FC3S - Hayward Rotary x SJS x Team Green

FlikstRR said:
I lef thte camer at Alex's place after japfest but should have it back late tonight so will try to do an update then, but i have to drive to huntingdon tonight so miight be too late..
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Popping in for a beer? I lost your number when Naomi dropped my phone in a lake.
 
I bloody love rotary power so god dam much! That sounds frickin sweet, fair play. Cant image how happy you must be, and much your looking forward to skidding it.

Its going to be so hard trying not to chuck a load of money at mine to get it to a simular stage, but i must be good. Just for the record people like you and Hayward are no help what so ever!!lol
 
:D dude.. y'know it makes sense will. doo eet.


@jord.. would love to fella but such a truncated timetable. I have to go from work to huntingdon or w/e then go to surrey.. then across to reading, then back home..

i dont leave work till 6pm then its a 2hr drive up minimum. 2hr back, 40mins to reading..

then work tomorrow. :wack:
 
and dont forget the trip to see me and ant in manchester.... be for meeting chunk at the pod and then saying hi to the gay walkers... before all of the above lol
 
BDC-Motty said:
and dont forget the trip to see me and ant in manchester.... be for meeting chunk at the pod and then saying hi to the gay walkers... before all of the above lol
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if i didnt have work to do i would come up there.. i hear theres that guy off tele' oop there


ye apparently we are comin to ures sam. Seems mike thinks we all work for a bed company and can sleep at work. :rolleyes:
 
update:

ok so by now most of you have seen the 'brap brap cough bang smoke brap brap' video. :smokin:

these are the pics I have leading to that point and its release to Japfest.. unfortunately I dont have the 'during engine build pics' of Mikey yet, but will pop them up as i get them.

anyway.. the story:

So After going to the car last sat (9th) to work on the car and having the Hubs/discs issues John saved my ass by packing and sending me some replacement hubs.. :worthy:
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I took them and a few other bits (including the newly painted D-max wings supplied by EPRacing :thumbs:) to haywards Friday evening. I arrived about 6pm to find the sexual beast being put together:
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:smokin:

SO MANY little things that would go un-noticed to the untrained, but theres been a Hell of alot of wiring, adapter plates, bracket fab work and general custom tidying/upgrading. The guys have put in one HELL of an effort to do this in such a truncated time table.

I let them continue, and I fitted the new hubs to the JTPdrift spindles and then the new spacers (to allow clearance).. only there was issues:
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the longer studs mean the wheels not flush to the spacer and a general fail. Currently the car is being run on 10mm slip-on spacers each but the fouling on the arch/LCA is so bad it stops the car dead. :( This is something to try and sort thursday (tomorrow) in time for Llandow. Solutions include a bodge cuting of the studs, 10mm BEHIND the 25mm to try and get them flush or jsut suck it up and hope it doesnt make my front tyre explode. :wack:

Fitted one of the wings:
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Carl and Mike soldiering on with engine/V-Mount:
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Custom twin-fan setup:
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pic of HKS wastegate/Screamer pipe:
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We then started it up again.... DDDDDDDAAAAAAAMMMMMMMMMNNNNNN it was loud! :wack::smash::smash: Like to loud to rev loud! :p:D

so Ian made a restrictor plate... litteraly a gasket shaped metal piece with a ton of holes drilled in:
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STILL too loud... So a bung was created froma crappy tailpipe end (with the honeycombe stuff in)... again still too loud, but just nothing else we could do/find at that point so moved on.

My s14 Apex exhaust cut and re-welded to produce this:
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I continued to rebuild the exterior and fitted some Hayward livery:
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Note the Intercooler, FPR, cooling panel back on, and general touches.. beginning to look bad ass. :smokin:

And with all that work we were all shattered.. but it started, it ran, it looked pretty good and we decided we should retire for the night and get an early start the next day..

this was at 2.30am :eek:

cept carl who then went on to sort his own car. :worthy:
 
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ok so....

6.30 am rise, jup start Mr Manfoot so he can get to Japfest, load up and head back to haywards.. Arrive at 7.30 to find Mike and carl already there working on the car! :eek: :worthy:

pic of inside V-mount:
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What ure loking at is the side of the oil cooler.. which is in front of the rad (with the twin fans on the back) and the bottom of the intercooler.. is pretty sweet.

More attempts to quiet the bugger seemed to fail. but took up some time trying.

After that Mike attacked a binding front brake issue, and got it moving at least and i then started to throw the skirts back on and other bits:
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After that, we loaded up the rex for its maiden voyage!
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And took it for its first of MAAANNNNYY fueling stops:
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Thats mikes on the left, mine middle obviously and Carls BAD-ASS Kazama kitted FD on the right. :smokin::smokin:

And off we went to japfest.. arriving jsut before mid-day.. just as Dans car was being assesed for damage. :( Regardless though.. it made it and I was sooooooooooooooo happy to be there.

An amaazing effort by everyone involved. a massive thank you. Theres still more to do, but the bulk is done.
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BIG ASS THANKS TO:

Carl, Ian, Mike & Jeff @ Hayward Rotaries
jeffrey @ EPRacing
Ultralite wheels
Nickson Motorsport
SJS Design

and of course all my family/team mates and most importantly my good lady wife Alex for all their help and for putting up with me in 'pigeon' flappy flap mode. :euge::D
 
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