NC 20BPP Time Attack / Track Car - Build Thread

Postby **orx626** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 8:29 pm

Hope that this is the first of many records for the R35. The car is still untouched since WTAC 2011 in August. :mrgreen:

Cheers,
Danny

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:19 pm

wow, thats pretty damn fast!!

i just figured out why the car looks so funny from the side. its on 18's and the road car is on 20's.

Postby **orx626** » Sun Oct 30, 2011 10:27 pm

16bit wrote:i just figured out why the car looks so funny from the side. its on 18's and the road car is on 20's.

Yeah, DOT approved semi-slicks are somewhat limited in R20's! It will interesting to see what the tyre manufacturers do in the coming years.

Cheers,
Danny

Postby **orx626** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:15 pm

The experience and knowledge gained through the R35 project to date has definitely affected the path I was going down with the NC. What began as a project to build a road racer has really transformed into a project to build a "time attack" weapon. I see so much more opportunity to improve the performance...mind you 6 years has now passed...and when I think about it, I really don't think it was going to end any other way....not that I'm anywhere near finished!!!

Originally I was going with the genuine Mazdaspeed body kit..you know, the front bar, rear bar and side skirts. But that's probably a bit too good for a race car and probably not as aero dynamically effective as I was now wanting. So the Mazdaspeed body kit is now on my road registered NC and getting the necessary colour change. I'll post some piccies once finished. Fibreglass/carbon fibre components are better to suited to the application. I've made decisions on the front and rear bars and acquired the below items...they are a bit of a blank canvas as they will be appropriately modified for better aerodynamics.

The rear bar is a fibre glass Mazdaspeed copy.....

The front bar is from Odula and is also fibreglass.....

Another major decision has been to go back to the original wheel/tyre combination (well the rear at least) which will require the installation of extended wheel arches and the cutting of steel work to suit. This was really the catalyst for the change in direction...a plasma cutter will be involved! :twisted:

The wheel/tyre specs are as follows:
Front: Enkei RPF1 in 18 x 9.5 - 45P offset fitted with Toyo R888 in 255/35 R18
Rear: Enkei RPF1 in 18 x 10.5 - 15P offset fitted with Toyo R888 in 285/35 R18

I sourced the CF wheel arch extensions from Moss Motors (I can't remember who the manufacturer is) and have only stuck them on to get a feel for the work that will be required to get them installed and the work necessary to allow the required wheel travel. Now its looking pretty mean!

Hopefully the Xmas/New Year break will bring some real progress.

Merry Xmas and Happy New Year to all! :beer:

Cheers,
Danny

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 10:54 pm

There's far too much dust on those cars

Postby **orx626** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:10 pm

Jace wrote:There's far too much dust on those cars

You're welcome to come and wash them all Jace!

Cheers,
Danny

Jace · Postby **Jace** » Sun Dec 18, 2011 11:46 pm

orx626 wrote:
Jace wrote:There's far too much dust on those cars

You're welcome to come and wash them all Jace!

Cheers,
Danny

Will do, then I'll drive them dry for you too.

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 12:28 am

Beautiful work mate, the front bar reminds me of the mighty ducks.

16bit · Postby **16bit** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:17 am

nice fd.

glad aero has become a part of this build on the same level as the engineering.

hopefully this could be fastest rwd car!!

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 9:58 pm

Will be good to have an nc time attack car. I would cut the rear lower half of the flares off like the new wrc cars. Better aero...

timk · Postby **timk** » Mon Dec 19, 2011 10:26 pm

Good to see progress Danny!

rxmx · Postby **rxmx** » Wed Dec 21, 2011 8:57 pm

Some very nice fabrication there, always look forward to updates in this thread

Fastfu · Postby **Fastfu** » Thu May 17, 2012 9:24 am

Im just about to do this exact same thing and have searched the net and your the only person i can find thats done it.

In the early pictures it looks like you put in an mx5 front subframe but when the engine is in it looks like you are using the rx8 front subframe.
is this right ? ive looked at both the mx5 and rx8 front subframes and they look like they will fit.

can you confirm this please