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https://www.motorsportmagazine.com/a...bvcf6dKhRAP0k8

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Based on zero actual relevant evidence, but every piece of software interface I’ve ever used with cars has required XP or earlier. Have a dodgy old laptop kicking about for exclusively that

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Finally got around the rubbing back and gel coating the wing. yay. Fish-eyed like a motherfucker though. More rubbing and another coat tomorrow.

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yeah dave is still around. doesnt seem to post much though?? i liked his carbon work. almost 2 yrs ago that we went hiking in the alps. jesus time goes quick

heres the complete W2A intercooler...

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i have smoke flares and a covert autobahn run planned for this ...

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and the splitter...

that was pretty boring, but i did look at how the turning vanes/vortex generator endplates work. yep, it works



and the animated gif......

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and then came this. sun was coming in low in the evening, had the kärcher out stripping some paint off other some old shit, and the mist floating around gave me an idea... splitter and wing conveniently...

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splitter out of the bag and trimmed a bit. lots of work to go, including the underside, and a final pretty layer on top

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looks far better mannered

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well pump is still running 12 hrs later, holding 0.4bar. nothing burnt down overnight. win. using an ultra slow resin, so this could take a while. suns not hot today either. pump will prob run another...

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its a big chain of parts, and cumulative errors means the bit at the end is a couple of mm off, so everything along the route needs remounting a few mm.

the splitter is cantilevered to the...

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They’d just end up making themselves into Han Solo coffee tables

plus the Kids have learnt that on days like today, dad’s teetering on verge of being a right grumpy cunt, so pachewwww......

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theres about 6hrs here, including a feed. Mostly spent crawling around on the floor cutting and laying up carbon for the first 2 hours, and crawling around on the floor trying to find a leak or 3 for...

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I. Hate. Vac Bagging

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^^^^ that’s probably it....

AlMgSi0,5 EN AW 6060 / T66...

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already gone to heaven. but i started with 3 lengths of 2.4m, have 2 useful pipes of each around 1m and some useful smaller straight bits left.

i can live with kinks, thats still usable....

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sand bending number 2. again 25x1.0mm thin-wall alu tube. bent basically the same (small rippling inside bend), but i fucked it up slightly less often than the first go, so less went in the bin. switchback...

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surprisingly simple and easy to get hooked up to the RC/Pro3, calibrated and running flawlessly





and translated into mm



and the resulting...