Found you through that Hillclimb Monsters video, been following ever since! Still appreciate the walk through, because it's the very spirit of what makes the self built element of sprint/hillclimb so fascinating. Cheers Glenn, keep on keeping on.
Saw Mad Mike commenting that they boost all of his cars to 20psi. He reckons that is the break even point for boost on rotors, add more and thing start to break. I'm wondering if that is true for four strokes as well? Spending money on getting more out of the engine at that boost level might be the best upgrade path, head work, exhaust work, intercooler, radiator and coolers, as well as the obvious weight reduction and aero. Tires and suspension, there are so many options to increase lap times that don't include just turning up the boost. Love this build, following since the Skid Factory visit.
How long are the events you do? no cooling issues with the gearbox or diffs and the flat floor? Also whats the deal with the drain tank for the turbos? Are they mounted too low to drain into the engine? wet or dry sumped engine?
For Superlap we only run eight minute sessions normally but there are non competitive events where it's a fifteen minute session, I normally back off and come in after no more than ten because we will empty the ~35L fuel tank after that. HGT Sequential no issues with temp, runs pretty much bang on where it should be, diffs - I don't care, never measured them and never seen any evidence of problems, transfer case is the one to keep an eye on - it will get up to ~120c after about ten minutes (where we run out of fuel anyway) so first session is totally fine, we do need to watch the temp for following sessions though.
WRONG!!!! The march/micra is a good looking hatch! Interesting drive arrangement. I toyed with a similar concept for a mid engine rear drive but dismissed it due to the complexity. It actually makes a lot more sense if you go 4WD. I ended up building a daihatsu charade with a turbo charged 1MZ V6 mounted east west in the back. Its fun but has too much weight up back so will spit you off backwards with very little warning. Was thinking i wanted to do a K13 micra with front engine rear drive but now im thinking about transaxles again...
dunno what the world time attack rules are but its a nissan with a nissan motor - would be awesome to see it in australia, obvs lots of cost and agg involved in that
Slight technical hitch with stuffing the motor in the wrong end BUT Nissan did pay a company to put on back there once soooooo LOL!!! I think we could only ever be demo laps - hell of a long way to go for that but ya never know.
It would be well suited to the more open flowing type courses found in Europe, not a lot of that sort of thing here unless we go on gravel & this car does NOT like gravel.
What an absolute beastie! Thx for the walk around.
Found you through that Hillclimb Monsters video, been following ever since! Still appreciate the walk through, because it's the very spirit of what makes the self built element of sprint/hillclimb so fascinating. Cheers Glenn, keep on keeping on.
Thanks for staying on board :) appreciate the support :)
Ugly little monster gonna tear it up! Thanks for the tour!
Saw Mad Mike commenting that they boost all of his cars to 20psi. He reckons that is the break even point for boost on rotors, add more and thing start to break. I'm wondering if that is true for four strokes as well? Spending money on getting more out of the engine at that boost level might be the best upgrade path, head work, exhaust work, intercooler, radiator and coolers, as well as the obvious weight reduction and aero. Tires and suspension, there are so many options to increase lap times that don't include just turning up the boost. Love this build, following since the Skid Factory visit.
You'll never see me slapping aero and light weight.... oh wait.....
@@TheLabLimited No daily comforts or sleeper pretentions required :)
How long are the events you do? no cooling issues with the gearbox or diffs and the flat floor?
Also whats the deal with the drain tank for the turbos? Are they mounted too low to drain into the engine?
wet or dry sumped engine?
For Superlap we only run eight minute sessions normally but there are non competitive events where it's a fifteen minute session, I normally back off and come in after no more than ten because we will empty the ~35L fuel tank after that.
HGT Sequential no issues with temp, runs pretty much bang on where it should be, diffs - I don't care, never measured them and never seen any evidence of problems, transfer case is the one to keep an eye on - it will get up to ~120c after about ten minutes (where we run out of fuel anyway) so first session is totally fine, we do need to watch the temp for following sessions though.
WRONG!!!! The march/micra is a good looking hatch!
Interesting drive arrangement. I toyed with a similar concept for a mid engine rear drive but dismissed it due to the complexity. It actually makes a lot more sense if you go 4WD.
I ended up building a daihatsu charade with a turbo charged 1MZ V6 mounted east west in the back. Its fun but has too much weight up back so will spit you off backwards with very little warning.
Was thinking i wanted to do a K13 micra with front engine rear drive but now im thinking about transaxles again...
dunno what the world time attack rules are but its a nissan with a nissan motor - would be awesome to see it in australia, obvs lots of cost and agg involved in that
Slight technical hitch with stuffing the motor in the wrong end BUT Nissan did pay a company to put on back there once soooooo LOL!!!
I think we could only ever be demo laps - hell of a long way to go for that but ya never know.
This should do really well at hill climbing
It would be well suited to the more open flowing type courses found in Europe, not a lot of that sort of thing here unless we go on gravel & this car does NOT like gravel.
Ok, tanti cavalli, esteticamente però resta sempre inguardabile
Being realistic about things there are not a lot of Group B rally or time attack cars that could honestly be called good looking.
Function over form.