Riceburner

Should be in the next issue, whenever that is The headers have gone purple and the pipes on the rear can have gone bronze from the heat I managed to reduce the high res pics instead of the dodgey iphone type!

Has there ever been a bad sounding Ferrari! Also liking the Petrolicious series of videos, great variety and insight. "the best way to celebrate cars like this is to really drive it and enjoy it" +1

I found some more info. http://www.racecartuner.com/03/205.html My strut tops shouls allow for an extra 1deg of caster, the added caster should give .5deg of camber too which will get me back to 3deg. The caster change should give me a bigger tyre contact patch while cornering=more grip. The trade off is it will reduce stability, I guess thats due to quicker turn in? It will also unload the rear inside tyre, so I'll disconnect the rear sway bar to compensate. Thoughts?

My understanding was the more caster you have the less neg camber you will need. I noticed at the nats I seem to be running a lot more than others. Gerhard was running -2deg, Gordon's looked about the same(-2) or even less but he has different tyre size. Thanks, I'll aim for 2mm toe in then. I've already cut 20mm off each side to get good clearance, I can't really cut off anymore. I used the adjustable rods to get equal caster on both sides.

May as well continue on with this thread. I'm contemplating adjusting my suspension in the search for more corner speed. I have 3.5deg of neg camber, zero toe in and stock'ish' caster. I already have little to no clearance to the gnose, but I have urethane offset strut tops fitted that give 1 deg neg camber. I had an idea I could rotate these towards the back to give caster without losing clearance to the gnose? giving me 2.5neg camber, 1deg more neg castor than current stock'ish' setup. I have adjustable castor rods but these are at stock length due to clearance issue. Thoughts?

My shroud came with the rad, but with fans fitted it was VERY close to the water pump. I ended up reversing it to give enough clearance, sits about 10mm from the rad fins. It's just alum sheet with a 10mm fold on all sides, the vertical sides have an extra fold to allow it to attach to the rad. Benny's idea would be virtually the same, use some flat sheet with angle attached. Also, you could get a piece of flat sheet bent up at a sheetmetal business. The rads are great for the money, I ran my car on the freeway and through heavy traffic in 36deg heat for two days in a row with no fans and the temp didn't go any more than two-three needle widths above half. I managed to undo the power wires without realising it

Nope, It'll be just me. I have a spare seat if you can fit me in the back

I just got a Gopro today, hopefully I'll have it up and going by next week.

To drive or watch?

phew! That was a close call

I'll probably do the Msca sprint. Looks like it may just be me, unless you decide to run Gordon?

I was lucky enough to see it up close, awesome Ash!

Hehehehe, Are they ever finished? Nice Job Sam. Loving the look, white Zeds definately look the best and the side decals really set it off. Where did you get them from? I suggest an Iphone cradle, it'll save your passenger leaning over to do the vid work Congrats, you've done a great job.

Thanks, I've sent a question asking about condition of the screw holes.

Anyone going to be doing this event? I'm thinking about going back again, got Harry's iPhone app and a suction cup mount

Sounds sweet Gordo, Damn you make it look easy!

The picture quality and sound seemed really good

Nice job mate, wish I had thought of this too! What cradle/mount are you using and are the scrutineers ok with it?

Awesome job Greg, I have never seen anything like this in person. Epic build and unbelieveable attention to detail. Congrats!

Was really good to see everyone again, I had a great time. Nice to meet many new people, put faces to names and have plenty of laughs. Thanks everyone and NDSOC for another excellent event!

Fresh Home from a great weekend at the Nationals. The weather held out for us which was surprising, it's melbourne afterall. The Ricey performed faultlessly, had a little fuel surge in my third and final run but that was due to low fuel levels. New PB too There was a pro photographer down there, I got a 'montage' print which is 24"x34" and will get it framed. Here's some rough Iphone pics of it.

A few pics I have. Had lots more but I can't find them

First time out racing in the new Gnose Riceburner at the 2013 Nissan Datsun nationals. New PB 1min54.6secs!