appletree wrote:Ya would love to see some vids of it, we had a bank holiday here today and after a heavy one last night i sat in the sun and read the whole of your project posts on the R5turbo clubs site, nice to see the craftmanship on the chassis, have you fitted an anti roll bar in the end?
Thanks. Yeh, lot of work went into that chassis. Took about three months just to design it. It duplicates all the E30 suspension mounting points, so the E30 sub-frames just bolt in place just like on an E30 body. With the integral roll-cage its also pretty rigid. And not as heavy as you would think as the majority of the body is in aluminium and GRP. Only the A, B & C pillars, plus roof, are mild steel. There's two ways to get improved acceleration, one is to increase the wheel torque, the other is to reduce weight. I opted to pursue both.
I'm going without the anti-roll bars (ARB's) for the time being. The suspension is already very stiff, the car light, and the centre of gravity very low, so body roll is hardly noticable, even while cornering at speed. I still have the front and rear ARB's from the E30 and can put them back at any time, or install stiffer aftermarket ones if I want to, but with this car I just don't see the need. But then this car is very different from any other E30, so I'm sure ARB's have their place on other E30's. I do, however, have some very strong opinions with regard to ARB's, backed by solid theory and practical experience. But maybe this is a discussion for another day.
appletree wrote:Had to laugh at you saying about your freind with the bike helmet on, i remeber when i did the first eaton build on my car we were driving round withe the bonnet just popped with wires and pipes coming in to the front of the car with gauges and metres covering the dash while we were trying to check pressures and temps and listen out for pincking/detonation
god knows what other drivers thought
You had a bonnet? Luxury, shear luxury. I started with no bonnet, doors or windows. now that brought some strange looks I can tell you, although at that stage I kept her well away from the public roads. I had nightmares about a traffic womble looking for a licence disc in a windscreen that isn't there. The windscreen that is. I figured if he asked where the licence was I could just say it fell out out at the same time as the windscreen. I'm not sure he'd see the humour in that.
Thanks for having a look at that page. I'm afraid I don't post there as often as I used to. That site has become so quiet that I'm thinking of retiring there one day. I haven't even bothered to post any recent photo's of the car. About time I did.
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Yee Gads, I thought your current engine was 8.5:1. No wonder you were reluctant to make any real boost. Did you not encounter any detonation during your early testing or did you always keep your revs down in order to keep your boost down?
