So the two versions of the car are the Sin R1 VTX which is the “track day” car that has two seats and two racing harnesses. The Sin R1 GTR is the full on racer and it has ABS, center lock wheels, a Motec data logging system, air jacks, headlights, a ceramic coated exhaust, and adjustable traction control for those who want to see how hard they can push the car. While those are the difference, both models are chock full of neat and hardcore elements.
The body is all carbon fiber, including the big adjustable rear wing and the cool looking diffusers on the front of the car. the chassis is a chrome moly tubing, there’s an LS3 mounted midships making 430hp for as long as you want it to, a sequential six speed paddle-shifted transmission, race car pushrod coil-over suspension, and power steering. The car weighs 2,750lbs, has a 109″ wheelbase and sits just 51″ tall.
Obviously we have not driven one of the cars and they were not giving out hallway joyrides but the math on this thing is awesome and from the fit and finish we witnessed getting up close and personal with it, the built quality sure seems to be there.
Now you want to know the price. Well, we don’t have it. It was not listed although there was mention of getting $5,000 of free upgrades if you bought a car at the show so we’re going by the old saw that’s unusually true. If you have to ask, you probably cannot afford it.
We want to crank off a few laps in this thing!
Check out the photos of the Sin Cars R1 below – This thing is tough stuff!
Its called a Sin Car because it has a weedy LS in its butt that only makes a feeble 430HP. That goes against the eleventh commandment which states “Thou Shalt Not Have An LS”.
Gosh it must suck to be you these days… 😉
Well, leave it to guys that would choose a weeky Chevy engine, to build a pretty slick car, and then not even at least recess the 1950’s style body latches. All this aero, scoops, diffusers, wing, carbon fiber, and we’re just gonna hang these MF’ers right out here in the open….