Wyoming 818R Build Thread

[flynntuna]

Man, your putting on a clinic on how the details make the difference!

[shoeish]

Body install is beginning. I had a body shop prime and paint my stuff with cheap black paint. Once everything is on he is going to go over it and make it look great. From the beginning I have planned to wrap it but the black/gold looks pretty good, I'm starting to reconsider.

I put the rivnuts for the doors in with the bodywork off. I also drilled the holes for the sideskirts. For the door rivnuts, I took some 1" diameter 1/4" ID fender washers and drilled them out to 25/64" (riv nut size) so the rivnuts would hold more.






Tonight I will fit the filler neck to the boyd tank and add the inner rear fenders. I am going to leave hood hinges maroon as a homage to the donor car.

Has anybody wet-sanded the carbon fiber yet? Any tips?

[Aero STI]

It's coming together nicely.

[shoeish]

Thanks all. More progress, I've been hitting it hard.

I got my charcoal cansitor fitted.



With the boyd tank I made two cuts on the FFR fuel filler neck and its going to fit perfectly. Details to come.

Carbon fiber side sills things mounted. 4" spacing on rivets probably excessive.


Looks great is and very strong.


I should have the rest of the body pieces tonight. I am going to take most of tomorrow off, crank on it through the weekend, and have exhaust done Monday/Tuesday for the finish. SO CLOSE. I'm dreading getting the headlights in without scratching anything the most.

[shoeish]

Last night was rear bumper night.

Installed the grating. The chopsticks idea that somebody here on the forums had is just genius.




The street spoiler fit like garbage and wasn't symmetrical at all. I put masking tape down, put it where I wanted it and drilled one 1/8" hole and held it with a cleco. From there I drew tiny lines (on top of more masking tape) and filed it down. I hated removing the clear coat from the edges of it but I had to for a good fit.





Fuel Filler:
On the left are the two pieces I removed from the FFR fuel neck and the pieces on the right are laid out how they will be attached. When welding on the vent hose bung make sure you know which way is the top (the threads are tapered) or you will have to redo it. The fuel tube is stainless steel.

[shoeish]

Mounting of the diffuser:



I overlapped the front edge of it with the rear edge of the under engine cover. The strakes are spaced at 7" apart.

All my work earlier with the headlights paid off. They fit right in!

[shoeish]

99.7% done. I actually got to burn up and down the street last night before I hid it away. It's fast and pretty awesome.





All that's left:
Front tow hook
A small wiring issue with the lights
Alignment
Mount rear plate
Mount passenger side mirror
Mount windshield for real (it's mocked up so I can get insurance)
Screw dash down

Then its done other than the wrap.

[Pearldrummer7]

Holy crap that is beautiful.

[Hindsight]

Love the black!

[mikeb75]

First Class! Great job finishing up.

[Bob_n_Cincy]

99.7% done. I actually got to burn up and down the street last night before I hid it away. It's fast and pretty awesome.

Looks great.
You can't be 99.7% done.
Every time we go to an autocross, we come home with a 5% list.
We went to our first track day and came home with a 10% list.

Our second 818 hasn't been touched since it has been warm enough to drive the first one.
Bob

[Mitch Wright]

Bob, we must be doing it all wrong, every time I work on the car I seem to add as many items as I cross off.

[Rasmus]

Looks great.
You can't be 99.7% done.
Every time we go to an autocross, we come home with a 5% list.
We went to our first track day and came home with a 10% list.

Sounds about right.

Years ago I had a project car I finished. It was the worst day. At 100% I never wanted to drive it for fear I'd break it.

[flynntuna]

Amazing! Just don't park next to my 818. Inevitably people will compare, and not give mine a second look. LOL

[Aero STI]

That looks epic! Great work!

[07FIREBLADE]

Glad your on the east coast. Can't park next to me. Congrats and it's looking amazing.

[shoeish]

Thanks everybody. Fun but frustrating, I will not be building a second one, that's for sure.

Looks great.
You can't be 99.7% done.
Every time we go to an autocross, we come home with a 5% list.
We went to our first track day and came home with a 10% list.

Our second 818 hasn't been touched since it has been warm enough to drive the first one.
Bob

I'm sure this is how it will go. To prove it, I'm doing a track day this Friday.

[R.Spec]

Holy crap that thing is gorgeous! Explain more on the chopstick idea if you don't mind!?

[shoeish]

I just used chopsticks to span the gap and then zip ties around the chopsticks, near the edges, to pull the metal into the black silicone. I'll snag a picture when I get home, have one more left.

[Sgt.Gator]

Beautiful car!

It was noted in another thread that the quick latches on the hood have failed for at least two owners and the hood flipped up. I'd hate to see your beautiful car have that problem!

Are you going to wheel to wheel race it?

[shoeish]

Beautiful car!

It was noted in another thread that the quick latches on the hood have failed for at least two owners and the hood flipped up. I'd hate to see your beautiful car have that problem!

Are you going to wheel to wheel race it?

On that note... I'm going to switch my very front quic-latches to hoodpins right away, thank you, ugliness be damned. I am not going to wheel to wheel race it, I am going to track day the hell out of it though.

The first drive went perfectly. I need to spend some time getting the brakes bedded and brake bias dialed in but other than that, PERFECT. It rides far better than expected, has zero rattles, and handles fairly well for my first try at alignment. Pictures to come, I was too excited to drive it to stop and take pictures.

[shoeish]

Glad your on the east coast. Can't park next to me. Congrats and it's looking amazing.

I'm actually in Wyoming, which is north of Colorado.

[RetroRacing]

I'm thinking the hood latch failure thing might be do to the air from the rad pushing up on the hood. We have NO air hitting the underside of the hood, or the firewall for that matter, as we have sealed the floor and the rad to the vents. Still not sure we want to risk it though.

[Rasmus]

I'm thinking the hood latch failure thing might be do to...

My hypothesis would be the pressure differential between the fast moving air on the top of the hood (middle section, and rear section on R's) and the virtually dead still air under the hood. Fast moving air drops the pressure while dead air is just at Atmo. pressure. Even if there's only a 0.5 psi of difference on an area 2ft by 3ft that's 432 lbs of force pushing up on the underside of the hood. (2 x 3 x 144 x 0.5)

[shoeish]

DONE* AND TRACK DAY!

Video: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-mea8J7OvhI








Overall success.

First session: Had time for two laps by the time I got unloaded and strapped in. Enough to work the suspension a little and bed the brakes.
Second session: Blew a boost tube on lap 3ish. Tow hook worked great.
Third session: Blew the coolant hose from the throttle body to the water pipe.
Fourth session: Overheated on lap 3 because bubble
Fifth session: Overheated on lap 5 because bubble

Car sounds great. Suspension out of the box, thanks to SCR Performance's alignment, was pretty damn good. It needs a little rear rebound, rear brake bias to stabilize it under braking. It has a lot of mid corner understeer but I think that's because of the LSD. I can apply full power (on the wastegate tune, 340whp) coming out of the corner, it lays it down right until track out where it steps out a bit and goes. Fifth gear is too tall, but with the 17psi tune (365whp and much more midrange) I'll have the torque to overcome it.

Goals for next time are to make it stable and fun. Lap times aren't the most important to me with this car.

[STiPWRD]

Awesome video! How fast were those straights?

[shoeish]

Whatever 5500rpm in 5th gear with 4.11's and those tires is. I'm guessing ~130mph.

[Hindsight]

Very cool!!

[Mitch Wright]

car looks great and congrats on your first laps.

[SixStar]

Whatever 5500rpm in 5th gear with 4.11's and those tires is. I'm guessing ~130mph.

215/45-17?

With the RA set we did you should be at 115-120mph.

[shoeish]

215/45-17?

With the RA set we did you should be at 115-120mph.

5th was a stock .7xx gear.

[shoeish]

A quick acceleration video:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LVAGDWvlZoc

[Skies388]

Shoeish great looking build. Off the wall question, do you know what it measures nose to tail? I am looking for a project and I have specific trailer length I am trying to meet. Thanks

[shoeish]

Shoeish great looking build. Off the wall question, do you know what it measures nose to tail? I am looking for a project and I have specific trailer length I am trying to meet. Thanks

157" length
95" wheel base
71" max width (at tail)

AUTOCROSS!!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hsRuW_SktpI

[FFRSpec72]

Did you just weld/bolt your rear tow hook to the rear of the transmission frame ?

[shoeish]

Did you just weld/bolt your rear tow hook to the rear of the transmission frame ?

It's bolted through the bumper, transmission frame, and splitter.

[bbjones121]

How did you compare with the Ariel atom?

[shoeish]

How did you compare with the Ariel atom?

He had the Atom 3S and insane aero, he was also on brand new hoosiers and I was only on my Dunlop Star Specs... I only beat him by 1.8 seconds.

[bbjones121]

He had the Atom 3S and insane aero, he was also on brand new hoosiers and I was only on my Dunlop Star Specs... I only beat him by 1.8 seconds.

Ha-ha�� nice.

[Sgt.Gator]

Any updates on the beautiful build?