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Dates announced! $2000 Challenge returns April 17-18, 2027.

Mark your calendars: Our Grassroots Motorsports $2000 Challenge returns April 17-18, 2027.

The (surprisingly) sound logic of building a dual-engine minivan

Our $2000 Challenge asks if more money always equal more speed, but this entrant asks a different question: Does more engines always equal more fun?

5 cars from the GRM forum brought to life at our $2000 Challenge

Where to find some of the GRM forum's most iconic and popular builds? Competing in our annual $2000 Challenge, of course.

Not one, not two, but six student teams raced in our $2000 Challenge

How do we know that the future of motorsports is in good hands? Just look at the six teams comprised entirely of college students that entered our $2000 Challenge.

Meet the fastest student team at our $2000 Challenge, Wreck Racing

What did being the fastest student team at the $2000 Challenge mean? Winning a tool cart from Carlyle Tools stocked with more than $5500 worth of tools.

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$2000 Challenge articles

Columns: How to tackle the most radical project of your dreams?

Patrick Caherty–better known in these parts as AngryCorvair–shares his wisdom on tackling a big project when you have a family, a job and only a small two-car garage to build in.

Features: 40 budget speed tips from $2000 Challenge racers | From the Archives

Going faster doesn't always require tons of cash–just look at some of these tips we picked up from our $2000 Challenge competitors.

Columns: When did you know you were in over your head with a project?

I just had to buy a rolling shell. Oh yeah, I also needed a truck, a trailer and tools. Minor details, right?

Features: Make your project car faster: Advice from a Formula SAE team

Need help sorting and developing that current project? Florida’s Formula SAE squad–one of the top teams in the nation–to the rescue.

Features: The haters couldn’t believe it: our first $2000 Challenge champ

For our very first low-buck competition, the $1500 Challenge, Dead Clown Racing put a Cosworth Vega engine into an MG Midget–and won the event.

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$2000 Challenge project car updates

We load up tomorrow. Why is our BMW 325i in pieces today?

Six days into our one-day BMW engine swap, we finally saw the fruits of our labor and were able to drive our car out of the shop. Finishing the …

Day 6 (and counting) of our 1-day engine swap

Every day I show up to the shop with a promise: “You’ll drive your car today.” But each night I go home without even hearing it run. How much longer …

How to fix a BMW? Buy a second BMW.

My garage looked like the Death Star’s trash compactor, but instead of droid parts, it was filled to the brim with jagged hunks of rusted metal that was hastily chopped …

Do I save my $1000 BMW or should I kick it to the curb?

My thousand-dollar BMW came with a lot of good parts, but the car has one glaring flaw: It’s a rust bucket.

If our team has any hope …

For $1000, can I turn this crusty BMW into a race car?

Award winning. Reliable. Running. Absolutely none of those words can be used to describe the car I recently purchased. I now have a rusty, old BMW in my possession–affectionately dubbed …

$2000 Challenge Forum Topics

Proposed - the Grassroots Motorsports Challenge $5000 Class
Angry builds a 1990 BMW 325is
'34 Chevy 5-Window Coupe - Turbo Atlas Inline Hot rod
Project D2D, a challenging challenge bound Ford Ranger.
Spicy Tiguana - Super Budget Build.
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$2000 Challenge Readers' Rides

Nov 12, 2025 by Billy0
1981 None Other

i want this car..

Feb 03, 2025 by Brett_Murphy (Agent of Chaos)
2025 None 2003 Subaru WRX

The Farm Use Challenge Car----------- Build Thread: https://grassrootsmotorsports.com/forum/build-projects-and-project-cars/2003-subaru-wrx-will-this-project-actually-make-it-to-the-challenge/273937/page1/

May 21, 2024 by davidadam1110
2024 None ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 ℕ𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣@+1 800-417-5147

ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 ℕ𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕚𝕟𝕘 𝕗𝕠𝕣 𝕥𝕠𝕡-𝕟𝕠𝕥𝕔𝕙 𝕤𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 𝕗𝕠𝕣 ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖? 𝕃𝕠𝕠𝕜 𝕟𝕠 𝕗𝕦𝕣𝕥𝕙𝕖𝕣. 𝕆𝕦𝕣 ℚ𝕦𝕚𝕔𝕜𝔹𝕠𝕠𝕜𝕤 𝔼𝕟𝕥𝕖𝕣𝕡𝕣𝕚𝕤𝕖 𝕊𝕦𝕡𝕡𝕠𝕣𝕥 ℙ𝕙𝕠𝕟𝕖 ℕ𝕦𝕞𝕓𝕖𝕣 𝕚𝕤 𝕙𝕖𝕣𝕖 𝕥𝕠 𝕡𝕣𝕠𝕧𝕚𝕕𝕖 𝕪𝕠𝕦 𝕨𝕚𝕥𝕙 𝕥𝕙𝕖 𝕘𝕦𝕚𝕕𝕒𝕟𝕔𝕖 𝕒𝕟𝕕 …

Jan 30, 2021 by Floating Doc (Forum Supporter)
1963 None Minor

Originally built by GRM forum member Tripp, competed in the 2013 Challenge. Sold to me in Jan ‘21, Challenge use stipulated. The Morris body is on an Chevy S10 xtreme …

May 13, 2022 by QuasiMofo (John Brown)
2003 None GS430

Traded an $800 Tahoe for this. I overpaid.

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