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Due to series of unfortunate events the 32 is currently my daily. Fuel economy and jungle gym aside it has not been too bad to drive around. That was until the ol' Varex decided that ~15 years and ~8 of those years on E85 was enough. The butterfly valve separated from the motors' shaft and managed to wedge/weld its self in the closed position. the varex when rapped sounded like there wasn't any packing left in it either. New Vibrant 3" muffler was selected to go in. While it is a shame to lose the quiet mode, the new Vibrant muffler definitely gives a more mellow/rounded tone which sounds great. To me it also sounds louder than the varex was open... so there is that. sorry neighbours -
My 6 Point FIA harness have arrived (kinda). There was a mix up from the supplier and I ended up with 3" set rather than the 2" set. I contacted them and their customer service was top notch. It is being resolved and 2" ones will be on their way to be soon but in the mean time I was able to at least mock them up in the car to see the vibes. Need to organise some fixed back seats so i can actually use them as a 6 point. I am leaning towards the Velo Podium II XLs as I like the look of the bolstering compared to the GP90 XL or GPT2. The side and thigh bolstering on the GP90/GPT feels less that my existing Bride Digo R recliner. Velo Podium II XL Velo GP90 XL Velo GPT2
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Got the flat door cards "good enough" for now. After cutting out the arm rest I removed all the stock trim material. Then filled the gap with a bit of Masonite and wrapped it in some adhesive foam to hide the transitions as much as possible. Then I applied some black vinyl material to the panel with some spray on contact adhesive smoothing the edges as best as I could. Here is how it sits in the car with the door handle and cut down window switch mounted
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Fitted some Advan AD09s to try next. Likely slower than the CR-S but should work in the wet and last longer. Off for alignment and the new plates worked a treat! I was finally able to hit both my drift and grip alignment targets with the same setup! Grip Front: Toe total -2mm(1mm out each side) Caster +7° Camber -3.8° Ackerman +15° Rear: Total toe +3mm (1.5mm in each side) Camber -1.5° —————————————- Drift as above but drop the front sway bar and change the below. Front: Toe total -10mm(5mm out each side) Ackerman +5°
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Acostal came through with a new bracket which should free up some adjustment arm and hit my target of -3.7° camber and 7° caster. (old black, New silver) fitted up and you can see how much shorter it makes the relative length of the caster rod as well as swinging it slightly to free up some misalignment in the bearing with Caster maxed out short this is how the wheel sits on the car in the air While I was at it, I pulled the wheels off the car to inspect the suspension and noticed this lovely gash. A pity becasue these tyres, while on wear bars, would have had at least one more dry grip day in them. Have a set of AD09 to try out next which I expect will be slower than the CR-s or AR-1 were but better in the rain with a longer life?
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Th 3/4 cage is bolted in with carpet cut. I plan to retrim the back seat area to have it feeling complete/GT3 vibes soon. For the rear door cards I'm using some poor condition factory door cards. I will cut up and make flat cards from to clear the cage.
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Cage has come back from powdercoating. Colour is "Dormant Purple." Rested the door bars into the car for now just to see how the colour looked. Cutting carpet, install and trimming to come
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Cage is well underway so here is some progress pics J18 Dual occupant spec with X-brace through main hoop so i can still stack tools/jerry cans in the back seat area Removeable door bars some weld close ups and the fasteners used for the removable bars All welded up ready for powder coating
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I have purchased a pair of FIA certified 6 point harness that is HANs compatible and will look into buying some appropriate seats like a Velo GP90 that already have the sub-belt slot rather than cutting up my genuine Bride Digo R's
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The Car is still street registered and driven. The main use of the car is still just circuit days (time attack not door to door), Drifting (mild tandem-ing) and the occasional weekend drive. May do the occasional hill climb or road rally in future. I almost always have passengers in the car at least at some point during a track day. So getting a cage for safety was the primary reason. I also did not want to run harnesses without at least a harness bar and cage. Another reason was that moving up a class for DSA days requires a cage. I have seen people add a slot in the base cushion to accommodate the 5th/6th belts which i could be willing to do. Eventually I will probably swap of the Brides for Velo GP90s etc which already suited. But financially wont be able to do that at the same time as the cage/harnesses.
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The yashio ones are FIA but I’ll take a look at velo and raceworks too as I have seen they do pink in some options. only issue is my bride Digo R seat does not have a spot for the 5th point belt to come through the base cushion. Don’t really want to change the seats just yet. How will would a 5point work with that style seat
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Dropped the 32 off to have a custom Half cage (3/4 cage?) fabricated will update once complete. Looking into harnesses now. I like the "yashio factory" ones purely because they are pink and look to meet all specs. But open to opinions
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Couple of pics I have seen from Winterfest. Videos (hopefully) and write up to come.
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Unfortunately we ended up not quite getting to where I wanted alignment wise. Ideally I was targeting -3.5 to -3.8 camber as a good compromise for drift/grip/street. But due to the combination of custom configuration custom parts and the relationship between caster and camber (as you reduce camber you also reduce caster) on R32 we ended up at: Front Camber -4.5° Caster +7° Toe -4mm toe out each side. -8mm total Rear Camber -1.5° Toe 2mm in each side 4mm total in Perfect for drift but will be a touch too much camber for circuit. Thankfully the arms being modular means a change to one simple bracket will give me the adjustment I need to get to -3.7° camber and keep the caster at 7°.
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An issue I had with my current setup was no way to adjust front camber to a point I needed it while also not negatively effecting Caster. Thanks to the way the R32 front end was designed if you lengthen the Front upper camber arm (FUCA) to reduce camber you also reduce caster. This also resulted with the wheel sitting forward in the guard where 7.5° caster was but only actually having 6.5°. In order to have the caster back where I needed it to be I had to shorten the FUCA which of course added negative camber to the tune of -4.8° which was a little extreme for a grip/street alignment. The solution was to shorten the Lower Control Arm (LCA) by going back to a stock R32 one. The risk here was what if it was too short and caused issue with the drift alignment. So instead I "had" to opt for a custom adjustable LCA. Once again Stewy from Acostal was able to accommodate my have my cake and eat it too build by making some shortened 210 series arms. As long as I was willing to help with some of the die grinding on them. undefined R33 LCA + Acostal 110 Caster arm (both for sale 😘) vs new Acostal 210 full LCA/Caster arm. Close up of new arm. Adjustments include LCA length, Caster, Bump stop and Roll center correction. New arm installed and sway bar dropped Roughly setup by eye in the +5° Ackerman setting May have measured camber wrong as once checked on level ground with my phone it looks like -5° Camber and I will hopefully sort it out on the aligner. thankfully I now have on car adjustable camber. You wouldn't know it but the front wheel here has effective specs of 17x9 -10!
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Hard to say exactly which cooling upgrade had the most effect but the combined outcome allowed me to do 8 hot laps at Mallala back to back on a 22C day without me seeing the oil temp exceeding 106C or water 95C without the water sprayers being on. I have not checked the data logs yet to confirm the max temps, but it was certainly a success.
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yeah that was my plan but then the scraps of 3mm aluminum were free
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Next up was from CAD🙃 work for making up some ducting. Transferred the template to some scrap 3mm aluminum I picked up and added some pinchweld with gasket to help with sealing. The same process was used to cover the other large gaps. Made a bracket up to hold the water sprayer tanks (5L each for 10L total). The pump for the water sprayers was installed where the battery used to be, which was relocated to the left hand side. While I was cleaning things up I decided to remake the aircup system mount. Before: which made more sense when i had a full boot trim and sub/amps After The boot feels and is likely more balanced now.
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Unfortunately the new oil cooler did not quiet clear the intercooler pipes to fit inside the drivers side guard where I intended. So it was back to in between the intercooler and the AC condenser. While this may not be great for adding heat it is much safer especially for drift and my affinity for sending it into tyre stacks Mounted up the water sprayers. Because I originally intended for the oil cooler to be mounted else where I bought a single nozzle sprayer to go with it. Figured I should still use it so I mounted it between the intercooler and the oil cooler.
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Got the fiancé onboard to make a intake heatshield. I am still skeptical how much benefit this will really give on a turbo car but i guess colder air in should be colder air out.
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Next track day is in 1 week. Hopefully I can fit the oil cooler then get ducting and water sprayers sorted before then
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New radiator and oil cooler have arrived obligatory comparison shot taking car of some small easy gaps first before I tackle some ducting. Just used some adhesive foam with a heat rating to 150C to fill this little gap air may take to bypass the radiator. Oil cooler comparison
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yeah hoping to duct at least the intercooler/radiator before the next grip event if not the oil/pws coolers too. corflute is a great idea.
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Drifting yeah not surprising. but 2.5 laps at mallala on a grip circuit day 25°?
