Euro Legends

at 2am this morning i test fit the new carbon fender on my car. (i got the parts yesterday.) i need to set panel gap better and drill 6 bolt holes to properly mount it. but i wanted to share with the forum.

scottejupiter

How much weight did you save?

Euro Legends

for the front bumper rear bumper side skirts and fender plus a box of shirts stickers keychains and the box it all came in it was 34lbs i think TOTAL compared to stock parts idk off hand... but everything is light as a feather... i picked up the stock fender and the carbon fender consecutively and i think its more than 50% weight savings... if your that interested i could check? the bike shop i use has a scale that would probably work and be fairly accurate... i built a custom bike and replaced all the parts except the seat and frame and it shaved off 6lbs. on a car like ours i expect a minimum of 50lbs.... but i could get hard numbers...

scottejupiter

Was just interested because I knew that you got it for racing. I've never taken mine out on the track.

Euro Legends

if you do you would enjoy it...

scottejupiter

Probably. Do you race with the top down? I bet that would be awesome.

Euro Legends

i have in the past event the other places wouldnt let me...

the last event was a trap speed event 0-???mph over the course of a half mile... the fastest car went 222mph a lambo... my best was a 148.8 (faster than a brand new ferrari 458 with mods) which ran a 146.XXmph lowering the soft top didnt affect how fast i went my times were always consistant within 2 mph of each other...

now i did go on the freeway up the and aerodynamically maxed the car out at 140 i think it was (ran out of safe road because of other cars) from 135 to 140 it crawled and felt like a millennium of time... but remember thats with out a front bumper and the top down and the car in pieces... with the top up i easily got to 152mph with no drag (same conditions and setup) the car isnt confidence inspiring though so i think it take some ***** to drive. taking it on twisties for example makes me feel like i am going to die at any second... i did get it to drift / powerslide around a sweeping turn driving too hard on accident going up ortega hwy... but mostly it feels like it will float of the mountain.

it needs a lot of improvement and i want it well rounded id like to take it to willow springs or something someday although i think the main focus will be drag racing... i just feel safer going in a straight line :/

scottejupiter

Sounds like you are having a great time.

V12TTenthusiast

LOL a 20+ year old car takes out a brand new 458, I gotta love it, I want to get my hands on a 600SL/SL600 R129 and mod the crap out of that once I finish my SL65, I've always wonder how fast those modified SL73 AMG/Renntech SL74s went, but I wouldn't know where to begin in duplicating those engines

Euro Legends

well i wasnt faster in the sense of elapsed time... just trap speed which is what the competition was solely about... they didnt even record ET... like i got smoked by a stock GTR however we still were at the same speed at the end same as a E63 Eurocharged... A lot of different cars went about the same speed as i did... but our cars are what 6.1ish 0-60 stock and an E63 is 3.5 i think.... so ill never beat it in that sense. but like i said that part wasnt measured.

just do a lot of research the info is out there.... i met hartmut feyl last year at sema and talked with him a LONG time... i dont think he would beat around the bush if i asked him this year what the bore and stroke was on the 7.4... but that would be the least appropriate approach in todays world. Turbo chargers are the answer the tech is there now keep your bore or bore and sleeve it back to stock bore whatever that is for a m120... maybe stroke it... i plan to make a 100 or 101mm stoker crank i forget at the moment which one brabus used. luckily for you pagani however you spell it uses the m120 in their cars so parts may be available although at a STEEP STEEP price...