Trds Rally Car

[jimi91]

WOOOOOW thats awsome weight mate but do u have a set weight up there in the rules????????

 

keep up the good work hopefully it will be done soon

 

 

see ya

 

jimi

[love ke70]

shit thats impressive, good work!

 

from memory, apart from drilling holes in the panel work everywhere, what else did you do to save weight? how much do you think the holes saved you?

 

thats stupid light, my 1g ke70 weighed 1100ish with me in it, def gonna have to properly weigh the new one, trev, mick has corner scales?

[Trev]

def gonna have to properly weigh the new one, trev, mick has corner scales?

 

Yeah, unless Paul has them at his house, they were bought for the workshop and time attack series.

[TRD ke70]

We were trying to figure out where we loss 80gs from! :hmm:

Can't put it down to just a couple of things, but a whole lot of things.

 

All the under seal was removed and the body washed down, excess brackets were removed, rewired the whole car with the least amount of wiring required, all non-structural bolts were replaced with either alloy or titanium bolts, only 4 liters of top coat was used and 4 liters of primer. all protruding bolts were cut off, foil tape and expandable foam was use instead of steel patches, plastic cable tie bases were used instead of steel clamps, strategical use of the hole saw. :hmm:

 

I'm sure there is more, but i think you see there isn't just one or two things.

And the good bit, there is more to weight come out, every time i look at anything, i see weight!! :lolcry:

Edited September 15, 2010 by TRD ke70

[Pongwow!]

its been awhile in the building but coming along awesome!!!!! very similer weirght to my ke55 speedway car

[Mitch-12]

Woohoo i weight my car just before 770kg on longacre motorsport scales wet weight but i don't have a cage and i got a 4k so your car prob still lighter in saying that

[snot35]

Wow, that is very nice work. This is going to be a very fun car! Thanks for sharing the build with us :)

[trd]

Picked up the cyl head from the machinist today, we had them put it on the flow bench just to see. well it was a bit of a supprise. 196hp at .350thou lift

[TRD ke70]

I thought you said you wouldn't get carried away with porting it and getting too much HP??? :bash:

 

Guess we'll have to de-tune it now!! :yes: :no2: :hmm:

[Trev]

It is what the head is good for, she will be right :laff:

[TRD ke70]

Means we can run a nice safe advance curve, with the engine running such a hi CR (11.5)running on 98.

we can dial back the ignition and lose a few HP's and know the engine will survive!!!

 

Because it's rallying and not racing we need reliability.

[TRD ke70]

Good week for getting stuff done.

 

Head came back from the machinist, so it's now fitted.

So Tony has started with bolting the manifolds up while I spend today fabricating the box for the fuel tank bowl and fuel pump to sit into.

 

If all goes well, we should start to see the engine been slowly stitched together over the next couple of weeks.

 

 

Edited September 26, 2010 by TRD ke70

[jimi91]

Good week for getting stuff done.

 

Head came back from the machinist, so it's now fitted.

So Tony has started with bolting the manifolds up while I spend today fabricating the bowl for the fuel tank bowl and fuel to sit into.

 

If all goes well, we should start to see the engine been slowly stitched together over the next couple of weeks.

 

 

 

 

thats looks sweet mate with the webbers and will sound great lol :lolcry:

 

that will be good if ya get it started soon keep it up mate

 

see ya

 

jimi

[TRD ke70]

Thanks Jimi.

 

The engine guy flow tested the head, and he did say that she will be a howler. :rolls:

Apparently it was howling on the flow bench. :yes:

[jimi91]

hahhaa thats ok mate

 

 

ooooo sounds good i can't wait i just want to fly or drive up to u just to see it in flesh and listen to it lol maybe even do an event up there if ive got ours going lol :lolcry:

 

see ya

 

jimi