Team Kanjiuma 2011 Nissan Silvia S15 (built by Calicages Racing)

[Team Kanjiuma (Donjuan)]

i notice the throttle peddle is much bigger than the brake!!....hardly going to be dogged!!....go on son

O the life will be dogged out of her

Thanks 4 the pms lads....! I like the think outside the box approch on this build....! I reckon them pedel boxes are the job 4 left foor braking and also the little bit of toe heel.....! Keep up the good work lads top job...!

Not a bother, thinking outside the box is the “way we roll”

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[foshea]

The driver position should work out well, good thinking out of ye

[calicagesracing]

Any updates on this horse?

[Team Kanjiuma (Donjuan)]

Update 8.......26/10/11.

Happy New Year to all, things fell a bit behind the last month due to other commitments, also some of us had lung infections /swine flu etc ......but now we are back in the garage again working harder than ever before. Some of us are even smoking less fags due to the enormous work load ahead before the season starts.

I forgot to mention in the last update another important factor in building a racing car is the centre of gravity. The lower the centre of gravity is the better handling etc, so ideally we need all heavy components as low to the ground as possible. Unfortunately the only heavy component our budget allows us to lower is the driver (and that a heavy component)...god I am calling myself a car component now.

To lower the driver you obviously need to lower the seat/brackets. You can see below that we cleverly levelled up the floor to receive seat brackets at the bolt connection points, when the side mounting seat brackets are attached to floor the seat can be adjusted to be rubbing off the floor.



You can see below a close up of the new mounts that are custom made. This is basic stuff but good for the newer lads to see what goes on.



The only way to get the seat any lower is to remove the floor..Ha Ha.

[SRray]

good job,done similar meself,must drop me seat in and see how much headroom i have

[calicagesracing]

Waheyy, I knew I'd done some bit of work to it lol

I'll get the grinder out tonight and remove the floor. The man needs to be lower!

[mark]

lung infection/swine flu????
probably only a head cold horse.

[Team Kanjiuma (Donjuan)]

Update 9.......13/02/11.


After cutting away all the damaged bits on the back quarter below is what we were left with.




The chassis leg was fecked so we just cut it off too.





Thanks to Shane O Sullivan (Elite Auto Parts) for suppling back panell of S15 at a competive price.



Above was taken inside boot looking down at driver rear chassie leg.



Power pack was used on occasion to hold panels in position while welding was completed.



(Some info now for new guys as promised) You can see from above the second hand wing from donor fitted together millimetre perfect onto S15. When marking the cut lines on cars mark one at a time on both cars and use landmarks in the form of holes/spot-welds to reference your cut lines also double check back to window opening etc. When cutting use a 4.5 inch grinder with wafer thin blades.... cut on the line on one car and cut to the edge of the line on the waste side of the material on the other car. This should leave you with a gap of half the thickness of the blade when components are joined up. Remember measure twice cut once.




New panell spot welder back into place





Boot lines perfect as seen above and most important light fits.

[Stevie e39 drift]

nice bit of work there .... good luck with this

[Aidan Hogan]

getting there now lads