Hard to get good tyres here for 15s, easier for 17s and a lot easier on 18s. 200mm are about the widest slicks and 235 road tyres on 15s..
Hard to get good tyres here for 15s, easier for 17s and a lot easier on 18s. 200mm are about the widest slicks and 235 road tyres on 15s..
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I like it a lot!
Congratulations mate!
Cheers,
Mário Santos.
Dont think its a big problem over here, have seen some racing cars here that are running realy wide 15" sliks. But i think it s pricy compared to 17".
At the moment i am buying used STCC sliks from Sweden, for aproxematly 70 pund for each tyre.
Dont think it will be this year ill try 15" s...
Been busy lately, some picks
Still a lot to do, so i hope it wil be ready for its first race 9 to 11 of may.
It will be corner weigted in a cuple of days, and the engine builder Ringspeed racing will come on saturday to lock over the engine before start up. Locking forward to that. Will post a film then
We'll be here looking forward to it...
Good luck.
Cheers,
Mário Santos.
Finaly!! The day for start up. It all went fine, the engine fired rigth away, and no leaks.
A litle film as promised
Love this car.sound ace.
Been busy once agen.
Did a test Tuesday it al went fine.
And went racing this wekend. The car performed fine after a couple of smal adjustments.
On saturday we finished 9 th after a trip out off track. we where up on 6 th place before this.
1 race on sunday went ok, started on 9 th place, the track was wet but dryed so we coud speed up. We ended in 6 th place.
2 race on sunday we started in pole position, but unfortunaly we went off. The track was soacing wet and the front tyres locked. After the race i think i knew why, i had adjusted the front rear brake adjuster over to max front brake by an acident. leson learned dont take on the helmet and hans in the car.
Some picks, wil post a film later
Tyre smoke
Hi folks
The car is stil alive and i have been out racing agen on Rudskogen. Did 3 races last weekend, that went fine and we did som adjustements during the race weekend, so the car starts to feel realy fine. Got an 8th place on saturday, on sunday it was two races first race i got 7th place and the last a 5th, so we are geting there
Some pictures and a film
How cool is this? Not mine 200E.
And finaly a teaser that my little brother made
Hope you like it.
Love that,
I can't believe how cool this car is.
Very nice build & very well done !
Some pictures from the last race this weekend.
Managed a 7. place on saturday, whit a broken topp gasket.
Changed that, after i had been at Ringspeed racing 6 hours of traveling to have the topp planed and washed, Ringspeed advised me to turn down the ignition 3 degres after the skiming / planing (0,2).
Also changed cracked brake disk at the front, that i picked up at RS Euroford. And to clean the dry sump system and engine it went 16liters of fresh oil.
The car was ready 2 minutes before the first final on sunday, the car was bether than ever and it felt like i got 40 horses more than before! But the race control did not like that my car was sliding so much, i told him that i cant help it, the car drives wery difrently that i was used to before. So some nice folks decided to sponsor me whit some new rear tyres to get grip.
In the last final, i was up in 3. place, the car felt realy good whith new tyres, and i had no problem, until the car dident want to go properly, i stopet and had to se the rest of the race from the side line. I was towed in and after parc ferme i opened the hood and.. the one ignition cable on number 4 had falen off.
Some pictures, it will be a new film soon from this race, intill then heres an complete film from the race befor this.
Hope you like it, next race is over the boarder to Sweden, 24-27 July on Kinnekulle ring
In the 2. final on saturday i was up i
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still love this car..rear wing looks cool...keep up the good work..and good luck in sweeden...mark
Thank you
Heres a litle film that my brother made from the last race.
watched all vids great racing. looks a handful exiting corners.
you would go much faster if you didnt have that HUGE spoiler on boot, but would it be uncontrollable then?
Hi there
Never tried it whit out the spoiler realy, only adjusted it a cuple of times wich helped alot, in the way i didnt slide as much whith the rear. But i will try it whit out the big spoiler on traning after sweden. Have changed the front springs up 50 pounds now, so hopefully it wil give more traction on the inner rear wheel at corners.
Been doing some other stuff also the last week.
I have never got the time to figure out the windshield wiper, since i put the new engine inn, and the webers and air filter are now living where the wiper motor original was. So i bougth a boat wiperengine, wich take 120 degres, and the problem was fixed.
And i had to fix one wery special switch in the car (dont knew if you have seen the Norwegian racing film "Flĺklypa", if you have, you wil ounderstand
Made me a spliter up front today, hope it wil help the car get up to speed quiker and push more air over the car than under.. just have to try it, shoud be a bit lower too.
And new collor on the wheels
Only 3 days left now before we are going to Sweden, just some minor preps left and its ok
Good luck! Stunning car
nice car! I was relooking soms vids. i was looking at your feet when you driving. you hold your left foot always above the clutch pedal.
Ford Taunus Going RS2300 16v with 48s!!!
Hi there Arieke.
The left foot have no other place to go since the cage is in the way,
Here are some pictures from the last two races, the first ones from Sweden.
Here we managed two 4th places and a 2nd place in the last final. The track was tricky and i used long time to understand it. It was extremely hot in Sweden we mesured 32 C in the shadow and 42 C in the car after the race, it was some car that cougth fire and some that destroyed their engines due to the heat. We had to go down to 1,4 bars tyre presure becouse of the temperatures, we mesured 80 C on the tyres after the race, some cars had 125 C on the tyres and had problems whit the grip on the final laps.
Ready four leaving
Rune preping tyres for the last final
A gift from the mechanikans
Line up
We where happy whit 2nd place
And the last race now 9-10 August.
Dident went so greate, had problems during the whole race week whit som rear brakes that did n go of. even if i adjusted the pedal box. Finished 6th in the first final and got pole position in final 2.
I had a talk to Kjetil Bolneset, who did give me some driving tips tru the sjikanes before sekond finale. Did get a great start, and was first for the next five laps But i the car slided and i lost speed and the rest of the field was close. I started to get tired in the arms and the brakes did nt go of at the rears, so i lost a lot of speed. It ended in 4th place.
Line up
warm up
Start green ligth on
Last final, i started nr 2. But i got some trubles in the start and after 6 laps the car dident want to go as fast as it used to, so i only tok it easy and fished 9th. The rim had god damaged and the door i coud not be open, both the wings and shirt had been damaged. And the rear brakes was on agen, so they are going in the trash now! some picks fron last final
the start
Did nead help to get of the track after the last final due to problems, but finished the race so i got some points .
One pic from Renes mk2 and mine mk3/4
Next race is i Denmark in the end of tis month, but we have to se if the car is ready first.
Can I ask, do you find the front splitter good?
Personaly, i think its just a hasle having it, since its hard to get it on and of the trolly, and i cant get the jack under there in the depot.
But compared to last time i drove the car on this track i got bether times now and it feels like it have more grip on the front wheels.
But it can always be done bether, this is the first time i ever made one, so will try it out on Rudskogen track to se there to before i decide what to do next? Do you have any sugestions?
I see, interesting points you raised there. As for suggestions, I'm not really sure!ha the reason I asked about it is because my civic race car is a bit unstable at high speed and trying to come up with a solution. The only thing I would say about your splitter, apparently the further it goes back under the front, the better it works but I don't know how true that is either?
The first thing noticed, whit the splitter, is that i dont pick up som much stones an tire ruber from the track. (les tourbulance under the car??)
The idea is to push more air over the car, and not ounder, since the air under the car wil make some lift to the car an make it unstable and slower, depending on how flat the car is ounder. I did lock at some Youtube videos befor i made mine since i had no clue
Thanks for that info! I must mock up one for my car and see what it does. And by the way, I meant to say, love the car, it's a credit to you and your hard work.
Hi there
The last race of the season have now been conducted.
There was some problems in the begining of the race, whit a sick car and driver, but in the last race it al went fine. We finished 4th after starting further back due to problems earlyer this weekend. The car and driver was in god shape and we managed to set second best time in GT4 in this last race, beating former Norwegian campion and this years campion, and also improving my old record by over one second. So it was a fine season ending
Some pictures of the prep done befor this race.
Had to fix the damage after the last race, the a pilar had moved 5 cm innvards, so it had to be cut, pulled and re welded.
coming back togeter
Decided to make some changes and try it out in the last race, made som opening in the vings to get out air, and prevent it to go ounder.
Locking like this when finished
And then it was time for some brakes change, since the old ones didnt want to go racing any more.
Making of dumy brakets for the rear calipers.
Dummy and the finished braket.
Locking like this when finished whit new calipers in alu from 300zx/skyline orginaly suposed to use on 290x18mm or 310x18mm disk from nissan, but cosworth 4x4 273x20mm did also work wel and whit subaru sti pads from ferodo uno. Did work wery god!
Up front i had problems whit the wilwood calipers bending and flexing, making the brake pedal swampy, so i changed to some stiffer from Alcon for racing.
Also changed to Alcon pumps. the former pumps was from Ap so the problem whit the swampy pedal was not the old pumps, but was changed to be sure the new set up was 100%
The car then went to corner wigthing and a new set up in the front and new angles on the 4 link. The car performs much diferent after chancing the angles on the 4 link. Before when accelerating the car was unstabe over 200 km/h since the the car sat down on the rear axle, but now the car is flat all the time, and all of the energi the engines make goes to power the car forward, i also hawe more grip on the rears, since it pushes the axle down rater than the car down on the axel. It was also easyer to drive more agresiv, since it was not like a "boat".
Some race picks:
Race modus
Film from 2nd final, The B+ to the alternator melted and started welding in the engine bay, and the car did nt like that..
Film from 3. final (Safetycar from 5min to 10min in the film)
Locking forward to next year, som changes to the car during the winther and its sudently a new season.
how are the essinger engine running ?
I love this build and have been following the thread for a while now. Keep it up.
Hi there Rene. I am satisfied whith the engine for now, it puls strongly an smoth on the top. But if i gone change something it wil be swaping the webers to trotle bodyes, so it doesnt "drown" in 2nd gear turns. otherwise it seams to be a strong engine but maybe a bit heavy compared to zetec s and Duratec engines.
Nice project mate! I've always liked these. Looks menacing in black!
updates?
Hi there
Havent done anything to the mk3 since september, but will be doing som service and some other mods on it on the new year
But i have continued a litle on the mk2. It wil be preped for racing to, in the lower class. The goal is 850kg race ready whit driver and 130hk as the weigth to Hp is 6,5 kg in this smaler class.
Some pictures so far.
aprox ride heigth been tested
A lot of work has gone in to the front suspension, moved the front suspension pick up points 5cm forward, for better weigth distrubusion.
Welded up a new cross member.
Before cutting
Finished
Engine is only aprox 3 -4 cm further back + 5cm forward on the suspension points
Locking like this when finished
Some more seam welding after removing the last body protection stuff, and some paint, finaly!
Did some minor changes to the front end.
A bit lower, gone fit a splitter and make a mould of the front end.
Theres still a big jobb to be done at the rear. Hopefully the rear nd will be finished before christemas
Last edited by Fun /// Racing; 13-11-2014 at 22:13.
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