24v Starter Circuit

The Brise starter works fine while the battery is fully charged, however when the battery drops to around 12 volts the cranking speed drops and makes the engine difficult to start. 

After talking to Rich at RLM he suggested changing to a 24v starter circuit and wiring in an additional battery. The new battery is wired in series after the output from the start solenoid before the starter motor. As I had a spare battery I decided to give it a go and mounted the battery in the passenger footwell. 

The engine now cranks faster than ever and starts a lot more consistently. I am currently still using the Brise starter but I may swap back to the standard hayabusa starter at a later date.

Brake Upgrade

With the extra power I decided to upgrade the brakes. I have not really been happy with the brakes since I built the car.

MNR now provide light weight discs and billet bearing carriers. I decided to upgrade to these and also fit a pair of rear wildwood calipers for the rear to replace the Sierra items. As these catch on my 13 inch Compomotives there is an added bonus with the wildwood's that they wouldn't catch.

The only downside was that I needed the rear hubs machined to fit the new discs, I sent them to MNR to get this done, Marc machined them down to size within a couple of days. 

The kit was a straight swap and fitted well, when fitting the new bearing carriers I took the opportunity to fit new rear bearings. 

I took time to bleed the brakes, after I bled the rear calipers from the bottom and then from the top, the brake pedal became extremely solid with good feel. I think that the rear calipers may have been a problem all along.

Rear LED Lights

With the old clear Perei lights I had a couple of occasions that the driver behind couldn't see me braking. This is something that I have been thinking about for a while and thinking of an LED upgrade.

I managed to find some LED rear lights that fit the existing back boxes. Ideally I would have liked them to be clear but I couldn't find any, that were the same size. 

I swapped the lights and fitted a new electronic flasher relay, I'm really quite pleased with the results, the lights are now a lot brighter. 

Turbo Plenum Straps

Made up some straps from strips of aluminium, used the engine mounts and plenum fixings to hold in place.