oneredED wrote:Fucking hell Rusty, I thought the worst when I saw that thread title, considering the (literally) thousands of hours just you yourself have put into the Swinny car. Still a shit act even though it's VU.
lol nah mate our car is safe in our workshop at the moment, its been out testing for quite a few test sessions now so its starting to handle/drive pretty nicely!
Making some decent power now too, just need some more time (or fewer distractions like having a job and assignments) to get the new exhaust designed & welded up so we can get it on the engine dyno. I reckon we'll have to settle with the one we have for this year's comp, but at least the 2010 will have our results to see which way it needs to go, although they will need to factor in the change to E85.
BROCKYB8 wrote:Its unbelievable how much custom stuff is made for these things.
Pretty much everything on our car is custom (and I'd assume Vic Uni is the same). Obviously the chassis/suspension is custom because its all designed/manufactured by us, but we also run custom adjustable diff, we've bumped up the engine compression and use custom cam profiles, our own inlet/exhaust manifolds, custom shifter barrel, the list is pretty much endless. Even our steering wheel is a 1-off unit.
Thats why I reckon whoever pinched the vic uni car was probably after the trailer and didn't know the car was inside (although I don't know much about the details from when it was pinched).
I also reckon the car would probably get stripped for the useful parts, like shock absorbers and motec etc rather than being driven, because having only around 25mm suspension travel in each direction they are not designed for use anywhere other than a track, and with so many unique parts it would not be hard to identify the car if it surfed at a go-cart track or autocross event somewhere. Our cars often have a team logo machined or laser cut into some of the parts just for the bling factor, which would make them even easier to identify.
Not to mention that they are student built cars that were only designed to last through testing and our event, so they will always have reliability problems when driven for longer than that duration, they all break eventually!
