Recent content by osmiumOs76

Yes, the track is really nice to drive. The Accusump system really looks interesting. The only thing, I am thinking about, is that the volume is a little bit limited. As I understand the US units, their biggest unit stores only about 3 litres of oil. I have no real knowledge about this topic...

And another lap, a little bit later https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RkkTeytp-bM It was such a great fun driving the car, only the oil pressure issue made me sick :furious: The car could have been much faster without taking care not to go too quick around the corners :D So we will have look...

After some changes to the car, we finally made it to a race track. We have been at a track day on the Oschersleben race track in Germany. After starting with huge respect for the car, I could get faster and faster after a while, only limited at the end, by an alarmingly drop of the oil pressure...

Yes, that's more or less what we want to do. Not really making the nostril longer, because it is quite long already. But to add a few plates here and there, to not allow the air to get around the radiator or to "míss" the nostril after having passed the radiator.

I was out one day with the Sportscar Drivers Club Hamburg. After driving my first 1000 km without going over 4000 rpm, I thought it was time to floor the throttle once in a while. Here are a few impressions, mainly from the highway. Ausflug mit dem Sportscar Drivers Club Hamburg am 29.4.2011...

Actually, I originally wanted to post another video. This is the one, I was writing about in my last post: Playing around with a GT40 - YouTube

I've had the opportunity to spend two hours in the afternoon at a drivers training facility in preparation for my first track visit with the car. And I am surprised that the car is easier to drive than I expected and I gained much confidence in it. Also on the highway it didn't make much of a...

The car is out and running. Trying to sort out the last problems and drive as many km as possible to have the engine and everything ready for the first track day end of April. gt40 second test drive - YouTube

Just a short update: The car is nearly ready, the engine is running (great sound), only some little fixes here and there are still to be done. When the temperatures rise again and the salt is washed away from the streets, it will make its first steps outside the garage ;) Picture below.

I do not plan to modify the radiator. The air that goes through the radiator and then over the car is O.K.. I just want to prevent air going to the left and right from the radiator into the car, for example.

In this case, I didn't mean the tunnels but the vortex generators at the front. Pepole claim that they will seal the sides of the underbody to prevent air coming in from the sides and reduce the underpressure under the car.

Now I have to shut down my computer because I have to catch a plane tomorrow morning (it is 3 AM now here in Germany) ;) I could not even read through all the posts, but it gets very interesting here. So thanks for your replies for now, I will be back in about two days.

Winglets at the nose and under the diffuser plate are a very interesting option. Actually, I am thinking about this, what holds me off in the moment is simply time. I have none ;) and we have only a few weeks testing left this year. Just to show, in which direction the next steps will be, a...

imho, the main problem with the front is all the high pressure air that gets under the front hood. We are putting a good solid splitter under the nose and sealing all the entrances for air at the nose. I am quite sure this will solve the problem with front end lift.

Re: New Member Hi Cliff, it is unfortunately nothing but the truth, the diffusers are really short. But no way to make them longer, without changing the monocoque, which is not an option here ;) . I was fiddeling around with the profile quite a time, and a numerical calculation (actually a...