[LJZ]

good effort keeping it under $100, nothing wrong with mild and mig welding.If I had done it myself I would have just gone the mig but my brother has a tig welder so stainless it was. I would have gone for the complete decat but wanted to keep it somewhat street legal.

[ben12a]

Picked the car up on Monday night. Haltech is installed. It starts and drives enough to put back on the trailer.

Nice job- it even has all the mod cons like idle control etc. Pretty flash for a race car, LOL. Has a completely new loom built from scratch, new plugs, new coils, new electrical connectors, everything.

Unfortunately I cannot get it in to be tuned due to the drags. Seems everyone needs a tune this week. Hope to drop it off on Friday and just leave it there so they can get to it when they have some time. Shame, there is a practice day this Saturday I had my hopes on.

Pulled a third door from the mould tonight. Might go trim it and test fit it seeing as I have the car home all week.

[Gordo]

nice. glad to hear it coming along. its a great setup from what i saw. how did this door end up??

[ben12a]

errr, not as good as I hoped. The inner I was working on is nice and neat, but I must have bonded it to the skin slightly skew-iff. The panel gaps at the front end are awful.

[Gordo]

:( that sucks. guess that means you are going to make another??

[ma61turbo]

Unless he wants panel gaps like a Ford/Holden then I reckon he will ;)

[Gordo]

lol very true. though with the holdens its more the door doesn't line up properly at all. well the ve's anyway

[ben12a]

I have gone back to the scource, as this is the second drivers door I am not happy with.

I placed the mould of the door skin back over the original door to compare, and what do you know, they are different shapes. In my rush, or the cool weather, the fibreglass may not have been fully cured when I cracked it. I will let the door sit in the mould for a while, and then add more glass and reinforcement to it. This will also allow me to tidy up the edges of the mould that I am not happy with. I will also add a rib or flange to it to provide torsional stiffness to the mould.

It is a slow and steady project.

The car has gone into Morpowa for a tune. They are booked solid, but were happy to take the car so they could tune it when the opportunity presesnts itself. I am flat out with work now so it suits me to not have the car as a distraction, LOL.

[LJZ]

I just had a catchup with your thread, man you have been busy!!!
Great work getting so far along with the Haltech install. Any idea when you might get it back from morpowa or you really don't mind.
Bummer about the door molds, I wouldn't have thought that the curing time would have made that much of a difference to the shape. Shows what I know.
Keep up the good work, I look forward to seeing this project evolve

[ben12a]

Car is back from the tuner. It now makes 237rwkw, up from my estimated 180rwkw (never dynoed). Time to sit back and take stock (code for run out of money) and look for an opportunity to run the car at a low key track day or similar.

Stoked with the outcome, but scared at the costs involved.

[LJZ]

Projects like that no matter how much you can do yourself always end up costing and arm and a leg.
You have done a top job on it so far, I look forward to seeing the next chapter.
Having the time off im sure you will dream up some cool more ideas for fiber glassing, who knows maybe by the time you hit the track you may have lost another hundred kilos lol

[Darren]

Hmmm wish I could lose a 100kg :sorry:

237rwkw should be pretty good on the track Ben so I imagine you will be pretty happy with that figure from the 1J :)

Great catching up at the Cruise and having a quick chat. I hope your lad enjoyed the day and didnt get to bored. Red Soarer looked VERY tidy mate :notworthy:

Let us know when a track day is happening and maybe we can have a group cruise to come down and show some support :friends: That would be 2 good reasons for a cruise I reckon.

Cheers
Darren

[ben12a]

Thanks Darren.

Cruising is not my thing, but due to a few worried comments about participation from people out my way I decided to get along seeing as my original commitments fell through.

Looked like a good turnout to me.

The young fella loved 'navigating' using the map and checking off all the suburb/villages etc. Maybe that second group needed a navigator to look at the map. My GPS was useless as it wanted to go the opposite direction at almost every turn.

I have no idea about power figures because I never dynoed the stocker. The 1JZ was rated at the 206kw (but independantly claimed to be 220kw) in Japan on their decent fuel when new 20 years ago. I think nearly 240 at the rears is a decent increase. Morpowa know about JZ engines in race car environments so it should be 'safe' as well. The AFRs are in the 11-12:1 range so they did not go chasing big numbers like a dyno queen or drag car that only has to survive 10 seconds of load.

I will get the fibreglass doors on, so there should be about 30-50kg saving there. I am keen to weld something, so I might create a much simpler and lighter hinge arrangement based on a gate hinge. Be nice to just lift the doors on and off rather than undo bolts, LOL.

[ben12a]

I am booked in at a private track day on the 5th of April. Costs a bit more than a practice day, but looks like it is more like the days I used to attend back in NSW which were a lot better for testing and practicing than the supersprint or time attack formats used here.

So I now have a deadline to work to and what looks like a decent track day to sort it all out. I have a new higher temp compound pad from Intima I want to try, the front bar, bonnet vent, and hopefully fibreglass doors to try. Not to mention the newfound power. I hope to drop below 1:20 if it all goes well. Only drama is the tyres have been sitting for a year. They have been stored in a cool dark place so hopefully they haven't deteriated too much. Can't afford to replace them due to the cash spent on the Haltech, wiring and tune.

[ben12a]

Doors are on the car. They certainly are not show quality, but they keep the outside from coming inside.

Just going to put the car up on the stands so I can do an alignment. I haven't checked the alignment since the bingel, but seeing as I went into a sand trap and did not hit anything too hard, I am hoping it isn't to far out.

Then it is change all fluids seeing as it has pretty much sat still for the last eight months.

[LJZ]

ben12a, on 11 March 2012 - 07:54 AM, said:

they keep the outside from coming inside.

haha love that.
Do you have pictures of the doors on?
Let us know how you go with the alignment, im interested to see if the stack did knock it out, from the vid it didn't look like it would have done to much as you were just headed in a straight line

[ben12a]

I do have pictures. I was going to put them up in my Soarer Central thread, but it has crapped out and I can't get on it.

I have put the race wheels (JZA80 17s) back on and got it up on the stands. I seem to have nearly 4mm toe in at the front (I usually run 4mm toe out) but other than that every thing looks good.Current specs:

Front- 3 deg camber, 350mm ride height, 4mm total toe in

Rear- 1.5-2 deg camber, 335mm ride height, 4mm total toe in.


I am in two minds as to what to do. If this is how the car was when I ran the 1:21.6 then clearly it liked the toe in at the front. Because I use string lines you have to measure everything and do the maths to figure it out. It is very easy to confuse toe in and toe out.

Everything I know about front engined rear drive cars says I want toe out on the front for good turn in, and toe out the back in to tame oversteer.

Toe is easy to adjust in the front end, so I might give it some toe out, but I am tempted to run it how it is just to find out how it goes.

[ben12a]

Test day is a go for thursday. I am entered in the 'Hyperdrive3D Interclub challenge II'. I had to list a club, so I am entered under and representing SASupra, LOL. Hope no one minds.

Most of the cars are Mazda Rx-7s and 8s, Evos, and the odd skyline and s platform. I have the only Toyota.

If I do all sessions I should be on the track 8 times through the day, but I have to be somewhere else in the late afternoon and might miss the last one.

I am aiming to shake the car down, and then go for a lap time. I also have a new set of pads from Intima they want me to try; their 'Type D' pad that needs to be around 250 degrees before it is at its optimum performance. It is a very race oriented pad that handles up to 850 degrees of punishment and has a higher grip coefficient. I have been happy with the lower spec pad, but seeing as the price was too good, I said I'd try a set. :thanku: I might swap the pads out halfway through the day and see how they go. It is supposed to be over 30 degrees ambient, so they might be needed after 3 or 4 straight hard laps.

[ben12a]

great picture thingy LJ. I just wasted 3 minutes watching it...

[IcE]

Oohhh, you going to be strapping the cameras on? would love to see some more of your beast getting out on the track!