TheTunersGroup

The front rotors on the supercharged 911 project car are factory Porsche 993 twin turbo rotors running on a custom hat. They are 322 mm x 32 mm. It runs Factory Porsche GT3 calipers on the front on custom caliper adapters. The GT3 calipers are a 4 piston caliper with a pad area of roughly 153 square cm per caliper. Here's a pic of the supercharged 911's brake setup ... Bear in mind that the weight of the supercharged 911 with a full fuel tank, no passenger seat and no spare wheel is just 1124 kg, so this is truly a mammoth brake setup on such a light car. It's hugely impressive that Ray (the engineer who owns the car) was able to squeeze such big brakes under factory 16 inch wheels, particular since 1970's Porsche factory wheels were never designed with such big brakes in mind and they don't have the very square inner profile like many more modern rims do. As for the Enkei pic, I didn't post that pic - I just replied to that post it was psoted by 260DET. Here is his post ... http://www.skylinesaustralia.com/forums/in...t&p=4058042 - Adam

-

Great thread Bond, Water to air intercoolers can work very well on cars where packaging an air to air intercooler can be tricky. A mate of mine had a turbo MR2 and he was forever having problems fitting a decent sized air to air intercooler into the MR2's engine bay. By using an air to water intercooler, you can get high efficiency of heat transfer out of the intake charge and into the water, then you have a ton of options at the front of the car to cool that water, without the packaging problems of trying to fit a big intercooler into the engine bay. Also with a water to air intercooler, it is possible to run the water piping through a chilling tank which you can fill with ice. The ice chills the water to below ambient air temperature, which really cools the intercooler down. The ice doesn't last long, but it can be useful for short sessions etc. - Adam

-

-

-

It's amazing what brakes you can fit with the right adapters and hats. A mate of mine is running Porsche GT3 front calipers and 993 twin turbo discs on an old 911 under factory 16" porsche rims. Here's a photo of his front brake setup ... Details are here ... http://www.supercharged911.com/brakes.html Here's a photo of his car with the 17" road wheels he uses. His track rims are factory 16 inch wheels. He got a custom set of caliper adapters made up and a custom set of hats. The key is proper measurement of everything - he's a semi retired engineer & was very careful on his clearances. If you run the caliper too close to the rim, it can get nasty - I saw a touring car rim a few weeks ago where a stone got stuck between the rim and the caliper. With the rim spinning the stone machined a groove right round the inside of the rim. It could have easily have cut the rim in half. - Adam

-

-

You just got votes from me - good luck ! How do you enter that contest ? A mate of mine has a car that might do well in it ... http://www.supercharged911.com - Adam

-

Yeah I agree. Welcome Kate ! - Adam

Haha - how does that work ? Welcome, Adam

Carbon fibre prices are currently very high because there is so much demand from Airbus. For some types of carbon fibre there is currently a long waiting list just to get raw materials. - Adam

I got a fine in the mail that was as a result of report by a council ranger I couldn't believe it. I didn't have the time to fight it in court so I just paid it. - Adam

Wow - that's impressive ! - Adam

-

Hi all, I'm new to the forum. I'm based in Sydney. Some of you may know me from the JDM Style Tuning forum, which my company is a sponsor of. I've been involved in many forms of motorsport including Formula Ford, Porsche club racing, Australian touring cars and endurance racing. I've spent quite a bit of time in Japan and the US West Coast, particularly the SEMA show, and have spent quite a bit of time round Laguna Seca in northern California. What I Do For Work Workwise I run a parts company in Sydney called The Tuners Group. Some of you may have seen our promo girls at various events ... We're the official exclusive Australian distributors for Works Bell (the makers of the world's finest steering wheel quick releases - and sponsors of Toshiki Yoshioka's AE86 & Team Orange), so any of you who are involved in Drift Australia may already know me. We're currently giving away a FREE Works Bell Rapfix II Quick Release and Works Bell Original Steering Wheel to celebrate our appointment as Works Bell's Official Exclusive Australian Distributor Details are here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/win.html We're also the official Australian distributors for the Forced Ignition anti-carjacking immobiliser systems, and an authorised supplier for AEM and HRE Wheels. Project Cars I've been building project cars since about 1990. This is a pretty wild recent project car we've had a bit to do with - built by a close family friend which has just had a photoshoot done for one of the major Australian automotive magazines ... It's built on a '71 911 shell with a completely custom supercharger setup. It regularly outruns GT3's and 911 turbos at Porsche Club events here. Lap times are ... Eastern Creek: 1 min 44s Oran South: 48 secs Oran GP: 1 min 17 secs Wakefield: 1 min 06 secs. The dyno chart tells the story - it's very very linear ... The weight of the car with a full fuel tank, no passenger seat and no spare wheel is 1124 kg Videos of it are here ... http://www.tunersgroup.com/Videos/Supercharged_911.html Full info on the car here ... http://www.supercharged911.com It's an absolute weapon We haven't built a Skyline yet, so part of my reason for joining this forum is to learn as much about Skylines as possible. - Adam