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grahamc 01 August 2016 02:48 PM

looking rather good!!

birchy2010 05 August 2016 09:24 AM

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Thanks for all the good comments guys, car has had a quick photoshoot last week for a newspaper and is awaiting another one soon.

Took it down to Fast car festival on Sunday courtesy of Goon Squad and had some fun.

It is fast for 1bar of boost.

Pics and a sneaky video of a practice run on the Fueltopia Barrel Sprint;

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http://i22.photobucket.com/albums/b3...psxvvgpacb.mp4




Had to check on a small oil leak on the way back so picture time of course;

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Tucked away and a quick check over

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Samwise 08 August 2016 09:55 AM

Car looks fantastic :)
Love the side exhaust but do you not find yourself breathing/smelling the exhaust gases while driving?

Whats the bootlid on your car? I love the de-spoilered look but would like a little boot lip thats molded in rather than stuck on for my own car in the potentially near future.

BrownPantsRacing 08 August 2016 10:59 AM

Bootlid will be a Do Luck or imitation Do Luck.


Something like this.


https://www.carbenfibrecreations.co....roller=product


I think they look great.

birchy2010 08 August 2016 10:59 AM

Thanks Sam.

Not at all. Exhaust exits low enough and with enough angle that it either blows away from the car while sat is traffic or down the side once moving. The Windows actually bring in very little air at all.

Books is an ducktail fibre glass Jobby by ABW which we then stripped the inner skin from and tweaked it so we could mount it in pop presses


birchy2010 08 August 2016 11:04 AM




grahamc 10 August 2016 12:05 PM

fun looking event

car looks awesome!

birchy2010 22 August 2016 07:12 AM

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The guys at MB met up with Martin Battye to finish the map on Thursday and the car now has all 8 Cals available.

Took the car to Santa pod Saturday for some test runs and some logging. The car is a monster. Spent a fair bit of the day on the barrel sprint course getting used to the car sliding and controlling the 360. Just need to bring the speed up between the barrels now as its takes a little finesse or the car never quite straightens and will happily spin all through. Lots of data and showed with some seat time the car will be a monster. Also did an initial 2 runs up the strip but had fouled the plugs been on the anti lag all day so suffered a miss all the way up through 4th gear meaning the times don't mean much.

She's back to off the body shop now to be magazine prepped and we should be back out on show at Trax with Fast Car and Car Culture Collective.

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birchy2010 22 August 2016 10:38 AM

Anti lag testing during mapping


Rice Rocket 22 August 2016 11:05 PM

Cracking looking scoop, if you don;t mind me asking, what are you using to hold the wings and bumper together? Looks nice and neat.

Ricey

birchy2010 23 August 2016 09:04 AM


Originally Posted by Rice Rocket (Post 11869470)
Cracking looking scoop, if you don;t mind me asking, what are you using to hold the wings and bumper together? Looks nice and neat.

Ricey

They are some Ali plates made up in house with Riv Nuts behind so we can use Allen head bolts to spin the bumper onto the wings. Means removing the bumper is a 2-3 minute job but still fits in with the overall look of the car :thumb:

Rice Rocket 23 August 2016 10:58 AM

Thanks thats a help!

Ricey

ianbott 12 September 2016 09:56 PM

Car looks absolutely great, are you running the mamba turbo? how does it perform? i'm looking at a mamba GTX30.
Thanks.

birchy2010 13 September 2016 08:47 AM

Ian, Still on the GTX35 and it performs really well actually. Taking a load of abuse with lots of time spent on 2Bar and AntiLag without an issue. I would reocmmend them, going to try and get it on the dyno soon to see what the full figures are but definatly no complaints so far!

veerinder9 13 September 2016 09:27 AM


Originally Posted by birchy2010 (Post 11875537)
Ian, Still on the GTX35 and it performs really well actually. Taking a load of abuse with lots of time spent on 2Bar and AntiLag without an issue. I would reocmmend them, going to try and get it on the dyno soon to see what the full figures are but definatly no complaints so far!

That's good to hear bro. Mines doing well atm aswel no complaints here either. Only from c63 amg owners who can't shake me off :lol1:

ianbott 13 September 2016 08:01 PM

That's great news, will deffo be looking seriously at these when it comes to it. I hear they are genuine garrett cores?
Have you any contact details for MB Developments as i love that exhaust of yours and wondering if they can make me something similar.
Cheers,

B9SLJ 13 September 2016 09:38 PM

https://cimg4.ibsrv.net/gimg/www.sco...40a5625705.png

birchy2010 24 September 2016 01:05 PM


Originally Posted by veerinder9 (Post 11875556)
That's good to hear bro. Mines doing well atm aswel no complaints here either. Only from c63 amg owners who can't shake me off :lol1:

Haha. Would that be yam by any chance? :lol1:


Originally Posted by ianbott (Post 11875777)
That's great news, will deffo be looking seriously at these when it comes to it. I hear they are genuine garrett cores?
Have you any contact details for MB Developments as i love that exhaust of yours and wondering if they can make me something similar.
Cheers,

Number from the screen shot below or drop Matty a pm on here :thumb:



Originally Posted by B9SLJ (Post 11875815)


birchy2010 24 September 2016 01:10 PM

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Picked the car up day or so ago to get it all ready for this week. Also first time out now it's fully mapped. It wet it's pretty much a machine for Suicide. In the dry today though it is a real animal.

All cleaned up now ready for trax tomorrow with fast car and car culture collective.

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Also now thinking ahead to JapShow Finale and may take a run at the Subaru class on the 1/4 mile at Santa Pod next weekend

birchy2010 17 October 2016 08:54 AM

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We've been busy,
Car has been over to Trax with Fast Car and Car Culture collective,
Not the smoothest of days Blew a fan relay and popped a hose which meant instead of spending the day like this;
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It spent more of the day like this ;
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Although its good to have friends who are mechanics as shown in the picture!
Managed to drive it home though thanks to a few friends who had tools etc with them and the guys from havair who lent me a battery booster as I forgot to turn the heated screen off when it got pushed into place, part of the cause shown, I hose that split along the jubilee clip under the car;
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We did have a much more successful journey out to Jap Show Finale although the 2 hour queue for the strip wasn't fun, Looks good at least!

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Onwards and upwards, Its just had another shoot that i'll update about when it comes out in the next month or so!

AWG 17 October 2016 09:06 AM

Certainly different! What a transformation.

Arch 17 October 2016 12:28 PM

Put the heated screen on a timer relay safety way.

veerinder9 17 October 2016 12:38 PM

What times did u run at pod then mate?

birchy2010 30 October 2016 10:21 PM

12.2 dude, gentle runs in a lower Cal getting used to the car,

Hoping to get some proper runs soon though! Plenty more to come!


veerinder9 01 November 2016 01:12 PM


Originally Posted by birchy2010 (Post 11889711)
12.2 dude, gentle runs in a lower Cal getting used to the car,

Hoping to get some proper runs soon though! Plenty more to come!

https://youtu.be/sc5gaQH88UU

Not bad mate. I managed 11.9.

Mamba ftw :D

birchy2010 01 November 2016 06:09 PM


Originally Posted by veerinder9 (Post 11890306)
Not bad mate. I managed 11.9.

Mamba ftw :D

Oh defiantly mamba ftw! Hoping to see the times tumble soon!

veerinder9 01 November 2016 06:55 PM


Originally Posted by birchy2010 (Post 11889711)
12.2 dude, gentle runs in a lower Cal getting used to the car,

Hoping to get some proper runs soon though! Plenty more to come!

https://youtu.be/sc5gaQH88UU


Originally Posted by birchy2010 (Post 11890473)
Oh defiantly mamba ftw! Hoping to see the times tumble soon!

Practice mate and lots of it. Mine will hopefully see better numbers soom. Still on 435bhp. Getting swirl pot setup etc sorted this week then mapping soon

JGlanzaV 01 November 2016 06:59 PM

Just whack the boost up, and go learn to drive it then!

It will be a different animal on full power, and youll need to learn to drive ot again anyway, so cut the practice put and get it sorted 😉

joe v3sti 01 November 2016 07:43 PM


Originally Posted by veerinder9 (Post 11890492)
Practice mate and lots of it. Mine will hopefully see better numbers soom. Still on 435bhp. Getting swirl pot setup etc sorted this week then mapping soon

Who is mapping it?

birchy2010 02 November 2016 09:04 AM

Lots of practise I'm hoping next year. 2 bar runs next time out and time to give it some real stick. Need to stage it longer to make sure we're at full boost on the launch.


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