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There is one thing you're not going to do before Brands.... and that's Send it. [emoji1787]
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You've never seen me drive the Transit mate!! Haha that gets sent daily!!Quote:
Originally Posted by NovalutionGSi
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Originally Posted by House
Or look at having a CWP custom made. I was considering going down this route with my Quaife F15 ?box, and the cost wasn?t as horrendous as I expected.
Colin, tell me more....wouldn't I need a different lay shaft (or whichever shaft the pinion is on) to match the new crown wheel??Quote:
Originally Posted by novarally
Is that pinion one piece with the shaft?Quote:
Originally Posted by House
You would need the shaft making with the CW if so, the teeth Geo's will change for the tooth count
Yeah I'm pretty sure it's one piece Boff, I'm looking at other options with Quaife, seeing if they'll offer different 4th 5th ratios.Quote:
Originally Posted by boffer8
Seeing if I can close the gap between 3-4-5 as the jump from 3-4 is quite big and again 4-5.
I doubt I'll get anywhere, only other option is more torque!! Hahaha
Well,
The good
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Ignore the GP bit, it was the Indy circuit, it's just how the software on the dash sees it.
But 54.86 is nearly a second quicker than my previous best of 55.79, which I'm over the moon with and 4 laps under that 55.79 I'm happy with too.
I watched a video round Brands with a mate of mine who we sponsor to race in the Thunderbike Extreme and Ultra with BMRC, he's won both championships this year.
Our Apex speeds were similar, he brakes later and gains time on the accel out the corners, so I changed which gear I'm in for a few corners and broke a lot later into paddock hill and was on the gas up through Surtees and held the revs in each gear a bit longer. I was also leaning hard on the diff out of corners, which I feel I'm really learning how to use now.
I should have a data log that I can compare to the log from my 55.79 lap to see where I'm quicker.
And then The bad
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Got back to the workshop at 13.45 and engine was out by 16.15, ramp makes things so much easier.
Box won't stay in 4th, jumps back into 3rd as soon as the power re-applies, even using the clutch as soon as you let the clutch up, it says no.
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Normally LSD plate wear deposits, nothing horrific.
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5th gear dogs (on the underside of the selector on the right forgot to get a picture) are immaculate, barely any wear at all.
I'm thinking it might be a repeat of the issue the box had when it was first installed, where it was selecting 1st and 2nd at the same time as you shifted, which Quaife fixed FOC.
It's been clunking a bit from 3rd to 4th for a while, which I thought was shift cut related and have been playing with those settings, so now I'm thinking it's the same thing as the initial issue it went to quaife with, albeit on a different gear selector and it's worn the dogs now to the point it won't stay in gear.
You can shift through it to 5th (with the clutch dipped) and it'll stay in 5th
So back to Quaife it goes.
Although I'm missing data, this is the 5th timed lap of the second session
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Shame about the gearbox mate, but looked like you were flying , I’m loving the data logger something I really should invest in
Thanks mate, I'm creeping towards that 53!!!Quote:
Originally Posted by toymex
Box I'm ok with it's done a lot of work, first time in 2.5 years it's been out, which considering everyone said it would be like chocolate, I'll take!!
It'll be with Quaife Monday morning.
It's cheeky front splitter time
All just mocked up at present, I have some proper phenolic ply to use for the final version
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Just mounted up with some M6 nutserts for testing, shape still needs to be sorted but the height is pretty good I think
I?m liking where this is heading!
Where are the brackets from?
eBay!! But it seems I've bought the last set!!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Just search quick release splitter brackets.
Gonna use M10 nutserts to the chassis leg, should be fine to use in shear.
I was scared it wouldn't work so didn't wanna drill too many holes, to get the air dam to work I'll have to mod the brackets
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Then the air dam can mount to the splitter and be shaped to the bottom lip of the car.
Lots of other sellers, they're about ?40.
I think yours were cheaper cos someone put L and R markings on the wrong side House.
Left and right as I'm looking at it from the front of the car pal. Keep your nose out.
Yeah I've seen others for 40 quid too.
Well, this is still mock-up, so needs finishing touches, I've got the buffalo board to make it out of the proper stuff.
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Can't do anymore now until the engine is back in as I need to shape the final version around the exhaust manifold.
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:D
does look very good though as always
Very very possibleQuote:
Originally Posted by Stuart
God, what have I done
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First time drilling the shell since it was finished.
Need to weld these in, which is even more scary
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Something like this
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It's a tight fit, even if the picture doesn't look like it.
I'm gonna knock that riv nut out too and stick a boss in there. Need to bore the bosses out for M10 threads too, thought about going M8 but it needs M10 as the splitter bracket is M10 slots too.
Got one side buttoned up
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First time welding in about 3 years, decided I need a new welder cos a poor work person always blames their tools!!
Otherside will have to wait as I'm away to the Emerald Isle to earn a bit of corn for a few weeks.
Nice work indeed. [emoji106]
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Didn't take that long before you start hacking into the new shell.
You've been begging me to cut and shut bits onto it for ages so shut the fuck up.Quote:
Originally Posted by Iain
Sure looks pretty
Had a phone call and an email from Quaife today.
They're not giving me the gearbox back, there's something fundamentally wrong with it, they don't know what, they're not prepared to try and fix it.
They've offered me a full refund on the price I paid 3 years ago.
So that's that, no gearbox.
I've now got to look at other options and figure something out.
That sucks mate.
Can they not offer you a replacement box??
They offered to build me an H pattern dog box!!Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
But I think I'm looking at a Sadev. Only way now is to do it proper properly.
[emoji15] yours was sequential right? Has the price gone up crazy since you bought it??Quote:
Originally Posted by House
Yeah sequential, they've stopped offering the box now, they told me it needed ?3k of parts to fix, which they were going to sort FOC.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
As far as I knew I was getting the box back and just waiting for them to call me to say it's ready!! Strung me along for 8 weeks.
Then yesterday out the blue, phone call, "we can't fix it, don't know what's wrong with it, want to wash our hands of it, we'll refund your original purchase price"
End of!!!
Sadev are the daddies.
Off to SWR you go, enjoy Harlow :D
Sadly I'm not at all surpsied by Quaife on this one. They are very much into OEM work now and seem to be sitting on their hands when it comes to proper engineeirng and motorsport products.
SADEV quote received from SWR, just working on the finer details, then I'll look to place an order.
Have you looked at the 3MO one, I know Bill Falconer is fitting one to his new build as is working on mounts that use the original nova mounts, might be an option
I have looked at the 3MO mate and the one Satchell supply too.Quote:
Originally Posted by toymex
I'll be honest I'm feeling a bit "once bitten, twice shy".
We all know Sadev's reputation and as it stands with the refund from Quaife it's not a huge step to find the extra money to buy the Sadev.
The annoyance will be the shell works, if we need to move the engine it may need a new manifold, wiring changes, gotta get the shift rod through the bulkhead and to the box, new shafts. It's a shit load of work.
But it would be that amount of shell work for any new box so my theory is to buy twice, buy the best second time round!!!
Your the 4th person I know to now get a refund from Quaife for that gearbox! Something not right [emoji848]
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Yeah mate, they said they were fixing it F.O.C which made me believe it was something they'd done wrong.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeWak98
But the words on the phone were "it needs 2-3-4-5 gears replacing and a new input shaft, we can't figure out what's wrong with it or why it keeps going wrong"
As above they were all set to return it, but then someone else sent their box back with issues and they've just taken the decision to refund me and throw it all in the bin.
Is what it is!! I've got the money for the Sadev and the shell work allocated so we'll be looking to place an order shortly I would say.
Is it the Sadev ST75 you are going for ? Just having a ratch on the Hockly website this week and found they do the mounts & adaptor platesQuote:
Originally Posted by House
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Gonna be going for the ST82-14 mate as the ST75 is close on torque should I decide to upgrade engines in the future.Quote:
Originally Posted by JoeWak98
We've had some drawings through from SWR (the Uk SADEV dealer), been emailing Steve, he's been really helpful.
It seems the diff location is as per a standard F20 and therefore the same as my old box, so that's one result. It also looks like the adapter plate (bell housing adapter) has the 3 bolts for the rear mount, we're hoping it'll just be a case of Ben fabricating a top box mount and we can use the existing chassis mount point, so hopefully no shell mods needed.
My worst fear was we'd have to move the engine and need a new manifold, wiring and re-design of the whole engine bay, but we're looking good.
I've reviewed the ratios and am happy with them so it's literally waiting for the money from Quaife to land and ordering, I've pushed Quaife to send the refund earlier than 30 days given the bomb they've dropped and I await that!!
If they haven't sent it by the 15th of this month, I'll borrow some funds from the company and order it anyway!!
40% deposit paid on a SADEV ST82-14.
Shit just got real.
16 weeks for delivery
Sweet! I've been looking at Sadev boxes in the past but figured they are wayyy out of my league. Sexy stuff though. [emoji7]
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There were other more wallet friendly options Niek but the SADEV reputation is legendaryQuote:
Originally Posted by nova_niek
Once bitten twice shy and all that, my Dad said to buy the best you can afford and if you can't afford the best, sell a kidney.
Just a shame it's 16 weeks lead time. Puts us into April 2022 before we even receive the box.
Although to be fair I'm so busy with work I wouldn't be out in the car anyway.