Looks good, any reason for a p/s mirror? Not really needed?

car looks fuggin awsome

Car looks great Dave...I noticed you have changed your tailpipe setup?

I took the yoshi mufflers off ,they were too restrictive,its now got a single 3" sprint car muffler, seems to work well,but not quite as bling!!!!!

sh*t that looks good well done

Been working on the handling of my swift,since I built the car i couldnt fathom out a way to mount the front antiroll bar without it hanging down low,i revisted the problem when I saw the photos from the last hillclimb and how far off the deck the rear wheel was going through a turn.
So after a lot of pondering I removed the front crossmember and cut a 35mm slot in it ,inserted a 35mm box section and welded it all back together,the new front antiroll bar with blade adjusters now fits neatly in this box section and is well out the way.
It is possible to attach linkages to the blades and have it cockpit adjustable but for now I have to adjust manually!!.
Next i wanted to change the roll centre on the front of the car,this was pretty straightforward by making longer lower pins (this changes the angle of the lower control arm),however the tricky part was then finding the correct amount to move the steering rack upwards in order to get the bump steer under control,its not bad now by moving it 14mm upwards Ive got 2mm of bump steer over 100mm travel,I could have got it better if I could move the rack even further but as this meant making new rack mounts it will have to wait until such time as i pull the engine out to give me better acsess.
As I then ran out of time this week to do anything about the flat bottom floor I thought I would just add some areo devices front and rear and see what effect that has,so I extended the original front splitter and fitted a better shape rear wing.
I am running the car at the noosa hillclimb this weekend so I get a chance to see how these latest additions work!.

The one that is on their now is like the best exhaust tip I've ever seen - there's no nonsense about it, but it doesn't look ugly either. It's just like "I'm here to do my job." Love it.

I know the car is not for looks (though it does look awesome now too) - but black backed clear tail lights (as in, not smoked black) would go well with the rest of it.

Awesome, I really hope this car comes to Newcastle.

Best of luck Dave.
I have the same rear wing.

Finally got to start on the full underbody /flat floor,I am using a material called aluwell,its a .5mm aluminium skin over a polycarb inner,total thickness is 6mm.Its not as lightweight as a full honeycomb aluminium floor but is very strong and rigid,however it can be bent and will stay in shape once bent.
So I started by mearsuring the front splitter height I wanted(80mm)then got a string line up to the lowest point at the rear(diff carrier)and made sure i would have a higher floor at the rear than at the front(20mm front to rear)which is the same mearsurements as the Lambo gt3 car i was working on!!.
Next I welded a few mounting plates to the chassis and front subframe ,cut a template out of 5mm mdf and made sure the contact points were all correct ,then set to cutting my aluwell front splitter and mounted it using countersunk allen bolts and countersunk washers to spread the load and not interfere with the airflow under the car.Next step is the centre section which will be 1mm alloy sheet(to save some weight),then onto the rear diffuser and rear underbody wing!!

will be interesting to see how much difference the smooth underside makes.

On my old swift ,fitting a large splitter and rear wing made at least one full second quicker at Mt cotton.
Im leading the series atm and my main oposition is bill Norman in his Gek sports car,he has already gone at least 2 secs under his own record but not at a series event so Im sure if he drives carefully he can pick up quite a few bonus points(for the series we get one bonus point every time a new class record is broken).
This next hillclimb I will only run the new front with a rear airdam spoiler,which I hope will be enough to beat my record but not by too much!!,then later in the series I can fit the full underbody and hopefully that will get me more records again!!.
Im pretty confident the full flat floor will make at least 1.5 secs at Mt cotton on the circuit slicks i currently use(with the use of the octopuss tyre softner),but if that isnt enough I have the option of buying some avon hillclimb slicks.

I was thinking this morn for some reason on the way to work about why you'd want the rear undertray slightly higher off the ground than the front .... obviously if it was lower at the back thats bad news indeed, lift is no good.

nice, will see you out there.
hope to see a vapour trail

its not about creating a lift, its about accelerating the air under the car in a smooth linear fashion.
I think it should make a huge difference.

Once again, very nice work Dave.
Interesting stuff that aluwell - had never heard of it before (off to Google it now).

The splitter makes the most difference, but underbody streamlining also makes a big difference to stability of FWD cars at speed (have found a marked difference once I clad the rear subframe on my mini in ally sheet).

Hi Dave,

Tell us about the Octopus Grip tyre softener - does it make a noticeable difference??

I googled for it, not much info, saw this http://cars2.ebay.com.au/Octopus-Grip-T ... 0549713829

I had not heard of it, but you & also I think Garndi or Zuboo mentioned it recently too!

The Octopuss tyre softner has been developed over the past few years by a guy who runs a 750cc Kart at our hillclimb, his colleage is an industrial chemist and they have now perfected the formula.Most of the commercially available softners such as vp bite only have about 10% active ingrediant ,talking to him his product has over 50% active ingrediant,which is the chemical that smells like dencorub!!.
I have found cleaning the tyre with a hot air gun and paint scraper remove all the debri/tyre pick up then while the tyre is still hot apply the octopuss grip softner,wrap the tyre in glad wrap,then the day before the event reapply and wrap again.Normally the first run on the tyres will be a little slippery(just like when you run on brand new slicks and the silicon they use as a release agent comes to the surface of the tyre)it only takes a short run to get down to the surface where the tyre has been softned.
For those who cant afford new tyres every event or are running on older rubber the softner really works well.I use it on my 2nd hand michelin medium compound circuit slicks to make them soft enough to be effective at the hillclimbs.
For anyone in Brisbane who wants to buy a bottle I will have some in stock in my workshop next week.

Yup it livened up my years old Avon slicks like new !
$30 is far easier on the wallet than $300 per tyre.
I found I used about a 1/4 bottle for 4 x 15x8" slicks, and thats 2 coats over 2 days in the week prior to an event.

i have some Toyo Trampio R88s that are about six years old and very hard, going to see how the octopuss grip works on them. i bought a bottle over ebay and its getting posted. Very friendly person to deal with

Good to see some reviews on it thanks for the info