Clive's 400 BHP Super GT RX-8 Race Car

re japi · March 28, 2022, 08:05:33 AM

Funny story about Jim. At Netherlands, they joked about me, that Im a fricin Irish (cause my ginger beard). Well, difficult to say back anything cause hes a guite a big fella

Naah, I know they where just joking, atleast they had good laugh

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Jamie R · March 28, 2022, 08:06:32 AM

Quote from: re japi on March 28, 2022, 08:05:33 AM
Funny story about Jim. At Netherlands, they joked about me, that Im a fricin Irish (cause my ginger beard). Well, difficult to say back anything cause hes a guite a big fella Naah, I know they where just joking, atleast they had good laugh

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Ah to be sure to be sure

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re japi · March 28, 2022, 08:08:51 AM

Quote from: Jamie R on March 28, 2022, 08:06:32 AM
Quote from: re japi on March 28, 2022, 08:05:33 AM
Funny story about Jim. At Netherlands, they joked about me, that Im a fricin Irish (cause my ginger beard). Well, difficult to say back anything cause hes a guite a big fella Naah, I know they where just joking, atleast they had good laugh

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However, I think he felt abit bad after that, cause he said that I could go take a spin in his Beast FC

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Jamie R · March 28, 2022, 08:10:32 AM

Nah mate, hes a northerner, ( Yorkshire maybe) they dont pity people lol.

I think maybe he wanted to scare you in his car and make you shout irish swear words lol

re japi · March 28, 2022, 09:57:54 AM

Quote from: Jamie R on March 28, 2022, 08:10:32 AM
Nah mate, hes a northerner, ( Yorkshire maybe) they dont pity people lol.

I think maybe he wanted to scare you in his car and make you shout irish swear words lol

Yeah, I think hes from Yorkshire

Well, dunno about that..

No no, he offered that I could drive it

but riding passenger in that beast would definatly scare the crap out of me

Anyhoo, I like him, awesome dude

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clive · March 28, 2022, 10:04:41 AM

Jim cheered me up last night after a bit of a torrid weekend with this amazing work of art--------------looks far to good to go into a scruffy Race Car !

Jamie R · March 28, 2022, 11:18:38 AM

Quote from: clive on March 28, 2022, 10:04:41 AM
Jim cheered me up last night after a bit of a torrid weekend with this amazing work of art--------------looks far to good to go into a scruffy Race Car !

Yup like that!

Had similar mind set for the PP 8 project we spoke about at the weekend .

Certainly the way forward for using 8 clocks without any 8 hardware

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lennycarloff · March 28, 2022, 02:38:24 PM

I did talk about fitting a dash 2 but clive likes old school gauges, so this is what I came up with, the problem is the range of the rx8 fuel sender's, hopefully with both wired in parallel it will bring them in range of the stack programmable gauge.

Jamie R · March 28, 2022, 03:12:51 PM

Quote from: lennycarloff on March 28, 2022, 02:38:24 PM
I did talk about fitting a dash 2 but clive likes old school gauges, so this is what I came up with, the problem is the range of the rx8 fuel sender's, hopefully with both wired in parallel it will bring them in range of the stack programmable gauge.

Yeah they're a pig. In my new tank I fitted the left sender on the right and vice versa for more clearance. The stock tank has sender and fuel pump terminals one side of the tunnel and sender the other.

I hijacked the fuel pump terminals as my pump is external and ran both senders from the same terminal point.

Summat tells me the ohms reading maybe different for aftermarket gauges and could be a different range. But I could be wrong. It is wiring after all.

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clive · March 29, 2022, 07:59:55 PM

Due to the lack of speed at the weekend, I decided to scrap the car

Jamie R · March 29, 2022, 08:41:20 PM

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Due to the lack of speed at the weekend, I decided to scrap the car

Christine won't like you saying that

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Eccentric shaft · March 29, 2022, 09:15:13 PM

This borders on the indecent, Clive. Let her get dressed before you wave the camera around!

clive · March 29, 2022, 09:24:28 PM

Quote from: Jamie R on March 29, 2022, 08:41:20 PM
Quote from: clive on March 29, 2022, 07:59:55 PM
Due to the lack of speed at the weekend, I decided to scrap the car
Christine won't like you saying that

clive · March 29, 2022, 09:26:25 PM

Quote from: Eccentric shaft on March 29, 2022, 09:15:13 PM
This borders on the indecent, Clive. Let her get dressed before you wave the camera around!

Now that made me smile

clive · April 06, 2022, 09:15:08 AM

I had no power last week but I was still trying

, the guy I was chasing was the BOSS series champion.

Cars been up at Pips since last week after upgrading the boost/ wastegate piping from 3.5mm to 8mm and Boost is now being controlled correctly.

Pip rang last night to tell me that the cars ready to collect and he found 408 BHP at the wheels which translates roughly to 475 at the Flywheel.
Pip wants me to see how the car goes then maybe have it back to find a little more.

Hopefully this will push the car along a little faster next week.