Dragon Circuit car

[20B_boy]

Mods: time to remove the chaff from Ross\' thread plse :god

[strange_days_uk]

and whats a modified Rex then?


jeez give the ****er a break, he can drive and drift what he likes.

Ease up boys, I don\'t think he was being critical.  I think that was more of a fun happy comment than anything.

Anyway, Ross the car looks really special.

What are you doing about drivetrain for all this little power ??

[DRAGON]

What is the main topic???

Hilarious John, why read this thread if your not interested. If your going to bother to make a post, why not make it constructive? I am happy to discuss anything technical in this thread.

[AtomicRex]

Ross I was going to say something really hilarious....but to be honest last time I did that my car got vandalised!

Oh and once again there is no h in Jon!

Still Ive moved on....all I want to do is race my car

[Oedipus Rex]

Ease up boys, I don\'t think he was being critical.  I think that was more of a fun happy comment than anything.

Anyway, Ross the car looks really special.

What are you doing about drivetrain for all this little power ??

fair enough, just felt sorry for the guy with everyone attacking his handywork.

That av of yours is ****ing ace by the way.

[DRAGON]

Ease up boys, I don\'t think he was being critical.  I think that was more of a fun happy comment than anything.

Anyway, Ross the car looks really special.

What are you doing about drivetrain for all this little power ??

Thanks. Drivetrain, I\'ve gone for a Tilton Triple plate clutch, HKS Dog Box and Mazdaspeed 2 way diff, carbon Fibre Prop, all braced etc.

[strange_days_uk]

Thanks. Drivetrain, I\'ve gone for a Tilton Triple plate clutch, HKS Dog Box and Mazdaspeed 2 way diff, carbon Fibre Prop, all braced etc.

£££££   seriously heavy duty very nice work.

Thanks for the comment Oedipus, I likes me silly pictures..

[Oedipus Rex]

sorry if I\'m being thick but I\'ve not seen anything on suspension set up, being a circuit car I\'m intrigued to know what your going for, how low you are gonna let it drop and how firm you plan to set it up.

[RemarkLima]

Looking very cool Ross!

I read that you\'ve removed the twin oil coolers, which made me think of some great result\'s with brake ducting when I had my Exige... A guy there opened the two front vents (like on the RX for the oil coolers(, and ducted the vents to the inside of the disc\'s. Now the bit he had done differently was the bells he had made up were closed to the out side so the vented air from the front had no choice but to go through the veins in the discs.

It worked really well, he\'d stay out until he ran out of petrol (pretty much an hour or so solid) and could use EBC Greenstuff pads (which normally dis-integrated after a 20 minute track session) as the temps never got that high! May be worth a look. But I guess you\'ve already thought along these lines

[DRAGON]

I did have some brake ducts made up, but have ditched them in favour of something similar to what you are talking about. The plan at the moment is to just get the car running, and then adjust cooling issues that arise from there.
I have just fitted the rear lights. I chose to not use the standard lights, but to go for some all in one units and wire them into the standard loom. They weigh less than the factory ones, and also I have mounted them lower for better weight distribution
We have also fibreglassed in the factory light holes on the RE light cover, I would have preferred to have smoothed it over, but time is a limiting factor.

[Carl]

I did have some brake ducts made up, but have ditched them in favour of something similar to what you are talking about. The plan at the moment is to just get the car running, and then adjust cooling issues that arise from there.
I have just fitted the rear lights. I chose to not use the standard lights, but to go for some all in one units and wire them into the standard loom. They weigh less than the factory ones, and also I have mounted them lower for better weight distribution
We have also fibreglassed in the factory light holes on the RE light cover, I would have preferred to have smoothed it over, but time is a limiting factor.

Hi Ross,
Are those lights at road legal height and position? Or is this car not going to be road legal?
Regards
Carl

[Initial-D]

Looks mean! I see the lights sit in the Amemiya reversing light holes, ingenious weight saving I must say!

What tires are those, can\'t say I recognise that tread pattern?!

[DRAGON]

I havent checked if they are high enough. If they are too low I can just move them up. Its not like I have to ESVA the car or anything.
The car will be road legal.

The tyres are Falken, although I will probably be using the toyos this year.

[McCARTHY]

i must say if i get my car ready this time round for any events defo going for dunlops,super sticky rubber.... can\'t rember the name/model of there road legal cut slick but awsome peice(s) kit

[TonyC]

Dunlop D01J or D02J, also Yokohama A032R and A048R, Toyo R888 - all these are soft compound lightley treaded tyres.
Usually available in a variety of compounds. All of them will wear very quickly. Don\'t expect much more than a couple of thousand miles of road use. I use to wear a set of A048R\'s out in a single race season - or less than 400 miles.

Work better than a normal road tyre in damp conditions if you have got the tyres warm and the presures set correctly. Aquaplane very easily when the water is heavy/puddled due to the lack of drainage.
Hopeless in winter as the rubber does not get warm and soft enough to work.

All these tyres usually work better with an increase in static negative camber on the wheels. If the outside tyre edge is going blue it means they are being overheated and more static negative camber is needed.