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All Nippon Challenge Race 8, 9 – Cadwell Park 28th-6-2009 We got to the track early on Friday as we are doing a test day on Saturday before the race to get used to the track and do some final adjustment. Test day went very well, we spent 2 hours in total at the track and got the time down to 1mins 43. We were very happy with the result, however we found our the rear engine mount bracket snapped in 2 pieces. There nothing we could do about it so we just hope is gonna be fine for the race. Qualify – We got out in the middle of the pack and got hold up by slow traffic, so the qualify wasn’t very well, we only managed to get 1 min 46secs which put us on 7th overall and 3rd in our class. Race 1 – After the qualify, we found another problem – the outer driveshaft CV snap and it was leaking out gearbox oil. We temporary fix them with Cable tie and glue hope is gonna be ok for the race. Had a pretty good start and jump a few place got myself up to 5th, thanks to Carbonetic giving us the amazing twin plate clutch which make the launch much easier. At lap 2 Michael EK outbrake himself and straight into the tyre wall so we gain another place, also a MR2 blow up the engine on the other side of the track and leave a lot of oil on the surface so Safety car was out for the next 4 laps. By the time the safety car got back in we only have 2 laps left. My car was suffer with understeering due to the gearbox oil leaking to the passenger side front tyres. So we finish in 5th overall and 2nd in our class. Race 1 result – 1st Kris – Orange EK 2nd Dixon – K20 DC2 3rd Andre – Accord DNF – Michael K20 EK. Race 2 – We had a really good start again and jump another place up to 4th and keep up with Kris EK for 2 laps it was hard because his car was really quick for this car and pulling a lot more power than we have. After 2 laps, due to the shifter failure we have lost 2nd and 4th gear and saw Kris pull a big gap from me. So I finished the race in 2nd again and with 4th overall. Surprisingly we still lap 1 mins 43 secs with all those problem, it was still a fantastic result for us and we are happy with the 2nd place. From now we have 6 weeks break until end of August at Snetterton, it will come with new engine from DMF performance hopefully can give us back to around 250bhp and sort out all the damaged from Cadwell. Special thanks to - Artech Tuning – for supply K pro ECU and mapping
 Carbonetic – carbon 1.5 way clutch diff, twin plate clutch Camskill - tyre support

 Opie oils – engine oil, gearoil, brake oil

 Dixcel brake, for our full carbon disk and pad

 Hybrid racing – full K swap conversion kit

 HEL – Brake hose

 DM Carbon – custom carbon diffuser, panel

 DMF performance – K20 forged race engine

 Dyno Tech – Dyno tunning

 
 Buddyclub - Wheels

 Special Project - P1 ground effect Dixon Motorsports for the whole build and race car setup Team support -

 Japanese performance

 Wincy Horological Car built, prepared and developed by Dixon Motorsports Thanks
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All Nippon Challenge Race 6 and 7 race report – Silverstone 6th June 2009-06-08 Pics from Artech tuning, more pics and video will be up later - After the successful race at Pembrey 3 weeks ago, we understand now our aero package is working very well on the track but the front splitter design was too weak to support all the downforce its create and caused us a DNF due to the splitter drop to the ground at the 3rd race back in Pembrey. Also we notice our splitter was sitting below the legal limit by 10mm so when we got back to our workshop we have a complete new design which allow us to adjust the splitter back up to the 75mm legal limit or to wherever we wanted depends on the track condition. Silverstone is always the track I don’t enjoy much because lack of corners and also our car is down on power, so we didn’t expect a good result there. However we looked at the weather report on Friday morning and forecasting heavy rain is expected on the race day, we were all excited by this great news as we know we have better advantage to setup our car in the wet condition. So we put our car back on the alignment machine and gave a wet track setup before we left to Silverstone. Qualify – The track got even more wet in the morning, 4th gear wheels spinning on the main straight wet! I ran out to test the grip level for a few laps , the car was handling very well even on worn R888 semi slick, with the others are running cut R888 in our class, I did one fast lap just before the last lap and did a 1mins 21.1 put us on top of our class and 6 overall. All the car in front of us are in either GT300 or 500 bhp class and all 4 wheels drive. Result – GT250 class Pole (6th overall) – Dixon Cheng (DMS DC2 running Semi slick) 1mins 21.1 2nd (8th overall)– Andre (ex-btcc accord) 1 mins 22.1 3rd (14th overall)– Kris (orange Civic) 1 mins 24 4th (18th overall) Paul G (DC5 integra) 1 mins 25.1 5th (20th overall) Michael (K20 ITB civic) 1 mins 25.49 Race 1 – After the qualify, we made a few fine tuning on the suspension and tyres pressure for the race one. Had a pretty good start with and a few subarus spun on the first corner so we took the 4th place overall and lead my class from there. The track was even more wet then in qualify and it was almost impossible to put the foot down on the straight even on 4th gear mainly due to the worn R888, but it was fun and manageable, The whole race was pretty relax and I was taking it very easy until the end. Race 1 result – 1st DC2 – Dixon cheng (4th overall) 2nd EK – Kris (5th overall) 3rd EK – Michael (11th overall) 4th Accord – Andre (13th overall) DNF – Paul G Race 2 – After race 1 it was a big relief for us because we know our car is very competitive in this wet condition with our wet track alignment setup and aero package so we relax a little and even setup a BBQ in our pit just before the race 2 only later when we line up on the grid and I started on 6th position, I notice Kris have a new grid position which sit right behind me so I thought this race is going to be more interesting as he is running on Wet cut slick and I was still running on worn R888 Semi Slick The start wasn’t too bad and I close the door to block Kris to overtake me before the turn 1 and got Kris behind me, it was a huge relief as I know the track is still very wet and I saw myself pulling a gap from him after the first lap so I just focus in battling with the Subaru in front of me. We had a great battle and in lap 6 he made a mistake at turn 1 so I got up a place into 5th. From then it was pretty relax like on the race one and we finished in 1st again in our GT250 class and 5th overall with only 7 secs behind the GT500 class Mitsubishi EVO. We also got the fastest lap in our class with 1 mins 19s. Race 2 result 1st DC2 – Dixon Cheng (5th overall) 2nd EK – Kris (6th Overall) 3rd EK – Michale (12th overall) 4th DC5 – Paul G (23rd overall) DNF –Andre due to the crash at turn 1 Once again, it was a great weekend for us as we know we finally have a completely legal and competitive car in this season and our setup work well on the track. Although we have now won a few races, we will not stop our development and we will bring out a better car with new chassis and aero upgrade for Cadwell park on 28th June. Great thanks to our sponsors, without any of their support we won’t have a successful season like this – Need to special thanks to Dixcel Brake at this round as they providing the excellent Carbon disk and pad which can work from this extreme condition when the others are having problem to get their brake into temperature and we already have full braking power from the first corner until the end without any problem. DMF performance – K20 forged race engine Artech Tuning – for supply K pro ECU and mapping Carbonetic – carbon 1.5 way clutch diff, twin plate clutch Camskill - tyre support Opie oils – engine oil, gearoil, brake oi Dixcel brake, for our full carbon disk and pad Hybrid racing – full K swap conversion kit HEL – Brake hose DM Carbon – custom carbon diffuser, panel Dyno Tech – Dyno tunning Buddyclub - Wheels Dixon Motorsports for the whole build and race car setup Team support - Japanese performance& Wincy Horological Car built, prepared and developed by Dixon Motorsports Thanks
 Team Dixon Motorsports - http://www.dmsracingltd.com

You can fit them either way, when the slot pointing forward you will get more braking power but shortly pad life. Slot pointing back will be exact opposite. Personally I like the slot pointing forward for more braking power

Nippon Challenge Race report – race 3,4 and 5. After our last race at Snetterton, we understand our car didn’t have the power we expected when we saw our competitor from our class pulling away from us on the main straight. We didn’t want to push more power from the engine because we wanted to keep it reliable, so to make us more competitive we have to focus in upgrade the other area, we decided to upgrade the aero package on our car because we understand no one on the grid focusing in this area and specially on a track like Pembrey a good amount of downforce will give us abit of advantage. Qualify –
 Its my first time to go out with this aero package, so in the first few laps I was just trying out how the car behave compare to before, the different is huge, the way the front end turn it is completely different now. I managed to go almost 3 secs faster than last year (ref- 1mins 8.8 last year and 1mins 6.1 this season) and remember now we are on R888 instead of A048, if its was with the right tyres the different could be more than 3.5 secs. So we qualified 2nd overall, surprisingly in front of the GT500 class RX7 by 0.2 secs Race 1 – Had a pretty good start, but lose the place to the RX7 and Kris Civic because I was trying too hard trying overtake the RX7 on the outside of the hairpin, but Kris found a gap there and I didn’t want to repeat the accident like last year, so I was taking it easy because I still not 100% sure how the car going to behave with the new aero package with cold tyres so I stay behind Kris for a few laps, it was a really good race between me and Kris EK civic, we both pushing 100% and at lap 4 we both drift into the last corner, that’s how hard we are both trying! This is definitely one of the best race ever. Managed to take a good line and brake later for the hairpin at lap 6, so I overtook him from there and start pulling a gap from him after a few laps and cross the finish line at 1st place without any problem with the car. So here is the first race result – GT250 class 1st Dixon Cheng (3rd overall) 2nd Kris Dunlop 3rd Michale Clark (well done for the first race) Video of Race 1 - View from Kris car - http://www.vimeo.com/4717132 Race 2 Had a great start and thought it will going to be easier than race 1 as I took a defensive line to hold Kris behind me but lost a place to the Subaru from the start as I was too defensive holding the position in front of Kris. So in the next 6 laps I was following the Subaru until he made a small mistake on the last corner before the main straight then I took the slipstream and outbrake him into the hairpin and gain the position. Just 2 laps before the finish line, the front splitter drop on the main straight due to too much downforce and the wood couldn’t withstand the high pressure, the car was suffering massive understeering straight away at every corner and the back is catching up, but luckily I have pull abit of gap from the back so I crossed the finish line at 1st place again. Video of race 2 - View from Kris car - http://www.vimeo.com/4718503 1st Dixon Cheng (3rd overall) 2nd Kris Dunlop 3rd Michale Clark Race 3 – Had a bad start suffer with bad wheel spin due to the wet weather and running Semi slick so got overtook by a few cars already, after 1 lap the front splitter drop again due to the rain thought the night and it soften the wood, car was understeering and we lost the straight line speed as well. After 2 laps we have got a black flag from the marshall as they saw spark coming out from the splitter so we got DNF in the 3rd race. It would be a perfect weekend if we didn’t have the splitter problem, the car was running very reliable without any problem and we had a really good race with the others, now we will focus in develop a new Carbon splitter so it should able to withstand high downforce, you will see us with a new aero package at Silverstone in 3 weeks time. DMF performance – K20 forged race engine
 Camskill - tyre support
 Opie oils – engine oil, gearoil, brake oil
 Dixcel brake, for our full carbon disk and pad
 Hybrid racing – full K swap conversion kit
 HEL – Brake hose
 Carbonetic – carbon 1.5 way clutch diff, twin plate clutch
 DM Carbon – custom carbon diffuser, panel
 Dyno Tech – Dyno tunning
 Artech Tuning – for supply K pro ECU and mapping
 Buddyclub - Wheels 
Dixon Motorsports for the whole build and race car setup Team support -
 Japanese performance
 Wincy Horological Car built, prepared and developed by Dixon Motorsports Thanks Team Dixon Motorsports - http://www.dmsracingltd.com

Yes the small caliper is just for the hand brake.

Just to change the clutch, inc Gearbox oil tho

We can do it for a Z for £350, pretty straight forward just like the EVO.

£3000 with the clutch fitted, Lambo want £5500 for it

Customer called up and ask if we can change a clutch, I replied why not...lol

No it was by Matt Richardson, he is very very good!

Photo shoot with Japanese Performance at my new workshop last week, it will be out in June Issue so get yourself a copy!

Some more pictures -

Oh that was a Suzuki Swift with 250bhp but car only weight 500kg

All Nippon Challenge Race 1 and 2 report – After a depressing year with engine reliability problem with the B20 engine, Hybrid racing and DMF Performance who willing to Sponsor us a K20 engine with the full conversion kit approached us. During this winter break we understand as a private team we do need a fully equipped workshop to take my car to the next level so in January 2009 I have finally decided to open up my own race team, found a new workshop within 3 weeks, so after 6 years of racing and trading with high performance car parts, Dixon Motorsports was finally official up and running in February 2009. Since now we have a fully equipment professional running race team, racing is now official part of our business, In the winter break we managed to find another few more sponsors to support our racing in 2009. We built our car from the scratch again from new paint work, engine, roll cage, chassis upgrade with full K20 conversion, we started our new project in mid February and car was done within 2 weeks time, with our new engine from DMF performance fitted and mapped by Artech tuning. The engine was pushing 242bhp and after a testing session at Brands hatch we were all happy with the new car. So finally the first race event is up, we got to the track on Friday afternoon with everything setup on the track and we settle down for the night ready for the battle on Saturday. Saturday – Qualify – With the new regulation we are only allow to run either Toyo R888 or Silverstone tyres for this season, unfortunately only Toyo have available size for our need so we have no option but went for Toyo for this season, we have never race with R888 in the pass 5 years of racing, this is our first time to race with this new tyres and the grip level was completely different to what we had before so I have learn how to drive this car all over again. We managed only 1 mins 24 in qualify which was about 3 second slower than what we did with our old engine, pretty disspointed but we still qualified 7th in the overall class and 2nd in our GT250 class. Race 1 – Had a pretty good start and a good fight with the ex-touring car Honda Accord, after 5 laps of good battle I finally able to outbrake him under the bridge at the back straight and got up to 2nd position in my class and 4th overall and I finally managed to understand the grip level from the tyres more , best laps we had in the first race – 1 mins 22 secs so we gain 2 secs from the morning qualify session. Race 2 – Had a good start again, got pull away from the Accord and managed to stay in 2nd for the rest of the race, seeing Kris was only 4-5 secs in front of me but my car was suffering understeer from the R888 tyres so at the end we finished in 2nd and overall 4th in the class. Not a bad start this season with no mechanical problem at all during the whole race weekend. After the first race, we understand how competitive our car could be and we will keep develop our car better for the next race at Pembrey. Special thanks to the following, without their help we will never be able to make it to the first race with a competitive car – Camskill - tyre support Opie oils – engine oil, gearoil, brake oil Dixcel brake, for our full carbon disk and pad DMF performance – K20 engine Hybrid racing – full K swap conversion kit HEL – Brake hose Carbonetic – carbon 1.5 way clutch diff, twin plate clutch DM Carbon – custom carbon diffuser, panel Dyno Tech – Dyno tunning Artech Tuning – for supply K pro ECU and mapping Buddyclub - Wheels Dixon Motorsports for the whole build and race car setup Team support - Japanese performance Wincy Horological Video and photos - Thanks Team Dixon Motorsports. http://www.dmsracingltd.com

Many thanks for your great review, hope you enjoy the new setting now. Get yourself a front camber bolt and you car can handle even better than what you running now! Dixon

Sorry we had our office redecorate last week so the phone system was off. We are back on to business now and if you can't get hold of me here is my work mobile number - 07789643013 hope see you guys soon! Dixon

Both of them have got the Type Z pad, they are all round performance pad for road, track and even racing use.

Thats just the beginning, try give them some heat and you will be able to feel the real braking power. You can never use it 100% on the road, take it to the track and you will be able to feel the proper racing braking power.

Its always been exciting for us to race at Brands Hatch because its only 25 minute from where I live and we also do loads of testing there, so on Saturday morning we came to the track with full confident, specially when it was raining really heavy for the whole morning and being a wet track specialist myself that’s give us even better hope for the race. Qualify – Condition – Wet Tyres – A048R So we got out to the track with one of the few cars running Semi slick tyres (most of the others running Road wet tyres or Wet cut Semi slick), we managed to qualified 4th (1st in Honda Class) out of 32 cars!!! Some car behind us are 500bhp 4wheels drive with Wet tyres! Also with the RX7 in front of us having engine problem we started at the grid on the 3rd position which give us a perfect position to start with. Race – Condition – Extreme wet Tyres – A048R Brake – Dixcel FCR Carbon plain disk with R01 carbon pad front and Type Z carbon pad Rear. I started perfectly on the grid and stays at 3rd position and then someone had an spin so we started the race again under Safety car. Both EVO in front of me were running road wet tyres and with more than 500bhp they both pull away from me easily. I managed to stay at 3rd comfortably and still with Semi slick on in very wet condition and seeing myself start pulling away from the cars behind, so after 3 laps I have decided to slow down and shifted 700rpm earlier to safe the engine for the next race. Unfortunately with just only 2 laps to go, by somehow the engine decided to let go after the main straight, I ended the race in tears and disappointment, as it was an easy win for us in our own class if we didn’t have this problem. Later we found one of the intake valve drop, we are still not sure what caused the engine problems but we will try to find out the problem this week. This Season has been a bad season for us, with no win (best result was only 2nd overall in Pembrey) One big great new is I have secure a new Sponsor deal with a huge background company after they saw my performance under extremely wet condition, We have already decided some new plans projects for next season after a short conversion with our team, so we will come back in a better and more competitive package next season!! Here is the video of our engine blew up - please let me know if you have any similar experience before so we will see if we can sort out this problem. Race video - I would like to thanks all our Sponsors support so far - www.camskill.co.uk for Sponsoring all our Tyres and Spark plugs www.opieoils.co.uk for sponsoring all our engine, gearbox and brake oil www.buddyclubuk.com for the wheels www.rarerims.co.uk for the wheels www.dixoncheng.com for the car building, race car preparation, race support, setup, Mapping www.dixcelbrake.co.uk for our superb carbon brake disk www.fpracing.co.uk for our track support

Snetterton Nippon Race 13 and 14 After all the problems we had this season we finally make it to one racewithout any Major problem. Only problem we are having is the car is running 80bhp under power due to our Mapper snap one of the intake cam pulley bolt, we had 195bhp before map and after the snapped bolt we have 170bhp after mapped and we also have misfiring problem under part throttle, the car wasn’t performing what it should be and I was struggle to keep up with the MX5 and Del Sol CRX on the main straight. Anyway, even with the bolt snap we qualify 5th in the Honda class, just 2 second away from a 220bhp EK civic and we are in front of a healthy working DC5, so we are not too unhappy with the result. At both races, we had a good start but as soon as we hit the main straight we got takeover by all the others and we can only catch up under braking (thanks to Dixcel brake) and during the corner. We have tried our best and we have came 5th in both races, I have to say this is the first time we have not receive any trophy in the past 3 years racing. We are going back to use the old ECU and change the cam pulley this week and get the problems sorted and we will back to our home track Brands Track on 8th November! Here is a short video of our first race – I would like to thanks all our Sponsors support so far - www.camskill.co.uk for Sponsoring all our Tyres and Spark plugs www.opieoils.co.uk for sponsoring all our engine, gearbox, brake oil and brake cleaners www.buddyclubuk.com for the wheels www.rarerims.co.uk for the wheels www.dixoncheng.com for the car building, race car preparation, race support, setup www.dixcelbrake.co.uk for our superb carbon brake disk http://www.preponderance.co.uk/Projects ... /about.php for our track support CTM engineering for building us a solid engine

Just to let you guys know we are in this month July issue - Full feature can be found from the link below but please get yourself a copy - http://www.dixcelbrake.co.uk/rnews/rnews.html Dixon

Next race is at Mallory park in 25th August, there will be one 350z in our race as well.

It was the MR2 mistake, he said he didn't see the mirror so he didn't know I was on the inside line.