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Hopen to improve rear down force, but know there is going to be trade off with increased drag, so am going to start working on increased HP first, and want to also fit an air dam/splitter to front which I'm going to have a go at making my self. Do you have any comments on down force over drag??

Hey everyone, got the car to Wakefield Park Supersprint last weekend and managed another PB if only by .22 of a second, now at 1:13:25 and will be trying to get into the 12's next event. Toyo's are 2 years old now and even thought they still have life left in them I imagine they are quite a...

Hi everyone, have been reading back over the posts and have to thank everyone for their comments, sorry if I didnt post individual thanks and comments to every post, but I appreciate all the support for the car

Hi Loz and all, thanks that was taken in 1080p25 which is 140 deg camera angle, 720p60 is 90 deg and lower resolution, have just got back from weekend away at Wakefield Park raceway where I had a ball posted a new PB of 1:13:52 so pleased with the effort, have vidoe of my 4 runs but Photo...

Thanks TN n Loz, you've given me some food for thought there.

Thanks for the idea, but everyone paints their cages black to hide the poor quality welds and joins envolved, seriouslyI want to show it off, have already had 3 requests to do cages for other guys

LOL yeah 100mph race tape is basically duct tape has 1000's of uses Brought some better brackets since then will try them out this weekend, GOIN RACIN!! Yee Haa

What about the 1970 Mk1 Lotus Escort and the Lotus Super Seven

Hi Puntopimp This is my setup

Hi again everyone, my fav road is this Hillclimb which is public road for 364 days of the year. This is my 1st run up the hill for the day and I ended up hitting the kerb out of the last corner, ended up with a 37:52 which put me 12th out of 80, but had to put the car on the trailer and take...

Love the idea of gullwings but they are extremely heavy and my aim is to get the car as light as possible, so am looking at CF and Lexen in the future but have to be carefull as it could put me up into Sports Sedans which is basically space frame chassis with body skins, hard to compete with that.

No cage was forward and down off the rear seat shelf where it was installed so there was room to finish the welds around the top bars, as its too close to body work to weld in position, will take some more pics of final location. I am unsure what colour to paint it though, have got paint same...

With the advent of remote tyre pressure monitoring from within the car, which alot of race teams are doing now some rim manufacturers are installing two valves so you can install system on one and fill with other. Another reason is nitrogen filled tyres its easier to purge out the O2.

Thanks for the vote of confidence turbonutter, Car dosent look much different since then but have changed the rims

Finally worked out how to do this This is the beast when I first got it home :bigsmile: Then I stripped it out and installed the rollcage

Re: At Last!. I have started on my car ;-) Thats impressive you should have a really competitive car, what other cars will you be competing with?

Hi OG, you seem to know a bit about building race cars so will fire a question to you. I have thought about removing the alternator all together as a weight/horse power gain and running off the battery for shorter races ie. supersprints and charging battery up between races and jump...

I used to own a 1970 Mk1 1558 cc Lotus Escort that had twin 45mm side draft carbs, factory L1 cams and factory extractors and used big valve head off the Super Seven. It was no where near wild and produced 175 bhp so 190 from the Elan doesnt seem far fetched. Go Lotus a car well before its time

Re: At Last!. I have started on my car ;-) I like the way you rumble, I also make as much of my own parts as I can, do you have any idea of bhp you will have when finished?

Sorry was also going to say have just purchased a VIO HD pov camera so will have video in future. Next meeting is on 29th Jan, its regularity, have to nominate a time from a practice session then stay as close to that time as you can, accumulate points for being slower or quicker, car at end...

Thanks Stamford, have been keeping a log of tyre temps and pressure settings and most of our laps are timed so as you say will have to start recording shock settings. It is a very time consuming excersize as you dont want to make too many changes at once, then you dont know what worked

Hi Guys, does any one know alot about rebound and dampening settings? I have coil overs that are 32 increment adjustable, was wondering what difference hard to soft is going to make, ie. wet to dry conditions Also different track scenario's Probably silly question but I cant really feel any...

Hi Krystal, in answer to your question about the radiator hose I have been racing my NA GTO for 3 years now and it is still running original hose from factory, so no its not a common problem, What year is your car? and is it TT or NA? Is it easy to get parts for in NZ as I'm in Oz and its...

Thanks for the advice guys, have been away for the weekend and didnt get a chance to reply earlier. Plans for the car are to get it under 1:10:00's at Wakefield park a local race circuit where at present my best time is 1:14:03. I dont really have any ideas for flashing up the car as it is...

Hi Guys, I raced on Toyo Proxes R888 Semi slicks (road legal) and they are amazing, they have improved my lap time conciderably over high performance road tyres. They are expensive but are cheaper than Advan AO48's AO50's which are excellent grip tryes too. Price also depends on your tyre size...

Hey Mates, not really up on the forum stuff, so dont know if I'm replying to one post or all of them, but thanks for the comments, For some stupid reason the Australian Gov will only give compliance to the TT model and the NA can only be imported into Aust as "parts race/rally use only" so I...

Hi, 3 years ago I brought a 1994 Mitsubishi GTO, it came into Aust for race/rally use only and have been using it in hill climbs and supersprints when I have the time and money to do so. Am quite pleased with the cars performance as it is NA at present and for such a heavy car it handles...