The car is a modified Austin Healey.

The specs are:

- Engine: Original block, bored to 84mm, original stroke of 89mm.

- Head: DW aluminum, ported and polished

- Valve train: DW roller rockers, 1.55:1 ratio; 1.81 intake; 1.61 exhaust

- Cam: 45/75: 75/45; lift .324 at the cam; roller chain idler, adjustable cam sprocket

- Intakes: Six straight individual runners in three pairs, standard Weber set up from DW

- Fuel injection: Three twin 45mm Wolf throttle bodies with 14# Mustang injectors and velocity stacks inside of air box

- Linkage: Custom cable/Healey fabrication

- Exhaust: DW Headers; twin 3 into 1 and DW race silencer

- Alternator: Yes

- A/C Vintage Air custom installation. Sanden 508 compressor; Vintage air "mini" under dash package

- Radiator: Griffin custom aluminum

- Oil Cooler: DW Accusump Custom installation Damper AU steel race

- Ignition: Custom electronic system, using reluctor sensor (RX7), Bosch igniter, Wolf spark management and original distributor.

- Coil: Lucas Sport

-Suspension: Modified Healey

- Chassis: Custom chrome moly duplicating original

- Shocks: 1966 Koni tube shocks rebuilt with 2005 insides; custom installation

- Front springs Stock 400# springs (200# wheel rate retained)

- Camber: Adjustable camber plates. Camber set at -1 degree

- Castor: Castor designed in at +2 degrees

- Rear Springs: Custom fiberglass leaf strings 175# rate

- Panhard Rod: Custom panhard rod added to rear

- Rear end unit: Stock Healey with 3.54 ratio and Quaife limited slip differential

- Fuel system: Custom recirculating system

- Fuel tank: Custom ATL fuel cell with bladder and aluminum case

- Fuel pumps: Low pressure in tank pump connecting to high pressure in line pump mounted on inside of right hand chassis rail.

- Brakes: Original BJ8 front disk brakes; Jaguar XJS rear disk brakes;

- Brake Circuits: Dual brake circuit added with bias bar at the brake pedal and adjustable proportioning valve.

- Roll Bar: Custom chrome moly, powder coated

- Interior: Black leather Lights OEM headlights, Baja Rally lights, twin Lucas 700 flamethrowers

Amenities - Radio and Ipod with four built in hidden speakers, A/C; rally timers, oil temp gauge, amp gauge, volt gauge, vacuum gauge, twin pyrometers that read exhaust temps, electric clock, map light, OEM hardtop; 15 circuit drop down fuse panel


In June of 2009, as he was finishing the preparations for an attempt to climb Pikes Peak during the annual Pikes Peak International Hill Climb (PPIHC), when a broken fuel injector turned his beautiful engine bay into a firey conflagration.

Here is the story of the fire


And HERE is the story of Jim's 2010 run at Pikes Peak