Taff*tune GTS R32 *56k huge no no*

[kaneda]

Originally Posted by CarCouture

How are you directing the air through both radiator and IC and will you vent it through the hood?

I'm wondering this as well. I see that you're moving the bonnet vent forward to connect to the IC duct work but how are you managing airflow through the radiator traveling underneath the car?

[FancyShmancy]

Originally Posted by sideways.taff

You still pull the handbrake mate. Look at where the master cylinder is

I believe what they're wondering (as am I) is why you turned the handle around so it's pointing towards you rather than away like normally. If it's comfort you're after, this seems like a complete 180 of your goal.

[sideways.taff]

Originally Posted by FancyShmancy

I believe what they're wondering (as am I) is why you turned the handle around so it's pointing towards you rather than away like normally. If it's comfort you're after, this seems like a complete 180 of your goal.

Then, thats where you'd be completely wrong!

[FancyShmancy]

Originally Posted by sideways.taff

Then, thats where you'd be completely wrong!

Well after looking back through the pics, it almost looks like you're going to have it mounted vertically in the same fashion as the shifter. I could understand that, especially if this is to be a drifter, taking your hand from the shifter to jerk the handbrake to start your drift and right back to the shifter would seem to be simpler in that sense at least.

Then again, maybe I'm wrong and you're going to just have it horizontally and pointed towards you like I thought before. Even so, I supposed it's not that radical of an amount of movement to where it would be awkward pointing towards you, probably only 6 or 7 inches at best vertically.

And I know that now I'm rambling, but I could also see why you might have to fabricate it to point towards you also so that you can still reach it easily after reading about not being able to reach the dash when fully strapped in.

This whole oddly mounted handbrake thing is just really baffling me I suppose lol. Anyways, great looking car so far, can't wait to see it completed!

[sideways.taff]

Its something I looked into at university for of the anthropometrics and ergonimics part of my degree. Leaving the lever in a more normal position would mean that you were pulling it in much the same way as you'd be trying to lift a shopping bag at your side by moving your shoulder, turning the lever means that the action is more like trying to lift the shopping bag by moving your elbow, which is far easier. It just makes logical sense if you've looked into how the body works

Its typically not used on road cars due to packaging constraints and the use of mechanical handbrakes rather than hydraulics.

[FancyShmancy]

Originally Posted by sideways.taff

Its something I looked into at university for of the anthropometrics and ergonimics part of my degree. Leaving the lever in a more normal position would mean that you were pulling it in much the same way as you'd be trying to lift a shopping bag at your side by moving your shoulder, turning the lever means that the action is more like trying to lift the shopping bag by moving your elbow, which is far easier. It just makes logical sense if you've looked into how the body works

Its typically not used on road cars due to packaging constraints and the use of mechanical handbrakes rather than hydraulics.

thanks that makes a lot more sense to me now

keep up the good work!

[Aphid]

Yea, looking real great. This has been a fantastic build. Thanks for sharing taff

[sideways.taff]

Originally Posted by Aphid

Yea, looking real great. This has been a fantastic build. Thanks for sharing taff

Thanks, it feels as if its just the tip of the iceberg at the moment, the fabrication work I can deal with as its the sort of thing that you can just attack and get on with. Its the final details and keeping the whole lot neat and tidy in the end that's going to take the time. Especially if I decide to build my own engine rather than ship a Tomei lump over.

Hopefully, if I can crack on as I've been doing the last two days I can have the shell ready to go to the sandblaster by the weekend and have it back soon after, hopefully allready primered up and ready for paint! Christ I can't wait to have it in paint. Everything is just dirty and grotty looking now, I'm looking forward to having clean things to put my hands on!

[Cashpoint]

I think you shuld change your location from Carmarthenshire to Carmarathonshire as this is an awesome and very interesting project to see come together

[Miller99Skyline]

How much power are you looking to get out of the SR20?
Is it also gonna been a Sunday cruiser too, you know, for joy riding?
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BTW, I got a friend with a 1999 Honda Prelude Type SH (Auto w/ Speed Shift)
It's a VIRGIN car (as I like to call them) meaning it has had NO mods done to it what so ever. The car is mint and babied since he bought it 2 1/2 Years ago.

I told him that I was willing to give him my 1991 R32 GT-R Engine for his Prelude to make it a real sleeper. (I am using the empty shell and interior for something else and everything Engine/Drivetrain & Suspension wise can go in his Prelude).

It will be RWD which makes it all more easier to put in and a better way to start with minimum weight. I am also designing a concept (but subtle) look for the car. It's all Tri-colour White (Looks like pearl, but isn't).

So, I guess the Project Name can be HONDA PRELUDE Type GT-R. Condsidering With with Black is a Type-R thing, his car is already halfway there. Color-wise!

Should be a great show car/ drag car when finished!


. . . whenever we start it. He is STILL driving his car around!

[sideways.taff]

Got my new lightweight doors (50% lighter than standard doors - 6kg saving per door) and an FRP bootlid skin.

[[j]Desing]

Ahh very nice Taff. Sorry if I missed it but have you decided on a color for the car?

[Individualist]

I think that's top secret! lol You'll have to wait with the rest of us.....

[gtrlux]

Originally Posted by sideways.taff

Got my new lightweight doors (50% lighter than standard doors - 6kg saving per door) and an FRP bootlid skin.

Do you still have a manual handle to open the window, and what material is the window? I saw once a full plastic door with a plexi-glas window that couldn't be removed (opened) with just a vent for fresh air (-10kg each)

[sideways.taff]

[j]Desing: Mr.Individualist is right... some people do know, or have a vague idea of what colours it could be, but I've not really told anyone but some close friends who've helped me with the car.

gtrlux: Gary @ Japsalon made the doors in such a way that they could be trimmed back and drilled out to fully replicate the standard door, so if needed they could be fitted with the normal electric window regulator and standard glass along with all the standard trim and door cards. I'm going to be bonding a polycarbonate window to the top of the door and making a stainless steel window frame that'll keep the window in place. I might put an opening slider in the window like you see on some rally cars with poly windows.

As for ducts I'll be fitting NACA ducts into the rear quarter windows and ducting the air forwards to try and get some form of circulating air directed towards the screen to help demist it if it rains. I'll also be putting some holes across the top of the rear screen to help exhaust the circulating air from inside.