What initially looked as an easy task, order 6 additional rims, turned out to be a nightmare.
Some time ago Compomotive was again in a bad shape. Nothing was produced anymore so also no MO5’s available. Almost a year ago they restarted and took the MO5 rim again in production but unfortunately with a slightly different mold.
We don’t want to tell you anymore how many hours we have spent on the exhaust. Every time something popped up that didn’t make us feel good. It was the distance to the ground, or it was too complex to service,…So plenty of reasons to redesign again the complete system.
We agree, you still can’t find a lot of colour in the compartment. The right time to bring our decorator skills in. To start we have our full red floor plates, even some of us preferred to see natural stone compared to anodized Aluminum, most likely due to occupational malformation. But with weight in mind for sure the ALU is the better choice.
We had informed Henk and Niek already a few times that we planned to come for the final setup but only now the car is at the right condition to point all wheels in the right direction. Target for the day is fixing the driving height, compensate the bumpsteer and find some basic setting for toe, caster and camber.
Initially we assumed the firmware of the PWR-boxes won’t need an update very often. Because of that we didn’t implement an upgrade path from outside. All by all not a very clever idea since especially the ones below the dash are difficult to access.
Looking to the status of the car reminds us that the time is right to make some progress with the dashboard. The TFT proto, which we mainly used to develop code , is already operational since a long time. Unfortunately, the remaining PCB’s are untouched.
It looks like another milestone for us. The engine is completally ready, only we don’t have the final version of the alternator available yet.
The S14 looks pretty “cool” and we are more than curious what numbers we will get from the rolling road. Although we do have a quiet good idea, it would be a nice feeling to be pleasantly surprised.
Luckily it’s much shorter and less complex compared to a human being, even regarding the tasks. The only useful goal for our M3 guts system is to transport cooling water. Despite it’s hot, we have chosen for blue. The silicon tubes are all standard parts, which means a lot of connectors and clamps.
It’s a pity but a custom setup, with preformed shapes would be too expensive. Maybe if you all going to copy our setup it could be feasible to make dedicated 1 piece tubes.
Anyway, the coolant fluid can go on the engine, and as you know water is the start of everything !!
We didn’t had any idea about the weight of the car. The only thing we knew was that we did pay attention on weight as long as it didn’t had an impact on reliability or rigidity.
