The car wears a TRA Kyoto “Rocket Bunny” aero kit in most places. Up front, that includes the front bumper and the front fenders, with their massive flares. Sanford designed his own splitter out of Alumilite, and made the fences and endplates out of aluminum.
The hood is an Extreme Dimensions vented unit with additional venting using Professional Awesome parts.
That pink-ish hue? It’s actually a custom “Rose Red” paint based on an early 1970s Porsche color, handled by Tim Wallace at “The Best Damn Shop Around” — that’s the actual name of the facility.
Underneath that OEM rear bumper is a Spirit Rei diffuser.
Sanford fabricated his own chassis-mounted stands to perch this APR GT250 wing on top of.
So, how does it all come together?
“Why is a raven like a writing desk?” No one actually knows — neither Alice, nor the rabbit, nor the Hatter. And, in Erin’s case, in a similar riddle, he doesn’t quite know why the pink S13 keeps grenading axles. But it does, and those issues would consume most of the Global Time Attack weekend, keeping him from much track time.
So, in a fit of frustration, Erin has decided “Off with his head!”. The LS1 is gone. And what’s going in its place?
A K24.
Here comes another rabbit hole…
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Nice to see some DefSport parts being used in anger. Cool build.
BTW – did you ever get the Astra power steering pump to quiet down? Based on my recent MR2 experience, I think maybe using Redline D4 ATF in it could have been the cause for the loud pump. It seems they like this special thicker hydraulic fluid blend (Pentosin makes one).
I found that mounting the pump a little higher in the car helps believe it or not.
It’s not all that loud, I couldn’t hear it over all of the other noise the car makes. I just sounds like a small turbine engine on startup then turns into an electric forklift noise after it settles in.
I never found it to be all that loud, especially compared to all the other noise the car makes. It sort of resembles a jet turbine starting up 😂
Mike – it’s mounted up about as high as it can be in the trunk of an S13. The SW20 MR2 installation has it down in the frunk just above the steering rack – but it has a big rubber condom over it to help muffle noise.
I probably wouldn’t have minded it on the track, but for a sometimes street driven car it seemed annoying to me. Then again, I had a hatch S13 so maybe it was a bit more open.
Any chance of seeing how the wastegate flow was prioritized? This is the 2nd recent MotoIQ car-ticle with a similar size turbo and gate. I feel I am running a near identical setup to this particular car though and similarly put extra effort into making wastegate flow entry a relatively shallow angle from my exhaust flow path. Truck manifolds, v banded, near equal length 2.25 inch up pipes, merge into 3″ before tapering down to undivided T4 flange. I have a precision gen 2 7675 CEA .96 a/r with full 3.5″ turbo back exhaust. This is on a 5.3 with ~10:1 compression and timing backed off for tuning, 12* base timing. I’m having trouble with boost creep with a precision turbo 46mm wastegate dumping to atmo. I have a 3psi spring in it and in full throttle 4th gear pulls from 40-100ish it can hold boost steady at 3.5 psi up to 5500rpm, on the way past that to my ‘safe for tuning’ limiter of 6000rpm it loses control and boost spikes to ~8psi, it will likely be even worse with a proper redline. I was contemplating going to a PW66.