Saturday, June 19, 2010

burning rubber, spinning car , pylon killing and screaming tires = Drift practice last night!

So we decided to out to the drift practice last night. was a  good time   and chatted up with a bunch  of  good guys .

  like to thank sanjay  for roasting  off this set of  brand new  rubber !  and for grego   for taking  this great pic !


Also  stay tuned for the  Web site launch ! 
and big news on the way ! 

Sunday, May 23, 2010

I dont wanna put a title.

So we've been slacking pretty seriously on the blog-post front as of late, I'm not gonna lie to you, the last post was just photos that had been sitting on someones camera phone for a while.... But progress has not ceased!  As of tonight, the cage is at 97%, it is only awaiting 1 taco gusset and welding to the feet plates before the car is ready for the dash to get put back in and some finishing touches.

Rear Stays with an X between them were cut, mocked up, then welded.

 Next up was a pair of lower rear stays.  Not required in the rules, we expect them to help out with chassis rigidity.
 

Then  it was time to put the final bars in the main-hoop, for those of you who aren't keeping track at home, there is 6 (count 'em!) bars meeting at the 2 top corners on the main hoop.  Strangely the notches don't come out looking all that out to lunch.  Here it is:
Now you can see how the notch fits together with 5 other bars, looks pretty busy eh?

Harness bars too!
Incase you were wondering, yes it was awkward to weld.
Lastly, we would like to welcome grindobot to the So Much Win  team!

Monday, May 10, 2010

The GTR, still.

Work continues on Levi's uber sexy r32 GTR, taken care of a few major pieces of the cage puzzle, I'd say were on the home stretch as far as the roll cage is concerned.  There has been a few delays, now that we have wrapped up some other things getting in the way of progress we can go full bore again and get this car out on the track ASAP.

The cage got lowered down and all the roof bars got welded, as well as taco-gussets for the centre of the roof X.

 Door bars are in-place, taco'd and welded.

And we've completely replaced the factory dash bar with the dash bar for the cage.  I'm pretty proud of how this turned out, I think its clever, it only needs a couple tabs made to mount the console and the fuse box. 

We've also acquired a 1995 Dodge Neon Sport Coupe for a whopping $200.  You might ask, "What does one do with a $200 Neon?" The answer of course is make it a track car!  The plan is to make this car as bad-ass/fast as possible for the least amount of money.  We're pulling out all the stops, but leaving our wallets firmly placed in our back pockets.  In our oh-so-rare free time we have been scouring local sales, keeping an eye out for racing cast-offs, and watching ebay like a hawk.  I'll get up some "teaser" photos in a while, because you want to see our hooptie race car...

Thursday, April 1, 2010

G-T-YAR! round 2 !

Minor update, we got the front half laterals tacked in, along with the forehead bar, and the roof  X.  We've put lots of time into getting nice fitting bars and joints and it is paying off  :)  The cage is coming together nicely so far, here is some pics of the roof bars.

Here is the X in the roof and the forehead bar in place, eventually there will be gussets in the center of the plate, and a brace welded to the car at the center of the windshield.

This is the node for the main hoop X-brace and front latter on the passenger side, this particular joint gave us a lot of grief, we got it fitting better now, and there is still at least 3 more bars that will intersect at this point.  

front node where the forehead bar,  front half lat, and roof X all meet.

Right side main hoop node, not nearly as tough to fit-up.


Heres the enter of the X, just held on with tape now so we can check everything out before cleaning all the ends. 

Front lateral fitment along the A-pillar on the passenger side 


This will also get gusseted once we are finished raising and lowering the cage to weld the top of the roof joints.

and all together on the drivers side, lookin' snazzy hey?

passenger side 

So, thats all for now.  Next is to drop the cage through the floor and start welding the top, do the gussets and then get started on the lower portion of the cage and rear stays. 

stay tuned! Same Bat e-channel, no guarantees on what bat time it will be though.
(Now featuring Tom's ninja edit, to fix crappy spelling, grammar, extraneous spaces everywhere and annoying formatting, you're welcome)

Sunday, March 28, 2010

G-T-YAR!

The previous project is on hold for a bit, this time around we are doing some work on a sweet sweet Nissan GTR.  Yeeaaaaaa R34 front end swap, sexy.

So this is  the  plan:
- 8 point FIA style roll cage 
- Remove a portion of the trunk floor and lower the fuel cell 
- Clean up the interior and removing some heavy unnecessary junk. (map lights in a race car? psht)
- paint the interior and cage.
- and some odds and ends. 

Forgot the camera the first day so pics start a day deep, not much exciting happened anyway.
Here come some pics  :) 

We started with removing what was left of the interior, to make room for the spiffy roll cage, mainly the dash and drivers seat. The dash will be modified and put back in after the cage is finished. 
So after a lil' bit of work we had the dash out no problems :)  

You can also see the factory side impact protection bar here.  This is being removed, as well as its associated mounting brackets and being replaced with the dash bar from the roll cage.  Heres how it looked just after the dash top was removed:

Then out comes all the rest of the comfort junk.  AC stuff, heater core and blower motor, the controls for this were already removed, so its not like it was any use right now.

After all that was all cleared out it was time to give the sound deadening another hit of the spice weasel.  This shows the left side all cleaned up, and the right side is awaiting some solvent and a once over with the grinder.
  

Here the drivers side foot well, awaiting cleaning. 

and after:

There is a main seam going accross there, the seam sealer was pretty tough took a while to get rid of, it turned out nicely.  We also decided to tidy up the water/meth injection and fuel  pump wires to make things a little less hectic down the road.  


Now to do some fun stuff, time to start bending some tube! 

After taking some careful measurements and doing some maths, we start bending the main hoop.  This will serve as the foundation of the cage, everything will be measured off of it, if it doesn't fit right, it will be very difficult to make the rest of the cage fit right.
So obviously we want to have a super tight  fitment to maximise interior room and safety. 

This was also our first oppertunity to try out our new home-made tubing bender, and were pleased to report it works perfectly.  

Heres Tom inspecting the bends and watching the angle as it bends.

Needs a little more.

A couple minutes later, she's all finished.  Now lets see how it fits!



Great success, couldn't ask for much more, it fits perfectly!

We also managed to get the two front lateral bars bent up, but it was getting late, lots more pictures when we get those fitted and start the other bits of the cage later this week.

Friday, February 12, 2010

Turn the Page its time for a Cage !

Hey everyone,

Last night we started on  some roll-cage design work for one of our customers, as of now we have just been taking measurements and drawing it on the computer in preperation for when we get the materials to start fabricating. 
This will end up being an 8 point cage based off the FIA regulations, with the difference that this will be made out of  DOM tubing not cold-drawn steel for cost reasons, yet the FIA design will provide excellent safety, and added chassis rigidity. We would like to build this cage to satisfy the rules for as many North American sanctioning bodies as possible, to be sure it can be raced anywhere.
Here Is the 3/4  view 


Front  view 

 
side view . 

This is just the rough design for now, although the overall dimensions of the cage are complete, door and roof bar configurations may change.  There is also a few features yet to be drawn, generally these require acurate measurements with the rest of the cage in the car,  In addition to the harness bar, rear stays and a front brace to the firewall, there will be quite a bit of gusseting to be added but isn't part of the computer design phase. 
We will keep you posted on this project as it advances, hopefully the next update will involve us tearing into a big stack of pipe. :)

 'Till then,
 May the "Win" be with you!

Tuesday, February 9, 2010

bored so lets spray some powder !


So  was bored a few days ago  decided to powder coat some random  thing.

So  decided  throw  some   High reflective chrome   on some VG30 cam gears





 not even cleared  and look how  shinny its looking 

thats all for now 
Good  day