Manners226 Exocet
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Manners226 Exocet
Building an Exocet on a budget 101. Take a 14 hour road trip to trade my E46 M3 for a stripped down, barely rolling Exocet Sport chassis with no driveline. Because Racecar.
Picking up the parted-out, stripped, roller chassis in Indianapolis from Rich. List of parts removed from the chassis: Entire 1.8 Turbo motor & transmission, differential, axles, driveshaft, steering shaft, exhaust, radiator, roller skate brace, big brake kit, Suspension arms, wheels, MS ECU, Digital dash, etc. You get the picture. It’s basically a chassis needing to be built. He temporarily put on some stock NB parts so it could be rolled onto the trailer. Control arms, hubs, dirty old stock wheels/tires, etc.
Home and in the garage. The fun begins. Lots of work to do to get this Exocet driving, let alone track worthy again.
Picking up the parted-out, stripped, roller chassis in Indianapolis from Rich. List of parts removed from the chassis: Entire 1.8 Turbo motor & transmission, differential, axles, driveshaft, steering shaft, exhaust, radiator, roller skate brace, big brake kit, Suspension arms, wheels, MS ECU, Digital dash, etc. You get the picture. It’s basically a chassis needing to be built. He temporarily put on some stock NB parts so it could be rolled onto the trailer. Control arms, hubs, dirty old stock wheels/tires, etc.
Home and in the garage. The fun begins. Lots of work to do to get this Exocet driving, let alone track worthy again.
Last edited by Manners226; 12-27-2019 at 02:53 PM.
#2
The chassis as originally delivered to Rich (boileralum) from Exomotive. Sped'd with the double diagonal cross roll bar and welded steel floors. Emerald Ice with a pearl top coat.
Driving to GA to pick up a 1999 1.8L donor car.
Finally home and ready to donate it's guts.
Pulling the motor out of the donor car.
Lots of degreaser was in order.
Replacing the timing belt, water pump, front and rear main seals, drive belt, valve cover gasket, spark plugs, pcv valve, thermostat housing and gutting the thermostat.
Lots of WD-40 and scotchbrite on the valve cover.
First test fit in the Exocet.
Last edited by Manners226; 12-12-2019 at 11:35 AM.
#4
I built an intake to use for the time being while it’s naturally aspirated. The plan is to get a running, driving car and then add the turbo kit once it’s sorted. Also mounted up the NA radiator.
Stage 1 clutch and 10.3 pound lightweight flywheel going in.
Last edited by Manners226; 12-27-2019 at 02:55 PM.
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Prismatic powders Emerald Ice pearl
350mm Momo prototipo w/ NRG short quick release.
CF APR GTC-200
Looking mean. Probably going to run the stock spring rates for now until I get a feel for the chassis and have some driving to base a coilover decision off of.
Last edited by Manners226; 12-12-2019 at 11:38 AM.
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Looks like a NP battery (NP17-12I is the closest one I could find). These are intended as UPS and/or tractive batteries. Nevertheless, a Yuasa datasheet I found claimed 500A for 1sec/150A for 1min as dischare limits, which got me thinking... Have you (or anyone else in this forum) already used the one you purchased?
#15
Looks like a NP battery (NP17-12I is the closest one I could find). These are intended as UPS and/or tractive batteries. Nevertheless, a Yuasa datasheet I found claimed 500A for 1sec/150A for 1min as dischare limits, which got me thinking... Have you (or anyone else in this forum) already used the one you purchased?
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Last edited by Manners226; 12-22-2019 at 08:09 PM.