World Time Attack 2013

Sorry for the lack of posts, it has been a crazy time for me. The last few months has seen a lot of changes in my life including the birth of our daughter Zalia. The lead up to WTAC was long and hard, we were doing 180 hours a week between three of us to get the Porsche done in time. We also managed to knock up a trailer specifically to cart the Porsche around so we don't need to remove bodywork each time we load it on. First test day surprised everyone, including us. The car had amazing pace straight of the trailer and the only spanners we put on the car all day was to repair a small accelerator cable problem. The next time out saw over a second a lap gains from some small changes to the car, we were now lapping quicker than a V8 Supercar and we were only using medium compound R Spec tyres. Then it was WTAC time. We started the event with promise, but not for long. We did a few 1.34 laps at SMSP before we started having fuelling issues. We have been on a steep learning curve with Sucrogen E85. Its gums injectors up overnight…we know now. Fuelling issues sorted by session one it was time to have a crack. We fitted brand new soft compound tyres for our first session, only to meet with someones diff oil spread from turn 2 to 6. I managed a 1.35:03 driving around the outside of it. Session two was ruined by a slower car when we were on our flying lap. session three….the turbo went….and that was that. A mixed emotion result. There is lots more left in the car and we have now converted to a different brand turbo and the car feels even better, we took it to a Porsche day recently and got fastest time of the day against some pretty stiff competition. Bring on World Time Attack 2014!!

WTAC Porsche test day

A little vid of the first test day in the Porsche..

Porsche Test "Darth" from Evolution on Vimeo.

WTAC Porsche

We have been hard at it for months to get this done in time for World Time Attack. Myself and the boys have been doing 12hr days and in amongst all that, my wife gave birth to our second child seven weeks ago. We had this out at Wakefield Park a couple of days ago for its first test session and even we were surprised had the pace we had straight out of the box. I only did 12 or so laps in the car and despite not being in the seat of a car for over 12 months, with pulled boost out, I managed to clock a 61 second lap. We will be testing again on Thursday...

EVol Enduro Kart

We put together a TEKA endurance kart to run in next years series, here is our first outing...



Evol Endurance Kart / Practice Session 1 from Evolution on Vimeo.

Something Different

Last week I was hired as a stunt driver to put the moon buggy through its paces on dirt roads and Stockton sand dunes, I have never had so much fun on sand. To top it off, I did an hour and a bit stint in a seven hour endurance kart race...

Pipes

I love making pipes for bikes. I finally got to make a set for "Little Earl"....I even went to the trouble of making a die to make my own trumpet tips.

Shots from around the Shop

A few shots I snapped around the shop this afternoon...