As you all know Jak & I did the 2007 NSW Round of the Dutton Rally in my Oval. The deal we had was that we'd back up the following year in Jak's car. The VWRX Superbug.
We've got until November to get the car sorted.
The main mods are upgrading the front brakes and tuning the chassis to the new Yokohama R-spec tyres.
The biggest challenge is me getting used to double the horsepower.
Current Preparation includes:
Yokohama ADVAN A032R tyres (The same as my oval)
Nissan GTR 16 inch rims
Nissan GTR 4 spot calipers for the front
330mm vented front rotors
Man they are some massive brakes. We ran those same front calipers on the front of a perkins V8 commodore rally car and they worked spot on on a 1500kg heap of metal so I could only imagine what they would be like on a car 500 and somthing kg's lighter. Interested to see how those brakes go. What type of rear brakes are you running? BTW 200ph and 200 footpound of torque are some fine figures..
White Knuckle Racing Team [/i] "Drive it like dirt"
But seriously, I think I'd try and stretch the budget to an LSD of some sort. Otherwise the tight stuff is going to consist of a purple beetle masquerading as a fog machine. Funny for spectators, but very frustrating for the driver. 👎
Jak got his car down into the 1:57s yesterday at Eastern Creek. That's 2 seconds faster thanks to the new Yokohama ADVAN R-spec tyres. That's 3 seconds faster than we went in my Oval which would put us up quite a few positions in the NSW Dutton.
Here's a bit of new footage. It's of Jak driving my car on the skid pan at Eastern Creek. It was the last day so the confidence was up and the nerves had subsided. I don't drive my car that hard!
Do you know how long it took me to convince Jak to get a proper 4 wheel alignment?
When Jak starts pushing the limits of these tyres we'll see if the car is tending to oversteer or understeer and then work on improving it with the current variables;
Ride height at each end,
Rear swaybar choice &
Wheel alignment.
If we need more turn-in some weight might be a good idea.
My car is almost 40/60 which is close to the good porsches apparently. It would be interesting to see what Jak's is since the engine and gearbox has been moved forward and there is a radiator in the front!
The black wheels certainly give the car a menacing look. I like it too.
yes the black wheels are very nice!!!! We made some cheap scales using quality bathroom scales and a canterlever arm tha had a ratio of i think 3 to 1 cost a couple hundred insted of the coupla thou that scales were at that time
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Craig Torrens6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion
