The car’s interior has a six point cage. For Pikes peak the cage will be reinforced with additional bars to give more protection.
A Tilton pedal box with dual master cylinders and balance bar handles the brake proportioning. The brake pressure is data logged which helps with setting the proportioning.
A Sparco Circuit seat has head protection. This is important for accidents typical at Pikes Peak where multiple rolls are common as it helps keep the driver’s head away from the cage. The Sparco harnesses are HANS compatible.
A Motec C125 dash display helps keep the driver informed about what the engine is doing. It connects with the Motec M130 ECU via a CANBUS connection.
This 5 gallon reservoir holds water for the car’s heat exchanger sprayer system. At high altitudes even the huge heat exchangers are not enough to keep things cool and the ice water can save the day.
A DevilsOwn water injection pump and controller are used to move water for the spray system. The controller is RPM and load based and adjusts the spray volume accordingly.
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Great build and write up. One small note is that the vertical strakes on a diffuser limit spanwise flow. Without them, the air will tend to move laterally across the diffuser surface. Obviously, that reduces the effectiveness of the diffuser. Of course, there’s a small drag penalty, but it’s more than made up for in the aero efficiency.
Fun fact: These strakes were first developed for the swept wing jet fighter aircraft. Because the ailerons are generally located near the wingtips (for the maximum moment arm) the control surface on swept wings was losing ability due to boundary layer separation. This was because the swept wing caused the air to turn outward (spanwise flow.) By introducing a wing fence (vertical strake projecting above boundary layer) you limit spanwise flow and the aileron remains effective, so even under extreme yaw angles.
We did it mostly to try to keep the flow attached with a less than optimal angle. We used a pre-made diffuser to expedite stuff. We might redo it later if there is time and money.
Yeah, it’s difficult to know if the flow is staying attached or separating. Obviously, you can’t use wool tufts, because gravity.
Maybe you could make your own ‘flowviz’ paint, but I think that gravity would make that difficult, too.
Not many good options without a wind tunnel. And no reason to spend $$$ unless you know it’s going to work.
Also, the front end should always see the bulk of the aero effort. If the front isn’t working properly, then it won’t matter what you do at the rear. The flow will be turbulent by then, anyway.
Best of luck on Pikes Peak.
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it looks like there’s what looks like a delrin bushing on the knuckle between where the tie rod and LCA connect to it. From what I can tell its between 2 rigid non-moving parts… and its not in the pics of the kit on the Wisefab website… whats its purpose?
It’s a steering stop.
oh i see, that makes sense…
I was low key hoping to see a double wishbone conversion similar to what the HKS time attack car did
Not legal for our events!
that makes sense… I didn’t really consider that