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[chris_uk]

How much was the carbon sheet?

[simonlpearce]

This thing just looks crazy, but fair play to you for all the work that has gone into it!

[turbotoaster]

How much was the carbon sheet?

 

I dont know what the retail is, I just buy off cuts or seconds locally as I could not afford to buy new sheets

 

This thing just looks crazy, but fair play to you for all the work that has gone into it!

 

Thanks man, its nice to be at the point where I can drive it and im just bolting stuff on now, I can see the light at the end of the tunnel

 

Put my wider wheels back on now I have some legal 255s on the back compared to the 235s I used to testing things out.


Finished off building the other side so just need to bolt that on when it stops raining

Sat at maximum ride height this is the first time I have seen the lower wishbones actually pointing the way you would imagine it should be, must be interesting to know how many people run there cars with the roll centre buried underground!


Also took the ali angle off to paint them black, including a little gurney flap that will hopefully do a few jobs, help keep the low pressure area after the skirt to allow it to extract better, create a high pressure area ontop of the skirt and maybe push some of the air away from getting into the rear wheel well.


Here you can see how tiny my garage is, means not alot gets done when the weathers bad


Since it was raining really bad today I decided to refit my wing as it was the only thing I could do without getting wet

 

Fingers crossed I can get all my aero back on over the next week so I can view it in its completed form Just needs mapping and bolt my bigger discs on and I can get it on track

[turbotoaster]

Little bit of an update, fitted my 308mm front discs today, added the spacers, overall really nice and quick to do just needed to file away about 1.5mm of material from the upper inside edge of the caliper because of the larger radius



Got a brand new set of calipers to fit on the front and the old ones will be going on the back, but I will do that when i fit the rear discs as then it saves having to bleed the lines twice.

Shows the difference between the discs




Looking at it, it tooks like 330mm discs maybe possible but there wouldnt really be much point with 2 pots

Also took this picture as I thought it looks likes hes smiling


I should fit both my skirts tomorrow and maybe the splitter if i have time[/quote]

 

[Mike (Cliffie)]

I am really looking forward to this hitting the track now.

[jonnyboy]

That weight figure is impressive. I've just had an s1 in Stock recently first one I've driven. Will be getting one for myself as soon as possible they are fantastic.

[Jason]

It's a pure time attack / trackday car now remove all the headlight gubbins behind the lens for a wee bit more weight saving...

Have to keep plugging away at it, only thing I might need to do is send the toe link further forward to get it away from the wheel, thats the next task as it will limit how thick my spacers can be.   This is one of the reasons I went for a s1 over a s2/vx220   Thats with another 16kg to take off that figure -2kg for front rota wheels that i need to swap the tyres over -1kg for the water bottle full of water -5kg swap to carbon roof -4kg worth of fuel in the tank -4kg for swapping to ap 2 pots on the rear So 654kg for a fully turbocharged and chargecooled s1 on the road is not bad going, i think if I was taking it hill climbing/sprinting I could pull another 15kg off that aswell.

Edited by Jason, 27 April 2014 - 09:54 AM.

[jonnyboy]

Pulling out half the wiring loom as well.

[turbotoaster]

Bit more work today on the car as the weather was pretty decent, even if it did rain, hail and have sunshine.

Fitted the front splitter


Then fitted the rear diffuser


You can see how wide the rear tyres are and it seems I was correct running et-10 which is the widest you can go on a stock exige body

Installed the undertray aswell, you can see how much different is than the factory one and how much of the underneath ive tried to close of, the only area I couldnt was the suspension mount on the lower wishbone as when jacked up it would bend the undertray



Took it for a run up the road to a friends and took a couple of pics outside his house, looks funky



Just need to fit my skirts and canards im 90% done on aero.
 

 

Theres still loads of weight to pull out of it, power makes you fast in a straight line, lightness makes you faster everywhere so thats what im targeting currently

[Thealastair34]

i dont know much about aero but side wind affect F1 cars and they have nothing like the side profile of that rear wing

 

are you not worried about that?

[jonnyboy]

I bet you caused about 15 rear enders on the way there!

[smiley]

Over here it would have gotten pulled over by the police in seconds.

UK law allows such extentions on public roads?

 

[Baron Von Scubadaddy]

It is mental looking 

but it dose look like a child built it 

That has to be some aggressive areo package !!

 

Makes my polly sheet p*ss take from a few years back look normal !!

 

Well done that man 

 

[mbes2]

The wing now needs a bigger car ;-p Sure looks crazy. Will be fun watching at time attack

[Mike (Cliffie)]

 

UK law allows such extentions on public roads?

 

 

Errrr....... No; not really.

[G-Bob]

 

 

UK law allows such extentions on public roads?

 

 

Errrr....... No; not really.

 

 

The wing extends out further than the car meaning it's not really legal on the road as it could take out a pedestrian.

You need to make yourself an interchangeable smaller wing and splitter for road use.  .

[LY_Scott]

Not looked in this thread for a while. fcuking Wow. That is all.

[Thealastair34]

 

 

 

UK law allows such extentions on public roads?

 

 

Errrr....... No; not really.

 

 

The wing extends out further than the car meaning it's not really legal on the road as it could take out a pedestrian.

You need to make yourself an interchangeable smaller wing and splitter for road use.   .

 

 

nah just need to tie a hi vis vest to each end of it!

[LY_Scott]

Wideload escort vehicles

[techieboy]

I struggle to see past this

 

 

whenever I dip in here.