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We will post when we have more to share. No updates at this time.
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Me waiting for Xidas to come out:
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How has the APR bumper cover worked out? It looks like the tow hook hold doesn't line up right. Or is that because the tow hook location changed when you were fiddling with the bumper beam?
What kind of durability should one expect with the APR bumper cover relative to OEM?
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Meanwhile, we got the rev 2 strut flanges. If they give us the alignment numbers we need and end link clearance is good, we'll finally go into production with the Xidas. Been done for almost tow months, just waiting on the revised flanges. Fingers crossed we got everything right. One more test day and we're a go.
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Thanks for the quick response. That was kind of what I expected given other things I've read. Bummer. As of right now I'm planning on going with another OEM bumper cover, as mine was damaged today. Are there any other ones you think I should consider? I believe we have the same priorities.
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Chargespeed BRZ T1 bumper Espirit half lip COC style front bumper Varis Arising II varis Arising lip spoiler Ings N-Spec bumper Vis Racing bumper Most had side duct/vent areas that were far larger than we needed and thus draggy. Weigh that against potential downforce from horizontal lip area. The perfect lip, IMO, would be the APR in hand laid FRP, better fitting with the spoiler section going all the away across, not just on the sides. Fog light holes are too far outboard to use for brake ducts with any flow. Would be nice to have some 3" duct ports much closer to car centerline for brake ducts.
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IIRC Touge Factory duct kit was such, as you plan, with inlets behind main grill.
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Brake ducts should be no less than 3 inch. Even a dead straight 2.5 in hose flows very little past about 18 in. They should have minimum number of total direction changes. Each direction change causes the flow to be disrupted and lose energy. Take a 3 ft long hose, put three or four direction changes on it and you have pretty much killed the air flow. One key factor is that brake ducts hoses are corrugated which have very low flow coefficients meaning the airflow is not smooth and fast through them. That corrugation creates a large boundary layer that ends up killing about 30% of the total area of the hose. In a 2.5 inch hose the boundary layer virtually chokes the hose when you get past about 18 in. It's common in pro-level endurance cars to use two 3 in hoses per wheel.
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949 Racing: are you planning making (and maybe also releasing/selling) your own duct kit? If so, what i'd wish in such - for it to not require to reduce steering angle to prevent rubbing (not that difficult with steering rack spacers, but would love to get both more angle and ducts, not choose between) and to not require removal/modding of stock fog lights/stock washer liquid tank. And imho it might benefit from exchangeable backing plate flat part of different diameters, so to fit on different brakes, from stock, to different most popular BBKs. Though of course one can buy just backing plates of Verus for use on stockers, or something like essex Endurance APR BBK has own backing plate in set.
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Apologies if I missed it, do you guys run a square brake compound setup or staggered like the Miata stuff?
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Final test day at Sonoma last week. Managed a 1:50.7 which appears to be the N/A lap record for an 86 on any tire.
This was with about -4° front camber using the highest offset camber chips with the plates close to zeroed out. Oddly enough, we still haven't touched the rear alignment. Very slight rear toe in is stock. Whatever rear camber we picked up gave us pyrometer readings that have been spot on. Also still running stock rear sway. We have pretty much reached our goals with this project. Very happy with the results. So development pretty much ends. We will keep the car around, run some 86 Cup and 86 Drive Challenge events but move on to other projects for 2020. [ame]https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S4J6giq3e_g[/ame]
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