Taifun TAT

[TaifunOffroad]

Very true, Lara. Lovely build, though.

The only thing I wonder is about the door cross brace - I know it'll add a load of strength but don't you think it may make it a little slow getting in and out?

;-)) From a good car you don’t need to get in and out so often…;-)) Just joking.  I prefer to design a safe and competitive car instead to make compromises. This is how FIA rules the safety structures, so I suppose it’s the best way to do it.

Best regards,

Gabi Nicolae

[TaifunOffroad]

After an entire week of having the dry sump’ staff in the Romanian customs, we finally managed to have it on our hands. The pumps, oil deposits and filter supports are from Aviaid, one of the Nascar car’s providers. I suppose it is good enough for our needs…;-)). We still didn’t decide where we will mount it: engine bay or in the rear… still thinking about it…

Thanks,

[RP]

Hi guys, this is very, very nice!

Will you be competing in the TAT 2010 with them?


RP

[TaifunOffroad]

No, we will compete with the good ol' Nissan Proto. Maybe you know it. But one of the cars will be driven in the TAT for sure, by its owner.

regards,

Gabi Nicolae

[TaifunOffroad]

We finally built the t/case, g/box and engine mounts. It took a while… ;-)) Now we are in the process of installing the oil pump – dry sump system. Please note the very short distance between the t/case and the g/box, using a BMW rubber coupling, in order to be able to install the engine as compact as possible.

Thanks for looking,

[TaifunOffroad]

We installed the dry sump pump on one of the cars. The crankshaft oil pump pulley will be 15 mm more to the front. Because of the exhaust we can’t install the pump more to the rear… Also, we finished some more reinforcements and we just moved to the “fitting area” the second car, the one with portal axles.

Regards,

[TaifunOffroad]

We finalized the car’s design. Now we will send the files to the 5 axis machine, to make us the pre-molds. The car’s “body” has 13 parts that will be bolted to the structure, in such a way that if you want, you can dismount the car entirely.

[mudmatt]

Looking good

[TaifunOffroad]

Meantime we fabricated the steering wheel supports for the both cars and the pedals for the TAT one. The clutch pump will be mounted in a strange way…it’s not finished, but we will post pictures asap.

Regards,

[TaifunOffroad]

And the fuel deposits. In the TAT the capacity is 106.8 liters and in the C2C is 113.2 liters Our target was to have 100 liters plus, so its not bad…;-) The “canister” is stainless steel, and the welds will be done with a technique calls “pillow”, which means that you have to use a second argon gas bottle to fill the canister while you weld. That way the welds are strong, no strange interior garbage, etc. After that we will use a “substance” for stainless steel welding, in order to clean the burns.

Thanks,

[TaifunOffroad]

And the axles are on their places. Actually, the result is making us pretty happy, as the calculations proved to be accurate.
I mean, the rear cardan shaft has a total of 55 mm total travel; the angles of the pinion are following the rear T/case exit very nice and so on. The front also is flexing nice, no touching no nothing.

Regards,

[Lara]

Looking good!

Lara

[TaifunOffroad]

The car interior start to take shape, we make it from aluminum the way you see below. We intend to build it from a minimum number of dismountable parts.

Thanks for looking

[telius]

very very nice work gaby

it will be ready for tat??

[Jake]

Awesome build
Keep them pictures coming