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Its all good:thumb:
Although I haven't been practising what I preach, I think that you are far more likely to arrive at a more satisfying car to drive overall if you do what Dans doing and start off by concentrating on handling rather than power. In my experience a car that is slightly underpowered is far more confidence inspiring when matched to a good chassis than the other way round and therefore ultimately more enjoyable
Come on Charlie, we all know to have proper fun on a trackday you need enough power to turn the diff into puree, and make big holes in the block :)
On a serious note, i have to congratulate you on yet another stunning welding job. At least when these gargantuan tyres break the hubs off on the first bend, the shell will stay perfectly straight :)
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Liking this :thumb:
One thing I didn't realise until talking to Gaz about spring setups was the tyre choice also determines what rate springs to go for. For semi-slicks like 888s/a048s you need a much higher poundage than you would for a road (wet) tyres. So do you then have 2 sets of springs at hand at every trackday too??
This is one of the main issues with adapting a road car for track use. It all ends up being a a series of compromises which lead me to stop driving my car to track days. Its easier and eventually cheaper to set the car up for optimum track use which means stiff springs and prolly just 1 type of tyre. At least you know that if it is reasonably dry, you will have a car thats able to close its (and hopefully yours) abilities.
spring setup was determined along with most of my setup idea's and has all been taken into account so the car is based on a package of parts to work together, not just a few bits chucked here and there.
The only things i have to fine tune and work out correctly is the front geometry which will be done on its initial shake down :thumb:
time for another small update, myself and lee have spent a few days gathering parts and working through the crappy jobs. The loom has been stripped and fitted along with the clocks and lights etc, and the engine now runs after a quick trial burst this morning.
Also as it was abit damp this morning i tackled the random indicators that we found. I think they are the finishing touch on the front before the graphics go on, i know many people will say clears would be better, but then i always prefered the orange ones on my old car and this is no different, they just help to break the front up abit :D
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looks awesome cant wait to see this up close when are you planning to do your first track day
Gauges on the chicken bar?