We hearyou have a pretty tasty drivetrain and engine as well?

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SA: Tell us a little bit about the processes that have been involved in the construction of this car ie, chassis construction, aero design, composites and engineering.

CE: Originally it started with an upright to correct suspension issues. Having seen SSE, Cyber Evo and HKS Evo, they were all great cars created on either suspension, chassis design, weight, engine horsepower and aero, or a combination of a couple of them, but not a culmination of all of them, they took parts of each to create a great car. We wanted to achieve more, that has been our goal, to be at the forefront on each and everyone one of those areas.

G understands suspension design and engineering like few others I have meet, except maybe Leigh who is the engineer on the car going forward. Andrew taught us what sacrifices are worth making in regards to aero. I think it has taught the entire team a thing or two as well, particularly in regard to Aero V Centre of Gravity offsets.

As with all builds it’s all about compromises. But it’s not until someone explains to you the benefits and can articulate the sacrifices well that you really get it. I think Andrew’s lecture on packaging will stick with me forever.



Finally like I said before, you get lucky. Meeting Brad t-shirt design service was luck, Tony and G knowing Andy was Luck. Andy having James was luck. Nemo is no one-hit-wonder, she is a collaboration of many peoples experiences and knowledge and will carry their
goals and aspirations forward, like few other cars have, and I think that has been the major step forward in regard to this build.

Large teams around the world building GT cars etc having multimillion dollar budgets, but I believe it is something unique to the relative amateur sport of Time Attack, and particularly to a privateer team. It hasn’t been one person’s direction. We have all been open to everyone else in the team wants and needs and worked out solutions to make sure we could put that in for them and I think this has been a key to the build so far and will be a key to its success in the future.




CE: We have a 2.2lt 4G63 motor. We are putting down over 800hp at the wheels. With that kind of power and the fact we focused very heavily on weight, it’s very close to a 1:1 power to weight ratio. If we decide to run the larger BW turbo we have, and run our boost to where SSE ran theirs, we believe we would be greater than 1:1.



Due to our focus on weight we also don’t believe we will require that, and that will assist in our reliability, buts it’s good to have it in reserve if do need it and things are tight. She is, like all our competitors all forged internals. A Norris Design Dry Sump system, upgraded dry sump pump. The intake Manifold is HKS Kansai, ID Injectors, Custom fuel rail (read by James Marshall J), Geoff and Jon at Full-Race came to the party and supplied the turbos, yes they are Borg Warner and so far we haven’t had to pull the big daddy from the box. Turbosmart have supplied the wastegates and our friends at Spark Tech delivered on the ignition.



After that it is all mated to a Maktrak 6 speed sequential that incorporates the pneumatic paddle shift from Geartronics. Why a paddle shift? Well it’s cool to have an Evo with paddle shift. We then go back through with an assortment of other goodies, like LSD in front, rear and yes with the Maktrak you also get a centre LSD. We have had to upgrade the ½ shafts and have a carbon tail shaft to finish it all off.

We are also currently fabricating our own light weight flywheel to mate to a 5” sachs clutch, until then we are running the Carbonetics one.