if its raining, then rysee's nova will be done in no time at all...Quote:
Originally Posted by AW06
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if its raining, then rysee's nova will be done in no time at all...Quote:
Originally Posted by AW06
Not taking any chances on the brakes after the last time, so now with rebuilt calipers, plus brand new discs and pads (X-drilled discs to save weight, naturally);
http://i285.photobucket.com/albums/l...cort/014-4.jpg
You will see I have also converted to studs and nuts instead of the oh so annoying standard wheel bolts.
And for the moment I have fitted a standard steering rack just to get it mobile again, as there don't appear to be any quick racks for sale anywhere currently.
Bumping this thread just in case anyone has, or knows of someone with a spare quick steering rack (2.5 turns lock to lock ideally)?
I am racing again soon and don't really want to use it with a standard steering rack.
I'm surprised you have vented discs on there, I would have thought that was overkill on a sprint/hillclimb car of such lightweight.
oddly enough, we discussed that very thing at the nats day.
Also passenger door bars on the rollcage could be removed (certainly one of the crosses is redundant from a stiffness point of view) got to be couple of kgs there, door seals, rear quarter plastic vents, lighten the door handles (200g there!), the firewall panel at the back of the bay could be removed along with the motor and linkage and replaced with an Uno direct drive motor, and what about removing the front wheel arch splash-guards and venting the front wings at the rear, may draw out some heat and also reduce lift as well as saving weight.
looking at this car close up, i can vouch that it is seriously light. there really isn't much more to remove. apart from colin going on a diet, cough cough.....
Plenty to be saved ;) My list above is just the tip of the iceberg!Quote:
Originally Posted by mowgli
his class has a lot of restrictions on chopping stuff out, i believe
I'd be surprised if anything I've listed contravenes the regulations. There are already non-structural parts of the car cut-out and replaced with aluminium so non-structural mods are obviously permitted, and nothing I've listed affects the silhouette (normally a restriction in hillclimb regs). I obviously haven't read the specific regs for his class, so you may well be right of course :)