With this setup, fuel is pulled from the main tank and swirls it displacing all of the air to the top of the swirl pot or surge tank. This way the fuel lines have 100% fuel at all times. This unit will insure all of the air will not make it to the injectors preventing a potentially dangerous lean condition.
Meet Mr. Swirly
Rugged Ridge Jeep
Thanks to all the guys from Rugged Ridge that came by today. Their team was at Batlground all morning to test out new Jeep products. They brought their 2011 Wrangler JK for dyno duty. Check out the Rugged Ridge website for the latest products. http://www.ruggedridgeoffroad.com/
All American Trans Am Project
The basic tear down is just about complete. Next we will be removing the front upper support mounts to make a large amount of room. On this project we will need as much free space as possible for all the goodies that will go with our new setup.
Time Saver Tip
Are you done removing everything from the inside of your car only to be staring at that sound deadening material that is seriously glued all over your floor? This substance can be removed easily to save weight and expose the floor pans that may have decayed and need repair.
This is an old trick that will save you a lot of headache when stripping out the interior of your soon to be race car. Pick-up some dry ice from your local distributor, we chose Marietta Dry Ice. At $.80 per lb this stuff is very inexpensive so don’t worry about getting too much. Place ice blocks on sections of the material and wait a few minutes for the ice to transfer the temperature. Remove the ice and hit the deadening material with a mallet. This will shatter and leave nothing but the clean floor pan underneath, easy!
Varsity 1/5/12
It was a cold night for a car meet, but a pretty good turn out. Were you there?
Drift IS300 cutting weight
We managed to find more weight that could be removed from our IS300 drift project. The hood weighed in at 35lbs before modifications, after cutting out the inner shell 10lbs was shaved from the nose of the car. It does not sound like much, but after doing this on multiple parts of the car, the overall weight can be reduced greatly. After removing the skeleton of the hood we ran into issues about how to hold the hood up. Our solution was to modify the hinges so that the hood now lays nicely on the windshield providing full access to the engine bay.
Watercooled & Fuel Injected 914
Installing a Subaru drive-train into our 914 requires the car to have a few conversions, transforming the car from an air-cooled, carbureted design to fuel injected and water-cooled. The customer decided on a RCI fuel cell and Griffin radiator to be mounted up front. We have incorporated rubber mounts for both items to reduce vibration. Ducting will be added soon for the radiator to get air correctly directed straight through the fins for maximum cooling potential. Having both of these tanks in the front will help to equalize the weight of the vehicle.
Another Batlground SCCA Season Class Victory
Batlground Motorsports would like to give a special thanks to James M. Cochran for bringing home a season victory at SCCA competition for 2011. James was competing in a bone stock Yaris for his first year out and took 1st in the H Stock Class. With 399.61 total points, he won by 99.61 points. From novice to 1st, it has been a good year of competition.
We have to mention James is one of our very own Interns that we have been proud to have with us for just over a year.
