Tuesday 16 October 2012

Few little tweaks

Few track days coming up so thought I better make a few tweaks to the car.

Started with the handling, I have adjusted the rear swaybar to make it a little stiffer. This should help reduce the understeer, and if not then I will look into aero mods and increasing front track. I want to get all my aero onto the car before I play around with track, so hopefully early next year I will have the aero completed.

Next up is my intake. As I am running ITB's the location of these in B series engines are pretty bad as they are at the back of the engine. So this means it is constantly sucking in the hot air that is generated from the radiator, exhaust, and block. To help with this I decided it was time for some hood venting. First up I grabbed a NASA vent to get some cool air under the good, nice easy install and a few air diverters to make sure the air goes to the right place. Then I concentrated on getting the hot air out, so off to bunnings and $5 later I had 2 louvred panels, once again with the fibreglass bonnet install was easy and they seem to have done the trick...we will see the results next time but hopefully there will be a few extra kw's for me.