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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - testing air jacks
2014/02/26 22:58:46
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Anymore crazy **** been happening here?
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - testing air jacks
2014/02/27 16:57:42
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Not much really, ill post up some pics in a few days or so, drew up a few items, had them laser cut up, getting them anodized at the moment.
Also cut up bracket for dash, had it welded onto steering column, put that back into car, again ill take pics in few days.
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - testing air jacks
2014/03/29 12:29:23
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - testing air jacks
2014/03/29 22:13:11
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/04/12 16:31:21
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Very well answered! Not much has been happening, been going slowly forward and little backwards, but as always kinda lock my self into a circle were i cant, or no point, doing thing A until i do thing B, and cant do thing B until i have received thing C. So as always i cant do anything on the car until i have finished everything on the car!  That and lack of motivation, help and money. Ill post up some pics soon, but dont exepct to see much more done ha ha ha
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/04/24 20:06:40
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Small update, not much really done, just plodding along with some of the wiring, Bought a sheet of 2.5mm carbon plate and cut up to size for the electronics, this goes on the passenger floor area on isolation mounts, houses most of the electronic modules, except ecu which will be on the rear firewall and obviously dash ect. Started to do bit more of the wiring.  Heres the Motec PDM32, VIM and SKM, Racegrade 20hz GPS interface and theres also the battery box for the fire bomb. It will have a few other things mounted to it later on.  These are the connectors that go onto the PDM as shown above. 
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/04/25 13:38:03
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/04/29 16:03:40
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For you Steve B24, regarding what we were talking about, ECU on cabin rear firewall. I had welded some nuts onto the firewall for isolation mounts, but this was for a Vipec ECU i had, so now the bolt pattern is different, i today cut up some 2mm carbon fiber plate as an adapter and also i guess a little bit more of a heat shield. So now its on AV mounts and air gap, should be ok from heat. If i see the ECU internal temp to high, i may have to duct some air over the case, doubt this will be an issue tho, but if your mounting the smartwire there, you may need to duct air over that. (im blowing a bit of air over my PDM and other bits thats on the pass floor)  
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/04/30 14:24:36
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this is going to be a sweet track car!
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/04/30 23:25:16
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The motec will handle a fair bit of heat, I think how you have it will be fine, I doubt you will need to have air blowing on it like the pdm
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/05/05 06:17:13
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Oh, while im thinking of it, seeing as your running a pedal box and you are going to run some fairly serious brakes, to help with setting up your brake bias quicker, pick up some honeywell 2000psi sensors and run them into the dash one for each brake circuit. That way you can have an actual reading for the pressures to work out bias, and also you can keep tabs on whether the bias stays consistant whilst driving, as the balance bars have a habit of sliding around slightly while driving, and can shift the bias. Reason I recommend running into the dash as you can set up a page with front and rear, add a maths channel for a bias, and it makes it easier to make educated adjustments, instead of working out by the number of turns on the bias bar.
'88 MR2 4AGTE W/ EFR6258 224.6KW @ 20PSI more to come......
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/05/05 08:58:52
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Already ahead of ya   Yeah ill be running front and rear brake pressure, aswell as clutch (fluid) pressure as well and all into the dash, so yeah a sensor per master cyl. As you said this will be for setup, if i pull the box out and take the masters off, can be a pain to set up the same bias, so will help with this, also to see not only when i brake into a corner, but how much. I like your idea of a maths channel to show bias, as i cant really fit a rotary pot on the bias adjuster knob due to were i put it and not much room to put a pot on each side of the balance bar, Been thinking if its worth adding a pot to the pedal itself, log the actual pedal position, to compare to fluid pressure, not sure if its necessary or not.
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/05/05 10:27:21
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Thanks for the pictures Brendan. That's what I had in mind when I install my ECU.
The idea of logging brake bias sounds like a good idea but not sure of its all (clutch sensor)really necessary. Being able to cross reference your tyre pressure rate of pressure, brake bias and tyre temps would be quite useful for running in the 300km races (which I hope you will enter when its ready).
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/05/05 10:57:36
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Yeah tyre pressure and maybe temp is something i want to do, but to be able to log it continuously, ie not just take readings in the pits, gets expensive, as each wheel needs a sensor/transmitter, if you have 2 sets of wheels at the track thats 8 sensors, plus the antennas, main control unit ect, prices for a good motorsport grade unit, like the set made by BF1 systems, starts bit under $3k but more around $7k+ for it all, so yeah adds up quick, something i can add many years down the track if i need to, but not high on my list, but in building the wiring now, i have allowed for this, well i have a spare separate CAN and power connector for it or other future devices.
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Re: Sneak peak of my (eventually) race car - Now with Motec
2014/05/12 17:39:32
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Been trying to get a few things done on the car, going to try and get it to the big 30th Anniversary of the MR2 show next month ( http://www.mr2australia.com/mr2play/tm.aspx?m=106794) altho with no roof, windscreen, qtr windows or doors ect it may be limited to the weather, need to get the steering column back in so it can be moved ect. If i can get my car there, (oh yeah also no brakes, motor, wiring, fuel tank ect) then surly no one will have any excuse why they cant make it!
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