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Ed Norton |
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 Veteran Posts: 310  Location: nr Evesham Worcs |  I can't wait tbh.....Its quite silly how much i am looking forward to having this box in, as its been 7 years since i have driven an lsd'd tro.  | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | So i am halfway with the brm gearbox recon it would be finished bar the recon kit i bought ony has 3 bearings in it  so i now have to order 3 more from somewhere! So for good measure i popped some maplins c.l.m's in (brill mod btw) as well as a baffled sump  . (The race car 042mp.jpg)  (The race car 039mp.jpg)  (The race car 040mp.jpg)  (The race car 041mp.jpg)  (The race car 045mp.jpg)  (The race car 046mp.jpg) Attachments ----------------  The race car 042mp.jpg (61KB - 76 downloads) The race car 039mp.jpg (51KB - 72 downloads) The race car 040mp.jpg (59KB - 72 downloads) The race car 041mp.jpg (53KB - 75 downloads) The race car 045mp.jpg (57KB - 75 downloads) The race car 046mp.jpg (53KB - 71 downloads) | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Spent the day doing a gearbox change today . I now have a close ratio, rebuilt, Lsd'd box in, so i should be able to go round corners a bit faster now . (The race car 047mp.jpg)  (The race car 050mp.jpg)  (The race car 053mp.jpg)  (The race car 055mp.jpg)  (The race car 056mp.jpg) Attachments ---------------- The race car 047mp.jpg (74KB - 75 downloads) The race car 050mp.jpg (44KB - 72 downloads) The race car 053mp.jpg (48KB - 75 downloads) The race car 055mp.jpg (68KB - 68 downloads) The race car 056mp.jpg (44KB - 68 downloads) | ||
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| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Cheers . Its feels loads better with the brm box in and the ratio's with the equivilent of 15's on feel about perfect for it. Gearbox is a fraction noisier that i had thought, but i think that is down to the steel caged bearings and it sounds quite racey, do the type B's make a bit of noise when working also? As that may account to a bit of the noise. Ive only driven with a quaife ATB lsd diff before and you can really hear them kick in and they make a very odd noise. Has to be said the quaife diffs do feel a bit better than the type B but bang for buck pretty damn good, so very happy. As far as areo goes i am making a nice front undertray atm (mainly to keep stones out of my open belts) So i can probs laminate another one out of the mold for you as its a shame to make a mold to use once. It should help areo a lot and stop any front end lift. The other thing i am doing is making another new front bumper, as i don't like the current one's styling and neither do many other people tbf and although the wide mouth looks good but works too well as you put your foot down and the temp gauge hits rock bottom. So the plan is (hopefully with the help of people on here, as i would like to sell a few to make the work more cost effective) is to make one with a similar wide mouth as i like it, but with a areo baffle made out of thin lexan blocking it so people can hole saw the required amount of holes for cooling, (i need very few which will make it more areodynamic) and i want to extend the air solts to the wheels down a very thin winged splitter and lose the slots underneath the rad mouth and give them a radius to act as a front wing. So all in all it should give better down force and be a smaller surface area and it should look better and work better than the current one (which does seem to work pretty good looking at the water spray patterns that form on it). | ||
| Mutts |
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 Lotus powered R100 MP Admin    Location: Torbay, South Devon, UK | Ed, gonna need to see the whole inside of the door with the door card off again.... You seem to be missing a shit load of metal there!  | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | No metal at all....100% Carbon fiber mate and 3.2kg a pop Made by a composits specialist in the Netherlands for his 6r4 and the only set in existance But yea i will pop some more pics up if you want of the insides. Did you want to see anything in particular? | ||
| Ed Norton |
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| Mutts |
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Lotus powered R100 MP Admin Location: Torbay, South Devon, UK | |||
| Paul r |
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| Extreme Veteran Posts: 539 Location: Swindon, Wilts | A few things confuse me about your tro, I love the aspect of it being light but why havent you 1- got an enclosed and clean air filter, 2- gor a roll cage with door bars while using composit doors (cant see one in the pics) 3- got light weight wheels and finally 4- I have forgotten . I do actually like this minus the rear wheels and rear arches. | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Its a work in progress. Cheers for the comments, i like the honesty tbh and i want it to progress in the right direction, so peoples opinions are important to me. I personally don't like the front bumper or the rear wheels or front wheels either if i am honest, but i am getting the set up and handling totally sorted first before i order the wheels as if i feel it could go round corners faster, i may get some wider white compomotive mo's and slightly wide arch the front end as well and make a full flip grp front end when i have the front end looking better and lose more weight in the process. The cage does have door bars and is tied into the shell in a lot of places maybe i should have taken some more pics of it. The rear is wide arched for the increased track width of the rear beam as it gives the car a much better aspect ratio. The air filter is crap i couldn't agree more but it is all on the to do list over the winter. | ||
| Ed Norton |
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| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Door cards pics as requested.  (The race car 057mp.jpg)  (The race car 058mp.jpg)  (The race car 059mp.jpg)  (The race car 060mp.jpg)  (The race car 061mp.jpg)  (The race car 062mp.jpg)  (The race car 063mp.jpg)  (The race car 063mp.jpg)  (The race car 064mp.jpg)  (The race car 065mp.jpg)  (The race car 066mp.jpg) Attachments ---------------- The race car 057mp.jpg (39KB - 66 downloads) The race car 058mp.jpg (21KB - 67 downloads) The race car 059mp.jpg (50KB - 68 downloads) The race car 060mp.jpg (52KB - 71 downloads) The race car 061mp.jpg (33KB - 71 downloads) The race car 062mp.jpg (49KB - 65 downloads) The race car 063mp.jpg (39KB - 67 downloads) The race car 063mp.jpg (39KB - 68 downloads) The race car 064mp.jpg (46KB - 73 downloads) The race car 065mp.jpg (37KB - 79 downloads) The race car 066mp.jpg (43KB - 73 downloads) | ||
| Mutts |
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Lotus powered R100 MP Admin Location: Torbay, South Devon, UK |  Thanks Ed! | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | No worries. Are you planning on doing a similar thing with your steel doors? As the best thing to take out first is the stupidly heavy crash protection bar and i bet you could get the standard steel doors down to a pretty small weight with a bit of chopping. | ||
| 111Sli |
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 Transport Guru MP Moderator Posts: 4947 Location: Bromley, Kent | |||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Cheers...I went for basic and functional with it I really should find time to get it cleaned to get all of the wet sanding residue out, then it will look a bit better. | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Just picked up some good bits for a steal Just got to get a new lambda sensor, exaust wrap and a very slim but very long silencer then i can fit it so i have an exaust driven diffuser  (The race car 067mp.jpg)  (The race car 068mp.jpg) Attachments ---------------- The race car 067mp.jpg (64KB - 73 downloads) The race car 068mp.jpg (68KB - 68 downloads) | ||
| Paul r |
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| Extreme Veteran Posts: 539 Location: Swindon, Wilts | I have been thinking of doing a blown diffused but this will onky really help at high speed and high revs, the diffuser alone will make alot of difference, my exhaust is an ashley 2" system (quiet one) with no rear silencer and a pokey tip to angle it to the floor atm saved 1.9kg in weight | ||
| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Yea cheers that was kind of my idea as well. Save a bit of weight with a short, straight exhaust and yea i know about the blown diffuser flaws, but as it stands it will probs work out the easiest solution for a light, and nice flowing exhaust. (i hope any way). It will have a totally flat undertray under the exhaust that meets the diffuser. So i think it exiting at the start of the diffuser will be the easiest and most simple solution for me . | ||
| beany113 |
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| metrobruce |
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| Ed Norton |
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Veteran Posts: 310 Location: nr Evesham Worcs | Yea you are spot on bruce . It is of the early type of blown diffuser basically in my case just for ease of having somewhere for the exhaust to exit. To do it properly with a n/a engine you would need the recirculation system. | ||
| Metromartin |
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| Paul r |
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| Extreme Veteran Posts: 539 Location: Swindon, Wilts | Have you thought about ducting the rad? I know your going towards aero and stuff but litterslly just noticed its not been done also you should drill and flare the slam pannel weight saving hehe | ||
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