Randal, I dropped off the 222 rear deck lid Wednesday at Original Customs. Go get her!

Thanks Rob.

Appreciate your dropping the lid off.

Hey Randall, my car weighs in at 1640 with a full load of fuel. I used braces between the shock towers.

How much fuel? Guessing you must be under 1600# dry.

I think I'll be able to get about 1580# without a huge amount of work. There is another 20# there if I lose the Targa bar.

100# from where I am is like picking up 10hp.

So happy to see you back in the game! Continued focus on rotating weight if you are planning on Hillclimbs again. An alumnum hat rotor is worthwhile in my opinion. I designed and had machine shop make alumnum hats that work with brembo floating rotors on my Z. It wasn't all that expensive. $1500. Way cheaper than the carbon ceramics that are on the cayman now! I'm actually thinking of making my own pccb replacements for cayman. These weigh couple lbs. Crazy lightweight and strong as I used 7075 aircraft alloy.



And how about a sequential. Huge time for hillclimb with a close ratio like this one.

http://youtu.be/_FD6-UX3WN0

Like to see a picture of that rotor when it's installed. So is that the inside hub or whatever it's called bit for a floating rotor?

Beautiful piece of work.

2.5 Gallons. I'm going to have to start a thread here as I haven't been on this forum much and I can see that was a mistake.

Now I've plumbed the new Accusump, putting it into the drivers compartment where I can turn it off and on, so using the manual valve. Also used the AeroQuip hose and push on fittings. I will be adding clamps, although I probably don't need them. Also cut a 4 x 4 in square out of an old IMSA slick, cut a 2" hole in the middle and will rivet that to keep the hose centered in the hole. KISS as JP would say.

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And from the back side.

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Now ready to fill the Accusump, put oil back into the car, pre-oil the bearings and start her up.

Supposedly Ford (or Holman-Moody?) acid dipped a few Trans-Am series Mustang bodys in white in acid to make the chassis lighter...I know, not too practical with your car..but something to get you thinking about!

So how'd it run Randal. When do you get to use it again?. I just finished installing a brake upgrade that saved 9lbs per front wheel over the previous setup. 12.2" AP Racing rotors, lightweight Alloy hats and Wilwood forged 4 piston superlites. When you think about trying to say, catch 18lbs of something thrown at you really fast then you start to see the benefits of reducing as much weight as possible (unsprung too)

Great point about weight, not sure I want to try and catch a 16#, let alone 18# shotput!

Not running yet, but just need to put the transmission back in and the starter, wire and oil her up and should be ready.

Got the Accusump in and oiled up, transmission and starter on and fired her up. Took a little while, but she finally started. I was using year old race fuel, which was suspect.

222 is now off with a new owner. Packed her up today.

Great car, so much fun over the 10 years I owned her.

So, now whut?
I got 12-13 years out of my 914 box. Went over a year without a toy car......bad idea.

DSR

Found a great one up North, but just a bit in front of my budget.

Who bought the chassis

I ended up selling the engine and chassis together. Still some assembly required, but I bought back most of what I sold off the car, and with a couple of days the car will be complete again.

You will see the car running PCA GGR events in the bay area.

It looks like she went to a good home, he's a good driver and 222 seems to fit his style ...

Right, Andrew is really competitive and does have substantial skills behind the wheel. Very precise driver, which I learned when taking a shotgun run with him years ago.

The next stage of the car will be more focused on autox, so weight reductions and a few other interesting things. The car at 1550# or less, with a few other adaptions will continue to be very competitive.

Although it's competitive as is to tell the truth.

Byholder?

yes

Awesome
He should be able to give Mike K a good challenge in 222! Big 4 vs. 6! I need to get back out there, even if it is just to wear down my street tires and watch the big boys battle. It always a fun, active "car show"

http://www.pca-ggr.org/autocross-calendar-corrections/