That creation will press itself into the ground with a force of 2 megatons with all those wingy bits !!
the reason ive gone as hard as i have it because the Eliseparts time attack car should produce similar downforce numbers to me and they started ith 800/1000 and in the end they ended up running 1000/1400lb setup to keep the car flat at 100mph+ since i have less power and less weight over the rear end i thought 900/1150 would be a starting point but if its to hard i can always put the 900lb on the back and put 700lbs on the front.
Ive also been to blink motorsport today(which is my next post) and my weight distribution with 100kg ballast and 10kg of fuel is 41.2/58.8% and the 900/1150 is 43.9/56.1 so im not massively out, maybe go a little less on the front down to 800lb, but I need to ensure I can keep the splitter off the floor at speed.
Well I decided I really needed to get all the wheels pointing the correct way today and the handling was peaky to say the least, especially on bumpy roads, I knew the car was running way to much camber on the front and to much toe out so as much I wanted to set it race height and get it all geoād for that, I knew for the moment I just needed it a bit safer to drive.
So I popped into Blink Motorsport this afternoon for him to have a look over the car and generally try and tidy it upā¦as you can see from the picture below, it was a good reason we did.
Putting the hawkeye sensors on the wheels
The interesting results, the toe out at the back and the massive front camber explains no wonder it wanted to dance around even in a straight line(im guessing when the youtube video comes out you will be able to see how hard im concentrating to drive it)
The camber at the front is still with some shims in, so the good thing it I should never be camber limited no matter what tyres/slicks I run in the future
After plenty of tweaking we got it everything more in line with what it should be, its still fairly aggressive(what you would run on a elise trophy race car) but much more inline compared to before.
Next up we tested bump steer, since im running an eliseparts steering arm kit with bump steer adjustment I didnt really know how to stack them up, so we loaded the car up and watched the screen and the good news is under bump the toe doesnt increase/decrease which for the moment I would rather have as I would like bump steer to be taken out of the situation for the moment so I can concentrate on the rest of the suspension tuning.
Then it came to seeing what it weighed, now ive mentioned in previous posts what i thought it weighed and also that I had used a local weigh bridge to get me in the ball park, in my head I had a figure of 730kg fully fueled and turns out I wasnt far off.
This is with 99kg of ballast on the drivers side and about 10kg of fuel in the tank
As you can see, for the big chunk of ballast in the car its not that bad side to side weight balance, shows though either I need to loose 20kg or the car does(I plan on pulling more weight off the engine aswell as myself)
But the cross weight was out at 47.8% so 2 quick spins on the rear passenger side coilover and we are at 50% 
One thing I also found interesting was the front to rear weight balance, ive tried to take as much weight out of the back end as I could, but then ive added a big heavy turbo, thick walled manifold, heavy wheels with hub adapter spacers, bigger undertray, big diffuser and rear wing and it still seems im lighter percentage wise than a stock car.
Finishing everything up
Overall im really happy as I was something I needed doing, mostly because I wasnt enjoying driving it up to that point and also because I was worried I would run out of front tyre before long!
Blink Motorsport were great, everything he did he explained the reasons why and what we can and cant do, which was great information for when im at the track. They also do mapping which I wasnt aware of and are very interested in mapping the car which since there local once ive put on a smaller turbo we are going to give it a go
I found that interesting. I know my geo man wants me to run a neutral toe at the front, but I do like a bit of toe out
Well the geo is set the same as rob boston championsjip winning car so im hoping it should put me in the ball park for shakedown testing
āRacing Godā 
Keep us posted if you make Donny as I may pop over.
^^ could be a plan ^^
Sounds good John
article on my car is out on car throttle, couple of inaccuracies but overall not a bad job and I like the pictures
http://www.carthrottle.com/this-big-winged-monster-is-the-most-extreme-lotus-elise-weve-ever-seen/
good write up
Little bit of an update,
Fitted my oil catch tank ive modified it to fit larger inlets and also put an additional inlet so that I can either take a feed from other side of the rocker cover or ive been thinking recently about trying to take a inlet from the dip stick to help let the crank case breathe as I saw it on another build on here.
High quality engineering!
I also wanted to start removing any mild steel and also im not a fan of the long nuts I used but at the time it was the only thing i could think of, so i made a start and removed them and used carbon tube, ive kept the adjuster as I still dont know the perfect angle of the diffuser until we go tuff testing.
Then i have been wanting go get rid of the factory header tank, theres nothing wrong with it, but having something plastic so close to my downpipe didnt fill me with confidence if im going to creating an awful lot of heat on track, plus it being held on partially by a cable tie wasnt the best solution.
So I replaced it with an ali one,
im just waiting for the cap to arrive, while im not driving it this week ill pull the manifold off so i can wrap it aswell
Donāt be surprised if that water header tank leaksā¦
Hmmm, not sure that catch can will be big enough. Last thing you want is it venting oil out of the breather and misting in the engine bay.
My smalll Mocal tank does exactlt that but it is up against he bulkhead, yours however is sittng in the middle of the engine bayā¦
Glad to hear itās not just mine, but as you say at least itās against the bulkhead. Been thinking of routing the breather to the back of the car, or having a custom tank built with better baffling or wadding to catch the vapour.
Ive already bought a 2ltr bulkhead version as thats one of the regulations, i just had this one knocking about and wanted to try it out to see what sort of oil amount im getting as I havent decided exactly how im going to mount my bigger one yet.
Decided while the weather was nice it was time to wrap my manifold.
Been meaning to do this for a while as it will help keep my engine bay temps down and also make sure more of that heat energy gets to my turbine wheel.
The turbo and manfiold come off together as its easier to get at the manifold bolts into the head then the ones between the turbo and the manifold.
Its had a new nice heat cycles and has a lovely shade of blue, shame I wont see it again!
After having a good think about how to cover everything, not run out of wrap and also do the wrap in one piece to have having to metal cable tie each end I came up with this.
Lying on the garage floor for an hour pulling heat wrap through it tons of times wasnt fun especially in shorts and a t shirt, every part of me is itchy now!
Also turbo seems to holding up well, no smoke, no play at all in the shaft, no marks on any of the blades, been a good little turbo even when I have had it glowing red.
All bolted back in with the engine running giving it a nice bake, left it for 10mins running it let it smoke.
Looks a neat job
Since ive removed the wheel arch liners front and rear to help release any high pressure air my sills were starting to take a battering from stones and muck, so to stop that i have covered them in kevlar.
Finished the rear tonight, should get the front finished tomorrow
If the sills were taking a battering I imagine that that radiator will too?
Agreedā¦personally I donāt like the idea of not running liners at the rearā¦ I donāt have them at the front, but still use them at the rear