Classic Thunder Build - Duracel79 - England

[Jeroen]

...Biggest improvement would be to upgrade the squidgy bit attached to the steering wheel.

People are always looking for faster engines and stiffer suspensions but yes, that is where your biggest improvements will be, for any of us. The nut holding the steering wheel!

[Duracel79]

Had a good run out at Brands hatch over Easter weekend and then this weekend back at Snetterton again.

Car is now a bit lower and has a proper 6 plated motorsport LSD sideloader at the back.
I've tweaked the geometry as well to get the tyre to work evenly across the tread.

Results are I've knocked nearly 5 seconds off my previous best at Snetterton (2m 18.145s vs a 2m 22.921s)

Its nice to get some seat time so most of the improvement is in my confidence with what the car can do.

I'll post up some pics and video later.

Cheers

Ben

[Jeroen]

Yessss pics and videos please!

[Duracel79]

On board a very quick Holden Monaro V8 supercar (like the Aussie supercars):

https://youtu.be/LfjEMveDeA0

and the two races from offboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfofKxxG17A

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SsWj_hiMYbQ

I'll get my onboards uploaded at home tonight.

Regards

Ben

[Duracel79]

Race 1 onboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ywq6frWVxP0&t=0s

[Duracel79]

And race 2 onboard:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3JaApIzC7t4

[Jeroen]

Clearly some other mad engined cars around as well!

So engine is going well again?

[uwbuurman]

Cool!! Like the onboards!

[Duracel79]

Clearly some other mad engined cars around as well!

Yes lots of quick cars, the orange escort is running an AJP race TVR v8
The mini has a Saab 2.3 turbo engine.

So engine is going well again?

Yes, the engine is the cars strong point at the moment.
Only 10mph off the Monaro at the end of the straights and he's got close to 700bhp

Cool!! Like the onboards!

Thanks, just looks slow compared to how it feels in the car.

Got 4 weeks to wait before Silverstone National on 1st 2nd of June.

Cheers

Ben

[uwbuurman]

Yrah, those onboards always look slow, that's true. We also have that on the Eifel trip. You can't see the speed until we overtake a car that drives regular the speedlimit.

[E21meister]

Got some new parts:

Doors and Roof Hoop:

Where did you get the roof hoop from?

[Duracel79]

got the doors and roof spoiler from here:

https://www.mcracingsa.com/

[uwbuurman]

Very nice, that's gonna save you some weight!

[Duracel79]

Very nice, that's gonna save you some weight!

Not really mate, they were fitted in 2016 during the build .

I need to update since mid 2019 nearly 2 years ago, I'll try and put something up tomorrow.

[Duracel79]

Well looks like I missed some changes to the car over the winter before 2019 and Brands hatch.

I worked on modifying the rear beam to reduce camber even more which allowed me to lower the whole car about 25mm.
This then meant reducing the depth of the front splitter which is now flush with the front subframe.
No good pics but the slimmer splitter can be seen in this pic at brands.



Comprison with older version here: