Changes for 2013
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Changes for 2013
Well after one of what had to be the hardest years of trying to make the car work I decided it was time to change what I know was causing issues and upgrade a few other things.
Plans for the car over the next few months are....
Remove some weight, the 2840lb race weight is making it hard on drivetrain parts so we will make it lighter but able to put weight back when needed for classes that require it where I want it. We are gonna switch to some carbon parts, removed the old cage and put a chromolly cage in its place and that will cert, and tube some of the parts of the car that will save weight. Because of the classes I hope to compete in it can never be tin canned as it has to retain most of the interior plus I just could never do it.
Next with the new pressure plate in the car to hold the power it has made it nearly unlauchable with the first gear in the dog box. Clutch is coming out and switching to a much heavier custom exedy tripple disc from Magnus.
Part of the tubing includes the front end so with all the added space I will be also switching to a FFM. And the turbo will be going to Forced to have the compressor upgraded to their billet one.
Will likely also switch to 26" tires this year as well to try to take more of the hit to the sidewall and help with traction. Lots of other small changes to the car and hope to have the drysump motor finished up and possibly swapped in later in the year. I will try to keep this thread upgraded as it progresses.
And so it begins....
a month later
Next is cut the inlet for the turbo in the front end.
Plans for the car over the next few months are....
Remove some weight, the 2840lb race weight is making it hard on drivetrain parts so we will make it lighter but able to put weight back when needed for classes that require it where I want it. We are gonna switch to some carbon parts, removed the old cage and put a chromolly cage in its place and that will cert, and tube some of the parts of the car that will save weight. Because of the classes I hope to compete in it can never be tin canned as it has to retain most of the interior plus I just could never do it.
Next with the new pressure plate in the car to hold the power it has made it nearly unlauchable with the first gear in the dog box. Clutch is coming out and switching to a much heavier custom exedy tripple disc from Magnus.
Part of the tubing includes the front end so with all the added space I will be also switching to a FFM. And the turbo will be going to Forced to have the compressor upgraded to their billet one.
Will likely also switch to 26" tires this year as well to try to take more of the hit to the sidewall and help with traction. Lots of other small changes to the car and hope to have the drysump motor finished up and possibly swapped in later in the year. I will try to keep this thread upgraded as it progresses.
And so it begins....
a month later
Next is cut the inlet for the turbo in the front end.
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Well last year was a hard teething process. Car trapped as high as 168, ran into lots of issues, coasted to 9.2@148 on a soft 1.78 60'. This year the goal is to get it down the track clean and reliably. I am well aware of what it should run, it working out the bugs to make it do it and do it consistently is what I am interested in.
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Started the car last night. Still have a lot of finishing stuff to do, shortening the dumps and exhaust, the finisher plates for the bumper. Some modifications of the IC pipe. We will dyno it first make sure it all works then do all the finish work and rehang the front end. After we make sure it all works together it will be blown ack apart one more time for paint.
