My Cordoba Coupe Trackday Car Project

[F2 Stu]

Have done a few jobs since my last update especially this weekend in preperation for next weekends 'Ring trip.

Passenger Corbeau ProSeries seat installed with harness, Carbon fibre boot seperator (Cheers m0rk).

And this weekend in the pissing rain I changed the front ARB, changed the pads to DS3000 compound, changed the brake fluid, fitted the fire extinguisher and fitted the camcorder mount

also made a +15mm adjustement to the ride height as I was getting rubbing in the rear arches and a binding noise from the front - turned out to be the offside drive shaft rubbing on the chassis

its getting there.....

 

[Icecavern]

also made a +15mm adjustement to the ride height as I was getting rubbing in the rear arches and a binding noise from the front - turned out to be the offside drive shaft rubbing on the chassis

Don't let m0rk here you say that, he'll start ranting about something being too low

 

[F2 Stu]

It might have looked ok with arches filled up, but not practical to drive & drive with some vigor

 

[m0rk]

like i said to pete, how cool will the car look when the broken driveshaft has flailled about

 

[F2 Stu]

Agreed - I saw the bare metal and thought-

"this car is too low"

now the wishbones are allmost level

 

[RobT]

you want ride height for the ring - its bumpy as F

 

[F2 Stu]

I'll be taking the c spanners with me it it aint high enough

 

[RobT]

you do know ride height affects tracking ?

 

[F2 Stu]

As I would be altering the geometry I would guess so...

 

[F2 Stu]

Not alot happened to the Cordoba since August, did the Ring trip which has immensly enjoyable.

Now its time get a wiggle on with the spanners as sometime next month it'll be going in to get the throttlebodies fitted.

Today I fitted a Schrick baffled sump and windage tray.

Getting the old one off was the easy bit tho access to the bolts around the flywheel proved to be pain in the ass once the new sump was in, ended up putting an ickle notch in the fly rather than mod the ball ended allen socket I borrowed just enought to get the wrench in.
Also had to cut a fair old chunk out of the ally bracket that bolts next to the sump to the g'box - happy days

Also fitted a Vibratechnics Front race compound engine mount (ran out of energy to do the rest) feels better as I supect the original one was touch tired.

Next is the rest of the mounts and the fitting of a new manifold and sports cat

(Apologies for the lack of fitted pictures, forgot to take the camera with me)

 

[WeeJase]

so what does the windage tray do stu?

 

[F2 Stu]

Suppossed to reduce the drag created by the crank going through the oil in the sump - minimal gains if at all in the great scheme of things.

 

[WeeJase]

I'm still trying to make up my mind whether the pic is concave or convex,its a veritable optical illusion

 

[F2 Stu]

Its upside down if that helps, and yes it has a dish to it otherwise the crank would get stuck

 

[WeeJase]

that much i gathered myself stu.

 

[RobT]

it keeps the oil in the sump around the oil pump pickup

 

[F2 Stu]

thats a more logical reasoning for it - dunno where I read about it interfeering with the crank etc

 

[cordobabrendy]

pretty much a double baffle then, one stops it slushing round and the other (sump) stops starvation then yea?

 

[RobT]

without one, if you hit the brakes hard with sticky tyres fitted, the oil will go up the front face of the block inside and straight out of the crankcase breather - finding its way eventually in the air intake on a std car - billo's motor put half a liter of oil out into a home made pop bottle catchtank in 5 laps at oulton - he now has a windage tray fitted

windage tray not to be confused with a crank scraper which is a blade of metal that mirrors almost exactly the crank profile and scrapes oil off it as the crank spins - to get weight down on the crank (yes I kid you not, every bit counts on a top spec race engine)

another benefit of windage tray is if the oil is not slopping about so much, it get less air in it and lubricates better - air in oil is very bad as where you have an air bubble you have no lubrication

 

[Fl@pper]

windage tray not to be confused with a crank scraper which is a blade of metal that mirrors almost exactly the crank profile and scrapes oil off it as the crank spins - to get weight down on the crank (yes I kid you not, every bit counts on a top spec race engine)

we got both on the dragster with flaps in the sump plates to control oil flow on launch/shutdown - every bit does count when there's 8 journals and 12 litres of oil slopping about