Got all the transmission fitted and most of the car back together. To be honest it all went smoothly, didn’t have any problems with anything aligning up etc..



Benny

 

Fitted the gearbox breather tank, along with a hel braided clutch line. I bled the clutch which was a completely pain lol.

Benny

 

Fitted all the air lines for the gearbox, tested it and it’s all working. Car is fully back together now. We got all the base settings set up with the link ecu and tested in on the hoist. Also took it for a little test drive around the block to make sure it was okay under load. Damn the gearbox is loud lol, in a good way, sounds like a full on race car with the straight cut gears.

Benny

 

New steering wheel for the car, it’s a MPI wheel, same as the v8 Supercars use. Feels good in the hands, and has the button cutouts so no need for a button plate.

Ben

 

Finished setting up all the base settings and then got the car loaded up and took it down to my tuner. The work I’m having done is:

GSC 274 Camshafts, springs & retainers
Rocker cover an-10 breather
18 tooth crank trigger disc
Sequential gearbox setup and tune
Motec diff controller fitted & diff maps
Engine tune
Wheel alignment
Link engine protection

I should be able to pick up the car this Friday coming. I’m hoping to see a minimum of 2 seconds a lap quicker with all the work I’ve done.

Benny

 

Can't wait for a vid of this thing ripping with the new parts fitted.

 

Tuner sent be a video of a little bit of progress on the dyno (attached below)

And my KW Racing V4 shocks finally landed in Aus

Benny

 

Fire 🔥!!!!

bro I love your evo lol. I love mines too but your is a dream !

 

Finally did the 1100 mile trip to go and pick up the car, did it all in one day lol.

I was driving it on track in 2 days time to gift it a shakedown and do some more fine tuning.

First thing the car needed was a wash as it was absolutely filthy.

Benny

 

So had the shakedown on track

Conditions were less than ideal, track temp was 72°c and my air inlet temp was 70°c, also was loosing about 4psi of boost due to the heat.

So first session out on track I was testing the shifts. The upshifts were great all be a couple of double cuts from 4th to 5th. The downshifts weren’t that great, need to use the clutch otherwise it felt very aggressive. Just needs a bit more fine tuning which we will do.

All in all car felt very good, power felt awesome, car dies rocket through the gears, reminds me off my race bike. Diffs felt great although I didn’t do a 100% push lap due to the temperature being so hot, oil temps got pretty high and the track had no grip.

I ended up getting P2 in the championship which I was happy with.

Now I can go back home and get the kw suspension fitted.

Benny

 

This story is just epic ! Appreciate you sharing man.

 

Finally got bored of my 8 rear bumper and picked up a new 9 Jdm bumper.

Painted it at work and got that fitted, makes a massive difference, don’t no why I didn’t do it earlier.

Benny

 

Here’s a lap with the sequential, as you can see there’s a couple of double cuts on a few upshifts. Still using the clutch but we will get that sorted.

Benny

 

***** to the wall crazy car you've slapped together!

 

Hell yea!