by BARC 1 » Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:43 am
I like the look of that car.
Chassis work is always fun. You start off with an idea and then just tweaks things here and there, until you have something that works. If that is the same type of motor that was in Jhrico's Capri, it should really go. It had little braking ability though.
I am prepping my Porsche 956 for the Pronomag proxy, as I will be sending my cars to Peter when I return his car. Having the benefit of actually driving Peters cars, I have an idea of what I need for times to try and place higher then past events. The 956 was smooth and quiet, but I needed to calm the front end down a bit as i will still 0.3 seconds off Peters mini.
I decided to do something radical to the chassis in an effort to get better handling. So I tuned up the guide flag first, It is amazing how much attention needs to be paid to this area of the car. This tune up got me better corner stability. Now for the radical part I cut into the chassis and made a functional sprung rear end. On heavy acceleration, the torque from the motor is tampered by this sprung set up, and the result is the nose and guide stays firmly planted in the slot. I was finding under heavy acceleration with this new motor the front end was getting light and actually lifting out of the slot causing issues accelerating out of the corner. This mod fixed that, and I turned some laps within .01 seconds of the mini, which I think is pretty good considering the mini does have some magnetic effect. This sprung rear end is adjustable as well to give you some tweaking options. Hopefully this will get me into the midpack at the Pronomag. Last year I was dead last except for a truck that was entered.
Over the past year, I have discovered how much fun tuning these nomag cars can be, There is so much stuff you can do to make up for the lack of a magnet to get better handling and better lap times. Messing around with chassis set ups and tires has been a lot of fun.
Dan