Liking this 
Youre a very brave man taking this to the Cat and fiddle. . The traffic cops would surely enjoy scrutinising your car
The place was packed solid with bikers, strangely enough the entire time I was there I didnt see one cop, infact the 50minute drive there and 50min back I didnt see any either, i dont follow football so i dont know if they all have to go and do things like that.
Doesnt feel to bad in the corners, will be good when it gets geoâd as it has a bit of low speed understeer that needs resolving and at 100 leptons nothing falls off or bends out of shape
Got back on with sorting out the downforce on the front end, no point having a massive rear wing if you cant make use of it.
So first thing to was to put the canards back on, nice and simple.
Need to make some end plates up for the canards when I get chance.
While i had the front clam off I also cut most of the chin lip away so that the clam is easier to get on and off, which will be useful at the track.
Next its time to get all the high pressure air out of the from clam, so I got out the dremel and cut out the back near the door, I was tempted to cut it all out, basically from the top of the wheelarch just cut horizontally back but for the moment im going to just be conservative and get it on track and maybe do that next winter.
Next something ive been wanting to do for a while but ive been putting it as even I was a little bit apprehensive about cutting 2 massive holes in the top of my clam, in the end I just bit the bullet and made the first cut
Cut the hole out where i think will have the most benefit.
The issue you have with an s1 is there isnt a flat panel anywhere on the front and since the vents are all straight angles my concern was how to get them to fit neatly
Since I had 4 vents I used one as a test piece and basically hacked it up to remove anything I could see that would stop it bending to shape I wanted.
I fitted it and then marked and drilled the holes to bolt it down, the good thing with this is it showed me what needed to bend and be good on my best vents and also showed me what bits of the clam will flex to ensure its a nice fit.
As you can see ive cut the ends off as i was concerned it wouldnt bend side to side, but this left me with the rough edges of where i have cut into the clam which doesnt look pretty, but now I knew what i could and couldnt get away with.
So next I came to trial fitting my best ones with the modifications I had learned from my test piece
Here you can see how much they will vent, should be pretty effective, you can also see how I have got it to bend to the shape of the clam
My mate gives it the sign of approval
Im painting them black, in my kitchen drying overnight, so I will lacquer them tomorow night
As soon as the canard end plates are done I will start back on the rear wing pylons a few more weight saving ideas I have.
Canât you just get him to sit on the back for some low speed downforce?
It could well be a case of me sayinâ pot & kettle btw 
Are the slots on the top of the front wings for the turbo toast to pop out of
And you were right, Pete, about âleast of your problemsâ. It had slipped my mind, like much else, these days.
Bolted on the painted ones, looks smaller in the pictures than in real life
Have you cut slots in the wheel arches too?
are you on about the wheel arch liners, if you on about them ive removed them entirely and have some sticky kevlar protection which ill be putting on the sills to save them getting to damaged.
Ive also cut the rear of the arch out to vent, does that cover it or are you asking about something else?
Yep, I meant the liners.
Made my first canard end plate, just need to make another when i can get another piece of carbon
Fitted it and popped up a local car meet, its starting to look more complete now from the outside
Did a bit tonight, im waiting for my new longer bolts to arrive so I can raise my gear shift mechanism even higher, because ive moved my drivers seat closer to the centre of the car and im 6ft3 even with the shifter raised 100mm over standard the gearknob is right by my knee when in 5th, so the plan is to raise it another 50-75mm.
The issue I have at the moment is that the forward/rearward movement of the gearshift is fine as the plinth I made is a triangle, but because its an isosceles one, there is alot of side to side movement, when moving the gearshift even more I knew this was an issue.
So what I did was use one of the rivnuts in the passenger compartment as a fixing point with a spare tie bar and connect it up, putting a few millimeter of tension into it, now theres no play side to side so its easier to get reverse/5th, also being adjustable there is still enough thread in it to allow me to raise the shifter higher.
Also when dan made me a brace to hold my chargecooler over the inlet manifold, perfectly fine but made in steel which im trying to reduce in the car because of rust/weight issue, since I had a piece of carbon tube spare I decided to save a bit of weight.
Whenâs it going to hit the track? Not long now,I expect.
All depends on money, but im hoping to get to a donnington track day on the 30th of june all being well, I will only be on normal road tyres or a set of used slicks as I dont have the ÂŁ800 for the dunlop tyres I want to run.
But that will be more a shakedown day to dry and get used to the car and see if anything falls off
got some longer bolts so i could raise the gear stick 165mm to its final position, its much better now and the gearstick is only about 70mm from the wheel, so now I can keep both hands on the wheel for longer and the gearknob clears my knees in 5th, took a bit of adjustment because of the new position but now the gear change is silky smooth.
Also finished the other canard end plate so that stage 1 of aero is now done, just need to do some testing now to see what the aero balance is like, if I still havent got enough downforce on the front end I will switch to my high downforce canards
Little bit of an update today.
Stripped my nitrons down so that I could fit my race springs, amazing how much crud and muck collects everywhere, took quite a while to clean them all properly
Big difference between 450lb and 900lb springs!
Next I fitted my roll centre adjusters, took a bit of fiddling to get it all together but glad its done
Also dropped it down to race height to check everything clears, looks good!
then did the same on the rear
650 vs 1150lb
fitted, I kept the helpers as im not sure if they are needed or not so better safe than sorry
Where did you get the idea to use those spring poundages from?
Same as you www.anchorsRus.com
With slicks and that ride height I wouldnât think those springs are too heavy to be honest Sean?