Sam's build thread

[metalhead]

Pretty alright. 15th outright, 2nd fastest street registered (.04s behind Rick Vincent's modified Lotus), 2nd in Marque Sports to James Pearsons RX7 race car. Not bad I thought. Beat both Jeff Schmidt and Steve Woods by a couple of seconds which I was stoked with!

[sambb]

Nice job mate. In that pic looks like you were crossed up coming out of the carousel. Beating the Megane .......sweet sweet victory.

[metalhead]

Thanks! Yeh, that layout (A4) you turn sharp left after where that photo is taken instead of right. Good fun!

[metalhead]

Better get your entry in for next weekend... It's A4 layout also, it's a fun track!

[sambb]

Andrew I just got back from OS. I'll be a no show. I'm on night shift all weekend which sux.

[simon k]

Andrew I just got back from OS. I'll be a no show. I'm on night shift all weekend which sux.

where'd you go? bring back any goodies like your missus did?

[sambb]

ha ha. No motorsport is not so big in Fiji. Manage to read Adrian Newey's 'How to Build a car' over plenty of Fiji Bitters in a deck chair though.

[metalhead]

Bummer... I actually ran there this Saturday with the MX5 club - they were doing the A6 layout which I was curious to try, and I knew a number of people running. Was pretty satisfying - I was fastest outright by a reasonable margin out of 35 entries including some relatively serious machinery, the car was working really well. I also believe I have lined up a deal on some cheap (relatively speaking of course) AO50s...

[sambb]

Fastest outright against the MX5's, and your going to be on A050's soon. Bloody hell I'm going to have to think of things to protest you on!

[metalhead]

Haha, just remember that you post all your modifications here online!

[sambb]

ha ha this could get messy.

[metalhead]

Nah, no need for that. Run what ya brung and hope you brung enough!

[metalhead]

Have you signed up to the championship for next year yet? I picked up some cheap AO50s thanks to some cashed up time attackers on the weekend. Got them cheaper than the Nankangs!



I'm very curious to see how they compare. James Pearson bought some AO50s for the Australian championships, came back and ran on them at Ringwood for the first time last weekend and went 2.5s quicker, in similar but slightly worse conditions than on Nittos two months before (on the same layout). Given he rated the Nittos significantly quicker than the Nankangs, that's a crazy improvement!

[sambb]

2.5s quicker around Ringwood - that's mental;. I haven't used anything but them, but Pete has tried R888, R888R, and Nankang and said they were all properly ****e compared to these. You'll love them. And two of them are sticker new!

Yeah I just saw that the comp entry is up. So Mt Panorama is on the 2nd March this year. I'm off work that weekend so I'll be there rain hail or shine.

I'm silly. I'll probably be buying a clutch/plate LSD tomorrow. I told myself that if I managed to raise over 500 bucks that it would finally go towards a set of rods for my other engine. But then I saw the diff and summised that rods wont actually make me quicker but the diff will so got that instead. It'll be a bit of an extra fiddle to get it to work with my box. I'll have to rebuild the diff, likely there'll be some crown wheel machining, box rebuild/fit up, and an upgrade to a stg 2 clutch/PP to cope with the extra bite and wider front rubber and I'll be good to go.

[metalhead]

4 of them are stickered new actually! The other 2 have a done a single WTAC session. About 18 months old by the manufacture code, they were actually bought for WTAC last year.

It was the A4 layout at Ringwood, which I do in around 70s (i ran a 70.00 last weekend) - James dropped from a mid 68 at Mattara to a flat 66!

Awesome, I'll be there for sure. Can't wait!

Ah, diffs... Mine has developed a bunch of lash. Given it was freshly rebuilt 2.5 years (and admittedly about 45,000km) ago I'm not too happy - though I do know that my power level is pushing the capabilities of the stock diff, and hillclimbs and khanacrosses on sticky rubber can't help. But upgrading to something else looks like big $$$, and is unlikely to offer a performance benefit to help justify it, so I'm not really sure what way to go. I could just refresh it again, but I really don't want to have to do that every couple of years.