Update coming soon people!
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Update coming soon people!
After a lengthy lay off due to lack of time and finances (had pay for 2 weddings in 2 years!) I, with the help of Jim and Mark, have finally got the car to a state where I felt confident enough to book into a trackday at Rockingham tomorrow.
One of the main issues was a massive problem with the front brakes heating up so much that the brake pads enlarged to the point where they were rubbing on the hub and the wheel bolts kept coming loose as they got so hot. The problem also cooked the hub bearings and foobarred them so it was time for a re-think. After a lot of headscratching and general indecision we finally came up with this:
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb125/cpnova/149.jpg
First I stripped the brakes out and cut off the tab that you can screw the stad protective tine brake guard on to.
Next i made up this weird looking contraption:
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb125/cpnova/150.jpg
Which was attached thus:
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/bb125/cpnova/152.jpg
I then bodged this arrangement using the old lights and airfeed funnels bought fromTweeks:
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...nova/172-1.jpg
Which ended up looking like this:
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...nova/175-1.jpg
And feeding cool air through the engine bay to the brakes thus:
http://i205.photobucket.com/albums/b...nova/176-1.jpg
Awesome idea, executed brilliantly imo. Would love to see this weapon on a track one day ..
loving the thread and some great work, i will be looking back over it a few times for some ideas im sure.
Ducting looks mega purposeful in the bay! lol Will the steering arms not catch the ducting going through there?
The arms will go up from that position presuming the springs do compress a bit, Would be fine unless you managed to get the hub to go lower than it does with no weight on it.
It does look awesome though, Just hope it works lol
Very very good way of going it. Can you run something from the front so it points at the back of the calipar as well? To help keep that cool?
Love the bumper on it, front end looks great.
Couple more pics of the car after a quick clean and polish:
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3075/...2379ca7e_z.jpg
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3207/...12a8b6b1_z.jpg
http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2693/...658a10a4_z.jpg
Another thing we did was reposition the standard spoiler. CP was looking at after market rear wings, but after much deliberation (nothing to do with the fact we were running out of time) we opted to use the GSi spoiler. The spoiler is almost a solid lump of foam rubber, so to help reduce weight we shaved as much excess weight from it as we dare without making it too flimsy.
http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3278/...47955b90_z.jpg
What about making one like lee303 did? Spoiler wise.