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Any Brunton Stalker drivers here?: Grassroots Motorsports forum ...

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The Brunton Stalker is a Lotus 7 replica kit car. It's about 1500 lbs and is typically powered by a supercharged GM L32 motor or some guys have put an LSx in one.

At about $20K if you build your own it's not really in GRM territory, but it looks like one of the better bang for the buck purpose built track cars.

Anyone have experience with this car?

I had #24 with the comparatively slow 3.4 pushrod motor. Even with 175 HP and 210 ft lbs. it was still among the fastest 2 or 3 cars of any given NASA HPDE event. Now, with the supercharged 3.8 or LSX they are mind-bogglingly fast until the lousy aerodynamics cuts them down a few notches. They are very reliable, and basically pretty docile, predictable cars.

cons: The live rear axle beats you up a bit over bumps. My 1.6 Miata was actually quicker on poorly paved turns because the rear end was so much better controlled. That's not a problem at the track, where the live unit shines. It also wears at you on long drives. The noise, the wind buffeting, the sun on your head takes its toll. Perhaps that's just because I'm a wimp however, as the current owner hapily drives several hundred miles a day in his. Lastly, I got tired of all the attention. Be prepared to talk about the car every time you stop, because it's a class A attention magnet.

In retrospect I'm sorry that I sold it. I thrashed the thing for three years and sold it for what I had into it, so it wasn't a bad investment at all. But it is an aquired taste. Raw, brutally fast. Think of it as a 4-wheeled Hayabusa and you're in the ballpark.

My brother has one and he's happy with it. It had some teething pains but I guess it's a sign he enjoys it because he never go round to painting the fenders.

I'll second the comments about the rear axle's effect on ride quality. It's okay for the track but hit a bump on the street and it can be brutal.

He just bought 9" front wheels and 11" rears as his driving style needs more rubber on the road. He may also end up converting it to an LSx drivetrain.

Couple guys have 'em in the local autocross club. They're still figuring out how to drive them and they'll still pull FTD.

FWIW, a "Stalker" uses the N/A V6, a "Super Stalker" uses the supercharged V6, and there's some crazy guy that ran an LSx-swapped one at the UTCC that I think he called a "Mega Stalker".

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