djtimo Posted January 4, 2016 Author Share Posted January 4, 2016 FINALY SOME REAR GRIP! I for got my phone so no pics of the old tires coming off on new going on but when I got home heres some detail of the new meaty rears! Only have about 5 miles on them so not really heat cycled or scrubbed in but I got grip in 2nd gear in the damp!!Made up! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 Final prep work done today More cleaning with a drill wire brush. Safety first LOL..The seam sealer makes a ton of nasty dust. Made a start on the job of masking off the dash and rear section of the car. Cat came to help mask the car off. Fully masked off now, just need to do the head liner, doors and rest of car tomorrow. Then on to etch primer Another shot of the new meaty tires MR Postman turned up too! Some beefy new drift works rear camber arms.. On sale and lifetime guarantee! I have removed another few hundred grams of sealer but this has gone in the hoover Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HAMLNJ Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Love the tyres, what they cost you? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Irn Bru Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 dj, tried pm'ing you but I think your inbox is full , can you PM me please Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
marzman Posted January 5, 2016 Share Posted January 5, 2016 Looking mint, Tim. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 5, 2016 Author Share Posted January 5, 2016 The tires were quite well priced now as there the older version of the R888 vs the newer R888r. Irn brew I'll delete some messages now. Marz cheers mate! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
WINKJ Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 holy guacamole thats cool 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
GT4 Zed Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 Good progress TimðŸ‘ðŸ‘ðŸ‘. Getting the R888 was one of the best mods I'd done on the car and after doing about 3k miles on them including driving daily since mid December in the awful wet greasy roads I totally sold!! There is hardly any wear on them still albeit I've one done 25laps at the Ring and half day at Bedford. The wet grip is decent and predictable but I've been careful to avoid significant standing water. Pressure wise I'm running 34-35psi for road use and on the track I found 29-30psi to be about right. I always have the rear 1-2psi less than front. My advice will be to hear cycle them properly before heating the track and inflate them with nitrogen so you have more stable pressure on the track and keep an eye on the temp/pressures until they are stable as the tyre can go off suddenly if too hot. I found this out with Bob on at the Ring on my very first lap on the R888 on the zed. I have a michelin pressure gauge and just got a mid level pyrometer to keep. Good investment! Finally there are fantastic deals to be had from oponeo and tyreleader. I got my set 245/40/18 275/40/18 delivered for £700! Considering it used to cost me far more with a set of MPS 255/35/19 295/30/19. More grip for less buck = win win in my book. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) Good progress Tim������������������. Getting the R888 was one of the best mods I'd done on the car and after doing about 3k miles on them including driving daily since mid December in the awful wet greasy roads I totally sold!! There is hardly any wear on them still albeit I've one done 25laps at the Ring and half day at Bedford. The wet grip is decent and predictable but I've been careful to avoid significant standing water. Pressure wise I'm running 34-35psi for road use and on the track I found 29-30psi to be about right. I always have the rear 1-2psi less than front. My advice will be to hear cycle them properly before heating the track and inflate them with nitrogen so you have more stable pressure on the track and keep an eye on the temp/pressures until they are stable as the tyre can go off suddenly if too hot. I found this out with Bob on at the Ring on my very first lap on the R888 on the zed. I have a michelin pressure gauge and just got a mid level pyrometer to keep. Good investment! Finally there are fantastic deals to be had from oponeo and tyreleader. I got my set 245/40/18 275/40/18 delivered for £700! Considering it used to cost me far more with a set of MPS 255/35/19 295/30/19. More grip for less buck = win win in my book. Hi mate, yeah the R888's are great. Ive had a set of new ones on the front for ages now and did have a set of old part worns on for awhile but there were well past there best. Im running the car at a lower 33-34psi on the back too as its lighter now and OEm 35psi in the fronts. Cant wait for a little bit of sun to come and dry the roads off so I can see what there like!! Edited January 6, 2016 by djtimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 (edited) Good progress Tim������������������. Getting the R888 was one of the best mods I'd done on the car and after doing about 3k miles on them including driving daily since mid December in the awful wet greasy roads I totally sold!! There is hardly any wear on them still albeit I've one done 25laps at the Ring and half day at Bedford. The wet grip is decent and predictable but I've been careful to avoid significant standing water. Pressure wise I'm running 34-35psi for road use and on the track I found 29-30psi to be about right. I always have the rear 1-2psi less than front. My advice will be to hear cycle them properly before heating the track and inflate them with nitrogen so you have more stable pressure on the track and keep an eye on the temp/pressures until they are stable as the tyre can go off suddenly if too hot. I found this out with Bob on at the Ring on my very first lap on the R888 on the zed. I have a michelin pressure gauge and just got a mid level pyrometer to keep. Good investment! Finally there are fantastic deals to be had from oponeo and tyreleader. I got my set 245/40/18 275/40/18 delivered for £700! Considering it used to cost me far more with a set of MPS 255/35/19 295/30/19. More grip for less buck = win win in my book. Edits mods please delete Edited January 6, 2016 by djtimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 6, 2016 Author Share Posted January 6, 2016 Finished of the masking this morning ready to start laying some paint First coat of etch primer down I did a few coats of etch primer just to make sure it was a nice even base layer and dried it off with a hair dryer to help speed things up as its cold and damp outside today Struggled with little bits of dust from the clean up coming lose with the hair drier These had to be sucked up with a gentle hoover. First dusting of nissan WV2 gunmetal Few more coats. Passenger side looks like this too but forgot total any pics lol.. Car is now drying off overnight. Ill shoot the clear coat tomorrow Looking miles better now its painted! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
atomic350z Posted January 6, 2016 Share Posted January 6, 2016 This build thread is inspiring, love to see this car at shows this year? Looking forward to seeing what future mods you have planed 👌🼠Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 (edited) This build thread is inspiring, love to see this car at shows this year? Looking forward to seeing what future mods you have planed ������������ Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk Thanks mate! I will try and get to a few show this year but I'm just tied up all the time lol.. Futre mods are on my little "to do" list Edited January 7, 2016 by djtimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 7, 2016 Author Share Posted January 7, 2016 Finally finished the clear coating... PITA due to @*!# British weather. Oh well best i could do in the spitting rain/high wind. The car is drying now outside so ill snap a pic later 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 8, 2016 Author Share Posted January 8, 2016 UPDATE Clear coat has cured now. Masking coming off. Mr Post man has dropped off some Alu plate for me to make up a heel rest from All masking off and seats refitted. Passenger seat is back in for corner weighting on monday as my new passenger seat will not be here yet. Next job was to fit my carbon dash blanking plate for where the radio head unit was. After making a card template the CF was masked off and clamped between two bits of wood to cut on a chop saw. Nice clean cut Very tight press fit into the back of the dash. Some very small tabs needed to be removed with a chisel. Added a bead of clear silicone to make sure it does not come lose. Re-Fitted. Now to make a heel plate next and fit my new camber arms. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ZEUS Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Looks great. I hope you weighed that carbon blanking plate to check how much weight you've added to the car. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Richie_k83 Posted January 8, 2016 Share Posted January 8, 2016 Mega build dude. Loving the work going into this Sound deadening is by far the worst job to do in the world ever...! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 9, 2016 Author Share Posted January 9, 2016 UPDATE Car goes in monday for set up so I needed to get my camber arms on ASAP. Local DIY garage again Removing the old arms... WOW the car is dirty underneath i WAS clean a few months back lol.. Eccentric bolt section You have to drop the roll bar off on both sides to get the bolt out. New arms in place. The length was matched to the old arms to make sure I'm not a million miles away on camber until monday 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 (edited) Just picked the car up from the set up. He did say they have had issues as you always do but safe to say the car is almost underivable lol... on the way home 40mph felt dangerous as the back end was moving about over bumps and shaking the car about while cruising. Im hoping its this huge amount of rear toe in causing these issues. I'll tell you why in a second. I dropped the car off this morning to have it set up. It need alignment and corner weight/cross weighting. I get a phone call at 2pm saying they have run out of adjustment on the toe bolts on the rear and its at 10mm in EACH side!! I've quickly ordered some drift works toe arms tonight and will fit these ASAP to sort this issue. The have completed the the rest of the set up and it just needed to go back in for the toe adjustments when i have fitted the arms. Ready to go on the scales. On the scales. The car was set up with 100KG ballast in the driver seat too. Old skool racing string set up! Some of the notes of car weight and set up.. Car weight with just over 1/4 tank of fuel is 1469.5kg 20L of fuel weights 15.1KG so a basic dry weight eg. no fuel is 1454.4KG The end cross weights were this with ballast in the car. The car will be going back in with in the next few weeks to have the rear toe sorted so ill let you know how it feels after this! Edited January 11, 2016 by djtimo Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 Also the rake angle was 15mm front to rear to start with and this has been reduced to 10mm due to my lack of rear end grip. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 11, 2016 Author Share Posted January 11, 2016 So I am miles away from getting the car under 1400KG.... With new passenger seat I lose 7.5.... Carbon hatch will save me another 15-20kg... Racing battery 6-10kg... 37.5kg max from those Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mark@Abbey m/s Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Strange how people still use string. I came from the Racing World were we used String to set up cars originally and they are good at race tracks but I so prefer a modern alignment rig to base workshop set ups so more accurate I feel. TBH I would of used an Eibach rear camber/track kit comes with eccentrics to allow the track to be adjusted correctly. CW's look good diagonally typical RHD car with front right being heavy. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
HoundDog Posted January 12, 2016 Share Posted January 12, 2016 Awesome read and wow great build well done keep up the good work. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 12, 2016 Author Share Posted January 12, 2016 Strange how people still use string. I came from the Racing World were we used String to set up cars originally and they are good at race tracks but I so prefer a modern alignment rig to base workshop set ups so more accurate I feel. TBH I would of used an Eibach rear camber/track kit comes with eccentrics to allow the track to be adjusted correctly. CW's look good diagonally typical RHD car with front right being heavy. They didn't have a hunter later set up at the shop mate. very basic TBF but were 5 mins from my house and seem to know what there doing lol.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djtimo Posted January 18, 2016 Author Share Posted January 18, 2016 Fitted some grip tape to the drivers footwell. This will help out when its wet out Also fitted some battery terminal covers as it sits quite close to the rear bulk head. Still waiting for my toe bolts to come then its back for the last part of set up. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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