LS Cerbera - 4 Years on

[Omerta]

Long running builds seems a bit of theme around here

It's about ready to go to Automotion in Levin for a roll cage. With the body on the engine is about 1cm from the firewall and the TKO shifter comes up bang in the right place!

Engine bay is done in Gulf Blau.

[Fraster]

I'm sure it'll be worth the wait!

[v8sag]

Nice bit of bling on the water pump mate.

[Omerta]

If you like that you'll love the remote oil cooler mount.

Had to get a straight neck to clear the forward headers.

[iain a]

Looking forward to seeing this on the road.. First time will probably be with it on the trailer heading for Automotion.

[Kylie]

Keep me in the loop with the CF goodies. Did you end finalising the Gulf livery where you wanted the stripes etc?

Looking good

[Omerta]

I had a useful chat to Graeme at River Carbon and he sent this close up pic:



Looks very nice - and the quoted $1500+GST seems pretty fair for the amount of carbon and work involved.

It is 1.5m long, 300mm wide, and weighs just over 5Kg. It's relatively heavy to meet the design criteria of no more than 5mm deflection. On Peter's car it makes 400kg down force at 180mph.

[Kylie]

A little bit of inspiration perhaps

As said seems a bargain price to me, if the dimensions are right for it id take it. Does it come with side plates too?

Is it mounted inwards as this pic shows or further outwards?

[Omerta]

Roll on Le Mans '09... Audi's got competition

That price is just for the wing. Peter (Chim owner) apparently has CNC programs for the mounts and end plates for his and could redo them as he has an engineering shop, but I'll be doing something different anyway. RiverCarbon can do the hard points for the mounts anywhere - I'll probably line them up with the boot edges - but have to mock it up to see what looks right first.

I found this setup guide which has a good section on wing aerodynamics and practical setup and testing info.

Edited by Omerta on Wednesday 25th February 00:39

[v8sag]

Have you thought about mounting the wing directly off the chassis,via a bolt on (in boot) rear tube section,also acts as tank protection.I'd imagine a severe amount of reinforcement otherwise.

[Omerta]

Yes I was thinking along those lines Paul - a couple of mounting plates in the boot that extend off the rear of the chassis. Automotion can look at that when they do the roll cage next month.

[Fraster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=resu77vBKm0 there's a 1971 Gulf ad on there somewhere too....

[Fraster]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPOG5hmB4u0&fea... -needs sound way up if you want to hear melodramatic commentary!

[Omerta]

Cheers for those... so far the Gulf scheme is still the plan, but I have my moments of doubt. I might just spray it in the blue and do the rest with vinyl as its quite incredible what they can do with it now.

Here's a clip that made me smile nervously the other day - a Tuscan racer which is competing with some success in Targa style events in the UK. Worth a look at some of his in car clips too.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dk54FWmYQPA&fea...

My guess is he dabbed the brake a bit hard when he realised what a big lump he was about to go over

[Omerta]

I guess a quick on topic update is in order since it's been dragged up....

Like everything else, the cage is taking 4 times as long as expected, but is nearly done now and last I saw Automotion were making a really nice job of it.

They got MSNZ's approval to use the original cage mounts which is a big plus as it saves cutting through the body and making new mount points on the chassis (I want to be able to unbolt and remove the body again, so can't just weld the cage to the chassis). The side impact bars will be removable but when they're on the door cards will have to come out.

I accidentally bought a set of unused 6-pot AP Racing calipers off another Targa competitor for the bargain price of $1500 - I hadn't meant to upgrade brakes until after the car is on the road, but it was too good an offer to turn down and was going to have to be done sooner or later anyway. So now I have to find a set of 18" rims as the standard 17" ones I've got won't fit around them. These eventually came up - a well used set of Works 8.5 and 9.5" rims. They look good enough to race in and the slicks will come in handy some time no doubt :

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Browse/Listing.aspx?id=22...

I'm not sure that the offsets are going to work out, but they're not too far out so I figure the only way to find out is to bung em on and see.

[Fraster]

Lordy! he was plurry lucky to miss spectators/large solid-looking stone bridge!