I love this build man. That kit will look so good once you get it in and on the car.

 

This about to be a whole new car!

 

Dream build here gentlemen !

 

Did you go through PSI for the TTX or someone on your side of the world?

Also would recommend pulling the 6 speed and tossing in some stronger gears (Neat Gearboxes just came out with a 4th gear upgrade and Albins makes some too) or swap to a 5 speed. Stock 6 speeds have a very finite life on track.

 

When I was at the track last time I kept splitting a boost hose, it’s the 45 degree one that I’ve got coming off the turbo elbow that goes to the intercooler. At first I thought it was just at a funny angle and being a year old of track abuse it just gave up, but I put 2x brand new ones on that day and it did it within a session so the heat coupled with the higher boost and angle of the hose was just a bad combination.

I got a plazmaman hotside pipe kit which runs a slightly different angle, it also comes with a bigger cast turbo elbow, which allowed me to fit a aeroflow hard boost clamp to bolt them both together. So no more splitting boost hoses, for now anyway.

Popped to the shop today to see my cage, should be finished tomorrow. Then I’ll take it down to my shop and paint it silver. I do plan on painting the whole interior silver at some point.

Also in preparation for the cage I removed the roof lining, passenger seat belt and the door cards and other trim panels, I saved another 10kg which is great.

Ben

 

Someone over here mate, they were used in V8 Supercars up until 2022 so there’s a few places who really no what there doing with them.

Yeah look I no the 6 speed is the weak point of my car. I’m currently saving for a hollinger sequential gearbox but at $35k aud it’s not a cheap buy. I’m very careful with my gear changes and I try not to abuse it, I don’t really want to do a clutch or do anything to the oem gearbox until im ready for the hollinger if that makes sense. Well thats the plan anyway, ill keep running this box until Ive got enough $ for the hollinger, or if it breaks I can get a oem 5 speed for about $5k aud.

That’s my plan of action

 

Few pics from the last practise day and race weekend.

Also the cage is nearly done, just the rear X section and its finished.

Benny

 

Got the car back from the cage shop, super happy with it, just what I wanted.

I also fitted that new boost pipe with the solid boost clamp.

On track this weekend for round 6 of the state sprint titles, keen to see what my lap times will be with the extra power.

Benny

 

So this is something I’ve been wanting to do in my old evo and this one including. I’ve finally bought a sequential gearbox.

Now I didn’t go with the holinger. I’ve had good experience with quaife over in the uk, I’ve used there products in alot of my cars so I decided to go with them for the gearbox. Plus the fastest time attack evos in Europe with 100bhp+ run this gearbox without issues so if it’s good enough for them it’s good enough for me.

It’s a Quaife QBE6U gearbox paired with a new oem open diff, quiafe paddle mech and a 4.3 final drive.

Along with the gearbox I purchased the Geartronics paddle hardware as I’ll be running paddles instead of the traditional gear lever. There’s a couple of reasons for this. It is faster for the track, and running a closed loop paddle shift system reduces wear on the gearbox as there’s no human error and the shifts on the actuator are the exact same force every shift.

The Geartronics kit comes with:

Carbon Paddles
Compressor
Tank
2 Way valve block

I also got the gearbox breather kit

All this is coming from Momentum Motorsport in the Uk, and I cannot wait to get it all installed.

Benny

 

Well sheeetttttt

 

That looks amazing.

 

A package with all the hardware from momentum turned up.

The box is finished being built and got shipped yesterday.

Benny

 

Holy banana bread Batman! All the dream bits on your car...

 

Had a big delivery today, the gearbox arrived

I’m racing the car this weekend and next weekend. Then I’ve got about 3 1/2 weeks in which I will do the gearbox change.

I decided to put a 2 post hoist in my workshop, will make some of my jobs at work easier, also will make doing the gearbox change alot easier as well.

Benny

 

Little bit of drama with the ohlins in the past few weeks. To cut it short I was quoted a figure, and after weeks of measuring and cad design for the billet mounts etc… the quote went up by $4200 ($2800usd). I wasn’t happy with spending much extra so I cancelled the whole job and sent the ohlins dampers back to ohlins.

Since then I’ve been in contact with KW Motorsport department over here in Aus and after chatting for a few weeks and them offering a little bit of sponsorship discount, I decided to go for some KW V4 Racing Competition shocks.

The only difference between the ones in the pic below and my ones are that I opted for a fixed piggyback reservoir on the rear shocks as apposed to a hose.

Benny