One-Two Finish at the 2020 NASA Pro Racing Season Finale
Featured Cars, Motorsports Tom Tang Featured Cars, Motorsports Tom Tang

One-Two Finish at the 2020 NASA Pro Racing Season Finale

With the 25 Hours of Thunderhill postponed to 2021 (thanks, COVID) the final race weekend of the year took place at Buttonwillow in the form of a double header, Super Touring sprint racing and a 3 hour and 15 minute night endurance race as part of the Western Racing Endurance Racing Championships. We were able to use the month of September to properly prep both the Lotus Exige and the E36 BMW M3.

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Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 5, Cooling
Featured Cars, Trackspec Exige Project, Motorsports Jon Vo Featured Cars, Trackspec Exige Project, Motorsports Jon Vo

Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 5, Cooling

The Exige S is known for heat soaking and extremely high IATs (intake air temps). The stock intercooler is mounted on top of the hot engine and doesn’t get nearly enough airflow through the small roof scoop. It also doesn’t help that the hot air from the radiator exits in front of the windshield and makes its way into the roof. There are some things you can do to help like a larger intercooler, additional ducting from the side scoops, larger roof scoops, or adding fans to the intercooler…

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Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 4, Completed Aero
Featured Cars, Motorsports, Trackspec Exige Project Jon Vo Featured Cars, Motorsports, Trackspec Exige Project Jon Vo

Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 4, Completed Aero

This past Monday, June 24, we decided to take a team day-off to go to the track with Golden Gate Lotus Club. In addition to drives, meets, and fun outings, GGLC hosts great track & autocross events. Only three run groups, so you get SEVEN sessions! Not to mention, they always offer snacks, coffee, fruits, and sometimes even lunch!

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NASA ST4 Round 2 at Thunderhill Raceway
Featured Cars, Motorsports Victoria Vo Featured Cars, Motorsports Victoria Vo

NASA ST4 Round 2 at Thunderhill Raceway

“Heidi” left for Round 2 of NorCal Super Touring Championship a day earlier than usual because Tom was in Japan - which meant that Graham assumed driving duties for this particular race weekend. We were excited because Jon had rebuilt the engine with brand new rod bearings, a new oil pump, and added an accusump system to help mitigate the low oil pressure issues we ran into at Sonoma in March. Shout-out to Jim from MMI Vehicle Systems and West Coast Ravenol for the fresh parts and fluids! On Thursday evening, Liam and Graham stopped by the shop to pick up the car and then they were off to Thunderhill.

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Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 3, More Goodies
Featured Cars, Motorsports, Trackspec Exige Project Jon Vo Featured Cars, Motorsports, Trackspec Exige Project Jon Vo

Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 3, More Goodies

It’s no secret that Reverie makes high quality (wind tunnel tested) aero parts for the Eliges and I’ve always liked their front splitter design. Although Reverie’s mounting solution works great and is solid, I decided to attach the splitter directly to the chassis, and not to the front clam. My reason for this is so that I can easily remove the front clam without having to remove the splitter first. This did require cutting the front lower portion of it so that it could just rest on top of the splitter…

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Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 1, Rebuild
Featured Cars, Motorsports, Promotions, Trackspec Exige Project Jon Vo Featured Cars, Motorsports, Promotions, Trackspec Exige Project Jon Vo

Trackspec's Exige S240 Project: Part 1, Rebuild

My first encounter with Lotus cars was when I was 18 years old and I signed up first my autocross in my 1996 Acura Integra with the Golden Gate Lotus Club (GGLC). I always thought they were “cool” looking and after going on a couple ride-alongs, I could already tell how fun it would be to drive one. ...

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