Another Wreck, another Race Car.....

[velly_16v_cab]

Great video Pete. Nice little spin too!

What 5th gear are you running, seems very tall!
The car seems to have plenty of poke, it eats 4rd and 4th gears!!!!!

Good work fella

[Peter Jones]

great video Pete.

What happened at around 4min mark? did you lift off, or just go in too hot?

Got carried away trying to see how much faster I could enter the corner.

[fthaimike]

i guessed so pmsl at your above comment, good save though.

what is the top speed at the moment Peter...mph

also do you left foot brake, it didn't show up on the graphs?

[Peter Jones]

Great video Pete. Nice little spin too!

What 5th gear are you running, seems very tall!
The car seems to have plenty of poke, it eats 4rd and 4th gears!!!!!

Good work fella

Agree 5th seems too tall to me too. The gearbox builder was vague about exactly which ratios he put in there.

It should be a 0.91 or a 0.89 but I'm wondering if it's not a 0.75.

I'll have to do the math to figure out or just pull the end off the box and count the teeth.

In any case it's all good input for when I build the 02a down the track.

[huss]

Thats it Pete, im going to say it. You sir, are hands down, a freaking genius. The amount of work that went into that car, and the amount of effort you put into the forums make you an A Grade LEGEND in my books.

That acceleration is crazy fast. I cant imagine being in it. You over took every single car, and when you spun out you over took them again so effortlessly. I'd like to see that beast in a real race.

[Peter Jones]

Here's the second timed session.

The data display runs out about 1/2 way because I accidentally truncated the log data in the conversion process.

I got warned for being too loud after the first run so for the next 2 runs I short shifted to 5th gear on the main straight.

The car read 80dB and the limit for that day was 75dB. I'll fix it by fitting an airbox.



Oh, and yes, I do miss a few gear changes along the way in this round. I think I need to make some adjustments to the shifter.

[Peter Jones]

[Peter Jones]

i guessed so pmsl at your above comment, good save though.

what is the top speed at the moment Peter...mph

also do you left foot brake, it didn't show up on the graphs?

The top speed I've seen so far is just over 180km/h or about 110mph. 5th gear is a limiting factor here. The box builder must have used a 0.75 5th instead of the 0.91 I thought I'd supplied.

If you look at the RPMs in the videos it's dropping nearly 2500 RPM in 5th which just isn't right.

Some quick calculations confirm a 0.75 5th but I'll have to explore a little further yet.

The OBP pedal box isn't that well set up for left foot braking, I need to modify it further to alter the position of the accelerator.

[velly_16v_cab]

sounds about right with your thoughts on 5th gear, you can even hear how far out it is. Still, it doesnt seem to be slowing you down!!!

Great comment by Huss, I agree...Pete, great work man. You are a legend!

[Peter Jones]

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