my road race SBC V8 Porsche 914

[Sieg]

Perfect!

[Payton King]

I will be there with Ron and his blue Mustang...he is doing the OPTIMA event.

[gnx7]

This is a bad ass little car.

Take it to Thunderhill/Infineon at sea level and lets see what it can do

[byndbad914]

Payton - yeah I will definitely be there Thursday and Friday. I meet my friends out there every year (one of them owns a shop I worked at with him back in the 90s in SoCal) and normally ride over to CA with them afterward for a few days. This time I will drive down with my enclosed trailer to then go get the Nova.

Have my list of vendors I am going to try to hit to get recommendations on the Nova project I am not going to the Optima event tho' - I am going straight to CA after and then the looooonnnnnggg drive back with the trailer and car.

gnx7 - I actually first built the car while living in LA and let me tell you, I can seriously feel the HP difference after moving to a mile high. Lost over 100HP! At Willow Springs I could hit 165 in the straight. That is when I decided I had better build a full tube chassis I tried to get one test and tune in before I moved but the car broke just out of T4 - totally long story - so I never got a chance to really run it there. I could run 135mph in the long sweeper turn and added a wing when I did the tube chassis, so expectations were closer to 155-160mph with a settled rear end.

Trust me, if I had room for both cars in my trailer I would take the 914 to WSIR this November while picking up the Nova and just see how nuts it would be.

[byndbad914]

The latest track day adventure. Had a couple friends out and was going to split the first session of the day giving them both a quick ride while I warmed up the tires... turns out to not be the case but also get to learn a new lesson.

It gets a little long waiting for the tow truck but you can hear my thoughts as I try to figure out what must have happened. The problem with having new parts on the car mixed with previous issues = can put you on the wrong scent. Once I determined what the real issue was, every whacky thing that was happening made sense of course.

check out my channel -
https://www.youtube.com/user/byndbad914?feature=mhee

[byndbad914]

Apparently the Mendeola's violently fast shifts take their toll on parts, here is what I finally found after cutting and beating on the rear hub for a couple hours to get it apart. The freakin' nut that holds it all together had to be cut in two places and I still had to beat both halves off with a hammer and punch!

The wheel flange was completely broken in half so the splined portion was left engaging the stub axle while the whole wheel assy was literally only held in place by the large nut. You can see the broken section with one of the bearing races stuck on the stub axle in the pics.

F'd up part is I spent 2 hrs trying to get that assembly apart without messing up the wheel flange; I expected to reuse it and figured something broke on the stub axle. Turns out 10 minutes ripping a cutoff wheel into that mess would have been the better alternative.

[byndbad914]

I had stripped the car down to build a 66 Nova with the parts for road racing but full interior and glass for street use as well. I had all the suspension tacked into the Nova, then sort of out of the blue, got an email from a guy that had came across some extra cash and wondered if I still wanted to sell the roller. So, I took all the susp back out of the Nova, put it back, and sold the roller on Memorial Day weekend. Car will hit the track in the Southwest roughly next summer with the new owner.

On a good note, I got Forgelines today built to fit my 2011 Z06 Carbon Edition with the 395mm rotors (that I picked up literally the same day I delivered the 914 and only 15 miles apart) and these are what I am using on the Nova (295 fronts/335 rears, same width as the slicks I had on the 914). Since I had already built the suspension up from my custom stuff I had in the Porsche then took it all back out of the Nova - turns out I could literally have reused everything from the Porsche with C6 Vette spindles and stock Vette wheel offsets. I had designed that suspension for the Porsche without much info on a Vette but decent info on a modern Porsche... and just having an idea of how suspension works... turns out the A arm ratios match the Vette, caster within a degree, kingpin inclination the same as a C6 Vette and the spindle height is literally within 1/8" of my spindles I designed and machined. Guess that explains why the car picked up nearly 10 seconds on the track when I put the new suspension in!

Good news is this means the Nova should be nearly as impressive for cornering tho' it will likely be a bit slower with about 2" narrower track width than the flared 914, a bit heavier and taller. This time I am hoping to make inboard shock mounting work out as well; already designed the rockers. The sequential transaxle in the rear of the Nova should be cool.

Link to the Nova project...
https://lateral-g.net/forums/showthread.php4?t=40070

[BMR Sales]

Hey Tim, I'm carr914 on the World & found you over here. I knew that you working another type of vehicle. Let me know if I can I can help you with anything!

T.C.

[byndbad914]

nice to see you over here, I will keep you in mind as I work through the Nova. Check out the link in my sig for the new project if you have some time to kill

[BMR Sales]

Will do!

T.C.