nick_m

Rolled up to work saw this. Got excited. I like this much more than my car. Its seriously fucking cool

Its probably a good thing there wasnt a camera in the suzuki carry for our road trip

Honda Drag racing in the states is mental. They are into the 8s NA and FWD.

Recently a fully street legal turbo civic ran 7.98. has about 1200hp and is probably only street legal in loosest sense of the word but it does have door cards and a dash board etc. Bar the cage and the parachute it looks pretty legal

I have decided Sheepers that if you and John (skdmrx) had a north vs south car build off, it would be the most amazing thing ever. 

Looks sharp!

We put them electric WPs on heaps of cars at work. We use the Davies craig ones through NZperformance

Just have a google heaps of stuff on them, Im going to roll one on the race car. 

Once you shortened your DS did you just bash it onto the splines or did you glue it too? How would a carbon DS be balanced, glue little balancing weights??

In regards to thermostat issue. have you thought about an electric water pump setup. They are $495 for the 115LPM pump and controller. Means you can fuck of the thermostat completely as the controller adjusts pump speed vs coolant temp. Then you could just make up the piping you need in the diameter you need/want. 
I reckon they are the best thing ever, especially if running a massive alloy radiator

f20c are left testicle expensive but agree would be a choice motor if money would stretch that far

I got my sparky mate round and part of my garage is wired in 2.5mm and the light circuit is smaller, so will replace the circuit board and run a seperate 20amp circuit for my welder. Its only an extra few hundred dollars for piece of mind and no plug trimming/voiding warranty

Will report back about the welder Chris, its probably going to be better than the fucked old chinese one I use at work!

ok thanks NVMPAJ thats likely what ill do.

Getting a sparky mate to come round and confirm my wiring is 2.5mm and nothing dodgey is happening then ill get a dedicated power point for it. Piece of mind and all that

yeah 100% its a 20A plug, its on the plug itself.

I would like to get a dedicated powerpoint for it, but as you can imagine this is the worst time of year to try get anyone around to do that. Was hoping to get it up and running over the holidays as I had a job I wanted to do with it.

Will contact a couple of sparky mates and see if I can get them to sort it out. Otherwise I might just trim it for now till I can get a dedicated supply sorted.....

The highest I ever had my little DC TIG was 120amps and the thickness of Ali im welding I doubt ill get higher than 90-amps so likely be alright BUT...

Still keen to hear what other people reckon though

Bought a Mitech 200p AC tig and it has a 20amp plug on the end.

I am hoping to get someone smarter than me to come check out the garage wiring, I have 20amp circuit breakers but im not convinced something dodgey isnt going on. But assuming the garage wiring is up to it, can I swap the 20amp plug for A 15amp one or do I need to get a 20 amp power point wired into the garage to run the TIG off of?

Hey dude what are the rotors you are using on the back?, might do the same brake setup on the back of mine

I did the course with matt, definitely recommend it too. If for nothing else other than from the minute you walk in the door you start welding, all the material is precut for you so you actually get through a lot of welding in three hours, and you have the tutor there to give you pointers/tell you what your doing wrong.

yeah matt, its getting close to the end of the year. Must be nearly ready to roll it down for cert?

wish I was racing, looks like so much fun. I should have bought a running race car instead of building one!!

my old work mate made a light flywheel out of mild steel for his super stock(? - the inline 6 smash and bash ones) I queried him at the time about using mild steel. He swore by it, reckoned that mild steel was much better with the heat cycles, the higher grade steels are more prone to heat cracking.

Guess those inline 6s dont really rev that high, plus yours being a road car would probably be less likely to be subjected to those heat cycles.

I reckon you would be alright with mild steel or medium tensile 1040

Im pretty sure those inserts on the fidanza Aluminium flywheels are only 1040.

edit: Fidanza are heat treated 1050

Think ERS are pretty reasonable. HPE is best/most expensive

interested in the vapor dash

Where you get it from and how much? Was it hard to set up etc?

Those rover K series motors are pretty sweet little motors, could get a 1.8 for a little bit more poke. And like said, ridiculously light. Think they are pretty gutless from memory though

what about a suzuki cappicino motor haha

3 cyl 660cc turbo. Only 47kw though!

Having stuffed a big 2L into a small car (sr20 in a datsun 1200) I would steer away from the likes of sr20/3sge/fj20 just too tall or wide imo for what you want to achieve (tidy enine bay etc) Can definitely be done though

turbo 4age probably fits the bill quite well

HPE

Car aid

Cliffbond

ERS

Car aid might be a goer. They have just had a couple of people leave i think

Oil cooler increase capacity plus cooling?

This is probably the route Im going to take. The decrease in oil is pretty minimal anyway.

Nick, yeah it is something I was wondering about, but I havnt really looked into it. What sort of coin are you looking at for a suitable setup?

yeah ill add an oil cooler too, The accusumps arent too bad, About 200USD for the accumulator (3 Quarts) and about 200USD for the electric pressure switch. The pressure switch electronically controls the accumulator to empty when engine oil pressure drops below a set psi and refills once above it.

They are just a hydraulic accumulator, when the time comes im going to talk to my hydraulic engineer mate as I bet he could whip something up for pretty cheap

hey dude maybe look at adding an accusump to gain some oil capcity back and reduce the risk of starving it of oil. I might have to do a similar thing on mine

yeah dude agreed. Loving the Fabrication.

Who's the guy that did the Porting on your CA18 head/wher does he work?

Not too soon, me and dan need time and money to finish our cars first!!!

so excited. I love racecars