The MTGT is undoubtably a VERY COOL CAR! I like it the quality of its build. I think for publicity it's fantastic for Lemons. I respect your driving and the level of competition you guys bring to the track, and yeah, I hope you get more wins on laps, too, 'cause you've had some bad parts luck...
But.
A RANT>
JalopyShoppe 'm not against the MTGT - I'm against 100% FABRCATING something that couldn't be done in your/my/ANYONE"S driveway.
You guys have a SHOP that makes Rods. That's what you DO. That is patently NOT what the rest of "us" do. As a shop you have access to tools most of "us" have only seen in catalogs. "We" also don't have access to cherry-pick parts from a dozen ex-customer cars to place on one-end or the other of a ~fabricated~ space frame from a past era.
Most of "us" take POS EXISTING cars and mod them 'til they fall off the jackstands, are heavier than crap or look like swiss cheese, in neighborhoods where the parking police ding you for oil changes and parking the wrong way - if not worse.
Some of "us" work in fields where we have limited access to lifts/pits, port-a-powers and welders, spare garage siding and angle iron, and maybe half a dozen wrecked bikes, but again, this same "us" is likely to be fabricating on a dirt driveway in cow-town, NOT A SHOP.
who has the decided advantage in question? The guy with the combination of tools, shop and boatload of resources.
...I wouldn't be able to fab the TGT in my driveway - I ~Might~ be able to fab the Angry Hamster, but only 'cause I could hide it under an EZ-up... and I would be starting with an existing "car". And, too I certainly couldn't pony up the amount of "safety" was involved in your cage build - my rather simple cage was $1200! I suspect yours was or should have been nowhere near that number, or again if it was, "free use" of the EG shop is an unfair advantage...
So it seems to "us" that you have PROFESSIONALLY BUILT a Lemons Car. Yes, Labor is free, but there just might be a boundary where labor and resources such as a shop to do that labor in are and unfair advantage.
Bring on Prickstine, The Bavarian Ranchero, V-8 Volvos, and even a square-tube GL1200 loyd. Hack a Mokiat, FiaGuzzi or Frankemiata. Give us Slant-six E-30's and poorly designed Radial engines. Cut out the middle of a Toyota Van and put an Audi engine in it.
~But don't expect anyone to fall for a car that was built from the ground up, one piece at a time to be called anything other than "kinda cheaty" - and don't ask people that couldn't in a million years gain access to your resources to forgive you your "ingenuity".
...Expect instead that "they" will want to know why "we" can't go buy a twenty year old sportsman bomber for $500, sell the cheap-circle-track stuff off it, throw in a T-5 and fab up or hang some cool-looking body panels for it... and be what you are w/o being an E-30.
~end of Rant~