SWB Quattro Project

[K Simmonds]

You must have been sad in some way to see her go...still gives you the funds to really get stuck into the next one, really looking forward to seeing that car come together.

[Error404]

Glad it's found a new home Hamish, looking forward to seeing the new beast occupying the void

[Christophski]

It's heart breaking seeing an empty space like that where a loved car once was but you have the pipeline coming so keep at it and good luck!

[Macchris]

Froggie buy it ? VAISON i know them, i have seen some drift on track with a E36 M3 several years ago

[G60Rallye]

The end of the cars chapter with me. I hope it gets a lot of use and enjoyment from its new owners!

[G60Rallye]

Car is now for sale, end of an era but got to move on.

http://www.s2forum.com/forum/showthread.php?t=81362

[G60Rallye]

Ran the car at Ten of the Best on Saturday. The event takes place at Elvington airfield near York. Its an event to find the fastest street legal car in the UK over 3 events, drag racing, top speed and handling. The event is dominated by Japanese cars so its good fun to get stuck in amongst them!

I had a christening on Sunday so only ran the Saturday. The car ran perfectly all day only needing fuel!

First up was the handling around a short course laid out with cones. Hard to follow to begin with but no risk of crashing. Course was a bit tight to get the car opened up properly but still managed to finish 17th overall out of 120 runners. Video of one of the early runs whilst I was learning the layout. Car decided it would like to have a little over steer in the fast left hander near the start!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_3HDPsyP9nw&feature=youtu.be

Next up was over to the drag strip and top speed. I didn't make any changes to the car between the handling circuit so was running with high tyre pressure and the diff unlocked. Managed to run a 10.9 @132mph and onto a top speed of 162.763mph in a standing kilometer.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oBv9CjfhxCI&feature=youtu.be

Would have been a lot more in the car if I had chased the quarter time, probably around a 10.5 but was enjoying the handling circuit too much! Dont feel much motivation to chase faster times in the quarter now. Hopefully get to some more events this year!

[Rubberdubber]

Ok read all 63 pages, fantastic stuff, couldn't believe how upset I was when it got rolled, still true to form it's back and better ha ever. Sure you don't need encouraged to keep up the good work, it comes naturally, so impressed, big thumbs up for everything

[G60Rallye]

Lovely video put together by my friend John Bear from a days filming last month.

https://vimeo.com/127360637

[Rubberdubber]

Just found this thread and loving it, my daily read at work at lunchtimes now for a few days at least, great stuff

[Jaswan]

i was meant to attend that drag racing event with my mate, but, it was sunny on the Saturday, one thing led to another and i woke up with a hangover at 10am on the Sunday when my mate had left at 0700, Gutted. but then, the first txt i get is a pic of your car, double gutted!

[quattro84]

Indeed, fitted an hardened DIN6319 washer on mine with similar ideas after seeing the OEM top bearing versus the plastic stuff. Still not sure about fitting the plastics but if it works for you it'll for me

[G60Rallye]

Yes the strut does look strange offset back inside the arch. Seems to give a better feel to the steering so all good.

Yes I did machine up a ring back when I built the car as it ran on uniball top mounts from the beginning just not offset ones. I didn't like the idea of the KW top perch right onto the underside of the bearing.

[quattro84]

Did you use an extra ring between the KW top perch and Albert's top mount? It just clears the uniball on mine and makes a bigger surface to carry the load.

[andy10v]

Very nice.

Struts look odd from below with the off centre top mount, cant wait to try mine out.