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[cptkirk]

^^^^^^^^^^^^^^  What he said  ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^

[M1n1c00per]

Andy I'm just sit'n here in my office watch'n your Goodwood Vid's, and I can feel the G's pulling me back in my seat as though I were there?!?!?

The Beast is an awesome machine,... Looks and sounds like way-to-much-FUN!!

[cptkirk]

Andy I'm just sit'n here in my office watch'n your Goodwood Vid's, and I can feel the G's pulling me back in my seat as though I were there?!?!?

The Beast is an awesome machine,... Looks and sounds like way-to-much-FUN!!

 

 

Thanks, it would be even more fun if they weren't so strict on noise limits, having to lift for noise meters and going into higher gears to avoid being black flagged........it was good fun though.......

 

For those that haven't seen them here they are:

 

 

 

 

 

[cptkirk]

A mate of mine came to see me at the LSMOC day at Goodwood and took the picture below, I kinda like it.......

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

[StefanPieter]

Very nice

[cptkirk]

The below is copy and pasted from the comments box in YouTube:

 

I managed to get some footage of a few 0-60 runs, this was the best of the day, I still think there's room for improvement.
This attempt was setting of in 2nd, as it hits the rev limiter the needle goes blue to indicate that it has reached 60mph and then shows the 3.3 in the speedo LCD display - you might have to get close to the screen to see it clearly.
The SPA speedo/tacho is calibrated to within 1mph of my GPS speedo/camera detector.
Apologies for the quality of the footage - its difficult holding onto an iphone and trying to get a good 0-60....

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I would really like to footage of other peoples 0-60's as knowing what mine can do with 370BHP I struggle to believe other claimed 0-60 times.

 

Its one thing to claim your car can do something on the strength of what you've heard others can do   -   its another putting the proof out there....

 

 

 

 

 

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[cptkirk]

WHEN IS TOO MUCH POWER TOO MUCH????

 

Well for the Z's supplied drive shafts it would appear that their 'Race Drive Shafts' is about 333RWHP:

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Setting off from traffic lights with a fair amount of revs but by no means dropping the clutch in like an idiot and BANG - one snapped driveshaft..

 

Waiting to see what the cost is of a new one from Z's and also looking into getting a more heavy duty bespoke version made for it as not sure that replacing like for like is the best way forward.........It could have been a faulty bit of steel but do I want to take that chance again??????

 

 

 

Haven't even covered 9000 miles in it yet.

 

 

 

Struggling to hold back the expletives.

 

 

 

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[GeorgeMini]

hmmm thats not very useful! looks like an upgrade is in order.. more £££££! 

[2000lukey]

Oh, that's not good. I would be interested to see who you use if you go down the custom shaft route, good luck with it.

[StefanPieter]

I am very sorry to hear about this unfortunate breakage...

 

 

Are there any signs of pitting on the shaft that would explain the failure?

 

Edited by StefanPieter, 02 October 2013 - 10:48 AM.

[GeorgeMini]

Hi mate, 

 

just read a zcars mini pick up build (link below) and that guy has replaced the zcars driveshafts with GB Engineering's 'unbreakable' shafts..

 

perhaps its worth looking into them as well, just a thought

 

https://www.dropbox....e Sept 2013.pdf

[paul190181]

Just wondered what engine mods u had to do to run a supercharger ? Thanks

[M1n1c00per]

We might have to start calling the Beast the Guinea Pig...

Either way this is good to know about the Z shaft.... and thanx for keeping us informed with these kinda things..

 

Heres to smoother track days...

 

P.S.

Ive been off the Grid for a while, but I still have the Project progressing ever so slowly, I even have a few Bits coming in from rougese7en this next week... cant wait, this should help fuel the fire..  =)

[cptkirk]

I have been in contact with Zcars about buying a replacement unit but was asking if there was any difference to the one I had on mine and their newer versions?? Turns out the ones I am running are the same, however in discussion they said that this is the first time they have had anyone break a driveshaft and we both agreed that there were other setups out there running bigger numbers than I without issue. Also as I looked deeper into driveshaft failures it would appear this is more than likely a case of a bad bit of metal as driveshafts tend to break on or near the transition to the splines, not in the middle as mine did. So with this in mind and the very kind offer of a free replacement I am going to stick with the Z's supplied unit.

 

Thanks to everyone for their suggestions of other driveshaft suppliers and words of encouragement. Hopefully get the new shaft fitted next weekend and then back on the road.....

[cptkirk]

Just wondered what engine mods u had to do to run a supercharger ? Thanks

 

 

If you talking about internal mods like rods and pistons then zero, it is a standard motor. There's guys in the US running way bigger numbers than mine on standard block with the same chargers or others running twin screw chargers like Lysholm or Whipple making in excess of 400hp at the wheels. I am not saying thats a good idea and if I were to go for a twinscrew I would look to reduce the compression slightly to 10.5 and build the bottom end for piece of mind.