Airflow

Spent some more time on the brake ducts. Hopefully wrap up the prototypes this weekend.






WSS just clears

Rotas and ducts

Rota DPTs 18.8.5" with Hoosier R6 245/35/18






Backing plate for 3rd gen brake ducts




Already need to spin it again for ease of installation on the hose plate but it's a start :)

Also installed a full set of Group-N mounts.

New Track Wheels

Rota DPT 18x8.5+48. They are fine for the 245 hoosier slicks and R comps that I will run. It's not worth the trouble trying to fit huge wheels and tires on this car. STI is easy being 5x114.3 and having giant fenders..

6-18 @ ORP with Team Continental

Passing an E46 M3 up hill


Passing Bob in his GTR, what a cool car :)


99'ish Corvette with a big motor and R comps that I let pass me. I didn't really let him get away, I think he felt pressured to put some time between us which caused this off. He dropped his pace 3-5 sec a lap after this...




Me turning on camera mode instead of video on accident...





Best lap of the day was a 2:02 clockwise. Last time out I did a 2:04 CCW.

More ORP

ORP 6-1-10

I think this was lunch break.


Lots of bugs, as in insects..




The Alcons worked great. I had some concern about the master cylinder being too small for the application. The Alcons have 8.718" of surface area on the pistons whereas the OE brakes have 5.581". In the rear it's 1.577" and double that with the STI Brembos. So I think my worries were valid but the pedal is rock solid so no further action is required.. I had started to work out a dual Alcon master setup that deleted the OE booster/master but kept ABS.







Looking at the footage my best lap time so far was a 2:04. It was nice to just drive all day and not work on the car for once!!! Next day at ORP is 6-28 and I'm trying to get brake ducts in by then. The Bilstein suspension worked great. I did the first two sessions on full soft in the front then went full stiff. The track is new so the pavement is in really good shape. I have the rear sway in the middle setting, I think moving it to full stiff will change it from very neutral to just a touch of oversteer.

Working on the video...

Rear Brakes Installed

Got the rear ARP studs installed:


Milled the OE Brembo 2 piston calipers:







Installed with new rotors:

Rear brakes

Rear brakes consist of 09 STI 2 piston brembos:


04 STI rotors:



Milled .160" on the drum lip to clear the backing plate:







Nice increase in size:



Just need to mill a bit off of the caliper ears now..

Stasis

So the proper offset hats are in production but x months out.. Instead of waiting I had a couple of .060" spacers laser cut that sit behind the hats spacing the entire hat/rotor out.





Jared@Stasis swapped out the 28mm rotors for 32mm rotors free of charge.

The main issue all along has been a miss-communication about the calipers. The mono6 I'm using has a 38mm centerline to radial mount whereas the mono4 is available in 36mm or 38mm. Initial conversations with Stasis indicated they were using the 38mm. Turns out they use the 36mm. So I'm still .0787" offset. That's fixed by milling .040" off of the caliper bracket. Swapping out the .060" hat/rotor spacers for .020".





328mm 4 piston Brembo GT



6 piston Alcon/Stasis

Lowered 1"

Suspension

Installed a roll center & bump steer correction kit:





Finally got the Bilstein coil overs put together and installed




Fronts are based on PSS9s with different spring rates and valving




Rears are motorsport coilovers with custom upper mounts that I made




Shrader valve just clears!




The bolts are impossible to reach by yourself so I tacked them in place




Rear installed




The rear shock is inverted to reduce unsprung weight too




Front installed




Lowered to car 1" up front and .750" in the back for a 26" arch to ground at all 4 corners. Going to align it in the AM.

Stasis is sending out a new hat and rotor set with proper offset. They actually are sending a 370mmx32mm rotor rather than their normal 28mm rotor. More weight but also more thermal mass :)