NitroDann's Long Awaited Garage Thread

[deviant]

How have you managed to get yourself in to a proper workshop?!

I would love an E30...so much potential in them. Very easy to cherry pick OEM bits to make yourself something like an M3.

[Apu]

You guys won't believe me when I say this.

What if I told you it might just end up supercharged...

Dann

Well...yes, interesting but a sweet running, high revving four potter would be so nice in that car!

[Lokiel]

Looks like I'm going to have to raise the car a bit, don't want to damage the new cat:

[NitroDann]

The cat is fully tucked up above everything. I'll take a picture with something to demonstrate this.

That pic was supposed to demonstrate that. Obviously had reverse effect.

Dann

[Sean]

You guys won't believe me when I say this.

What if I told you it might just end up supercharged...

Dann

I'd wait for Dann to come on and tell you how much better and cheaper a turb...

Oh... Wait...

[NitroDann]

Exactly. but 2 things. a turbo won't fit next to the engine on the exhaust side so it would need a massive crazy manifold and the power goal is so low that bandaids will do it.

I'd do ecu compression and cams but you cannot get cams or an ecu for this engine, most sensible options for a very weak engine with zero support is a free supercharger some brackets some pipes and a RRFPR.

Unless someone can point me to someone who does cams for the m40 engine apart from dbilis in Europe who want half what the car cost for one.

Dann

[Sean]

I'm a few years past needing to care, but IIRC didn't she just get her Ps?

Wouldn't that make any form of FI a big no no as far as legalities go?

Assuming then this must be a longer term project? Maybe find some BMW forums, these things seem to still be a fairly solid and popular model.

[NitroDann]

It's not a 'do now' thing.

It has a completely buggered lifter and needs an alternator reg soon.

Dann

[NitroDann]

Slugracers completed exhaust, and the first 3" SE system out the door.

All jigged up and ready to build these should have a week lead time.



Dann

[SlugRacer]

Great work Dann!

I'm very happy to have the prototype

[NitroDann]

Yesterday at Wakefield Park with Pat, running in MX5 challenge which was put in with the Super TT guys (evos, gtrs, V8s etc).

We arrived at Goulburn around 11pm friday night, I got a free shower at the truckstop which was actually alright, and we slept, up at 6, got a pie and a coffee, off to Wakefield.

We were second at the gate, beaten by the guy who started the NSW Excel one make tar series.

In, passed scrutineering no hastles, drop the tyre pressures on the slicks, check, double check, triple check.

Out for qualifying, first lap out, first time down the straight the splitter failed.

I tested it to about 150kg jumping on it so I was amazed, when he came in a quick check showed that it generated so much downforce it tore chunks of steel out of the bodywork!



Here is a piece I retrieved from the other side.



Its held on with 6 bolts and only the front 2 had issues, so lesson learned, the splitter is way way more efficient than Id even hoped so it was remounted with a temporary but strong solution. So great news about the front aero design, also looks like the cooling issues the car has always had have been solved with these recent changes.

Here is the excel series and the pulsar series in together.


And a few pics from the field.






Unfortunately it peed down all arvo and this was pats first time at the circuit in about a year, so with slicks in the rain and no practice it ran 1:08 at the fastest, there were very few laps with dryish conditions.

Here's a pic stolen from Targa Racing's facebook showing conditions.



So Pat was a little disappointed, he understandably wanted a weekend of dry conditions to get his eye in on the new setup, and back into the groove and put down a low 5 maybe a 4. But it is what it is. Quite a few people didnt even show up for the event, due to the weather which is why MX5s were in with the Evos and GTRs.

I am over the moon, my goals were for the new setup to see the weekend out without incident, to prove the power on track, to see the cooling issues have been solved, to prove the aero works and the stability of the car, and the big one, to prove that with modern electronics, and boost controlled by throttle position on a 3d map, that an mx5 with 30-40% more than the big shops cars can actually be dríven and deliver power smooth enough to use it.
Everything was achieved, the car was as quick out of corners and down the straight as any other car in the field, pulling car lengths per gearchange on the wrx and evos, and easily as fast as anything else out there, it was even smooth enough to drive gorgeously on full slicks in the pouring rain without a slide or spin in sight.

Its always said in Australia that over 180rwkwish MX5s only get slower, I wont accept that, we went out with around 250rwkw and proved silky smooth control using technology thats underutilized in the Aussie mx5 scene.

So for me it was a 9/10 weekend, would have been 10/10 if we didnt miss a session due to the splitter. But you live and learn, and I feel like Ive learned as much in this last 12 months as the rest of my auto life.

Dann

[Lokiel]

Pat's MX5 looks great except for 2 things:

1. The black square borders around the front vents look bloody awful - round 'em off.

2. Side mirrors need to be plasti-dipped black.

[NitroDann]

You might get yours back ready to make 400whp but I reckon you two should head to the drags together

Dann

[Sean]

108 on a wet track is still motoring pretty nicely.

[noobee]

was at eastern creek north yesterday with Ken and his rx7 and half the drivers(including Ken) packed up at the first sprinkle,mid afternoon.
Mick