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Holiday Drag Racing, Part 2/2

January 3, 2021 / / 0 Comments

Its time to simulate the big guns in drag racing; the stars of Motortrends Street Outlaws: No Prep Kings. Following on from my previous article, where I simulated my little Locost in a straight-line, I have tried my best to piece together what a No Prep car looks like on paper and what makes them able to perform a Eighth Mile Drag Race in less than 4s! Lets delve in.

“The Shocker”

The car I have loosely based my numbers on is Kye Kelley’s third generation Camaro; “The Shocker”. Kye is a top level driver and builder and is often talked about.… Read More

Holiday Drag Racing, Part 1/2

December 29, 2020 / / 0 Comments

COVID19, and the isolation associated with it, has made us all go a little mad. Personally, I am in need of some Automotive escapism, and my choice of holiday TV has been Street Outlaws No Prep Kings (Season #3, you can find it on MotorTrend).

While drag racing is considered very niche in the UK, it’s huge over the pond and there are loads of online shows covering it. No Prep Kings pits big high powered American cars against each other in eighth mile drag races. Each round the losers are knocked out until there is only one winner left.… Read More

ManDoCar: Episode #1

December 4, 2020 / / 2 Comments

I couldn’t bring myself to write a full article on how the car is getting on, so I decided to do something a little different: a podcast! Enjoy. All the relevant pictures are below as well as dingy chat!

We discuss painting, IVA preparation, driving at Snetterton, engineering learning, SpaceX hydraulic systems, faulty brake callipers, peak performance, why limited slip differentials rock, the Hoonigan donk, exhaust wrap, and lastly, engineering in a pandemic.

Dingy Chat

Pantone 333c Colour Chip

The Locost

New steering rack mount. Major surgery!
The chassis finally in a state to clean and paint. Spring 2020
Chassis all cleaned up and steering rack back in
Steering joint over the 10 degrees required for IVA
A very clean and red engine block
ARP Main Studs.
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Front Lights and Indicators

Locost: A long due update

November 17, 2019 / / 2 Comments

I have five unfinished articles sat in my inbox. Half technical, half updates. But I haven’t been able to bring myself to finish any of them. Free time to write is hard to come by these days, and I am very picky about what I choose to publish. However, it has been far too long without an update, and I owe you all some words and pictures. So here goes.

Dyno

This time last year I was gearing up for a trip to the dyno. I was going to get the car tuned and then head over to Castle Combe for a cold/wet trackday to round the year off.… Read More

3D Printing: Improved Inlet Trumpets

October 12, 2018 / / 0 Comments

Nothing quite gets the internet clickidy-clicks like a 3D printing article! In the following post I use 3D printing to fix something that wasn’t really broken.

The OLD Design

I have never been happy with the original mountings for the inlet trumpets on the Locost. Its quite common to use silicone hose to align everything within a retro-fit throttle body system and sadly mine was no different. This design can lead to miss-alignment between the trumpets and the throttles, potential shrouding of the inlet path and variations in inlet length; cylinder to cylinder.

This is the kind of stuff that keeps me up at night and it needed to be improved.… Read More

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