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Old 09-29-16, 08:43 PM
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Working on building a new race engine.

Building a new race engine. I machined the rotors and got them down to 4100 grams. I bought a new aluminum flywheel 8.6 LBS. I have a new 48 mm Weber and I am doing a bridgeport job on it and Carbon Apex seals. I am running 3 inch exhaust pipe and I built my muffler all Stainless. I also built a stainless header and I will be running a close ratio trans. Going to get a new set of 13 inch slicks. I modified the oiling system so it should stay together. Next year should be a blast at the track I race with NCRC in their racing group ARC. They also run track days event too.
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Old 09-29-16, 10:50 PM
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Sounds nice. You doing the work yourself? Please post pics as you go along. It'd be nice as referrence as I'm rebuilding my tired 12A.
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Originally Posted by madmen
Sounds nice. You doing the work yourself? Please post pics as you go along. It'd be nice as referrence as I'm rebuilding my tired 12A.
Okay I will try to post .I will be doing the build over the winter. Here is photos of some of the things I have built and done to my car. I fabricated an intake manifold for my Weber and here are photos of it as I built it. I have since modified it and it work great. One photo of my exhaust system I fabricated all of it except the black muffler. It is 3 inch. One photo of a rotor before and after lighting it they are now with in 2 grams of each other and I had them balanced with the Aluminum flywheel. The picture of the sheets of aluminum are the air dam and spoiler I fabricated and then I have a photo of the cockpit.
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Nice! I run NCRC too. I will look for you next year.
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Originally Posted by gracer7-rx7
Nice! I run NCRC too. I will look for you next year.
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Racingartist. That's a beautiful race car you've got! The fab work for the manifold is excellent and I can't wait to see it all done.




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