The Porsche 917 is now stripped down to the frame. It is bringing back memories from when I built this car originally. This is like starting with a clean slate. You now get time to do things and change things that usually aren’t any time for. I put all the damaged parts on one side […]
The next race arrived and we were getting everything together to go with. The car was in great condition and everything as working together as it should. The Friday we did a practice session and qualifying, the car was running really well. The next morning we were at the track very early. We went through […]
One thing with race cars is that you can never just get in the car and race it. It is almost like having an exotic pet. It needs constant care. With a race car, it is a similar situation. Before a race car goes to the track you need to go over every bolt and […]
The first test of the Porsche 917 went really well. We had some small issues that we needed to sort out. One of the issues was bump steering. On the track, we tested there was a slight bump in the road just before the end of the long back straight. When the Porsche 917 went […]
I had to get exhausts on the car. The easiest way was just to take the car to someone who builds custom exhaust. I loaded the car onto the trailer and took it through to Bosson exhaust. They were an outfit that specialized in performance bike exhausts. As we made custom water-cooled exhaust for the […]
My boss told me that we were getting the Porsche 917 replica from a company Bailey & Edwards Cars. This company was based in Johannesburg, South Africa. Within the same week, a truck arrived with boxes and boxes of parts. At this stage, I didn’t even know how a Porsche 917 looked. I went onto […]
Now that we have the engine it is time to sort out all the other parts of the car. It is like a child at Christmas with all the toys around the tree. This is going to be one serious build so all the best parts have to go into it. What gearbox to use? […]
At work, we were busy with a project that would marinize a naturally aspirated Nissan VK45DE engine. The project was going well. One day my boss called me in. He told me that there is a present waiting in the delivery area at work. He got Cosworth to develop a supercharger package for marine use. […]
The Polo build is complete, at least I think it was. The car really ran well, allot better than I expected. There were some tweaks I still wanted to do but it was good enough for now. I took the Polo to the dyno shop I usually make use off. They strapped the polo done […]
Till now most of the small issues have been sorted out and the car was running good. The car was still running on its base map. The Polo was running well, but I just expected more of the setup. It didn’t feel as aggressive as I thought it would be. The Polo has also not […]