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[anubis]

Needs more mods

Wheels man.....what about some wheels

Yeah for the moment I just had the wheels re-done in black because I haven't quite decided what to go for.

Need to work out what to do... It's more about wheel size than anything else - I need to start a topic on it. Need to work out whether staggered or square (I heard the latter is better for handling) and whether to go 20" or stick with 19" given what I'm aiming for with the car... And how wide too, given supercharger and whether say 295mm tyres will be enough or whether I should be thinking 305 or 315.

Bit waffly, sorry...

Anyway black lug nuts have arrived so they'll be going on soon.

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[Gibbo205]

Handling square setup with 295/35/19 using a lightweight yet strong wheel like MMR or HRE, then fit cup 2 tyres, as your on track, tyres will be hot, track is grippy and 3rd upwards should be no issue, 2nd will probably spin. In the wet forget it!

Other option would be 19x11 ET55 with 325/30/19 MPSS and then up front see if you can fit a 19x10.5 if not 19x10 with around ET40 with a 285or295/35/19 up front. Will induce a little more understeer but the extra wide tyre on the rear should help with traction.

As your doing track work, remember to upgrade your OPG, crank pulley etc for the supercharger.

As its a track car I'd forget the SC idea, I'd get it upto 500-525BHP NA with 7500rpm limiter, strip 100kg weight out the car and improve your driving, car will be far better balanced, lighter and how zero issues putting power down. The supercharger up front will cause understeer, impact reliability and over power the tyres.

 

[Belly]

Wow. It looks great!
How much have you spent on your beast?!

 

[SteveS]

Looks immense
One question. Are your headlights tinted also? Do you foresee any issues, legal or in a reduction in brightness? OK, two questions!

 

[David@Steeda]

#Steeda-equipped, nice!

 

[anubis]

Wow. It looks great!
How much have you spent on your beast?!

Thanks Belly... Erm I think almost £10k so far. I try not to think about that aspect.. :-)

 

[anubis]

Looks immense
One question. Are your headlights tinted also? Do you foresee any issues, legal or in a reduction in brightness? OK, two questions!

Yeah everything's tinted except the windscreen and front windows... I think it's legal.. Hmm... Well I had the same on my last two cars - 6 years and no issues with the police. Headlight brightness is slightly affected yes (but I don't care!)

 

[anubis]

#Steeda-equipped, nice!

You guys do some great parts. Very helpful on the phone too I would add :-)

 

[stevec]

Really nice car, I like!

 

[anubis]

Handling square setup ...

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As its a track car I'd forget the SC idea, I'd get it upto 500-525BHP NA with 7500rpm limiter, strip 100kg weight out the car and improve your driving, car will be far better balanced, lighter and how zero issues putting power down. The supercharger up front will cause understeer, impact reliability and over power the tyres.

Thanks Gibbo :-) I think I'm sold on the square setup idea... Will take some time to digest those options from your post properly. Interesting idea re no SC - I was worried about wheel spin, even at higher speeds.. Was wondering whether the Pistons and con rods would handle it too. I'm not sure how I'd get to 525bhp without an SC ... A tune wouldn't get me that far... Thoughts welcome! :-)

Also I read your post which helpfully has some alignment settings in it... I'm getimg a track setup/alignment thing done soon prior to track day - should I just use the track version of the settings on your post do you think?

 

[Gibbo205]

Thanks Gibbo :-) I think I'm sold on the square setup idea... Will take some time to digest those options from your post properly. Interesting idea re no SC - I was worried about wheel spin, even at higher speeds.. Was wondering whether the Pistons and con rods would handle it too. I'm not sure how I'd get to 525bhp without an SC ... A tune wouldn't get me that far... Thoughts welcome! :-)

Also I read your post which helpfully has some alignment settings in it... I'm getimg a track setup/alignment thing done soon prior to track day - should I just use the track version of the settings on your post do you think?

Goes like this:

- Stock power: 415/390
- Tuned power: 435/410
- Tuned power with CAI: 450/420
- Tuned power with CAI, Catted headers: 475/440
- Tuned power with CAI, Catted headers, 350 Intake Manifold: 500/430


To get comfortably over 500, like 510-520 area then your gonna need cams and potentially de-cats.

Check out JDM's site, they do full 350 Intake Manifold kits, so you get the 350 IM, 350 CAI, 350 Throttlebody and their tune, that is worth a good 50-60BHP with little to no torque loss, ask them for the RPM limit though to be 7500rpm, though the Americans push higher I would not want to chance higher on a track as you could spin a rod bearing with a lot of high RPM running on track.

However the biggest gains are our stock cars even with tune and CAI make peak power at 6500rpm of say 450/440 with tune/cai and after 6500rpm power drops of dramatically. However with 350 IM peak power moves to 7500rpm so at 6500rpm you have around 25BHP more, but at 7000-7500rpm the gains are over 60-70BHP, the car keeps pulling, that is perfect for a track car even if you only rev to stock limiter of 7000rpm as power is no longer falling off.

Headers on UK/Aus/RHD cars are worth a lot of power too as RHD cars got handicapped with 10mm less diameter headers to avoid steering column, so RHD cars find even great gains compared to US ones with headers and this increase of power and torque is normally across the whole power band. However even catted headers will make the car louder so for track work you will need some quiet axle backs or a resonated mid section to keep noise down.

I am tempted to try the 350IM but first I am going to fit headers, I've dyno'd each stage, so am taking note of the improvements and what does what.

 

[Jury]

Really good set of upgrades - looks great!

Question on the Anderson carbon fibre items - as I am considering going for the same (though not the wing). Did you have any issues regarding the fitting of the rear diffuser - from what I have read, some small modification of the existing rear panels may be needed?

 

[anubis]

Goes like this:

- Stock power: 415/390
- Tuned power: 435/410
- Tuned power with CAI: 450/420
- Tuned power with CAI, Catted headers: 475/440
- Tuned power with CAI, Catted headers, 350 Intake Manifold: 500/430


To get comfortably over 500, like 510-520 area then your gonna need cams and potentially de-cats.

Check out JDM's site...

Thanks Gibbo - just checked out JDMs site. That package makes for an interesting alternative option to an SC. Around $2,000 to $2,500 plus cost of headers and fitting etc as far as I can see.

I guess there's also the option of stage 1 whipple for around 640-650 bhp without the throttle body etc. Wonder if replacing the OPG and other bits would still be needed if only stage 1.

You're right about noise on track of course. I'll be having my stock exhaust put back on for track days. Even with just the axle backs I had a db reading of 104 recently (took the Mustang on an airfield 'car control' tuition day thing) athough was surprised at that reading - I may have been too heavy on the throttle during the test

 

[anubis]

Really good set of upgrades - looks great!

Question on the Anderson carbon fibre items - as I am considering going for the same (though not the wing). Did you have any issues regarding the fitting of the rear diffuser - from what I have read, some small modification of the existing rear panels may be needed?

Hi - thanks Yes as far as I remember there were a couple of minor mods needed and it was tricky to get the rear brake light in (although not too bad) but once on the fitment is superb - better than the stock panels fit anyway. Similar story with the front lip spoiler. I wouldn't guarantee you could get your stock parts back on again without a bit of messing around, if you changed your mind. I didn't fit any of this myself by the way!

 

[Jury]

Hi - thanks Yes as far as I remember there were a couple of minor mods needed and it was tricky to get the rear brake light in (although not too bad) but once on the fitment is superb - better than the stock panels fit anyway. Similar story with the front lip spoiler. I wouldn't guarantee you could get your stock parts back on again without a bit of messing around, if you changed your mind. I didn't fit any of this myself by the way!

I may have missed this in the OP - who fitted the Anderson items for you?

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