The Intelligent Money Racing 718 Cayman build thread!
Discussion
renmure said:
I couldn't build a tower out of Lego so I love stuff like this.
Looking forward to the updates.
I'm with you on that Jim.Looking forward to the updates.
A couple of mornings ago I had to remove a door knob that had stopped working to release the daft puppy from her room, and that is about as far as I can go these days!
JulianPH said:
A couple of mornings ago I had to remove a door knob that had stopped working to release the daft puppy from her room, and that is about as far as I can go these days!
Don't worry mate, she'll be chewing her way through minor obstacles like doors before long. 
Edited by PorkInsider on Wednesday 28th October 14:07
PorkInsider said:
JulianPH said:
A couple of mornings ago I had to remove a door knob that had stopped working to release the daft puppy from her room, and that is about as far as I can go these days!
Don't worry mate, she'll be chewing her way through minor obstacles like doors before long. Edited by PorkInsider on Wednesday 28th October 14:07
He hasn't changed much since then - he is currently on half term deprived of all electronic devices and TV, as a result of throwing a load of stuff down the stairs, thus hitting his sister for laughing at him, after he had been told to go and tidy his bedroom. Crikey, when I were a lad we were glad to have a bedroom, there was no TV in the house and electronic devices hadn't even been invented. They don't know they're born.
I digress - back to building a racing Cayman.
PorkInsider said:
JulianPH said:
A couple of mornings ago I had to remove a door knob that had stopped working to release the daft puppy from her room, and that is about as far as I can go these days!
Don't worry mate, she'll be chewing her way through minor obstacles like doors before long. Edited by PorkInsider on Wednesday 28th October 14:07
For a 4 month old she is a big thing!
QBee said:
You think that's bad? I had to rescue my daughter and son in law from their bedroom last year - their 10 year old son had slammed the door so hard, as he stormed out of the room in a tantrum, that he broke the mechanism inside the door. I had to unscrew the handle and lever the latch out of place.
He hasn't changed much since then - he is currently on half term deprived of all electronic devices and TV, as a result of throwing a load of stuff down the stairs, thus hitting his sister for laughing at him, after he had been told to go and tidy his bedroom. Crikey, when I were a lad we were glad to have a bedroom, there was no TV in the house and electronic devices hadn't even been invented. They don't know they're born.
I digress - back to building a racing Cayman.
Would you like a dog?!!! He hasn't changed much since then - he is currently on half term deprived of all electronic devices and TV, as a result of throwing a load of stuff down the stairs, thus hitting his sister for laughing at him, after he had been told to go and tidy his bedroom. Crikey, when I were a lad we were glad to have a bedroom, there was no TV in the house and electronic devices hadn't even been invented. They don't know they're born.
I digress - back to building a racing Cayman.
Superhoop said:
I had a liver and tan Doberman years ago.. She was a nutter and HATED cats..
Are you in the UK..?? I thought clipped ears were banned here along with tail docking..??
Mine is a mixture of intelligence and absolute nutter daftness!Are you in the UK..?? I thought clipped ears were banned here along with tail docking..??
Yes, the UK, but we bought her (through a UK breeder) via an Eastern European breeder.
Her mum is 'Pride of Serbia' and har dad is 'Pride of Russia', but I think we we conned and her real parents are actually Scooby Doo and Santa's Little Helper!
So, next instalment is the cage.
There’s very little available off the shelf for the 718 Cayman, in fact there’s not much for the previous model 981 either (which shares pretty much the same shell) so this was going to be a build from scratch job.
Welding is one area that I lack skill more than most others so while I’m happy to do most of the work on this car myself I figured the safety cage should probably be done properly, you know, just in case
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For this I’ve been gone to a local workshop tun by a racer with an annoyingly good understanding of how to build a fast race car, they do a bit of general repair and exhaust work but also a lot of trackcar prep and some very funky fabrication. They also ran the car that was our main competition in the 2018 championship that I raced in but they assured me that there was no hard feelings.............
We started off getting some ideas from pictures of the factory cage in the GT4 CS, this showed how they dealt with some of the mounting points etc and an idea of general layout, then they set to work.............
This takes me pretty much up to date so the updates may well slow a bit from here, hopefully early next week the cage and other bits of fabrication will be finished and I can get the car back but it’s not a part of the job that should be rushed!
It’s a pretty odd experience being involved with the development of a crash structure where you are discussing the best ways of surviving various flavours of severe shunt but it’s kind of reassuring to be putting the effort in at this stage in the hope that it won’t be needed later
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There’s very little available off the shelf for the 718 Cayman, in fact there’s not much for the previous model 981 either (which shares pretty much the same shell) so this was going to be a build from scratch job.
Welding is one area that I lack skill more than most others so while I’m happy to do most of the work on this car myself I figured the safety cage should probably be done properly, you know, just in case
.For this I’ve been gone to a local workshop tun by a racer with an annoyingly good understanding of how to build a fast race car, they do a bit of general repair and exhaust work but also a lot of trackcar prep and some very funky fabrication. They also ran the car that was our main competition in the 2018 championship that I raced in but they assured me that there was no hard feelings.............
We started off getting some ideas from pictures of the factory cage in the GT4 CS, this showed how they dealt with some of the mounting points etc and an idea of general layout, then they set to work.............
This takes me pretty much up to date so the updates may well slow a bit from here, hopefully early next week the cage and other bits of fabrication will be finished and I can get the car back but it’s not a part of the job that should be rushed!
It’s a pretty odd experience being involved with the development of a crash structure where you are discussing the best ways of surviving various flavours of severe shunt but it’s kind of reassuring to be putting the effort in at this stage in the hope that it won’t be needed later
.No, the way the car is laid out the front turrets are well supported as standard but also very hard to tie in or brace. The cage is bound to add rigidity but the beauty of starting with a car that is designed to be fast in the first place is we can concentrate on adding strength for safety.
Steve H said:
No, the way the car is laid out the front turrets are well supported as standard but also very hard to tie in or brace. The cage is bound to add rigidity but the beauty of starting with a car that is designed to be fast in the first place is we can concentrate on adding strength for safety.
That’s one hell of a cage, looks good! Does it need certification?Gassing Station | Readers' Cars | Top of Page | What's New | My Stuff