Sam's build thread

[teamshaw]

I liked the look of your brake pedal mod as well. Is that just grip tape straight on the pedal with pad removed? Any reason you didn’t do the accelerator and clutch as well?


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[sambb]

That's the kink before throwing it up the Dipper. I definitely breathed in on that one - felt like the wall was on the window. Pretty sure that was my quick run and I didn't go out for the 4th for fear of hitting the wall if I tried any harder. Looking at that pic I think that was probably a wise thing to do.

[sambb]

[QUOTE=teamshaw;1292653]I liked the look of your brake pedal mod as well. Is that just grip tape straight on the pedal with pad removed? Any reason you didn’t do the accelerator and clutch as well?


Yeah I found that the accelerator was too far down compared to the brake pedal for good heel and toe. So I removed the brake pedal cover and used grip tape on it. I just find you have way better feel without the squishy rubber padding and the pedal heights between accelerator and brake pedal mesh a little better for foot shuffling.
Re the clutch, for me I find my leg goes nearly to full extension to get the pedal all the way in as it is so lengthening the reach by removing the cover wouldn't work for me. Thats a really personal thing though eg I have a pretty crunchy knee from getting it nearly twisted off doing Jiu Jitsu, so any longer wouldn't work for me. Overall I find the brake pedal to be too close and stock seat position too high but everyones different.
I can tell you though once you vibra technic mount everything in the engine bay, the feel you get through the pedals is so much better. One of the next no cost things i'll do is a master cylinder brace jut to get a more accurate pedal. Braking feels like a stab in the dark sometimes with next to no feel so I hope it'll improve that side of things. No idea how i'll do that, there's bugger all room in the engine bay for that to be done easily but I'll think of something.

[sambb]

coming off Conrod Striaght and throwing it up Forrests Elbow - need more rear camber.
Further up the Esses about to sling it right up the face of the dipper - need more rear camber.
Day 2 into the cutting - definitely need more rear camber!

Those rear soft compound 195's grip amazingly but from the pics I think most of my tail sliding on those days could probably be put down to 1.75 degrees neg at the back not being enough. More rear shims on the way soon I think then.

[Sydneykid]

Minimum 2.5 degrees neg on the rear, on the high speed longer corners with sustained lateral G we run up to 3.25 degrees neg.

Cheers
Gary

[sambb]

Provided I keep running high profile street tyres (55's), the treads seems to tolerate the camber pretty well without wearing the inside edges too badly so yeah I'll whack in another 0.75 of a degree into the back and see how it goes. I think you've said before that the more rear camber you add, the more toe out you can tolerate too so maybe a bit of both.

[Sydneykid]

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Provided I keep running high profile street tyres (55's), the treads seems to tolerate the camber pretty well without wearing the inside edges too badly so yeah I'll whack in another 0.75 of a degree into the back and see how it goes. I think you've said before that the more rear camber you add, the more toe out you can tolerate too so maybe a bit of both.

Yep, more toe out works in the slower (tighter) corners helping the turn in, but the downside is the nervousness in the high speed (more open) corners. Running more appropriate rear camber means for the high speed (more lateral G) corners there is more tyre contact patch which helps overcome the additional toe out. In simple terms, smaller contact patch with toe out for the tighter (lower lateral G) corners and a larger contact patch with the same toe out for the more open (higher lateral G) corners. It's one of those win win handling scenarios that we don't get often enough.

The downside is increased tyre wear on the street, both toe out and negative camber wear the inside of the tyre (more than the outside). Best suggestion is to flip the tyres on the rims as soon as you notice the increased wear.


Cheers
Gary

[sambb]

turbo F1 in the 80's, 1500cc, 80+psi, fuels that would make your eyes bleed, air to air + water to air intercooling with water spray, qualy 1450hp from a 4cyl, 600kg cars, the biggest balled men ever seen in human evolution driving the things. Check out these legends bolting one together at a reunion of some sort:

YouTube

here's one on a wimpy 3.5bar making its own weather: YouTube
imagine being strapped against that!

[sambb]

my man crush on Jordan Cox continues:
YouTube

he's ditched the Civic has he Gary?

[simon k]

my man crush on Jordan Cox continues:
YouTube

he's ditched the Civic has he Gary?

damn... spectacular driving

there are a few videos of him in a datsun 1200, must be a piece of work but the engines don't like it

YouTube

(check out the beautiful rollcage too)

edit: there's a thing on his facebook from July last year saying that he sold the Honda..