The carbon fibre time attack/superlap MX5 NB twins blog

Postby **beavis** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:12 pm

SANDOWN

Fastest Lap

Multistart with Traffic

Postby **beavis** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:13 pm

Phillip Island with AROCA

Fastest Lap

Navigating Traffic and following other drivers to compare lines

Postby **beavis** » Sun Apr 21, 2013 6:37 pm

Pics from Sandown

Postby **Okibi** » Wed Apr 24, 2013 3:02 am

Posts relating to the Victorian club motorsport rules have been removed to maintain the integrity of this build thread.

You can discuss Victorian motorsport here http://mx5cartalk.com/forum/viewforum.php?f=67

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri May 17, 2013 8:32 pm

I bought a turbo NB a couple of weeks ago. Very tidy car, was extremely surpised at its condition.
The idea was to put all the good bits from the red car onto it, and sell the red car. Then I wouldn't have to worry about being put into open, as I would be in open...

Now I have decided to keep the red car, and I am putting a new motor into the NB. The turbo motor is getting rebuilt with new forged internals, etc.

So the NB will be returned to near stock, and some lucky person will get to own it. As it will be for sale shortly. Too clean to turn into a track car.

Once the turbo motor is built I have the option of using it in the c.f car, or throwing it in the red car. I know I payed a lot of money for a motor for he c.f car, but it doesn't look like it will be finished any time soon.

Ther red car is a great car to drive, and is very reliable. So tuff decision.

Maybe when I finally set some records in modified, and get to keep them, I will put the turbo motor in, and see if I can chase open class records. Would be fun to drive with double the h.p. :twisted:

StuwieP · Postby **StuwieP** » Sat May 18, 2013 2:58 pm

lightyear wrote:it doesn't look like it will be finished any time soon.

Why is that? Sounds like you need to light a fire beneath your engine builder, rather than write off your expenses.

spenaroo · Postby **spenaroo** » Sun May 19, 2013 12:31 am

loving the look of the fastback,

are there any plans to sell these, would love one for my nb,
im looking forward to following this build, nice to see that Melbourne has some awesome car builders

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Thu May 30, 2013 10:59 pm

Hopefully when the house is finished i can get straight into it. Would be good to have the final moulds made for the fastback.

I was looking at this old pic. The red car looks so different - almost standard as it is now. It is amazing that about an hours work completely transforms the look (and performance) of the car.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Sun Jun 09, 2013 10:42 pm

3rd round of vic supersprints today at sandown again. The only difference from last time there was the change to the hardtop from the white car I am selling. It went 1.2 seconds faster than 2 months ago. So if you are wondering if a hardtop is more efficient than a softtop up, know you know. Be interesting to see how much faster it goes at Phillip island. The car has the heater core in now, and it went a 1:27.6 in complete MX5 club modified class rules set up. That's about 2 seconds faster than the club record.

We are going to broadford on Sunday. Can't wait to give it another go. I am hoping for a 1:06.

Brendan will get some video up during the week maybe.
I came last in standard 1.6-2.0l (vic ss) class out of only 2 entries, by 0.7 seconds to the silver Elise. But the guy in the lotus and myself beat most of the higher class cars.

lightyear · Postby **lightyear** » Fri Dec 13, 2013 8:53 pm

Still working on the house. Be a couple of months before this is back on track.

Here is a progress pic of the house I am building. Just put the cladding on the garage door. And will have the windows in it next week. And tidied up the yard a bit. So took a pic.

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