BEAVIS' White Track Car

[Okibi]

Awww man seen this one already!

[beavis]

So not a lot has been happening with the Track car lately, in fact it's literally just sat in the corner for the last month and a half. But I've started back on the car this week hopefully it will be in good running form within a few weeks with the last of the mechanical pieces buttoned up.

In the meantime, I've fettled with the NA a little which excitedly includes taking it to Broadford for a track day with the Local Nissan Skyline Car Club.

Had a blast running around on the track, it's been way too long. And while the car had some random chinese hard tyres and generic brake pads, it was till great fun.
A track day on a 'street' car is sure to find the weak links in the chain... in this case, the generic spark plugs suffered under the stress, the stock upper radiator hose got all fat and ballooned, and the supercharger belt was stretched and rubbing itself away, there was a buildup of rubber gunk under the bonnet as a result.
So, some new plugs, belt and hose and the car is good as new.

I actually entered to get my brother to come along for his first on track event. He managed to work down from a 1:22 to eventually a best time of a 1:17 in a completely stock Toyota 86. I had a go for a session and did a 1:15 in his car so we have a bit of a benchmark.
A short clip of my brother with me in the passenger seat giving some instruction.


And a couple of laps in my car while it was still healthy, plenty of fun tassling with the likes of a Porsche Cayman GT4 and a Nissan GTR. The porsche was running what appeared to be slicks :-O

[beavis]

So it has been a long time between updates (as usual really).
Progress on the Track car has been slow, sometimes it seems like it is the lowest on the priority list after all the other things in life.
But with that said. lots of things have been happening.

I've spent some time fiddling with the idea of a water sprayer for the intercooler, and have made up a little Alu reservoir bottle which supports the factory windscreen washer bottle pump. A good opportunity to put my welding skills to the test as this was very thin aluminium.


And for an experiment, here's the new battery that's going in the car. I bought two for redundancy purposes, but I'm crossing my fingers that just the one will suffice.
They are LifePo4 batteries, and as such are considered to be safer than typical RC LiPo's but still offer many of the power output and weight benefits. They were about $60ea I think so pretty good value if they hold up, or an expensive paper weight if I blow them up.


The car used to run a strut tower brace - in my opinion they don't do a whole lot. But the reason I ran it was for the big bolt I used as a brake master cyl stopper.
So, I designed up my own brake master cyl stopper which is with the laser cutter at the moment which will allow me to leave the strut brace off completely. This is a pic of a 3dprint prototype to confirm my dimensions and I was pleased to find it all lined up mostly perfect. Next step is to make the steel version.


Onto the supercharged NA, as I mentioned in the previous post, the car got a new upper radiator hose which was a generic silicone job off ebay. A new SC belt - they are super easy to find as the part numbers are generic, I think this new belt is off a Mazda CX-5. And some fresh spark plugs.


Another thing which got me a little bit excited, installed some of these side skirts on the car. Big fan of the look, I think they really make the car look lower and more agressive.



We've got ANOTHER car in the garage... This rather sad looking NA6 has arrived for some much needed TLC. I've already got to work on it and made a lot of progress as you can see from the pictures below.
It needed all new glass, a variety of mechanical attention, a whole lot of cleaning, and some mild panel beating among other things.
More details on what I did, and what the plans are for the car are yet to come, but rest assured it will get the same treatment as all the BEAVIS cars - that being lots of love but thrashed at the track!



And, lastly, a litte bit of a plug... super excited because I've gotten some new PVC stickers made! I designed them up myself using my limited Photoshop skills.
These things are perfect for bumpers/windows/external use, and if you are keen for one (please buy one and support me!), please visit my web store: http://www.beavismotorsport.com

[Eunos_Frogster]

Just ordered some stickers

[rascal]

So, I designed up my own brake master cyl stopper which is with the laser cutter at the moment which will allow me to leave the strut brace off completely. This is a pic of a 3dprint prototype to confirm my dimensions and I was pleased to find it all lined up mostly perfect. Next step is to make the steel version.

Any plans to offer these on your web store?

[speed]

The red NA has come up well.

Just visited you online store. I had no idea of the stuff you had available. When i get the time I'll be buying a hand full of bits

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[beavis]

Just ordered some stickers

Thank you

brake master cyl stopper

Any plans to offer these on your web store?

Yep, once I'm happy with the design for my car, I'll make more. I'll add a reminder for myself to to let you know when they are ready. Price should be around $75?

The red NA has come up well.
Just visited you online store. I had no idea of the stuff you had available. When i get the time I'll be buying a hand full of bits

It's amazing what a polish could do on the Red car, but it's not over yet - much more work to do still!

[lucmor444]

Just purchased from the store too. Looking forward to seeing the product line develop.

[beavis]

In case you missed it, here's the video of the install of the side skirts I mentioned in the previous update.

[beavis]

Thought I might post up my latest video on the track car - working on the new fastback roof:

[beavis]

And following from my last post... here are parts 2 and 3 of the fastback.

[beavis]

Just wanted to update here for you Russell (and anyone else that is interested)... got the Brake Stoppers done and available for purchase:

http://beavismotorsport.com/store/performance/brake-master-cylinder-stopper.html

[rascal]

PM sent.

[bruce]

So that makes 4 MX5s in one household (3 of them being yours)?!

[beavis]

Actually, there's 6 here at the moment
Two are 100% not mine however!