drtdvl Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share Posted September 26, 2011 would love to... could also throw the new 25mm arb in also... but can't afford it and the hillclimb on the 16th Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted September 26, 2011 Share Posted September 26, 2011 170lb sounds very soft for a car of this nature... Would be thinking much higher in the hundreds for both front and rear. Or am I missing something? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted September 26, 2011 Author Share Posted September 26, 2011 Not missing something. The are very very light in the rear, the whole car is around 850kg we think. Most of the gravel guys run 21mm bars, tarmac rally guys run a 23mm setup, and track setups are 25+ with some running 28mm. I went with a compromised 22mm setup which i can't remember why but i think it was to do with how many wet events we have here and the bumpyness of our roads. Either way i'll get more in the future for gravel and track... so yeah. The fronts i'll be looking at 350lbs as i think i've currently got 250lbs in at the moment and it's a bit soft. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted September 29, 2011 Author Share Posted September 29, 2011 started making the blanking plates for the spotlights. I'll need to get Matt to give me a hand with the rest of it. Laid a crap load of rubber grease, chassis grease, and silicon lube spray to prevent the space invader foam from sticking to the bumper. It worked very very well. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 5, 2011 Author Share Posted October 5, 2011 Went for a lovely drive saturday with a friend and a short little drive with TooT TooT Timmay as passengers. Car is handling very nicely with the new torsion bars but it has made the need to be smooth mid-corner much more evident as it will step out on you very easily. This weekend i'll try and get another friend to give me a hand and swap over the sump with my baffled one and reseal the damm thing so it doesn't leak. Then fill with some nice new oil, new filter... then play time mid-week at Hamptons for the Unkles thing i'm thinking! I'll also needed to look at cutting some air holes for the oil cooler in the bumper as now with the lip it's not getting much air and it's really working that well. Got the hole saw and stanley knife out and hacked up my silver bumper... Placed some nylon mesh on the backside of the hole for larger stones, i'll have to see how it holds up before looking at improvements. Have ADOS F2 stuck to my fingers now tho, it's sticky... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 Boom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vintage Grumble Posted October 17, 2011 Share Posted October 17, 2011 Crikey, that looks rather swift. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 17, 2011 Author Share Posted October 17, 2011 coulda/shoulda gone faster... stupid gear selection problems... Finished 9th out 40. 3rd in class C 1st - 3rd in class where covered by .25 of a second Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Is your car supposed to be class C 1601=1800CC? Or B 1301- 1600? If it's a 1600 you should have won class B by 2 secs. Results for anyone who's interested: http://www.mediafire.com/?h3615lb934r1zt6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 18, 2011 Author Share Posted October 18, 2011 Class C = 1600 - 2200 for this series I'm 1905cc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Hah, brainfade my bad. Thought MI16 = 1600 not 16V. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 18, 2011 Author Share Posted October 18, 2011 haha all good... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Truenotch Posted October 18, 2011 Share Posted October 18, 2011 Sweet! Where'd you find those? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 18, 2011 Author Share Posted October 18, 2011 http://www.shutterspeed.co.nz/ He's a really nice guy. He does a deal that for $20 he'll give you all the photos of your car for the event. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Esprit Posted October 19, 2011 Share Posted October 19, 2011 Need to sort out that crooked R/H headlight Heath! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted October 19, 2011 Author Share Posted October 19, 2011 I need to sort out lots of things.. but yes i did notice that the other day. You don't think it's a bit of Character for the car? Like Mator from cars? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted April 11, 2012 Author Share Posted April 11, 2012 Bit of an update: Found a couple nice little bits that will be ordered this year from a UK company called Bridgecraft Engineering - blurb from the 306 forum: "Our main line of business is manufacturing aerospace components for the likes of Rolls Royce and Pratt and Whitney, as well as various forms of motorsport including F1 and MotoGP. We have an ever growing range of Peugeot related parts which have been developed on Martin’s 306 track car and my own 309 and 205. We never really intended to market any of our parts but due to the increasing interest we thought it'd make sense to list a few of our products for you all to see." Should help with a few things. Bridgecraft Roll-Centre Kits:£95 plus p+p. The price will also include an abrasive stone that can be used in a hi-speed gun drill to chamfer your hubs. The main body is cnc machined in house from EN24T and gives 30mm of correction. The full kit consists of the main body,laser cut side braces,zinc coated hi-tensile bolts, washers and nyloc nuts. The kit is per car so theres two sets of everything. Bridgecraft Bump Steer Reduction Kit: £100 kit only 2x high quality rose jointed TRE, 2x EN24T sleeved spacers and washers, High tensile bolts and nyloc nuts This kit requires the TRE taper in the hub to be accurately drilled out to 16mm. They also do a couple other nice little bits like: - Negative camber rear arms: £175 - Machining of your trailing arms and fitting of new EN24T stub axles to give -3 degrees of negative camber. - Negative camber front hubs: £140 - We can modify 205/309/306/405/406 front hubs to give any amount of negative camber you require. ---------------------------------------- Some progress on the blanking plates for the spot lights that a friend is helping with and took some pics of his progress... You can see how it's going to extend past the spotlight hole blanking the complete hole. Once the skin gets applied it should look something like this -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Front sub-frame is all now nicely welded up (except for the sections I did) It's sounds a lot more solid when it bangs on the ground and dosn't really feel any heavier.... It looks like it was basically 4 sections of 3mm thick steel spot welded in a few places so based on the feedback from those overseas that have done it already it should stiffen up the front end a fair bit. We have reinforced the control arm mounting points a fair bit with extra welds. no pics of mine but it's like this: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CaMpylobacter Posted April 13, 2012 Share Posted April 13, 2012 lush. kinda keen on some of that RCA stz and the tie rod ends. would be lush to be sub 100mm at the floorpan on a 205 lol. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
drtdvl Posted June 28, 2012 Author Share Posted June 28, 2012 Got around to fitting the spotlight blanks: Before: After: And managed to win the Motorkhana by 2.23 seconds that was head earlier this month... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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