Oh hi there...
So I went to Areamotorsport the other night to have my car setup for oulton park...and offered to help get there name out there as imo it's been far too long since we in the midlands had something to shout about. This is me shouting.. :wink:
It's a new venture by an already well established motorsport company. They have 3 or 4 EP3 project cars on the go, from customers cars to race cars, n/a and turbo, all custom made stuff and not much generic forum mods at all...if any. They also had lots of custom made chassis mods that I have never seen before, but will be acquiring. Cool stuff such as camber arms, LCA's, castor and camber adjustable ball joints and bushes etc etc. Designed and produced by themselves, and some more in the pipeline apparently, plus oil coolers etc. First impression for me is that they are the "Clockwise Motion" of the project car world. If you know Clockwise, you'll know what I mean :cooldude:
So arrived at the current premises, although an all new unit is being built apparently which is nice. :smile:
They got the car up onto the scales and all associated gizmo's attached to each hub plate.
The car weighed in at 1149.5 which is nice to know, still has oem seats, doorcards, side trim, stereo, 4 speakers, airbags etc.
Had a little chat with the mechanics, a little out of my depth with these guys tbh, as they are uber motorsport orientated but they were happy to stop and explain stuff in laymans terms so I could keep up with what was happening. Very interesting how they corner weight the car and what other checks they can do with this equipment, such as detecting bump steer, pin pointing the cause and measuring the extent of it. I watched as they took readings as the wheels were being turned lock to lock and lots of really cool stuff was happening on the screen which was highly technical but looked cool. :wink:
Got a little screen shot of the front camber/toe readings after. There were similar readouts for the full geo such as castor, rear camber/toe and K.P.I. readings etc and I had a printout of the whole lot to take home as well.
The accuracy of this method is absolute. I don't know what else to call it tbh. They got it 100% perfect. I never expected that at all as I've been round long enough to know that nothing is perfect.
I've not been on track yet, but will be on Tuesday at Oulton park so hoping it performs well. What little grief I have been able to give it on the way home from them has been great. It feels so balanced now, unlike it ever has before. It just makes sense when you think about it, corner weighting balances the car, combined with an accurately setup chassis, and boom...it feels perfectly balanced. Simple.
I should have had this done along time ago.
Thanks to the guys at Areamotorsport for their time and effort....and tea. :wink:
