NC 20BPP Time Attack / Track Car - Build Thread

Postby **orx626** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:10 pm

Hjt wrote:Are you competing in WTAC 2012 with the R35?

Hi Hjt, unfortunately the R35 was sold a couple of months back to an overseas buyer (Germany). It is currently being packaged for shipping and will go to port next week.

The owner's decision to sell the car was most disappointing to everyone who was involved with building the car from scratch in just 13 weeks. We dearly would have loved to improve the aero package and take it to the overseas teams at the 2012 WTAC...but it was beyond our control!

However, we will be at WTAC 2012 with a trade stand (GT Plus - JV between GT Auto Garage and Automotive Plus).

Make sure you come and say hi! For those who care

, we'll have the HKS FT86 at our stand and maybe even a HKS boosted NC.

Cheers,
Danny

Regie · Postby **Regie** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:25 pm

boosted NC

oohh yeah im there!

Hjt · Postby **Hjt** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 7:34 pm

I'll make sure I drop by

Guy_Coles · Postby **Guy_Coles** » Sat Jul 28, 2012 8:07 pm

orx626 wrote:and maybe even a HKS boosted NC.

Cheers,
Danny

Hmm.........

Postby **orx626** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 4:03 pm

Well there's another 12 months gone by and not much done! :oops:

That's life I guess! :roll:

So this is what I've got done over the past year...

December 2011

The roll cage structure was pretty much finished except for the member behind the dash and the bracketry that will tie it into chassis...

Then I got stuck into carving up the left side front and rear quarters to work with the flares. :twisted:

This is the front....

The mess!

...and the rear....I've still got to sheet the open section of body in.

With the new rear bar fitted. :mrgreen:

...and back on the ground with the 4WD suspension fitted!

I have a new set of Ohlins but they don't need to be installed for some time yet!

February 2012

I made up the front wheel spacers so that the 9.5" rims would clear the brake calipers and get the front track width where is want it.

New wheel studs installed.

April/May 2012

After 3 years I finished the rear brake upgrade....

LHS

RHS

So I haven't touched the car for 7 months now....with a bit of luck I might get some time over the Xmas/New Year break...well here's hoping!

Cheers,
Danny

Hammer · Postby **Hammer** » Sun Dec 16, 2012 4:26 pm

Nice! Keep them coming.

4sfed5 · Postby **4sfed5** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 6:26 pm

bump!

Mr nanotech · Postby **Mr nanotech** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 1:10 am

Wow

Postby **orx626** » Mon Jun 10, 2013 10:37 pm

orx626 wrote:So I haven't touched the car for 7 months now....with a bit of luck I might get some time over the Xmas/New Year break...well here's hoping!

Well I wasn't able to find any luck over the Xmas/New Year break....got distracted by a project where I got a shorter term win!

Completing the ground up restoration of this thing.

Anyhow, the Renesis NC Track Car build project has effectively stalled.....so much so that I need to drop a PM to a forum moderator to change the title. :wink:

I can't spare the time that is required to develop the supercharger kit to a level that would make it a robust/reliable engine package. It's pretty obvious that after three years of nothing in the engine R&D area that another year isn't going to yield much! :oops:

The "third party" supercharger kit was/is lacking in too many areas and the market/demand has contracted for such a product (and the RX-8 ceased production 12 months ago

)....ie. Low chance of recovering on investing in completing the R&D of the Renesis supercharger kit.

So that door has closed...however another has opened! :twisted:

Stay tuned!

Cheers,
Danny