The Intelligent Money Racing 718 Cayman build thread!

[Steve H]

There’s loads of different racing options that require very specific regs but also a good selection of series that designed to be catch-alls for pretty much any road based car with broad scope for mods. Think of it as being like British GT on a 20th of the budget .

The thing that they mostly share is a class system based on power to weight ratios.

This means you could be racing against a wide variety of cars with different amounts of power and weight but always a similar proportion in that class. They are mostly 45 minute races which classes as endurance (as opposed to sprint) at club level with a mandatory pitstop required where there can be a driver swap if it’s a shared car.

The actual power/weight ratio will vary with different organisers but one of the advantages of the 718 is that it can be mapped to different levels to suit and final adjustments can be made by adding ballast where necessary.

[Steve H]

I’ll do what I can

[Steve H]

Yes the cage is pretty epic, I went in yesterday to check progress and the last couple of gussets have landed so it’s almost complete now.



And we’ve been getting on with the aero mods while it’s in there.......



Just waiting for the rear wing to land now and hopefully (I keep saying this ) it will be back with me by the weekend

[Steve H]

I can’t wait to drive it!!

[Steve H]

It’s all T45 tube so as light as we could make it while going for max safety and fortunately the stuff it will be raced in will mostly be power/weight classes so all out weight saving isn’t always a benefit.

[Steve H]

Just think of all the structural rigidity we’ve added then .

I took another visit yesterday and the cage is now complete, rear wing is on and just a couple finishing touches needed on the front splitter so I’ll be collecting tomorrow and spending the weekend getting high on rattle can fumes .

[Steve H]

drakart said:

I look forward to seeing how this build goes. I occasionally race with my other half in her 987.2 pdk Cayman S in the same series you'll race in. We are in class B for 750mc. The plan is to add more composites, gt4 front end and big wing on the back. We've got huge Alcon brakes now, which seem to help with the brake issues we had before on stock set up. The engine has just had a rebuild (it's stock but has done 10,000 track miles), but Covid has delayed everything.

Edited by drakart on Thursday 12th November 12:06

Details of the brake conversion would be very interesting if you had a minute to PM me

[Steve H]

Munter said:

By the by, did you know "The Wookie" on here \ Ollie Jackson in real life, works for Alcon. He may have ideas for a brake solution.

Thanks, I knew Ollie was The Wookie but not his day-job, I’ll ping him a message .

[Steve H]

So the Cayman is back at IMR HQ





Cage is complete, rear aero done and the front splitter is made.

Now for the task of painting the cage .

[Steve H]

Gallons Per Mile said:

Phwoar!

Also, that's a very shiny floor you have

Painted by my own fair hands

I do a bit of car storage on the side if anyone is looking for a secure, dehumidified place to keep their treasured toy .

[Steve H]

So I was thinking about the film Goldfinger........

The first thing to come to mind is "no Mr Bond, I expect you to die", but after that it’s the girl that was killed by being painted gold. The question that comes to mind (aside from how did they get her to stay still) is why was there no mess?



Look at that, not a hint of gold anywhere aside from what’s been used to coat Ms Eaton .

Let me tell you what happens if you actually try to paint something gold, IT GETS EVERYWHERE!!

[Steve H]

Real gold might be a bit heavy but we like a bit of bling, let me discuss that in private with my backer

[Steve H]

clubracing said:

Great project! What sort of cars will it be in the same class as in the various series?

The roll cage door bars on the drivers side are rather unusual as well. What's the reason behind that?

Look forward to seeing it on track.

Probably up against M3s, TCRs etc depending on series and class etc.

The door bars curve outwards to give better access for the driver but also because it should give better protection in a heavy shunt to the drivers door.

drakart said:

You need to make that rear wing a bit bigger

Send it over, I can make use of it .

fesuvious said:

Hiya Steve,

I was hoping to see the car when I was next up there but alas you've collected.

Are you racing with Matt again?

Hi Matt, hope you’re keeping well and sorry if I bumped your car down the list .

Current plan is 45 minute races for next year in which case I expect I’ll run solo, anything goes after that but Matt is still campaigning the 328 so he’s keeping busy

[Steve H]

Thanks Kai, you have PM!!

[Steve H]

Thanks Kai. I’ll take a look at some of that cooling stuff, it’s going to be one of the main things to stay on top of for sure.

I don’t think meth is an option for what we do so getting as much air round the engine as possible will help, I’ll have a look at the parts catalogue to see if there is a later version of underfloor but I thought most of the aero stuff was unchanged through the 718s?

I’m back at it today and should get the cage painting finished, then I can get some bits of dash back in and get the glass refitted and it will start looking more like a car again!

[Steve H]

Thanks Kai, sounds like a handy upgrade if I can source it


I finished painting the cage over the weekend as well so that’s one more box ticked off.

[Steve H]

It’s a very nice colour but no polishing to be seen so far

[Steve H]

Wh00sher said:

Following with interest

It’s not going to be to your standards of inventive engineering Nige but I’m hoping Porsche have already done the hard work by putting the engine in the right place etc .

[Steve H]

So I dropped the car off for paint on Tuesday. New wing and bumper plus various small repairs to the previous accident damage.

They are also rolling the arches so we can hopefully fit these in..........

[Steve H]

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