Russman's Time Attack Build

[ssxRicho]

Great stuff!

[Russman]

Great write up mate. thanks again.

[ARTZ]

Some awesome photos there.....

[FST513]

Thanks all, loved PI!

Should come down to melbs more but it's so expensive lol. So wait until WTAC and you all come up

[phunky_monkey]

Mate, the car looks like the SUPER PIMP! Good luck this weekend

Nice writeup too Kory.

[Rowdy]

Wont be making the trip this year to cheer you on/crowd your pit area due to the new job, so good luck!

[HKS26T]

Stella effort at WTAC 2012! 1:38.5710 is moving!!

was there much left in the tank from your perspective for improvement?

[DVS JEZ]

Man this thing is off the chain. Especially being a RWD.

[Nee-san]

was good seeing the car going through the final corners from where I was standing.

Russman looking super composed coming through final turn.

Well done.

[boxheadmr]

amazing time russman, well done

[Russman]

So it's been a while since I've posted an update. That's because I've been so flat out! What a hectic month!

I'll go through the lead up first and then talk about WTAC and how massive the weekend was and how my mates/team helped me achieve a great result!

So PI as you may have read in Kory's write up didn't go to plan.

A faulty injector plug on cylinder 5 caused this...

The day after we had it pulled down and everything ready to go on Campbell's motor that he donated so I could get to WTAC.

We also noticed that the ASI ebay radiator wasn't handling the pressures of racing. Kinda a bit bent...

So we got a racepace spec radiator and so far it's great. temps have never been so low. It's crazy effective.

[zebra]

yup...#5 got a tad warm!

[Russman]

The lexan glass is now in.

Johnny and matt ripped into the doors and all up took out 15kg, that's just steel! Glass on top of that!

All this weight reduction got the car down to 1249kg with no driver and no fuel. Not bad for a full caged car!

[Russman]

So the mad engineers bent me up a Gurney flap for the rear wing.

Matt separating the fibreglass headlight from the mould. This by the way was tuesday night around 11pm. We left for WTAC on wednesday morning 5:30!

Front splitter painted last minute for WTAC

I think I'll leave it there for now. The WTAC story is a big one so I'll post that up at a later date.

[R31Nismoid]

That ASI radiator photo is exactly what flea-bay lovers need to see.

Good for a street car, not suitable for trackwork, reflected in the price.

[zebra]

That ASI radiator photo is exactly what flea-bay lovers need to see.

Good for a street car, not suitable for trackwork, reflected in the price.

I agree 90%

For most guys they are fine

But on a car like Russ'

Well the pictures speak 1000 words

Back on topic, how did you find the gurney flap Russ? Noticeable difference?

[Ryno]

Love the build, though I'd be remaking the gurney lap if I were you. The height of the flap looks too large for the chord length of that wing. You'll be getting an inefficient level of drag associated with the extra down force the flap is creating. You should be looking at a gurney flap of around 5 -10mm in height.

[boostn0199]

Wtf did that radiator deform like that from just driving the car hard at high speeds lol?

[Russman]

Rad was fine for 1 year of track work. Got gradually worse. Seen them on other track cars so thought they'd hold up. No problems with cooling though, just construction. Looks like its deformed from high pressure. No head gasket issues, that's what we first thought haha.

Gurney flap and change of angle was very noticeable at turn 1 EC. The car felt way more stable and I think it may have had something to do with the final session being 1 sec quicker! The boot required re-packing after every session. By the end of saturday we had about 4-5 washers spacing it up! Need to do something more permanent now. Proper boot lid re-enforcement.

The gurney was actually mounted underneath the wing to begin with but spoke to an aero guy at WTAC and he recommended putting it above the wing so it sits higher as a result.

[fatz]

how much for a pair of fiberglass head light?