 rmackintosh - Can you tell us more about your car? |
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 Dec 31 2003, 03:54 AM
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Insert catch phrase here  Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,098 Joined: 23-December 03 From: Michigan Member No.: 20  |
QUOTE (rmackintosh @ Dec 30 2003, 09:47 PM) 38 = THE HUGE MOUND OF WIRES UNDER THE STOCK DASH ( Now I have about 10 wires!) Ah.....Mike, for your information...that mound of wires was about 25 lbs!!! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) That's something I know I need to work on, but all I did was tie up the wires that I unplugged underneath the dash. I haven't taken the time to unhook and take out any wires except out of the doors when I gutted them. Electronics are not my specialty and with my luck I'd cut a very valuable piece of wiring that would cost me a lot of money to replace once I figured out I still needed it. How did you know what you could and could not remove? |
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Dec 31 2003, 03:55 AM
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You're my chicane Group: Advanced Members Posts: 475 Joined: 23-December 03 From: So. Cal. Member No.: 13 |
I must say that you have a very impressive car. It is nice to see such a clean well done race car. I'm looking foward to more pics.
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Dec 31 2003, 04:04 AM
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Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27 |
uh Mike.....I am almost afraid to tell you.... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/unsure.gif) ......I always considered myself good at car electronics UNTIL I worked on THIS car...
Do you have the car manuals? I have both, and the wiring is covered in the second which is 1/2 the size of a phone book!!!! I told my fabricator that I wasn't gonna touch that stuff either, but he BELIEVES that there is ONLY ONE WAY to build a race car and ripped all that stuff aside and dumped it into the interior as in that pic while I wasn't in his shop! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ohmy.gif) He had a big smile when I came back to the shop that weekend......I sat down with the manual EVERY FREAKIN NIGHT FOR about 3 weeks....each diagram page refers you to about 5 more pages....and bookmarked that thing 1,000 times.....turns out you only need about 5 wires from the harness up front to the interior to work stuff like PCM, Fuel Pump, Ignition, etc.....I thought I was going INSANE figuring that out! I trimmed EACH wire out of the harness INDIVIDUALLY to be safe....wired it back up and ... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/ph34r.gif) EVERYBODY who watched me was AMAZED when it fired the VERY FIRST TRY!!! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/laugh.gif) |
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Dec 31 2003, 04:10 AM
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Insert catch phrase here Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,098 Joined: 23-December 03 From: Michigan Member No.: 20 |
I'm going to have to put that one off for awhile. Maybe next winter. This winter my list is still so long if something works, I'm not messing with it. Remember that phrase. I use it a lot. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) I might add something to the car like a wing or front air dam, and I will change out the hood and windshield, because it's pretty hard to mess up those things and they're big gains. Removing wiring will wait.
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Dec 31 2003, 04:12 AM
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Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27 |
Mike F....thanks a lot! I may be on a budget.....but I gotta look good! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
....some more comments..... 107 = shows how tight the bars are to the front windsheild....I am a BIG GUY, and I never come close to a bar in that car....except the one above the driver's door. Feels better than when I drove it stock! 118 = the begginning of the front bumper/rad shroud rebuild....don't have a great shot of the aluminum box to the radiator 127 = fabbed the brake ducts INTO the swaybar mount so the tire wouldn't SHRED it when at full lock....doesn't even hit it! 124 = custom brake ducts that force 100% of the air from duct INTO the Porsche rotor from the ProSpeed kit!! SWEET! (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif) |
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Dec 31 2003, 04:19 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 366 Joined: 27-December 03 From: TEXAS Member No.: 54 |
Did I get them all? I should have them all uploaded and arranged now. Let me know if I forgot one.
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Dec 31 2003, 04:23 AM
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Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27 |
....think you got em all.....I have more if any have an interest in a particular item, but those cover the most things...didn't include stuff you all have seen a million times like suspension and engine stuff.
Thanks Anthony! |
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Dec 31 2003, 04:36 AM
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Insert catch phrase here Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,098 Joined: 23-December 03 From: Michigan Member No.: 20 |
Randy, how did you make the aluminum rotor ducting that mounts to your hub? Let me guess, your fabricator got bored one day. It looks pretty easy, but my fabricating skills are minimal at best. You wouldn't have a couple of spare ones laying around would you? (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
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Dec 31 2003, 04:48 AM
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Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27 |
Mike....no....I made those....he did all the aluminum welding....pretty much how it went...he just built the cage and welded it in...all else was done by me or my dad....except welding.... (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/smile.gif)
the brake ducts are flat peice of 1/8 inch aluminum cut to fit INSIDE the rotor....looked like a donut with a circle cut out for the hub. I got longer bolts for the hub that now poke through the back of the spindle so I can use nuts to tie the aluminum to the back of the hub....the donut is slit so I can slide it over the hub and then I used little machine screws to reassemble the donut. For the hose end, I made a 3 inch tube from aluminum, formed it with a hammer so that it would squeeze down to the shape of the donut on one side, cut a hole in the donut and had him weld the tube onto the donut. I will send a better pic to Anthony to put up so you can see what my gibberish means.... |
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Dec 31 2003, 05:00 AM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 366 Joined: 27-December 03 From: TEXAS Member No.: 54 |
pics up
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Dec 31 2003, 06:29 AM
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Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 37 Joined: 30-December 03 Member No.: 65 |
Wow. That is a serious race car, Randy. Outstanding.
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Dec 31 2003, 03:52 PM
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No El-Use-O. Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,368 Joined: 27-December 03 From: SW Michigan Member No.: 52 |
Pretty slick ride.
One question though. Isn't SCCA Improved Touring rules the same as SCCA Street Prepared autox rules when comparing engine rules? Meaning balanced, blueprinted, bored .040, milled heads, port matched, and other wise stock cam, heads, valvetrain. Typical bolt ons also allowed. |
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Dec 31 2003, 04:03 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 289 Joined: 30-December 03 From: Verona, VA Member No.: 71 |
QUOTE (ESPCamaro @ Dec 31 2003, 10:52 AM) One question though. Isn't SCCA Improved Touring rules the same as SCCA Street Prepared autox rules when comparing engine rules? Meaning balanced, blueprinted, bored .040, milled heads, port matched, and other wise stock cam, heads, valvetrain. Typical bolt ons also allowed. No, he runs in ITE which is kind of a catch all class. I think the original concept of that class was to have a place for cars to run that came out of other race series, like World Challenge. The rules do vary some by region though. I know I could run my car in ITE in my region, and the engine mods are way beyond SP autox rules. |
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Dec 31 2003, 04:16 PM
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No El-Use-O. Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,368 Joined: 27-December 03 From: SW Michigan Member No.: 52 |
QUOTE (GaryK @ Dec 31 2003, 10:03 AM) QUOTE (ESPCamaro @ Dec 31 2003, 10:52 AM) One question though. Isn't SCCA Improved Touring rules the same as SCCA Street Prepared autox rules when comparing engine rules? Meaning balanced, blueprinted, bored .040, milled heads, port matched, and other wise stock cam, heads, valvetrain. Typical bolt ons also allowed. No, he runs in ITE which is kind of a catch all class. I think the original concept of that class was to have a place for cars to run that came out of other race series, like World Challenge. The rules do vary some by region though. I know I could run my car in ITE in my region, and the engine mods are way beyond SP autox rules. I did not realize that ITE was any different from ITA,ITB,ITC,ITS etc. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) |
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Dec 31 2003, 04:28 PM
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Advanced Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 289 Joined: 30-December 03 From: Verona, VA Member No.: 71 |
Well, I am by no means an expert on it, so I could be wrong. In a way, it is different from the other IT classes like you said though. The cars in ITE don't seem to be on a very level playing field because of the different cars and series that can run. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif)
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Dec 31 2003, 04:59 PM
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Insert catch phrase here Group: Advanced Members Posts: 2,098 Joined: 23-December 03 From: Michigan Member No.: 20 |
You're right. ITE is very similar to AIX for what I can tell. You get all sorts of cars in there. If Randy does well there and decided to come to AIX, look out! At least he'd be racing in the west region instead of against us. (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/cool.gif)
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Dec 31 2003, 07:37 PM
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Senior Member Group: Advanced Members Posts: 5,226 Joined: 24-December 03 From: Danville, CA, USA Member No.: 27 |
Yeah...ITE is a very different than other IT classes...I know, I ran in ITC for 9+ years....you must follow basic IT/GCR safety rules and.....heck, let me just cut and paste my rule book in here for you:
"Cars must be a tub based chassis. (No tube framed cars allowed). Cars must run on D.O.T. tires" (IMG:http://www.frrax.com/rrforum/style_emoticons/default/biggrin.gif) This does, as others have said, vary by region however.. |
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