My new brighton

Chargespeed

 

Doug you are having great taste with this car. Two BIG THUMBS up from me.

 

That thing i pure sexy and evil at the same time. I love it man, Nice job.

 

i want a brighton

 

Yeah, that thing is lookin pretty pimp...
I can see the Porsche and Corvette guys at the track saying "What's a Brighton"?

 

i have a feeling they won't be saying it for long though. :naughty:

 

We always get a wtf from those guys at the track, everyone wants to know what the hell that 4 door thing was that passed them. I'm sure they get the same response in the Brighton.

Car looks good Doug.

 

I wish my job involved this... instead I had to pay 1100 bucks to fix running into a curb =[ (rather, a curb running into me).

 

car looks so mean...the bbs were definitely an upgrade

 

Thx, but they aren't BBS's they are custom CCW's

 

I see the CCWs...I mean the BBS's were a big upgrade from the Rota's. The CCWs are my favorite

 

here are a few pics from this weekend. Speedvision was there and like our team so they decided to follow us around for the weekend. Seems we make a good story.

 

This is the baddest pic EVER! My new desktop!

 

Here is a video from Saturdays practice. The camera is kinda jumpy so sorry for the quality. During practice the car is runing low boost, which puts it down about 100hp from where it is on race day. The car is still quick enough though to pull most anything on the track. Including built motor gt35 evos, turbo s2k's and the cusco subaru.

Enjoy

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_XSI_wkQyxw

 

Thats a sweet video. I kept waiting for you to keep it pinned up the hill and air it out off the drop before the banked turn. What kind of speeds were you hitting on that track?

 

on the one longer straight we were seeing 6.5k rpms in 6th

 

Car is looking solid man.

Quick question, why did you decide to go with fender flares as apposed to a wide body kit? Easier to fix/replace if wrecked?

 

Love the vid Doug. Want to build me one?

 

sure all that is needed is a brighton, 40k cash and about 6 months.

 

Yikes.....:rofl::rofl:

I saw a Brighton for sale down the road from me. With a longblock sitting in my shed it was mighty tempting. Keep up the good work!

Question about this car. Never mind.....its a 2.7L! No wonder it spools.

 

Time for some winter off season updates...


Quick update: The set of Sparco Circuit's showed up today, and were too small. They were just uncomfortable for me to sit in. So I put them up for sale and sold them in under 3hrs, guess I priced them too low.

The good thing is I was very happy that I sold them, and it worked out the way it did. While I was at PRI in Orlando I got a chance to try out and sit in tons of different seats. I can honestly say after sitting in 30 different seats from 5 different manufactures that the RaceTech seats fit me the best.

So today I ordered a set of RT4009WHR. A bit pricey at $1100 each, but worth every penny.

If you ever get a chance I would highly recommend trying out each seat first before buying one. Seats are alot like clothes, in that two different seats both the same size will not fit the same. But when you do find that one that fits just right, the cost doesn't matter.


This is the new hotness

 

New wheels are on it.. and I have decided to switch suspensions yet again.

This time I am going with a full Competition Racing setup from JRZ. They are custom length struts designed for my car since it sits so much lower. They are also 3way adjustable, so I have my high and low speed adjustments seperate.

Wheels are 18"x10" +38offset enkie RPF1. The fronts I had to run a 5mm spacer to clear the brake calipers.

 

Finished the cage... just need to paint the interior black again.

 

New pics of the manifold... I am not finished with it as you can see. I am contemplating trying to find some kind of clear cover or lexan maybe. To make the top plate of the intake manifold. I think the velocity stacks are just too pimp to cover up. Just not sure how it would hold up to heat and boost... humm well see.

Like I posted earlier the throttle body has been move to where the ac compressor used to be. I did this for a few reasons, but my main reason was so I could make really short intercooler piping.

Here are the pics..

 

Is that revels car in the background?

 

yup.. his motor should be done mid next week

 

That intake manifold is bad ass looking.


Can't wait to see how it performs.

 

is he rebuilding the ver (can't remember..i'm thinking ver 5 or 6) sti motor he had in there a while back?

 

Transparent Aluminum.



NICE manifold BTW.

 

any info on this mysteriously aluminum

 

You'll have to ask Scotty.

 

thats what I was thinking... just did a search and all it came up with was some military testing that it was real. But if you wanted to buy some you needed to contact the enterprise. haha

 

Supposedly the airforce is taking a serious look at it....

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aluminium_oxynitride

^appears to be as close as its gets.

 

Yeah, the 'real deal' stuff would have to come from the 23rd century. :keke:

 

uuuh.. those are probably the worst designed decals ever... Not the Topspeed ones... the urban8somethings. what does that say? I hope that's not important...

 

Looking good guys, intake manifold looks awesome, its good to see Siegel putting that tech edumacation to work.

 

Very hot guys! Nothing like two GaTech guys working together. Wait....you did go to Tech didn't ya Doug?

 

Very intresting...

 

Just put the car on the scales, and to my surprise I am actually under what I thought my weight was going to be.

Are you ready for this..

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2392lbs

 

holy crap

 

Very nice. Is this the lowest you gonna be able to get it or do you still think it'll go even lighter?

Also are you guys doing One Lap this year? I recall reading that you weren't.

 

Saweeeetttt...great job bro....


Mark

 

That's almost lighter than my EG hatch.

 

we are doing onelap this year... still up in the air as to which car we will be taking though.

 

After last years season which was mostly just testing we have decided to tear apart our time attack car and rebuild it.

Taking from what we had previously learned from last year we wanted to build the ultimate road race motor package. One that would not only build boost fast but make great power up top and last for an entire season. What we wanted In essence was a flat tq curve with a large amount of useable power. I think we have finally succeeded in doing just that.

Also after long discussions with GSC Motorsports we decided to remove our Cosworth cams and run a set of GSC S2's. OMG what a difference, these cams are by far the best avcs cam we have tested to this date. Huge thanks to Greg for getting me a set to try out:banana::banana:.

This is only our BREAKIN TUNE, as we plan on raising the boost after we get some track time on the new block to further our testing.

This graph is a before and after showing the difference the GSC S2 cams (Run #10) made over Cosworths Race Cam (run #5).

Both runs were at wastegate pressure which is set at 1.4bar via the Tial Wastegate. Runs were also made on shell 93octane only.

I must say we have never tuned a suby that made over 500hp before on just 20psi of boost and 93octane.

Power Mods:

Topspeed FMIC
Topspeed GT35r turbo kit
Topspeed Fuel System
Topspeed Ecutek Tune
Topspeed Intake Manifold
Topspeed 2.6L Pro Series Short Block
Topspeed Pro Series Race Head
GSC S2 Cams :devil:


For those that don't know the car I am talking about here is a picture from last year.



Here is the before and after Dyno sheet.

 

Hell yea doug! Lookin good!

So hey man, how did tuning my friends Scion Tc work out? Look forward to see your car in action at one lap man!