Build Thread (NA Sprint Series Car)
09-20-2012, 07:19 PM
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I swapped back in my OEM fuel pump for my track session last night. I was carrying much more speed through the main left hander and running the car with just under half a tank. No fuel starvation issues at all! I think it must be mostly to do with the different size of the socks on the OEM vs the Aeromotive. See pics below;
The car felt epic over the bumps and the tyres have far more grip than my head can even comprehend using. I need to reprogramme my brain to utilise them fully. I managed to slash 2 seconds of my PB lap time on the Barbagallo short track, which is a lot considering it's a sub 1 min lap!
The car felt epic over the bumps and the tyres have far more grip than my head can even comprehend using. I need to reprogramme my brain to utilise them fully. I managed to slash 2 seconds of my PB lap time on the Barbagallo short track, which is a lot considering it's a sub 1 min lap!
10-03-2012, 08:49 PM
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A few more updates from the last week. I have now got around to fitting the rear roll center adjusters. I wanted to get these in before I corner weight the car so that I don't have to do it again. So I started by removing the rear knuckle so I could press out this ball joint;
And replace it with this one;
When it's all back together it looks like this;
I also took this opportunity to re-do the rear springs. I put in some shorter Swift springs and also fitted the Swift helper spring. Whilst the springs were off I also cut the bumpstop in half to give me a little more compression travel.
Next on the to do list was my side impact protection (or lack of) issue. I just signed up for the next Rallysprint event and this requires a navigator. My wife happily volunteered to fill the role, but not with the doors as they were (she has an irrational fear of crashing
). We decided to weld in a diagonal chromoly bar using the orignal side impact bar mounts;
It came out quite nicely and doesn't weigh too much;
Big tip from me though... don't ever gut your doors like I have, unless you're building a full cage at the same time! This is probably the only "modification" I really regret doing to my car.
Last thing for now concerns oil starvation. Given the ridiculous cornering speeds I can now generate it's about time I fitted a baffle to my oil sump. I ordered the pre-welded one from BlackTrax as it is very reasonably priced and comes with a lifetime guarantee.
I haven't fitted this yet, but here are a few pics of the welds;
That's all for now. I'm off to setup the rear ride height correctly and corner weight the car. Then I shall sit around for a few months whilst I wait for my new Toyota 86 to arrive.... I wonder if a supercharger should be the first mod
??
And replace it with this one;
When it's all back together it looks like this;
I also took this opportunity to re-do the rear springs. I put in some shorter Swift springs and also fitted the Swift helper spring. Whilst the springs were off I also cut the bumpstop in half to give me a little more compression travel.
Next on the to do list was my side impact protection (or lack of) issue. I just signed up for the next Rallysprint event and this requires a navigator. My wife happily volunteered to fill the role, but not with the doors as they were (she has an irrational fear of crashing
). We decided to weld in a diagonal chromoly bar using the orignal side impact bar mounts;It came out quite nicely and doesn't weigh too much;
Big tip from me though... don't ever gut your doors like I have, unless you're building a full cage at the same time! This is probably the only "modification" I really regret doing to my car.
Last thing for now concerns oil starvation. Given the ridiculous cornering speeds I can now generate it's about time I fitted a baffle to my oil sump. I ordered the pre-welded one from BlackTrax as it is very reasonably priced and comes with a lifetime guarantee.
I haven't fitted this yet, but here are a few pics of the welds;
That's all for now. I'm off to setup the rear ride height correctly and corner weight the car. Then I shall sit around for a few months whilst I wait for my new Toyota 86 to arrive.... I wonder if a supercharger should be the first mod
??
07-22-2013, 03:49 AM
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So I finally acquired a GoPro so that I could start recording some in car footage. Here's my first attempt;
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4Jtu8Cjj0&feature=youtu.be[/media]
[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AS4Jtu8Cjj0&feature=youtu.be[/media]
