Truenotch

That's good info, thanks guys. I've passed on Shiny Bits' contact details for starters and he'll ask if they can handle a full wheel (I think they'll be alloys, so no way to remove the centre for plating).

Asking for a friend. Does anyone know of chrome platers who would do a good job of wheels anywhere in NZ? I feel like @cletus will have the answer and I'll sure more of you will have some great suggestions too.

I was going to try and draw this today because I think it's an idea that could actually work, but it's too hard. I'll make a cardboard flange sandwich later today to show what I was thinking.

You could make a flappy flange sandwich (uhh... a what?) with 3 layers of flat rubber, or a layer of rubber / plastic that slides in a gap between two layers of aluminium. That way the engine can rock a bit and the flange will slide freely. No need for ramen cups if you have a flappy sandwich.

How about making it out of metal and then making a part straight off that as a mould? We've done a few carbon pieces at work that way. Brandon 3D modeled an interior footwell tray, got it cut and folded, welded up the corners and then laid a sheet of carbon straight over it. Job's done. You can add foam or nomex between layers for rigidity if needed. Do that process twice to get both halves and you're sorted? Excuse my potato photo:

The Imp has a blacktop 4AGE in the front. It goes extremely well. Imp purists hate it.... you two would probably get on well

So... When's the next rally????

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It's a good battle eh. Reminds me of racing your old man in the Corolla and having almost exactly the same laptimes, but different speed in lots of areas. My car was geared just right for that track, so I was able to launch out of the corners better. The City is loads quicker down the hill into the carousel.... We both hit a top speed of ~150 on the front and back sections of the track, so peak horsepower/speed seems about the same. Pretty keen to go door to door racing against the City. We should get a chance to battle at Highlands later in the year.

Look at my massive semi I have three more somewhere too. They should be good for the Coronet Peak Hillclimb in November.

Club sprints are like that eh... People forget to look backwards, no matter how much you talk to people and they agree to move out of the way. It was fun though! Even though the traffic killed a couple of runs for ultimate times. Cheers man, it's a nice feeling to be back out there. Looking forward to more events over summer.

Chase cam from the City in run 3. Skip to 1.05 to see a hairy moment passing a Mini.

Took this for a run at Highlands on Saturday. The Central Otago Motorsport Club run a sprint on Track C each year. It's reverse direction with the addition of the whoops and an extra corner through the forest, so there aren't many straights and it favours good handling cars. Suits me! It's a pretty busy little section of track... I'd say it's the coolest format of any sprint I've done in ~20 years of motorsport. Here's an external view: My workmates Brandon and Taz were running the B18CR City, which also suited the track really well. We ended up 1st, 2nd and 4th out of the 48 entries. Not bad There's a couple more videos on my YouTube channel if you're keen to see more: https://www.youtube.com/@truenotch/videos

That's a really consistent whistle eh! My guess is one of the vac ports in the throttle body is whistling as the flow runs past it. Kinda reminds me of a few 4AGE 20v powered cars that get a whooshy whistle at wide open throttle.

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