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Could you not go closer ratio and get 6 or 7 speed in there, I love the idea of banging through the gears with a tiny drop in revs, it would be like a super bike.
For how I use my Pug, I think I could have put up with the noise and chunterring behaviour of sequential but don't know if would have ruined it as a road car? I can listen to music and sat nav in mine at the moment.
Mine is a road car an straight cut box never gets boring an can
Turn the tunes up other wise
No need if you have a good powerband, its not a normally aspirated. Changing gear is time lost.
I get what you are saying. I have pretty close ratio oppliger box and a wide slug of torque but I could easily squeeze in more gears and the change time is hardly long, hence the benefit of sequential, I bet a good 7 speed with flat shift could do all 7 in the time I do 5 on my oppliger long box, even with the 500ftlb of torque that I have.
Not totally necessary but then half the stuff we bolt on our road cars is just cos we can...I doubt I really need all the stuff I already have.
I get what you are saying. I have pretty close ratio oppliger box and a wide slug of torque but I could easily squeeze in more gears and the change time is hardly long, hence the benefit of sequential, I bet a good 7 speed with flat shift could do all 7 in the time I do 5 on my oppliger long box, even with the 500ftlb of torque that I have.
Not totally necessary but then half the stuff we bolt on our road cars is just cos we can...I doubt I really need all the stuff I already have.
Years ago due to the narrow power bands more gears were needed to keep the engine on song, the FFD 7speed a classic of the era, when better turbo boost thresholds became the norm the manufacturer reduced the number of gears, Peugeot running the 5speed in the 206 wrc was a first, they had the torque to pull longer ratios.
Road cars have 6+ for cruise/economy.
I don't put anything i don't need on any of my cars 😉
Yes PGS can build the full box and that's probably what I will get them to do, send them the transfer and everything maybe depending on shipping costs
What's the ratio's on your oppliger box mate?
I will try and find the email with them on mate, it is the close ratio long box, I think 1st is the same or longer and then tightly stacked (ish) 2nd, 3rd and 4th with a normal ish 5th. I am on 3.9 diffs and 16 inch wheels so I tend to get top speed of 150mph at 7,500 or around 20mph per 1000 revs in 5th so quite a bit lower than a standard cossie setup.
So the skyline sequential is a slightly closer ratio box, surprised by that
Done a few more little jobs
Brake and clutch system drained and re filled with Performance Friction 665 fluid as I wasn't keen on the stuff I'd been using previously
Made up some front brake cooling ducts, not sure if these are really needed yet but made them anyway while I had the time and they weigh literally nothing so can stay disconnected if the brake discs aren't getting hot enough to warren them, will get some disc temp paint on the discs before next track day to see where we are at
Neoprene ducting to go to front bumper is on order and will be fitted and positioned later
Aslso I been meaning to make up a turbo hanger for a while that clears my coil on plug set up so slightly different to standard so started on that
Machined up the standoffs and rose joint boss, just need to make up the bracket for the turbo housing and wait for the rose joint before I can see exactly where I want the support to be positioned
Looks good and I like the brake cooling ducts, please keep the template in case you ever get round to making a set to sell? I believe my hubs are the same as yours.
I would need to check they would fit within my wheels at the angle they work at.
Unfortunately all the photo's linked to this thread have been blocked by PhotoBucket due to exceeding 3rd party hosting limits and if i want to remove the limit i will have to pay $400 a year
This wont be happening so this 7 year thread now has no photo's
So sad mate , what a bunch of cunts photobucket are.
All your hard work gone , I loved seeing your updates etc .
Well that's most of the build pages gone on passionford then
Unfortunately all the photo's linked to this thread have been blocked by PhotoBucket due to exceeding 3rd party hosting limits and if i want to remove the limit i will have to pay $400 a year
This wont be happening so this 7 year thread now has no photo's
Thanks
Marc
I've just found this out also.. WTF! I used to even go back over my own thread so I could remember what I'd done! Let alone going through this one and others too.
Whats the alternative?
It would take days and weeks to re-link all the photos to this thread
Sorry if I'm stating the obvious but you can still get to the images of this thread by right clicking and opening the image, it just takes you to photobucket.
Nice job on the bellhousing....I like seeing it spinning in the lathe....not sure my Super 7 would cope lol.
Markk...do you think the epas pump will not keep up with super fast steering inputs then? Is that what you mean by the lock up? I would have thought the manufacturers would have over engineered that in to it? I assume this is a corsa type setup? I only ask as I would one day like to swap to that sort of setup for the road and would do this with a Wrc style front subframe and add the non pas rack from a Sierra.
Nice job on the bellhousing....I like seeing it spinning in the lathe....not sure my Super 7 would cope lol.
Markk...do you think the epas pump will not keep up with super fast steering inputs then? Is that what you mean by the lock up? I would have thought the manufacturers would have over engineered that in to it? I assume this is a corsa type setup? I only ask as I would one day like to swap to that sort of setup for the road and would do this with a Wrc style front subframe and add the non pas rack from a Sierra.
Not that I don't think, I know it won't.
Been there done that on both EPAS Electro-hydraulic and on Corsa electric column.
The ratio of the Cossy racks, the extra huge wheels we put on, the sticky rubber plus the extra weight of the car, they just cannot cope. The system will baulk if you try to turn from left to right or vice versa very quickly and lock out the steering.
I have gone by to hydraulic but with mods to the rack flow and a much higher pressure pump.
On my last event I had just the Corsa system, I lost around 4 seconds at each chicane junction, times that by around 12 junctions before you need to bring it out of big sideways and find your steering locked (or it feels locked without PAS)
Should have binned the EPAS mate, will be no good for the sprinting, will lock up when trying to turn fast.
Hi Mark
I don't have a lot of choice! I can't run the standard style as there's no room for the pump under the inlet now and as you say I've heard the corsa style can be notchy
The DC electronics set up is meant to be the best but that's a lot of changing round for me to fit a column set up and they are about Ł1800
I don't have a lot of choice! I can't run the standard style as there's no room for the pump under the inlet now and as you say I've heard the corsa style can be notchy
The DC electronics set up is meant to be the best but that's a lot of changing round for me to fit a column set up and they are about Ł1800
I want able to mount in std position, made bracket, move position for non ford hydraulic pump, job jobbed.
21-06-2017, 06:03 PM
