Time Attack S13 Race Car : Plug and Play VEMS

[damo_S13]

plastic rear screen... cool where can i get one of tho's

thanks
damo

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Apex of course
Curved to fit just like the original, however you can do the pikey way and just bolt in a sheet of lexan and try and get the curve yourself, JRTuning ben managed this without it looking too bad.

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This didnt help matters  bloody prototypes.

[cliffb75]

Where did the missing bits go? Is your tubby OK?

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All bent outwards, nothing got sucked in (I think).
I'll have a proper check.

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Been a while since I posted on this thread, the motorsport and car-show season has been VERY hectic.

I finished 8th at TimeAttack round 2 at Silverstone
Forgot how to drive at Knockhill for round 3, finished way down
And then a 15th in the Final at Brands, which was a better drive than the result shows.
Just need to some some budget for next year and take everything a step onwards. There is also likely to be a return of a RWD or 2WD class which will help a lot. If there had been a RWD class this year, like last year, then I would have had a 1st, 2nd and 3rd over the year

I also ran in Ten of the Best  www.totb.co.uk an event I have wanted to try for a while. The event is a 3 discipline event, drag, top speed and handling. I cant launch and a 350bhp car is never going to be great on top speed however handling is another thing. The RWD class was quite competative, with kit-cars & lotus dominating the top slots, well expect for me, stuck in 3rd in a lotus sandwich.

VID

http://media.sxoc.com/contributors/sm/TOTB6/SM@TOTB6_Fast_Handling_Run_3rd_Place.wmv

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I was lucky enough to be funded to go racing in Sweden last week Apex Performance were invited over to an event run by The Nissan 200SX Owners Group of Sweden (www.200sx.nu). To both of these thank you for the opportunity and hospitality :thumbs:

Myself and Yak got a 26 hour ferry Wednesday night from Hull to Gothenburg arriving at 7 in the morning. A 200mile drive faced us at the other side to an airfield in south Sweden.



We did manage a tourist visit to the circuit where F1 once raced - Anderstorp, on the way. I'll have some pictures and footago of this at a later date.
http://www.scandinavianraceway.info/en/index.htm

Friday night were treated to a meal by the 200SX OGS, while we tried to remember everyones name :wave:

Early start Saturday, breakfast at 06:30 and then straight to the airfield. We were soon practicing the "SuperStage". This course is laid out exactly as to a standard, so that times from other events at other venues can be compared. Even F1 cars have set times on it!
Here is a map of the course, the gates are marked in red.





Before we went we had watched a couple of you-tube vids to see what we were up against.
This 944 took the course record in 2005, in 1:24:84

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0doDdJyDGg8

We had been set 1:30 as a target by the Swedish, and we had this in the bag at the end of the first half-day.




This afternoon would see us do some drag racing.



Some even more crazy cars turned up, including a sequential-turbo S13 :eek: with no room under the bonnet it was just left sticking out of the bonnet :wack:




There was also an ex-endless Skyline that ran a 8.9 pass in Japan.




Nice to see a classic too, a 260 IIRC






I ran a personal best of 13.04@112mph :eek: While Yak, having never drag raced did a 5 or so runs before letting his LUK clutch have the afternoon off.

http://www.youtube.com/v/I2cOLVEbXrE

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Another Early start on Sunday, 06:30 breakfast, and back to the airfeild.



Today would be "SuperStage" all day.

I got a ride in this Ethanol (E85) powered Beast. 500+rwhp



I have some more video of this car, and the massive amount of custom fabrication on the car. I'll sort this at a later date.

As we had all day on the SuperStage Yak and I thought we should have a go in each others cars. I managed to wipe a cone out and crack Yaks big gay splitter (sorry) but I also beat his current best time with only 2 attempts :cool: and heres the 10mB vid of it.

Yak has never really driven my car, and its a lot easier to get in a slower car and drive fast than get into a faster car and go flat out. Yak is a very capable driver, so other than warning him that the brakes are lots lots better so he doesn't flat-spot my expensive track tyres, and asking him to be more careful than I was in his :rolleyes: He got to play, I think he was a little shocked by the difference between the cars :wack:

***Insert Vid here - Yak is uploading***

By this time in the day the 200SX OGS were having their AGM in the airfield hanger and that left only 3 of us lapping the Superstage - Time for some serious practice.

At this point my best time was a 1:26:50, which I had done twice, but this soon tumbled and soon I had bettered the fastest time of the day set by Niclas, our host and chairman of the 200SX OGS. He had run a 1:24.82 in his GT3071 equipped S13, and I'd done a 1:24.81 again I had recorded this time twice!



With the meeting over Niclas was back on the superstage determined to beat my time....  and he did. A 1:24.60 was posted while some extra cone-marks were added to his bumper.



I wasn't sure where I could gain time, but I hadn't hit a marker cone all weekend in my car (only in Yaks), so I went out determined to get closer to the gates and see if I could find the 0.2+ seconds I needed.

I did!!  I found 1.2 seconds :eek: and posted the fastest time of the day. A 1:23.59!

Niclas did go back out but one of his engine mounts let go and that was the end of his running. However the rain came not long after, after a mainly dry weekend so soon everyones day was over. Well except Yak, he kept running in the wet, he loves it.

The vid of my fast lap is here

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=om1bHtra-Do


There are more pictures here
(Thanks Rasmus)
http://200sx.kicks-ass.net/album/album.php?username=rasmus&cat=6829
and here
(Thanks Sultans)
http://www.numo.se/emmaboda2007.html


Once again, massive thanks to Apex for accepting the invite to Sweden and sending me and Yak out there. Really was a very special opportunity that doesn't happen often, and I'm very grateful to the hospitality of the 200SX OGS and the generosity of Bren and Apex to pay for the costs of the trip out there :Plug:

[gox]

Very nice congratulations,this give me even more inspiration to start working on my S13,but i must end up my e30 first and get some $$$ for S13 stuff

Wish you even better times

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Unfortunatly I wont get back to Emmaboda this year, the event where I could go back to defend my crown is 12th October. Which is also the date of the UK Time Attack final @ Snetterton.

I'll update this project as we have moved the car forward again this year, and got some good results. The car is still using VEMS to great sucess.