Its getting colder

[max attack]

This forum has been pretty boring for the most part this season so here's a couple pictures of what better be ready to run next month.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/kevlarcorolla/newracecar007.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/kevlarcorolla/newracecar001.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/kevlarcorolla/newracecar003.jpg

[max attack]

See how complacent people are,19 views and not one that looks like crap or neato comment.:)

[AndrewR]

No Oil in that engine...

[mikewolf]

That looks like some neato crap. I'm surprised you are even allowed to build that sort of thing in your garage up there.

[kills0]

That looks like its going to be a lot of fun.

[Tashko]

Tires don't look too impressive...bring it on!

[max attack]

Since I'm working on 10 things at once I figured I'd better stick a "no oil reminder" on it-suck to blow it up without even moving it.

With all the cops,rcmp and g.i. joes running around my town right now I'd hate to try and start it and suffer a big backfire.At best I'd just have boot marks about my head and neck,worst is a few holes and a funeral.

Tashko I might run those tires just to give you hope.;)

[stealthie1]

That thing looks like it will be a blast! :D

[soloZ]

So how are you going to mount the Corolla body on it? hehe just kidding, looks pretty cool though.

[sjd]

See how complacent people are,19 views and not one that looks like crap or neato comment.:)

Bring it to regionals and beat pax. :p

[darcyw]

i say, put oil in it then pull it into the driveway, warm it up, then wake the neighbours at 6 in the am...on a sunday.

how do they like them apples!

love to see it drive.

darcy

[msix]

how much does it weight? it has a nice ventilation system ... you might get sand blasted though .. :eek:

what is that '"710 ON - sticker for?? :)

really, looks great, cant wait to see it running!

[elementZ]

are you going to using a reverse box?

[Ziploc]

That looks really cool. But is that a 1.8 Miata diff? I spot a Miata throttle pedal too. What else did you use?

[darcyw]

the cardboard body work should be really lightweight!

darcy

[Marsh]

Ah, that's not what I was expecting you to do with the engine placement.

Are you running a dry sump or an accumulator? Because many bike engines are prone to oil starvation in lateral loads. With the engine mounted longitudinally like that acceleration and braking G's are essentially lateral loads to the bike engine. So be careful.

[max attack]

Beat pax in an A-mod car??,good one.:)

The design goals were for 900lbs ready to race,I weighed it a couple of weeks ago with some items not installed but the weight of each added in and with an allowance for fuel and some items not installed it totaled at 843lbs.I expect 860-870lbs will be a reasonable guess when ready.
I used a miata as a donor for the hubs,brakes and rear diff-the rest is one off so I hope not to crash it anytime soon.

No reverse,played around trying to use a starter to turn a ring gear mounted on the driveshaft but it was consumming too much time an was abandoned.Rules don't require reverse,only an onboard starter.

Marsh I did much research into the engine choice,I wanted to use the larger Hayabusa but they blow up right away unless either a drysump($$$$),or a custom billit oil pan and swival pickup is used($$$).The last choice is still nearly a grand and I wasn't digging the idea of the oil pump pickup swinging around with oil loads-what if it stuck??.
I went with the R1 engine since not only are they the most cost effective engine set they also have the least oiling troubles,I'm using an oil baffle plate as the oil control.Cost under $100 and well proven in DSR's that with areo will pull higher lateral loads than I expect for sure.
The engine makes 150hp stock,the plan is to run it for a year or 2 and then add some boost,only 6 psi nets well over 200hp so that should be enough.

[TOYSRUS]

Oh Tom, you know that's never enough......but I hope you get out soon, someone has to beat Trung this year!

[max attack]

No worries Bill,With what an STi weighs it'll need just about 500hp to match my power to weight and then theres the stopping and turning thing.;)

[briansexsmith]

looks like it is all coming together tom. any ideas to when it will be ready?

Brian

[max attack]

Yep its coming together pretty well,had a 3 week delay trying to find part of the wiring harness I thought I already had so that sucked.Finally found 1 and I should have it next week so the wirng can hopefully be done next weekend.
I took the day off yesterday,didn't hurt my feelings much with the pita G8 detours,and spent it at the sheetmetal place and fabbed up the firewall to enclose the engine.Also cut all my body panels while there and spent today fitting the body,body parts all broken down again now and ready for paint-hopefully next weekend as well.
Been waiting for brake parts for a bit now but hopefully those arrive soon so the brake system can be plumbed along with the fuel system.Clutch and throttle cables need to be figured out and run,shouldn't be too bad for those.

The plan is to debut it at the pro solo on the 24th,trouble is even if everything goes well there will be 0 chance to try it out-not digging the chances of it being right out of the gate.Combined with no seat time and a bunch of dragrace starts at the 1st event for it and I see serious potencial for a complete failure.:o

[sjd]

Beat pax in an A-mod car??,good one.:)


So you've built a TLMC FTD car? :p

[max attack]

So you've built a TLMC FTD car? :p

Huh?

What does pax have to do with ftd,pax is only to make good drivers of slow cars feel better.

I just want to go as fast as I can and likely set ftd at nearly any event I attend.

[sjd]

Huh?

What does pax have to do with ftd,pax is only to make good drivers of slow cars feel better.

I just want to go as fast as I can and likely set ftd at nearly any event I attend.

My mistake. I thought you weren't running regionals due to pax.

[max attack]

My views on pax is likely pretty clear to anyone paying attention,its not the only reason I don't run the regionals.A little too much travel time for me and how many a-mod cars are there to run agaisn't?not many.The last regional title I won(I say won as opposed to earned)was for c-mod,I don't remember how many others in the class but it was slim.I never even received the trophy as a matter of fact.
To build a proper A-mod car capable of paxing well would be easily 10's of thousands of dollars(10k for the areo pkg alone,Cheng's Vancouver Special is an easy 100k)and you have to listen to an annoying sled engine and its cvt-no thanks.

I think I'll be happy with my toy and the 5k total it cost to build.:)

[TOYSRUS]

Tom.......you complete me. :D

[sjd]

My views on pax is likely pretty clear to anyone paying attention,its not the only reason I don't run the regionals.A little too much travel time for me and how many a-mod cars are there to run agaisn't?not many.

Ah, yes because there are so many more A-mod cars at TLMC...:rolleyes:

My point is Tom, that if I had this car I'd be running it everywhere I could regardless of pax or whatever. Autox, Solosprint, Time Attack...

[max attack]

Steve,I AM running this car where ever I can-right now it doesn't run hence the reason it wasn't at the time attack last month.I was busting my ass to get it there but failed.

Not sure where you got this idea that I've spent 80% of my nights and weekends in the garage since christmas just to earn a $2 dash plaque by only running tlmc events.I've already earned dozens of them and guess what...I don't bother keeping them for anything.
Tlmc events are simply the easiest for me to get to and have some of the best courses on the best lot in the province-I'd be retarded not to go.;)


Bill,be carefull as rumours get started all too easily.:D

[max attack]

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/kevlarcorolla/DSC00835.jpg

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/kevlarcorolla/DSC00836.jpg

[Caveman]

Now thats looks like we can run wires in it neatly
got the harness yet ? I'm board and need something to do ;)

O and thats some neato funky crap you built right there:D
that thing is going to rock,

[max attack]

Thanks Rob,the harness has been shipped priority and I'm hoping to have it by friday but with the holiday who knows.I'm waiting for the brake lines and fittings as well,I was hopeing to be able to start that by now as well.
I'll let you know when stuff shows up,going to be tight to get it running and ready to test.

[Caveman]

I want to road test it :D
I'll grab the dealer plate

[max attack]

Rob I live on hill,just push it out the driveway and away ya go-no brakes so thats a problem.:)

With time being a problem and the stunting law I can't afford the week long impound so lets wait,might be able to use the old kart track if theres time.

[TOYSRUS]

MMMMM......am i seeing things Tom, or do I see a mount for a front wing???

[max attack]

Yes Bill those are wing mounts,missed the ones on the rear did you?;)

[soloZ]

Tom you better trim that front spliter back :p

[max attack]

Tom you better trim that front spliter back :p

But then it wouldn't be a splitter Ryan.:)

[soloZ]

I thought it was two tees. also I used to have that same steering wheel in my old Z24, one of my favorite steering wheels. Car looks really good by the way.

[max attack]

Thanks Ryan,the wheel was cheap but a little bigger than I wanted.The steering rack I'm using is super quick(1 turn lock to lock)so I was afraid a smaller wheel might be too hard to turn,seems plenty easy with this wheel.Of course thats just sitting on a dusty shop floor and not with warm race tires,suspect it'll be fine.

[yellowhotshoe]

Tom, I had one REALLY important question....there's a lot of 'quick' and 'fast' stuff in that hot rod. Just what young, fast guy are you going to get to drive that will be able to keep up with it :D

[JoeT]

Tom, I had one REALLY important question....there's a lot of 'quick' and 'fast' stuff in that hot rod. Just what young, fast guy are you going to get to drive that will be able to keep up with it :D

Probably someone with quick reflexes, that's intuitive, good with momentum, and used to agile cars, age shouldn't be a factor, but I'm not available and Cobra drivers have no clue so that rules them out. Bwaahhahahahah :p

[max attack]

Craig you cut me real deep,real deep man.;)

Btw I mentioned last year I wondered if "I" was quick enough to get the most out of the car,I get used to new cars pretty quick-hell I drove 2 different ones at the last event alone.:D

Joe one of your parameters was "used to agile cars",so all spda guys are out.:p

[JoeT]

Joe one of your parameters was "used to agile cars",so all spda guys are out.:p


I'm glad you realized that it takes real skill to drive a subaru.. Huge thanks for pointing that out. :p

[max attack]

My hats off to guys for sticking it out with subaru,I've owned at least 30 different cars and trucks from most makers and I dislike my subaru more than any vehicle I've ever owned.

[max attack]

Well its taken alot longer than I expected to get to this point but the car now has brakes,all the driveline bits are painted and reinstalled for the last time,fluilds in place and it's corner weighted and ready to go.Just need to centerline the chassis and set toe at both ends,camber/castor is done.
The wiring is done but has some issues,just sorting that out hopefully on saturday-lots of time left as the event I want to be at with it is on sunday!!:eek:

I must have gotten something right because it was the easiest corner weight I've ever done(not that I'm an expert by any stretch),after it was sitting on the leveled scale pads I set ride height to level the lower control arms with my weight in lead in the seat.When I checked it was sitting at 49.4% right side weight and the crossweight was 49.6%,about a quarter turn of 2 opposing spring seats and it sits at 50.0%.It's 57.7% rear heavy,hope thats about right because changing it will be really hard.
Less than 15 minutes while quietly sipping a cold one,couldn't have been any easier.:)

[max attack]

It took its 1st breath tonight!!

I so love the sound of an 11,000rpm engine.:D

Hopefully I can try a little test run on saturday.

[TOYSRUS]

Woohooooo!!!!

[max attack]

Another milestone,it moved under its own power today.I drove it down the driveway a couple of times,doesn't take long to go 75 feet!.;)

Definetly going to take some seat time to get used to it,serious sensory overload for sure.

[dgmorr]

Did you make this thing from scratch? That's sweet. Need some videos.

[max attack]

Yes its a scratch built project,here's where I was in January.

http://i117.photobucket.com/albums/o50/kevlarcorolla/DSC00743.jpg

[ShaneG]

Tease:rolleyes:
:D

[max attack]

I've arranged a test day at the local kart track for this weekend,if all goes well I'll have some video.

[TOYSRUS]

Cancel your kart track and come play in Picton on Sunday!! $20!!!!

[Saj5DJ]

Think I'll come by for that one!

See you there.

[Snizzoop]

It's getting colder, eh? Ninja edit!

Tom, I can't wait to see this "car." You better beat me by at least two seconds!

[max attack]

Let me think for a second about your offer Bill,40 minute round trip for unlimited seat/test time or 7 hour round trip for maybe 8 minutes seat time and no real testing-think I'll let you ftd this one.;)

So you've moved to ninja status eh Arris?:)

Let me say this,I'm confident in my driving BUT I'm also smart enough to not be a cocky bugger so there's no way I'm going to predict who's going to ftd.However after that disclaimer and comparing your times in your hot rod civic on race tires agaisn't mine in a stock miata on street tires at the last event I'd say your in for a whoppin'!:D:D


Now if I can figure out how to drive this thing I might be able to back the above comment up,if the little launch I did in the driveway is an accurate indication this thing is going to be a handfull to react fast enough.

Oh and I hope your doing the next course layout,last one wasn't as fun as it should be.

[Snizzoop]

So you've moved to ninja status eh Arris?:)

Let me say this,I'm confident in my driving BUT I'm also smart enough to not be a cocky bugger so there's no way I'm going to predict who's going to ftd.However after that disclaimer and comparing your times in your hot rod civic on race tires agaisn't mine in a stock miata on street tires at the last event I'd say your in for a whoppin'!:D:D


Now if I can figure out how to drive this thing I might be able to back the above comment up,if the little launch I did in the driveway is an accurate indication this thing is going to be a handfull to react fast enough.

Oh and I hope your doing the next course layout,last one wasn't as fun as it should be.

I don't have ninja status on these forums...I'm not sure who edited the title, but I can guess.

As for the course design, yes...I will be doing it.

Out of curiosity Tom, what's the power to weight ratio on the "car" you have there? I'm pretty sure you'll beat me...even if you just cruised around the course. Comparing my car to your "car" is about the same as comparing a stock car to my car. All three are on totally different levels.

See you on the 19th!

[sjd]

I don't have ninja status on these forums...I'm not sure who edited the title, but I can guess.


It was not me. I did a double take when I saw the change in title.

[max attack]

Oh I understand the differences,thats why I went and built what I did instead of version 4 or whatever the corolla was going to be.:)

Without driver(which is the way everyone seems to compare)I'm at 6.1 lbs per hp(5.8 with the proper wheel/tire combo and approx 4 lbs per when I add the turbo;)),I'm guessing your right around 10lbs per hp(the corolla was about 7.8 for a comparision).It's hard to use power/weight imo when comparing a bike engine output to a car engine just due to the area under the curve.My engine makes approx 150hp at 10,800 with only 89 ft lbs at around 10,000.
With my very short gearing(calculated at 115 mph in 6th at 11,800rpm)and 6 close spaced gears the lack of tq shouldn't be a problem.With my gear ratio's I should come pretty close to having the right gear for each section of nearly every course I come across,that doesn't happen in a car very often.;)

[max attack]

1st drive now complete,wasn't without some issues as expected.A "t" fitting for the coolant started to leak(on the header,seen in video at the end of the staight)and I have a problem with the front lower control bending.
The video is only my 3rd lap,I adjusted camber after it for a small front push and then went back out and then had the suspension arm problem and packed up.
All things considered I think it shows some very good promise,I need more seat time without a doubt.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X4eQ_5MQZXs

[briansexsmith]

looking good tom!

[max attack]

Thanks Brian,fixed up the problems and its ready for more abuse.I had a moment of "its over" when I saw the bent arm but that lasted about 5 minutes,I've invested way to much time to give up that easy.:)

[briansexsmith]

yes more abuse is fun

remember "failure is weakness leaving the car"

[soloZ]

Tom nice work, it's like when your child is born. It's amazing what you can do when you put your head in it.

[max attack]

Weakness leaving the car eh?,I guess as long as what replaces the weakness is stronger.I need more seat time I guess 'cause I feel like I'm part of that weakness.;)

[3wheeler]

Tom nice work, it's like when your child is born. It's amazing what you can do when you put your head in it.

Not sure if you meant this to be funny but I laughed for quite some time. :D

[soloZ]

yes lol... (edit the three periods don't mean anything I used those just so I could make the post long enough)

[AW11_4AGZE]

Looking good Tom. Hope to see this thing out next event! Megasquirt? :P

Weakness leaves my car every race! ;)

[max attack]

Thanks Tim,you know where you can shove your megasquirt right??.:)

Unless I break something very important the car WILL be there for the next event.

[AW11_4AGZE]

Thanks Tim,you know where you can shove your megasquirt right??.:)

Unless I break something very important the car WILL be there for the next event.

I shoved it in my car... I may even shove it in my ice racer. I assume that's what you were thinking ;).

Too bad there's no passenger seat. I want to see a coupple second gap between ftd and 2nd.

[max attack]

Yeah thats exactly where I wanted you to shove your beloved megasquirt.:D

Sorry on the single seat thing,I'll send you an on board video from the event if you like.;)