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Aznsky · 01-24-2013, 02:41 PM

love love LOVE the Voltex wing!!

It seems like you can afford it, but I'd recommend looking into track insurance. I didn't have it when I hit a tire wall in my old 350Z and insurance didn't cover it. Luckly I was able to sell it to a friend of mine for cheap and got some money back.

rice_classic · 01-24-2013, 03:03 PM

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I know i should, i have my scca license. Maybe next year i will, now i just need to find more sponsors and get a bite more noticed. I will be entering global time attack this year as well as my local H2R Time Trials, we will see how it goes from there.

Cheers man :happy0180:

Sponsors?... You planning on being on TV man? Unless you're on TV there's little to no value for sponsors.

Amadeus · 01-24-2013, 03:20 PM

subscribed

Love the mod on the guy at 127.7 "baby seat". Maybe that's the next item to try!

Surok · 01-24-2013, 06:56 PM

Did you drill through the floor and mount the side mount bracket with spreader plates under the floor? I had to do that in my mr2

cf6mech · 01-25-2013, 02:45 AM

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None actually, i had them mounted with planted seat bases and omp rails and i gained zero inches so i had them bolted down to the ground and now i have tons of clearance.

Cheers man :happy0180:

Not understanding, you gained no extra head clearance?, I'm 6'5'' and looking to gain head clearance with seats while I'm wearing a helmet, I would like to know if you gained any with this set up. Off hand it looks like you have but not sure.

track_warrior · 01-25-2013, 08:55 AM

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Originally Posted by Surok

Did you drill through the floor and mount the side mount bracket with spreader plates under the floor? I had to do that in my mr2

Yep, basically drilled the floor and installed backing plates. I need to ad some washers or some sort of height adjustment because now my seat is too low i want at least one more inch of height.

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Not understanding, you gained no extra head clearance?, I'm 6'5'' and looking to gain head clearance with seats while I'm wearing a helmet, I would like to know if you gained any with this set up. Off hand it looks like you have but not sure.

Ok so when you order Seats you need to get the Side mount's, Seat Bases and rails to mount the seats on. I ordered Planted Seat Bases, Status Side mounts, and OMP Rails with the Status seats. I mounted them with all this hardware and i gained nothing in head clearance since there are 4 things between me and the floor. I took out all the hardware and mounted the side mounts directly to the cars floor, i basically drilled holes in the cars floor and bolted them down with backing plates. With the latter setup i ended up gaining tons of head room since the seats are now mounted directly onto the cars floor. The only downside is that they are fixed now there is no adjustment once they are bolted down.

Surok · 01-25-2013, 07:08 PM

Cheers, at least the car has the underbody plastic panels so nobody will know i have drilled through it once i put the carpet back in and put rubber plugs in the holes

GTM_Challenge · 01-25-2013, 09:45 PM

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The car looks and sounds like its got a little bit of a push, keeping you from being able to get on the power sooner. Have you found this to be the case?

track_warrior · 01-26-2013, 09:42 PM

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The car looks and sounds like its got a little bit of a push, keeping you from being able to get on the power sooner. Have you found this to be the case?

Yes but not a lot considering my camber is setup fairly conservative right now. I will be playing with the suspension on tuesday to see if i can correct it a bit and ill update you with how that turns out.

Anyways guys i did some maintenance on my car and a friends E46 M3 since we are both getting the cars ready for COTA next week. Enjoy some pics of his beautiful M3

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eckoflyte · 01-27-2013, 08:28 PM

Question re the vorshlag camber plates, do the camber and caster adjustments move together as you slide the bearing across? Seems like they are not independent of each other.

6-Shift · 01-27-2013, 09:01 PM

That M3 intake is beautiful wow...

GTM_Challenge · 01-28-2013, 02:09 PM

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Originally Posted by pcasso87

Yes but not a lot considering my camber is setup fairly conservative right now. I will be playing with the suspension on tuesday to see if i can correct it a bit and ill update you with how that turns out.

I had a lot of static camber in my s2000 and struggled with understeer all season last season. I backed the caster down from 8.0 to 5.4 and BINGO. Knocked nearly two seconds off :happy0180: It's amazing how much time you can pick up when you get the car rotated and can be full throttle before even reaching the apex. Understeer is the devil.

track_warrior · 01-28-2013, 10:30 PM

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Originally Posted by GTM_Challenge

I had a lot of static camber in my s2000 and struggled with understeer all season last season. I backed the caster down from 8.0 to 5.4 and BINGO. Knocked nearly two seconds off :happy0180: It's amazing how much time you can pick up when you get the car rotated and can be full throttle before even reaching the apex. Understeer is the devil.

I agree, i hate understeer!!

Slurve · 01-30-2013, 05:31 PM

I saw this car on the trailer at Harris Hill during that Corksport track day, I have a picture on my phone lol.

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01-24-2013, 02:41 PM	#267
Aznsky Senior Member Join Date: Oct 2009 Drives: Nissan 350Z (sold) 13' Whiteout FRS Location: MI Posts: 197 Thanks: 37 Thanked 53 Times in 30 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s)	love love LOVE the Voltex wing!! It seems like you can afford it, but I'd recommend looking into track insurance. I didn't have it when I hit a tire wall in my old 350Z and insurance didn't cover it. Luckly I was able to sell it to a friend of mine for cheap and got some money back.

01-24-2013, 03:20 PM	#269
Amadeus Senior Member Join Date: Aug 2012 Drives: White MT FR-S Location: . Posts: 109 Thanks: 131 Thanked 25 Times in 19 Posts Mentioned: 1 Post(s)	subscribed Love the mod on the guy at 127.7 "baby seat". Maybe that's the next item to try!

01-24-2013, 06:56 PM	#270
Surok Wise old man Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: 86 GTS Location: Sydney Posts: 1,003 Thanks: 999 Thanked 240 Times in 161 Posts Mentioned: 7 Post(s)	Did you drill through the floor and mount the side mount bracket with spreader plates under the floor? I had to do that in my mr2

01-25-2013, 07:08 PM	#273
Surok Wise old man Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: 86 GTS Location: Sydney Posts: 1,003 Thanks: 999 Thanked 240 Times in 161 Posts Mentioned: 7 Post(s)	Cheers, at least the car has the underbody plastic panels so nobody will know i have drilled through it once i put the carpet back in and put rubber plugs in the holes

01-27-2013, 08:28 PM	#276
eckoflyte Senior Member Join Date: Jun 2012 Drives: Toyota 86 GTS Location: Sydney Posts: 246 Thanks: 45 Thanked 47 Times in 33 Posts Mentioned: 3 Post(s)	Question re the vorshlag camber plates, do the camber and caster adjustments move together as you slide the bearing across? Seems like they are not independent of each other.

01-30-2013, 05:31 PM	#280
Slurve Junior Member Join Date: Jul 2012 Drives: 2006 White Mazda 3 Location: Austin/College Station Posts: 7 Thanks: 0 Thanked 2 Times in 2 Posts Mentioned: 0 Post(s)	I saw this car on the trailer at Harris Hill during that Corksport track day, I have a picture on my phone lol.

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