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Great progress! If you need parts printed or laser cut, hit me up. Located in Greece, but shipping from here is cheaper than most places.
Oh thank you! I found a "local" place, since I already had the aluminum stock and I'm waiting to get a quote from them, but I might reach out to you soon!
I made this render today. Obviously it's not a professional model, but I couldn't help looking back at my first render from November 22 and comparing it, and I must say I'm pretty happy with how the 3D stuff is coming along. Now I just need to make the real thing 😅
this is insane! Any tracks in the south that you plan on taking it to? Knutstorp, Mantorp, Falkenberg? would be awesome to see and hear.
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Tack! haha The plan for this season is to drive only with TimeAttackNU, so that will be Gelleråsen, Kinekulle and Mantorp. Maybe you're already joining, but if not and you're curious, they have the schedule up on their website: https://timeattacknu.se
Hey, sorry, the build is in full swing, and I've been meaning to update here for a while, but it's been absolutely hectic. I feel like I always say that, but it's getting progressively more hectic pretty quick lol. I've been posting almost daily on Instagram, but don't always find the time to write a longer update.
There's a lot of stuff happening that I can't quite share yet, but the TL;DR is that the car has to be running in 3 weeks, so the bodywork and aero have taken a back seat for now. The main bits left for the car to run are the intake/intercooler piping, fuel system plumbing and wiring harness. That's a lot, but I have all the parts I need and everything is already in progress, so there's still hope, but it will be VERY tight.
The only part of the bodywork that couldn't wait was the fastback, since the print was too fragile (newbie mistake, the later parts are a lot better) so I needed to finish it in order to get it out of the car to work on the fuel system. I laminated the carbon, and the result is pretty rough, but it's as expected. The plug wasn't great, it made no sense to make a mold, I'll race with this for now, but I'm already planning a V2 done right, with a better plug, proper mold, vacuum bagging, etc. A local company also helped me out with the wing ribs and smaller mounts and got it cut out of carbon, really cool stuff. The wing uprights should get cut this week as well, and I'm finalizing the rear fender flanges so I can get it printed while I focus on the mechanical parts.
I'll try to write a better update soon, but in the mean time here are a few random pictures.
Oh! Also we had a huge car show here in Sweden last weekend, so I had a little side quest and printed this little model to bring since I couldn't bring the real thing:
Hey! Sorry, I've been terrible at keeping my build threads up to date, it's just been tricky to find the time... haven't even updated instagram much this past couple weeks as mentioned.
Unfortunately the car isn't driving yet, but the build is in full swing. I missed the first test day by a mile, then couldn't get much done for about a month as I had family visiting, which means I automatically also missed on the first competition day... I'm currently trying to make it to the second time attack round which is only a couple weeks away, so I've been spending every last minute working on the car, which is why there haven't been many updates.
The current state is:
- All the carbon panels are "done". Most of them need a couple bits of reinforcement from the back side, just to be safe, and they need a final sanding and clear coat. Bumper and hood still need to be mount to the car.
- Wiring is about 90% done. Just finished wiring the PDM and body harness today, missing the gearbox, which seems surprisingly simple with the CANTCU, a few more CAN bus things, and 2 or 3 connectors in the engine bay
- Finished welding the charge pipe today, still need a couple bungs for sensors.
- All the big stuff is mounted for real now: engine, gearbox, driveshafts and axles, rear suspension, etc shouldn't have to come out anymore
That's pretty much it, what's left is about 1000 small things, which always takes a lot longer than I wish... Between the fuel system and coolers I have to make 15 hoses, need to make a downpipe and exhaust, finish bolting down a couple and then the car should be ready to drive.
I guess I also haven't shared here that Link is now the main sponsor for the build, which is just surreal to me. I just want to get this thing on track so bad... but hopefully it should be very soon 🤞
Here's what the livery will look like, plus a few random photos of the progress:
No worries on the lack of updates. You've obviously got a lot going on.
WOW, man this thing is just gets cooler with every update. Can't wait to see it in action. Major congrats on the Link sponsorship, I've been starting to look at them as a future upgrade. If you have any thoughts about the ECU when you get around to tuning I'd be interested to hear them.
Super cool build! I'm very interested in your opinion of the Voodoo ECU once you have more experience with it. Congratulations on the Link sponsorship!
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