Glad to see you made it over. smile.gif

I see that you're going by Riverside Racing Parts, do you offer parts for typical modified production vehicles or only purpose built race cars? Or are you mostly a local shop servicing customers in your area?

Even though it's pretty much just an Excel shell now, it's probably heading towards being the most purposeful looking Excel I've ever seen at the very least. Would you consider offering reproduction fiberglass fender flares?

Great job on the build and good luck when you start racing it. smile.gif

 

Whats your estimated horsepower goal with the car, when everything is all said and done? Also, I see that you have different rims fitted on it. Which rims will you be going with, and what size are they exactly? Keep up the great work....amazing car!

 

<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (187sks @ Oct 20 2009, 06:34 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Glad to see you made it over. smile.gif

I see that you're going by Riverside Racing Parts, do you offer parts for typical modified production vehicles or only purpose built race cars? Or are you mostly a local shop servicing customers in your area?

Even though it's pretty much just an Excel shell now, it's probably heading towards being the most purposeful looking Excel I've ever seen at the very least. Would you consider offering reproduction fiberglass fender flares?

Great job on the build and good luck when you start racing it. smile.gif</div>

Yeah we have a business in race car fabrication, sell a few race parts such as 800hp 6 Litre race engines and 6 piston brakes ect... We have worked on and owned a few group C falcons. Owner of the business is an ex top fuel dragster driver.

Problem about selling the flares is that the car is lowered that much compared to the production car that the wheel arches would be sitting right up in the air with about a 1 foot gap between the wheelarch and top of the flare.

Few pics of our cars.






<div class='quotetop'>QUOTE (Visionz @ Oct 20 2009, 11:32 PM) <{POST_SNAPBACK}></div><div class='quotemain'>Whats your estimated horsepower goal with the car, when everything is all said and done? Also, I see that you have different rims fitted on it. Which rims will you be going with, and what size are they exactly? Keep up the great work....amazing car!</div>

With the sr20de we are aiming for north of 250hp, ~270 on an aggressive tune, but i will build a softer engine to set the car up with that will make about 200hp.

The wheels that i will run when the car is a 2 litre will be 17*9.5 fronts and 17*10 rears. I only have a set of the multispoke wheels (grey ones) at the moment but am going to buy some Enkei RPF1's, personally i think they are great value for what they are.

Once the car is sorted and reached the full potential we will pull out the sr20 and replace it with a 6 litre chev like this one.


or even possibly a dodge, they make more Hp but less torque.


With the ~800hp engine i will build new uprights to accommodate the new ride height of the 18" wheels, the 5 spoke black ones.
It will then run a 18*12 on the front and 18*13 on the rear.

 

With such heavy engines mounted in the front, wont handling be thrown off, or do you plan on doing more to the suspension, to accomodate for the heavier front end?

 

Josh, did you see where the engine's mounting location is? Lol.

 

Minimum weoght for the car as a 2 litre is 780kg which it wont be, it will end up around 850kg. (this is with the fat man inside as well)
As a 6 litre the car has to weigh 1125kg(also with driver). The weight difference in the engine is 150kg, then another 20kg of wheels and
brakes, more fuel plus a few other little things that make it a bit more solid. It should be right on the min weight after the conversion.

The engine in our cars are "mid" mounted where the back of the block is 1/3rd of the wheelbase back 833mm. The reason i havnt
put the engine back to the word of the rules (1/2 way) is that alot of cars that are currently running are driving like spinning tops.
All the weight in the middle and as soon as you loose control you have a spin.

In the end my car will be more rear heavy then theirs which they all work for 50/50 im going 48/52. This will give us a more
stable car with the weight not so central and also better drive out of the corners. As a 6 litre 13" wide slicks are no where near
wide enough.

Bit of footage of the class.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jfH2EuqiJjo&feature=fvw

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KIM3VNiF4b0

EDIT: as for the suspension, its very close to current professional levels, ie v8 supercar and similar to DTM to an extent.
The shocks were a fairly fancy peice of work, 4 way adjustable. They will also be used after the conversion.

 

That racing looks like so much fun. smile.gif

I have to stay content with sporadic autocrossing. Lol.

 

Its the fastest sedan racing in Australia, generally 1-2 seconds faster then a v8 supercar.

 

im in love with this car.

 

Started making the dry sump tank, will post pics later tonight.