911 Carrera RallyCross Project

BRAID · Posted: Tue Dec 18, 2012 6:00 pm Post subject:

No new developments with the car due to work commitments but some new pictures from the RallyCross have emerged courtesy of Rob Sackyta:

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BRAID · Posted: Wed Dec 19, 2012 7:48 am Post subject:

Great article in 9Magazine by Bradley Brownell about our recent RallyCross exploits.

http://www.9magazine.com/sideways-through-a-field-a-carrera-tale.html

leeezard7 · Posted: Thu Dec 20, 2012 7:41 pm Post subject:

this car is sweet. nice ride.

BRAID · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 3:34 pm Post subject:

Not much action lately but the holidays have slowed down wheels sales, allowing us to get into the shop and take care of a few issues.

First off we added some bling with some number circles and decals. Car has to pay for it's keep after all.

Sorry the pictures are a bit naff. It was very cold and wet outside. Ths scheme is sort of temporary till we are ready to repaint the car.

Our car came with a missing windshield washer bottle. As a used replacement runs around $75 we rigged up this universal version. After blowing out the lines we now have a clean windshield Smile

BRAID · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 3:38 pm Post subject:

We changed the studs in the rear to 72mm so we could run spacers. Fitment was a bit tight but after grinding a chamfer on the threaded end and an edge off the shoulder they slipped into place. We decided not to use brute force for once and selected an appropriate tool.

We are currently using a 12mm spacer which gives the 15x6.5 wheels the same effective offset as the OE 7" wheel but have enough thread left to go to 25mm if needed.

Fronts next. Longer studs but no spaces planned for now.

BRAID · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 3:43 pm Post subject:

While the car was on the hoist we decided to clean the underside. A few days after the recent rallycross we took the car to the power wash station but it didn't get everything off. This is the pile of dirt we created after blowing out the nooks and crannies with an air hose.

Great Christmas present. Talk about throwing gasoline on the fire!

leeezard7 · Posted: Wed Dec 26, 2012 5:07 pm Post subject:

AWESOME THREAD!!! i am going to talk to my local scca group and see if we have anything like this in my area. i have several x race car 911's with cages that can be used lol. AWESOME...

BRAID · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 7:28 am Post subject:

Took the car out for a "spin" yesterday.

It did surprisingly well; lots of traction from the Firestone Winterforce tires, not much understeer except at really low speeds. Very controllable oversteer at moderate speeds. I didn't get to fully open it up though so can't comment on high speed behavior.

During my play time I did get to weigh the car at a friend's shop with his very nice wireless setup:

Here's the result with me in the driver's seat, 1/2 tank of fuel and spare tire and tools removed. Race trim.

Or, if you prefer:

How does it look?

leeezard7 · Posted: Sat Dec 29, 2012 9:45 pm Post subject:

SWEET PROJECT!

drscope · Posted: Mon Dec 31, 2012 11:45 am Post subject:

You have heavy diagonal weight. May not be a problem for the stuff you are doing, but on a road race car we try very hard not to have a diagonal weight issue like that. Its best to have one side heavy in place of diagonal.
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BRAID · Posted: Fri Jan 04, 2013 7:27 pm Post subject:

Tomorrow's exploits:

http://www.myautoevents.com/pls/mae/frmEventDetail.Show?psevent_id=13534

Wish us luck!

BRAID · Posted: Sun Jan 06, 2013 2:07 pm Post subject:

This car is proving to be an ideal weapon in the world of SCCA RallyCross as yesterday, driven by guest driver Scott Harvey and owner Paul Eddleston it achieved first and second place in the Detroit Region Season Opener held in Crystal, Michigan.

Conditions were frigid for the morning session and competitors were presented with a frozen solid dirt surface with litlle snow coverage, even the portions of course inside the dirt ovel track. The Carrera, on it's Winterforce tires once again had an advantage in traction over the other Prepared RWD who's engines were all in the "wrong" place for such conditions. The course started out wide and open and gave some wonderful arse-out drifting opportunities but one had to reign it in for the last third as it got much tighter and slippier as it entered and traversed the oval to the finish, albeit by a circuitous route.

The afternoon session was a different story. The course was run backwards and with temperatures climbing into the 30s a sloppy goop had formed on top of frozen dirt, churned up by the AWD classes before us. Still, once we picked our way carefully through the oval track section we could open up the car, with a little care than we both used, to set some really quick times. One or two of our runs came to grief however as we both had instances of instananeuos oversteer in some of the faster sections, resulting in a few spins and multiple cone penalties between us. Still, the other competitors suffered similar fates and we came out on top again.

It was good to finally drive the car fast on the loose and I was amazed how competant it is. It just bites you in the bum surprisingly quickly if you overstep with no way of rescueing it. Lot to learn with this one. The car ran flawlessly agaiin despite the beating. Only issue was a burnt out blower motor for outside air but as the outside air was freezing we didn't miss it much. Might do next time. Easy fix?

Next event: round two on February 15th or thereabouts. Maybe some performance mods can be incorporated before then.

Here's some pictures and video links. More should surface over the next week or so.

IN CAR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=czwuIB-PYKA&feature=share&list=UUID6AciwFXFct3HiWQk8BIQ

EXTERIOR:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1EZOyx9i-m0&feature=share&list=UUID6AciwFXFct3HiWQk8BIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-XAqmmQGeUw&feature=share&list=UUID6AciwFXFct3HiWQk8BIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mXYIi13jACY&feature=share&list=UUID6AciwFXFct3HiWQk8BIQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVzbaKU2trE&feature=share&list=UUID6AciwFXFct3HiWQk8BIQ

BRAID · Posted: Mon Jan 07, 2013 6:06 am Post subject:

Here's some more videos of the event from Brian Thorpe:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TcS7QyQ7RY&feature=youtu.be

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7TcS7QyQ7RY&feature=youtu.be

BRAID · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 1:37 pm Post subject:

I just found out the car produced the fastest time of the day at the RallyCross this past weekend. Scott was driving not me but it's still very gratifying; it was faster than all the heavily modified Subarus and other well developed cars.
Very Happy

As the car was still on the trailer Tuesday morning we decided to drop it off at Thompson Racing Fabrication to get some "Porsche Protection" installed. That's skid plates and oil cooler system shields in English.

Their almost completed rally Lancer in the background is amazing.

Despite spending $10 of my life savings and the best part of an hour of my life at the local power wash the underside still looked like this when we got it on the hoist.

Still, it's a lot cleaner then the floor of the power wash bay I used. Wont be invited back there again.

Stuff keeps showing for the car. Wish I had time to install it all. Yesterday pedals, foot rest and a throttle pedal lifter from Pelican.

Today some rubber floor mats. I was going to get racing red but bottled out and got safe grey instead.

I'll post pictures of Ryan's handywork when we get the car back next week.

Have a great weekend.

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leeezard7 · Posted: Fri Jan 11, 2013 5:18 pm Post subject:

great job getting best time in a stock carrera against modded cars. awesome.

BRAID · Posted: Tue Jan 15, 2013 8:27 pm Post subject:

Some images are emerging from the University of [URL="http://www.thompsonracingfabrication.com/"]Thompson Racing Fabrication[/URL]

Front skid plate

Oil tank armor

Oil cooler protection

Oil line shielding

I can't wait to see the harness bar he is creating.

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leeezard7 · Posted: Wed Jan 16, 2013 3:14 am Post subject:

nice work

BRAID · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 4:12 pm Post subject:

Picked the car from Ryan Thompson today and found this gorgeous custom harness bar in the back. Better and cheaper than Sparco. Perhaps yYou should get one.

and the MOMO steering wheel hub arrived.

Now I have the car back I really should bolt some of these goodies on it.

leeezard7 · Posted: Fri Jan 18, 2013 10:43 pm Post subject:

SWEET!


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