The Intelligent Money Racing 718 Cayman build thread!
Discussion
Thanks, it’s all happening too slowly for my taste but we are making progress with aero, cooling and suspension plans all underway at the moment so hopefully more updates very soon!
We will be waiting to see the calendars before confirming what the first season’s racing will involve.
If we go for a single championship the current favourite is MSVT SuperCup; they spent most of this season at Brands which would make it a poor choice for me but a lot of that was due to corona rescheduling and they tell me next year will be different. However they are a largely southern based series with a natural bias towards MSV circuits so possibly unlikely to get to Croft or Anglesey both of which would be favourites for me.
An alternative would be to play in a few different series, the car should slot nicely in with MSVT, CSCC, 750, BRSCC and others so we could have a season trying some different paddocks.
We will be waiting to see the calendars before confirming what the first season’s racing will involve.
If we go for a single championship the current favourite is MSVT SuperCup; they spent most of this season at Brands which would make it a poor choice for me but a lot of that was due to corona rescheduling and they tell me next year will be different. However they are a largely southern based series with a natural bias towards MSV circuits so possibly unlikely to get to Croft or Anglesey both of which would be favourites for me.
An alternative would be to play in a few different series, the car should slot nicely in with MSVT, CSCC, 750, BRSCC and others so we could have a season trying some different paddocks.
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 
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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.
.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.
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 
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 
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
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.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
.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
[quote=drakart]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.
You race it with us too, in the CSCC Liqui Moly New Millennium Series
You race it with us too, in the CSCC Liqui Moly New Millennium Series
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.
Details of the brake conversion would be very interesting if you had a minute to PM me Edited by drakart on Thursday 12th November 12:06
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