Hyundai Excel Racing Series - Track Attack - Evil things are about to happen to Hyundai Excels  

Mounfield Racing

That's where the problem is Paul. Some like me are fully committed in Street Sprints/hill climb etc etc and in turn have to sacrifice the majority of excel meetings because they clash with other major meetings. Not any ones fault, you just cannot be every where. And to be honest, if you actually ask around, a lot of very keen people are reluctant to construct an excel in any shape or form, until there is a basic set of guidelines, with the specifications for excel racing cars in writing. Turning a blind eye and repeatedly reminding people they can run a stock car, and saying there are a few can do's and cannot do's listed somewhere on a forum under Excel racing or Track Attack, is no consolation to a guy who wants to build a safe car on a budget.

PRO050

Ralf I have to disagree I have worked on alot of excels that are getting ready for racing (3 cages this week alone) alot of the guys are on tight budgets and will take sometime to get up and running.
Also have helped heaps of guys on set-up as have all the other guys running around every event, 19 cars at the last sprint I think it's going alright and once 10 or so cars start racing you'll see them come out of the woodwork.

Mounfield Racing

Well I admit I may have been wrong. If your doing that many cars people must be feeling confident the class is a goer and the rules are fairly well established. Keep up the good work helping people with set up.

bigp0_1

Hi All,
I have just finished building my excel and am looking forward to december 5th for a run. I have fitted a full cage with racing seat and belt. I feel the rules should remain as they are as this gives everyone a cheap sport. As far as tyres I am happy to supply Federal tyres at cost to any excel racer.
Regards

PRO050

Great to hear.
Put up your contact details, lots of people using the Federal tyres now.
Cheers Paul

PRO050

Ralf I think because alot of the guys and girls are new to the sport it's just going to take time for them to get their cars up and running.
Don't stress about it things have a way of working out. We (excel owners) have one of the biggest 1 make series running around at the moment, all we need to do is to make sure we get looked after as a group.

Robby

Keen for contact details Also


Keen to drive this weekend... But overdue pregnant fiance, means i might stay outta the car and clost to home

bigp0_1

Paul 0417003361

Mounfield Racing

Well Robby you better tell Shonel to hurry up, I am keen to become a granddad.

nodrog

Hey Robby

Take her to the track on Sunday put her in the passenger seat and after 2 or so laps ................. Delivery!!!!!

Mounfield Racing

Just what I need a granddaughter born at Lakeside.

GT_88

HI All,,
As stated and proposed before, WHY dont we all get together with the current "regs" and sit down and sort all this out for next year?
I have spoken to Paul and Ralf in the past and both agree!So with whoever is the class rep or administrator???? get all parties interested in promoting and getting this racing sorted before next year.

Hope to get out there on Sunday and chat to people in regards to what springs/struts there using.

Thanks,

GT

Mounfield Racing

Be good for you to go out and chat to the boys. I wont be there, running the s12 at Noosa Hilclimb. Mind you it's now 8 15 thursday night still making a computer harness and loom for the new adaptronic computer, have a TPS and map censor to do and weld in a new BOV mounting block into the Inter cooler lines then dyno. Scurtineering starts at 12 00 tomorrow 300 km away. Love to rush lol.

NOS440

sounds like you have plenty of time

benno.h

Awesome day on the track yesterday boys. 5 Excels swapping paint with geminis - sweet!

PRO050

Great day Benno, and nice driving to come home in front of those gemini's.
Great work to all the guys that made it to the grid on Sunday, the interest was massive.
New lap record to Mr Hyundi himself (Peter from Real Dyno) throwing down a 65.4, great drive Pete.
Cheers Paul

Robby

she arrived at 1:10pm saturday! <3

Now i know my girls are ok, i can get back into the seat some more. keen to get feddy on the grid with the other hyundai's

57OMPA

Ok sorry to be a pain in the arse here.... But what are the entry fees to come and race? i have the car getting ready and my father n mate also want to enter and are buying excels, Just wondering 1. what is the entry fee? 2. roughly how many laps


once again sorry for being a pain


Jae

datto510

details are here - http://www.trackattack.com.au

cheers.

57OMPA

ok so i can't find where it is that tells me roughly how many laps/time u get on track....

57OMPA

nevermind found it

Robby

same as a normal sprints at qr or lakeside... avout 6-7 laps 4-5 times

bigp0_1

How do you go about getting a log book

PRO050

You don't need a log book to do sprints or race at QR or lakeside.

wasas

Hey Paul! I'm back from dirtbiking around the philippines and am keen to have a lap, but after reading about a 65.4 I'm scared!! hahaha thats a very quick time from a 1500cc motor
Benno said it was a fun day out and I'm pissed I missed it so I'll have to make up for it next sprints, and see if I can work on our cars PB.

For all those who are interested come out and chat to the drivers, the RDP boys are a wealth of knowledge and they will tell you its not what you spend on the car, its what you spend in track time that will make you faster. I think somewhere at the start of this thread someone said make my words, you'll see them run 66's soon enough, now we have 65's i wonder how low it can actually go? I got a few seconds to make up now :\

dazzazoo

quick question are you able to build a excel for the sprints that can be registered and daily driven on the street? just curious about cage legalities would be good to build a beater for a daily and then thrash it on the weekends

PRO050

Benno drove his Excel to the track last week, changed tyres, raced all day door handle to door handle, changed tyres back and drove home.
You can have a fully prepped race car to meet all Top Gear race rules and drive it to and from the track. It will need to be mod plated for a 2 seater to get the cage and harnesses passed.

PRO050

Yes Wasas 65.4 is a great time but was done by getting a tow nearly all the way around the track. As I said in an earlier post the tow is worth 1 to 1.5 seconds a lap so don't think you need something special to run those time, just great driving on Pete's part.
Here's a link to some of the action from Pete's car, Rod's driving my purple excel (struggled with a flat tyre) Brett with a great drive in the silver Excel.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MUfzeSHTugc

wasas

wow loved every second of that vid! brett was giving it his all hey!

dazzazoo,
We got our cage installed and then modplated. as said you need to get a few things modplated, the race seat (has to be ADR or better approved), the 2 seat conversion, and then the cage. for the seat you should be using crush tubes when mounting, and the cage *should* be bolt in. but find a nice engineer and dont use it as a daily and you shouldn't have any problems. you could try the hassle of conditional registration for CAMS/rally, but its not worth it for the excel class.


For all those interested in coming out and racing, the best advice is this.
Buy a car. get it to the track.
lap around the sprints for a day and see how it feels. then talk to PRO50 (Paul) and get a cage installed. next get a set of rims and tyres, at the same time add another set of camber bolts to the front and a set at the back, the cheap ones are not worth the hassle, spend the money and get the whiteline ones.
after that do the springs, either cut a loop or get some kings/pedders, then pay for an alignment. lots of rear tow will keep the car nice n flat. you can add a rear sway if you want, but its 50/50 on personal feel.
after that start stripping and come circuit racing!

HANN S

Hi all,forget the sprints!,lets go racing!,,it was great racing with rod and peter. me and peter had a great time racing and it was very very close.
i should have my footage next week i will put that up.i have not seen it either.
So for all of you that are going on about the rules lets just get together for a meeting or just used the rules we have now,my car is bang on with the rules,i think?,let just go racing! now,its so much fun,stuff your sprints.
See peter and RDP can be beaten! LOL.my thanks to RDP,For getting my car ready,cheers.

GT_88

Hi All,
Yes I agree in having meeting and sorting out the rules.
Had a few people with me on Sunday who are interested in building cars.
A question was asked by them about springs and why the need to cut down a already lowered spring???eg:king spring etc
Off the shelf spring not sufficient? any reasons why the springs need to be cut down more??
It was good to see 5 excels mix it with the jam tins!

Look forward to 2011!

bigp0_1

when is the next sprints in the new year

PRO050

Bump

girlsboost

i think it would be even more ineresting watching a couple of kiwis having a charade derby lmfao not seriosly that would me more interesting

PRO050

I think you should have been more interested in your English lessons. ^^^^^^ FAIL^^^^^^ :headwall: