I must be losing the plot here.....Andy why are you taking a Ginetta apart to make a seven..........:confused:

Morning Mark,

It is being done by a bloke called Jim who runs the TeamTrain racing team in Newcastle. He has been running 2 G20's in the G20 cup but since they have combined the G20 and G40 cups together he has got a bit fed up with the series. So he has decided to put all the running gear from the G20's into roadster chassis and body and enter them into the Northern Race Series cup instead. We have supplied full kit for him to do this at more or less cost price. For this its going to be 2 SSC stickered cars and we will be involved with the team. Paul, Flyerncle, is also heavily involved with transferring the 2 and getting the roadster on the road. The first car will be track tested and setup at Teesside autodrome over March with the 2nd one being built once they are happy with that. They are aiming for the first round of the Northern cup at Croft in April.

He also involves kids form the local colleges in the cars and racing for which they get a lot out of it and enthusiasm for the cars.

Hope that explains it........Andrew ;)

Cor blimey batman and yeah makes sense now...Monday morning head on sorry:o

Going racing will help sell cars so hope it works out for you matey:)

WoW, thats a great looking Race Truck / awning set up that Team Train have :cool:

a couple of their Race cars in Saturn colours, that will look really smart .

Well done to you & Paul, & Team Train, sounds like a great team to be involved with,

Looking forward to the first race :cool:

cheers
andy

Cheers Andy / Mark,

Let's hope it makes all the graft worthwhile.....:o

Regards...Andrew

Shoot me for this but,the Ginetta is not half the car the Teamtrain/Saturn Roadster Race car will be and with no special mods or anything fancy execpt an Omex ecu to replace the Pectel thats fitted to the Ginetta for the race series as it cannot be tuned.

Hope this now makes a little more sense.;)

"The Tent " That setup used to belong to a well known m/cycle team Handy Andy

And,the engine/injection system is brand new as is the Quaife close ratio box and Quaife lsd.

Building something of this spec would be costly and having a car to hand that was not going to be raced in the Ginetta cup made more sense to remove the vitals and fit them to the proposed Teamtrain/Saturn Roadster race car.

For instance, Diff £1300,Engine £1312.00,Gearbox £1312.00 all regulated and sealed,this is only my point of view but unless large amount's of money are put into the Ginetta series by ourselves we would be also rans,hence a change of race series.

Cool project
 

That looks & sounds like a very intersting project to be involved in :cool:

Going to help to put the Roadster on the map, thats for sure.

Well done guys, i'll follow your progress with great interest :):)

That's what it's always about Ronnie, obviously fun factor and commercial too, but putting the roadster on the map. It's going to be an awesome pair of cars thanks mainly to Jim and Paul for getting the project started.

There may also be some free track time at Teesside during March for roadsters and local people, fingers crossed, see how i goes.

Roll on Summer, going to be a good one.....:D

Andrew

Got the tranny tunnel and front geometry / wishbones finished for the Mx5 chassis now. Also completed the bonnet molding for the new bonent to go on the car, also available with standard roadster kit.

http://www.flickr.com/photos/saturns...th/5398246449/

i've attached a picture of the suspension geometry calculation, good software cheers Fabby for the link, gives a good SAL value for a balance between track and road use. First road test drive soonish will be the ultimate test. I've added adjusters to the front lower wishbones so that castor and track width can be adjusted for the car as well as camber and toe in elsewhere. The adjusters can be turned individually to adjust the castor. I have stuck with the poly bushes for the front, rather than rose joints, for ride comfort and there is plenty of adjustment / play on the bracket bolts to get 4 to 5 degrees of castor adjustment. Also by using these in conjunction of the upper adjusters you can adjust the track width to suit.

Just need to trial fit the engine, fab the engine mounts and fully weld the chassis and it can all be cadded and parts put up on the website including pre cut chassis packs by HandyAndy. Plus the build plans available on the website.

Shouldn't be long now......Andrew