Thank you for a very detailed build thread. It´s been joyfull to read it all.
Boosts my wish to build my own. Just need to finish a couple of other projects first. But you are with your constant progress a true inpiration to us all.
Thanks again!
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Ran the car yesterday at a local event on an airfield. The surface is very poor so its hard to get any decent times. Had the slicks on looking to make the most out of the surface. Managed to get a couple of good launches which gave a 1.6 60 foot time. Best time was 11.10 @ 126mph. Was hoping to be well into the 130mph terminals as there was a good tail wind. So checked the logs and was only getting 1.8 bar. Checked the engine over and no holes in the boost pipes or any loose connections. So was pretty happy to be almost into the 10's at 1.8 bar. Once it gets back up to 2.2 bar I am sure it will go well into the 10's with a decent surface.
Thats it for the year now. Need to sort an oil leak on the front plate and fit a breather tank to the crankcase. Apart from that just the cambelt, and dry sump belt to change and its good for next year which is a nice position to be in!
Made a camera mount to get some onboard videos. Its 5mm alloy bolted to the B pillar/ main hoop of the cage. Shows just how much the car vibrates with the solid mounts! Got way too much wheel spin and had to lift out in 1st. Will be getting launch control set up for next years racing!
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Love this car, great to see it being used proper, and well done getting her all fixed up again, bet that was a heart breaker! Well done and a high and great level of workmanship,long may it continue
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OMW,, think I just blew my load looking at those wheels.. Awesome find Hamish.. looks amazing!Leave a comment:
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Managed to get the car painted a couple of weeks ago and got it all back together for last weekend's Edition 38 show.
I also managed to get a set of the BBS E50 wheels built up for the show. I had the barrels blasted to clean them up and got hold of 4 3" dishes to fill the arches nicely. They are bolted together with titanium bolts just to make them extra special! They are now 10" with a set of the slicks on that came with them.
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Had a superb weekend at Ten of the Best. Got there on the Saturday and had the same issues with the missfire in 3rd and 4th. Changed a few things and eventually cured it by closing up the plug gaps.
Saturday night there was a storm and it was soaking wet but luckily it dried up in time for running. The only problem was that the wind had come around 180 degrees from the Saturday and was now a huge headwind. Did 3 runs with the car set up for the handling course and ran an 11.09 @ 128mph. Decided at that point to go and do some runs on the handling. The car did 6 runs and ended up finishing 20th out of 120 so I was happy with that considering the quality of the field.
Decided after that to call it a day as it was starting to rain and the car was still running well so it went back on the trailer! The alternator belt stayed on all weekend without issue so glad to have sorted that issue!
One from the handling track
A video of my fastest run from the weekend against a very quick elise.
Showing a GTR how its done
And some footage of the weekends event which includes a couple of clips of mine.
Just need to get the roof and rear 3/4's painted now and then it will be down to Edition 38 at the very start of September. Hopefully will have some new wheels on it by then as well!Leave a comment:
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true, if its can be fixed for now, absolutely!!
check out the offerings from racemaster alternators, they have some units that arnet much larger than an i5 starter body
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I will look at all the options in the winter. I had to have a solution sorted for next weekend so it was back to the old set up.Leave a comment:
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have you considered a small racing alternator off the crankshaft and retain the prop shaft unit. there are some very very small 50-65 amp units available, that would take a lot of the load off of the rest of the charging systemLeave a comment:
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Cracked on with the work to fix the issues from GTI international.
Started with sorting the rear track control arms so they didn't hit the bladed anti roll bar. The track control arms needed to bolt under the hub pick up rather than on top to give some extra room. Whilst I was changing things around I decided to make the arms as long as possible like the fronts so the geometry change under compression is reduced.
Cut the old pick up points off the subframe and welded them into the centre of the subframe so that the arms were level at ride height. They are central its the diff mount thats not. Whilst I was cutting and welding I decided to plate over the rear of the diff mount to strengthen it up and give something to weld the pick ups onto:
Rear diff strengthening plate:
Link arms made up and bosses tig'd in place, using rose joints either end.
Quick coat of paint and bolted back in place.
Both ends have misalignment spacers to stop the joints necking under movement.
That has given plenty of clearance to the anti roll bar and hopefully should help with having longer bars.
I have also moved the alternator back onto the engine. I have moved it to the back V on the front pulley as its a deeper V so I am hoping that might help with it flipping the belt and throwing it off. Over the winter I am going to take the pulley off and convert it to a ribbed one.
So the car is just about ready for Ten of the best at Elvington at the weekend where hopefully it will run without any issues. Fingers crossed!Leave a comment:
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The battery I have is plenty big enough its a red top 40. Air jacks would be very nice for warming the engine and transmission in the pits!Leave a comment:
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