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Bernice Loui
Thanks for the advice everyone.
The bolt in the bleed hose is temporary until I can get something done on the lathe.
~Good~ This is a VERY important aspect of the cooling system.
Pads are new and are these ones
~Those are not gonna work for endurance racing. They will be roasted in short time. It's been so long since we ran the stock set up on the LeMons car, don't remember which Porterfield pads we use. Do spend the $ to get brake pads that are going survive endurance racing.
~On the rear, we used Gen ! Mazda RX7 rear pads from Hawk. They are Ferro carbon, works OK for endurance race conditions. Some track testing will need to be done to figure out proper brake balance with various pads. Might have some notes on what we did, but will need some digging to find it as that was more than a decade ago.
Lines (and master cylinder and all caliper seals) are new and are OE.
~Stock caliper seals and master is acceptable, Stock brake hoses are not. They expand too much to deliver proper brake pedal feel for the drivers. Order up the teflon-metal braid ones from Goodridge (UK or EU) or similar from a US of A supplier.
Sounds like front calipers are the way to go here. I'll track some down. No need to change the brake carriers? Or are those different front to rear?
~Same caliper carriers. Remove caliper slider wedge pins, slide out the caliper wedges, remove the rear caliper and all parking brake related items, slide the front caliper (they are handed, and can use the same rear brake hose. Hose fitting threads on calipers are 3/8-24 tpi) in to the caliper bracket, install the wedges. Make ABSOLUTE sure the wedges are clean and NOT bent. They must be well lubricated with high quality moly grease. If not, the wedges will not slide properly causing a long list of odd brake behavior.
Plans for the cage are to more or less copy another member who has been running an X19 for the last year. I think his username is on here is @TheTallOne. He sent me some pictures, so we'll be going off of that with some adjustments due to driver height and seat differences. The rules specify everything well.
~Make absolute sure the cage to be made meets current LeMons requirements as their requirements have progressively changed every season. Get this wrong in any way the LeMons folks will bounce the car no iffs or butts. Ascertain all drivers will properly fit in this exxe.
Don't hack off the top or windshield (PBS style) as that will make passing LeMons tech more difficult.
If the tallest driver cannot achieve the specified helmet to top of the cage gap, drop the floor pan to achieve the gap specified. Pad the seat as need to get the shortest driver up to the proper driver position and make sure all driver fit components are easy to remove-install as this will need to happen often during a LeMons race.
Strong seat mounting is must, each belt anchoring point (industry standard heat belt hardware is 7/16"-20 thread) must be strong enough to lift more than the weight of the car, race seat is another item that must fit all the drivers of this exxe and the seat must be a proper race seat that clamps the driver into the car not allowing any body movement. There is no possible way to properly drive a race car if the driver is sliding around in the driver seat. Consider making a expanding foam seat adder for smaller drivers if needed. It is imperative all drivers achieve proper fit into this race car.
Belts must work with a Hans Device as the hans Device is now mandatory for LeMons.
Gilles Villeneuve was killed instantly after being ejected from the car due to a failure in seat belt mounting. BTW, Gilles Villeneuve was an x1/9 owner/driver.
Bernice
The bolt in the bleed hose is temporary until I can get something done on the lathe.
~Good~ This is a VERY important aspect of the cooling system.
Pads are new and are these ones
~Those are not gonna work for endurance racing. They will be roasted in short time. It's been so long since we ran the stock set up on the LeMons car, don't remember which Porterfield pads we use. Do spend the $ to get brake pads that are going survive endurance racing.
~On the rear, we used Gen ! Mazda RX7 rear pads from Hawk. They are Ferro carbon, works OK for endurance race conditions. Some track testing will need to be done to figure out proper brake balance with various pads. Might have some notes on what we did, but will need some digging to find it as that was more than a decade ago.
Lines (and master cylinder and all caliper seals) are new and are OE.
~Stock caliper seals and master is acceptable, Stock brake hoses are not. They expand too much to deliver proper brake pedal feel for the drivers. Order up the teflon-metal braid ones from Goodridge (UK or EU) or similar from a US of A supplier.
Sounds like front calipers are the way to go here. I'll track some down. No need to change the brake carriers? Or are those different front to rear?
~Same caliper carriers. Remove caliper slider wedge pins, slide out the caliper wedges, remove the rear caliper and all parking brake related items, slide the front caliper (they are handed, and can use the same rear brake hose. Hose fitting threads on calipers are 3/8-24 tpi) in to the caliper bracket, install the wedges. Make ABSOLUTE sure the wedges are clean and NOT bent. They must be well lubricated with high quality moly grease. If not, the wedges will not slide properly causing a long list of odd brake behavior.
Plans for the cage are to more or less copy another member who has been running an X19 for the last year. I think his username is on here is @TheTallOne. He sent me some pictures, so we'll be going off of that with some adjustments due to driver height and seat differences. The rules specify everything well.
~Make absolute sure the cage to be made meets current LeMons requirements as their requirements have progressively changed every season. Get this wrong in any way the LeMons folks will bounce the car no iffs or butts. Ascertain all drivers will properly fit in this exxe.
Don't hack off the top or windshield (PBS style) as that will make passing LeMons tech more difficult.
If the tallest driver cannot achieve the specified helmet to top of the cage gap, drop the floor pan to achieve the gap specified. Pad the seat as need to get the shortest driver up to the proper driver position and make sure all driver fit components are easy to remove-install as this will need to happen often during a LeMons race.
Strong seat mounting is must, each belt anchoring point (industry standard heat belt hardware is 7/16"-20 thread) must be strong enough to lift more than the weight of the car, race seat is another item that must fit all the drivers of this exxe and the seat must be a proper race seat that clamps the driver into the car not allowing any body movement. There is no possible way to properly drive a race car if the driver is sliding around in the driver seat. Consider making a expanding foam seat adder for smaller drivers if needed. It is imperative all drivers achieve proper fit into this race car.
Belts must work with a Hans Device as the hans Device is now mandatory for LeMons.
Gilles Villeneuve was killed instantly after being ejected from the car due to a failure in seat belt mounting. BTW, Gilles Villeneuve was an x1/9 owner/driver.
Bernice
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