You took the A1 all the way rather than the A68? Nay...

My fave route up there is to take the B1363/B1257 north from York as well as the A68, but that does add significant time to the journey.

Looking forward to seeing the car Dunc

Andy

 

The last time we did as I was towing. The previous time I took the A68 and that is a fantastic driving road over the top of kielder forest iirc. Mike Payne and I did that in convoy and had fun

Rear wing arrived yesterday - I will hopefully get this fitted in the next day or so then for some of the other important jobs....

 

glad you are enjoying antilag lol
martin

 

Rear wing is on:

 

I Love this, great job mate

looks like a proper TA car

darc

 

I thought you said it was big

 

i'm sure there must be a bigger spoiler somewhere

 

nice spoiler-i bet it is light compared to oem one
martin

 

suits the car perfectly...black wing mirrors would have matched it better though

the diffuser must be top secret from the orientation of the pics

 

Looking good mate, prefer the old spoiler though

 

I am glad ... how does it look on yours?

 

I know it's not supposed to be an aesthetic thing but damn Duncan, looks fine mate.

Although very JDM BB

 

It looks very good on my car and was a fair bit lighter ,

 

Can we have a shot of the back of the front wings please

 

Yep

 

 

Who did those for you duncan?

 

 

how the heck am i meant to clean that

looks pretty damn fine though

 

 

Looking good Duncan!
Have to have a catch up soon

 

Slightly bigger air filter courtesy of Alyn at ASP:



The previous one was fouling the wheel on left hand bends with the new wheels/tyres... not great. This one fills the hole available almost perfectly.

 

Thanks to Pat for talking me through the steps needed to wire my LC-1 directly into the Solaris Ecu. Works a treat

It is now using the analog 0V-5V output cable from the LC-1 directly to the old lambda wire on the loom and into the Ecu.

So it's now got full closed loop fueling up to whatever MAP and RPM I want.

I also mounted the calibration switch in the centre console too so that amendments to calibrations can be made on the fly. Unfortunately I couldnt fit it by the DCCD controls as there is a lack of space beneath the panel but I can still reach this switch whilst harnessed in.

 

Calibration switch for the LC-1? But that needs the sensor to be in free air for calibration.

Andy

 

no, the calibration switch for the ecu. (map switching switch )

 

Your scoob looks amazing, well done on all the hard work that has been put in. Can't wait to see it out on the track.

 

I have to say how impressed I am with the Solaris ecu so far. The degree of flexibility is amazing in the set up side such as adding wideband sensors into it for controlling fueling.

Mapping is almost complete now for the 99 ron map and it is much smoother on normal cruising than it was on the OE ecu and the transitions between on and off throttle are perfect. No more hiccups as the OE Maf based system struggled to work out the volume of air in the FMIC pipework, just smooth and rapid progression.

Hopefully I will get the E85 maps sorted before the end of the week to try these out at the 30-130mph day at Marham. I will then have 8 switchable maps !

I have a Phormula KS-3 knock analyser installed and this has always proved very consistent with what was picked up in my det cans, so much so that the det cans are rarely used fully now - the Solaris knock control strategy seems to mirror this perfectly as well providing added reassurance and a safety net in case of det and knocking timing out on a per cylinder basis depending on when it hears det. Nice

 

Small update: (sorry no pics)

I have been cracking through the small jobs that have been on the list for a while and some new ones ...

- moving the fire extinguisher to the base of the passenger seat where it is easily reachable from the driver seat. It also stops my Rachel springing the quick release catch every time they get out of the car

- mounting the map switching **** in the carbon fibre stereo delete panel i put in and fitting a volume control **** from an old stereo to it so that it can be changed 'on the fly' easily. The **** matches the OE facia nicely

- fitting the lightweight battery (Odyssey Extreme racing 25 from Alyn at ASP) to the car. I have fitted this in the engine bay at the moment using the screw on terminals that Odyssey can supply and it work a treat. The battery is around 10kg lighter than the OE item and starts the car perfectly

- I have changed the throttle sensitivity in the Solaris ecu as I was finding that when accelerating hard my foot would lift marginally off the pedal and this would reduce the power. I have sorted it so that 100% throttle is now available with about 85% pedal travel to eradicate this 'light footed' issue

- cage will go back in today along with the harnesses and front bucket seat and the rear seats will come out.

It is ready for the 30-130 mph day at Marham on Sunday now - hopefully will run a small E85 mix for this to give it some extra oomph down the runway

Jobs for next week:
- remove aircon system (should save a fair chunk of weight)
- replace rear suspension bushes on the trailing arms as these are very very tired.
- set up flat throttle shifting on ECU

 

Thanks to Matt for detailing the car on saturday to make it look its best for the 30-130 day at Marham.















The day went very well for me with a few niggles ironed out early on with the immensely knowledgeable Pat Herbourne helping to get the drive by wire system in the ecu working at it's best. This made a heck of a difference once sorted and after a few runs to check the car out on low boost, it was time for a splash of e85 and sort the map out for that before giving it hell.

First run on the e85 at low(er) boost gave me my best time of the day at 12.62 just as it started to rain.

The wind and rain were even bigger problems from then on but I was over the moon to come home as 3rd place Subaru Thanks to all those that helped out on the day

Car felt great and nice to give it a good caning.

Paul from Zen had a couple of runs driving it too - which I think he enjoyed

Shame I couldnt improve times in the afternoon but according to the datalogs from the Solaris it was spinning wheels in 2nd, 3rd and 4th so it was no surprise really.

Great day and one I would love to do again if it runs.

 

Nice result Dunc