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What JWT clutch have you gone for??

Why is that a prototype?

Wow sounds epic!!!!

Great write up mate!

Need some details on the slicks if you can? Have you upgraded wheel studs/bearings?? Any issues running slicks part from oil/fuel starve??

Last thing... when are you at oulton mate, I'm 30 mins away ill come down and see you/the car

I would not worry about this. Just book it and enjoy. Drive safely and use good track etiquette and you'll be fine.

Some of the limited number days I have done have been worse as the people who want less on track normally have more expensive cars aka supercars that are fast and can cause slower cars issues.

Over all power for stopping is mainly down to pad friction and tire grip. I can lock the tires even with R888 on track so more brakes would only help with fade issues not over all stopping distance etc.

Should have posted this before the track stuff but oh well.... LOL...

Prep'ed the car for anglesey at my local DIY garage again.

Full oil and filter changer with some nice Castrol FST Ti 5w-40 and a brake bleed with fresh AET Blue fluid.

Front disc's have some heave pad letdown on now...

Underside of the splitter fitted. (This will take my full body weight 120+ KG hanging off it with my hands placed at the point where the cables are mounted)

Ultra racing brace looking clean still.

Some bad bits..... Ive managed to brake a mount on the CF rear diffuser which has caused it to catch the air and hit the ground and burn a hole in it

Also I have picked up the final version of my slip on track spec exhaust. I've test fitted this ready for a circuit that requires it.

Its mounted off a 16mm stud that is screwed into the rear toe eye, and slipped over the rear can tips. Bolted up, its rock solid!

Should have enough space here to stop the rear bumper melting! I hope!

Good day out with the car on track on Friday last week

Open track event at Anglesey with a mate in his track prep'ed clio 172. Nice dry day and had an instructor for 30 mins first thing to get me going. Instruction went very well, Apart from not being able to hear him out on the track It really helped me dial in my turn in points and get my apex points correct.

Feed back from the instructor was the car felt very well set up and powerful which was good! My driving he said I need to be more controlled on releasing the brakes as this was effecting the car at turn in along with me getting on the throttle to soon causing plow understeer.

As the day went on I really felt like I was getting somewhere as very few cars were passing me (Radical Sr8 and a few cars on slicks) and I was confident using the throttle to tighten my line round bends I was struggling with early on.

Bad points from the day were the car suffering overheating badly! Worse than ever which I 100% think is down to my new ply splitter. There is a large gap for air to flow around the rad pack which I need to create some ducting to seal up and force air through the rads as its so annoying when your in the grove and the car is climbing on the OEM temp gauge which normally never moves.....

Very well run day with open track and I would highly recommend them! Food, Instruction and photo's included in the day price was nice!!

Car in the pits...

Few pics of the car on track...

Also went out in this really well set up E46 M3. Well driven too...

Looks a good option but its a very high price point for just the gear set!

Cleared some space alex. 😎

Zmanalex can ypu send me a price for a pair of those subframe brackets please

Im still interested in this ben, Bigger TB will surely help on a boosted motor.

Finally had the time to fix my snapped gear linkage and fit my gearbox mount today!

First PITA job was getting the car up in the air!

Gearbox supported, and chassis member removed.

Old rubber vs. Poly new.

Mount refitted, I had to use a new bigger diameter bolt as the OEM bolt with harmonic balancer was far far to small for the bore on the torque mount. This meant i needed to drill the captive nut out on the back of the chassis support.

New torque gear shifter fitted too, It was a little harder than the last to fit as i had to butcher the old broken shifter to get the cup out and refit the new shifter.

Bearing on the bottom is unusual and reduced play in system a lot.

Fitted....

Only bad thing is a I've managed to strip the front bolt thread so I need a loner bolt to replace the one that came with the kit to make sure its all done correctly.

Feed back on the kit after 5 mins of driving is.... FEELS AMAZING...... SOUNDS MENTAL...

Its has a ton more noise over the OEM mount. Like a different exhaust. You can hear and feel the gearbox inside the car now! The box also wines like a sequential!

Keep up the good work mate! Still following this with major interest! Cant wait to see it run!

Cheers mark. I did think of mounting them horizontally but its harder to mount to the tow eye and more welding work. Im getting a few bits tig'ed for £20 at a local place but they dont/cant bend and fab up extra pipe etc.

If its meeting noise tests then i may rejig it and go horizontal. Not fully sure on what i can get done yet.

Some more progress....

My arms and spring buckets have been finished at the powder coaters Gunmetal metallic...

After snapping my last @*!# japspeed (cheap Chinese copy thing) in half at oulton park Ive gone for a much better quality one from torque solutions. Its made from one solid piece of stainless steel with a bearing rather than a bush on the bottom for more solid feel.

Ill review this item after its fitted and tested.

Next on the list was to sort out a solution for reducing noise for circuit days while not making the car so quite and boring its no fun anymore.

After trying the turn downs at oulton and having some success I've gone for extra slip on silencer system thats for quite days on track and can be removed to leave the car loud for loud circuits.

Extra Ebay parts.... 2 x 3" ID resonators (4" Dia to keep weight down and make sure I'm clear of the back of the car and not melt it!) 2 x 3" 90 degree bends..

Sort of how it will look once welded up.

The Idea is to cut off the silencer in and out pipes and weld the bend direct to them to make it smaller, A brace will be welded cross the two cans making it one piece. Ill use the rear tow hook as a mount to support the weight of it and build in a tow eye to that too so its track friendly.

Fingers crossed its quite lol.....

2 bar of boost!!! **** me.... 😎

Just use swift springs mate thats what most people use.

Damn Tim! You've done it again👊
LOL.. Cheers bennet!

So i managed to get the zed out on track on Wednesday in some very very wet conditions

Booked on for an open pit lane day at Oulton only to fail the static 105db noise test! I had tested myself only days before using a decent SPL metre i have and got 95db at the same revs and distance etc! The guy doing the testing said i was 108/109 and its down to the low cloud and heavy rain! Not sure if this is correct but seams far fetched to me...

So anyway... I went off and fitted my exhaust turn downs I have had made to help me pass the drive by limits..

These are TIG welded 3.5" to 3" turn downs that can be swivelled to for the noise in one direction

With these fitted I past the static noise test (he was being nice I think as he did tell me what i did static dB but said lift off on lodge corner as thats the easier drive by metre to clip)

First few laps were a joke... Car was still set up for the dry so very very stiff and almost no body roll to add grip. Came back into the pits and softened the rebound on the dampers off almost all the way, dropped tire pressures down to 28psi hot too. This made a large difference and helped grip.

Car was performing well, brakes nice and strong but having to be very gentle on throttle and watch out for standing water as the R888 would just let go if you hit standing water mid corner!

by 1pm the track had a dry line so I was getting quicker and quicker, slowly stiffening the car back up to dry set up and have a great day! That was until I was black flagged for noise on drive by.... More grip was allowing more power down and the car was getting louder.

The getto fix was on the cards..

Amazon prime the day before had dropped off stainless steel wool handsome 90mm stainless steel sieves which i used to pack the exhaust tips with

All was going great till about 3pm when I changed 3rd to 4th gear and my short shifter snapped in half! lol.. Left stranded out on track i had to be towed back to the pits. Unable to fix it there I had to borrow a set of mole grips to use a gear leaver to get me home. All in all a great day! ahahah

Few images out on track in the wet

Hi mate. Im on driftworks camber arms. They look and feel very stout! Not a good as spl but cheapssss

Need to pull brake fuse to do burn outs. Brake pedal being pressed limits the drive by wire throttle.

Air dam built

Still needs a little more shaping and painting/vinyl etc but just had to be done before wednesday track action

Was a good meet! Lots of nice metal (&carbon) in attendance! And yes the zed has changed a far amount other the past few years

lol..

Ill be there