I have decided that it has been far to long (well over a year) since we updated we webpage. Hopefully we will be doing a weekly updates from this point forward. So check back and see what the SMW team has been up to. We are currently looking for a new location, so sadly if you are looking for some help with your next race car project we won’t be able to help you until further notice. When we find a new home we will post up here about it immediately.

 

 

So Much Win Racing is proud to announce our 2011 Chumpcar World Series roll cage group buy offer.

This group buy will allow for teams to have a full basic roll cage for a cost of $1200 including the cost of materials. This is a savings of over $300 and a upgrade in material thickness making the cages even safer. These roll cages are also 100% W.C.M.A. legal which means once you have completed the Chumpcar weekend you will be left with a car which is ready to continue racing here in western Canada.

In order for this group buy to go forward we are looking for the following.

- 10 Teams or more which are registered for the May 2011 Race
- A deposit of $250 made before January 31st
- The racecar itself or a date on which the car can be made available, S,.M.W. will work with teams to schedule their cage installs. This will be done on a first come first serve basis. Teams that delay or are unable to have their car ready at the scheduled time will be bumped to the end of the calendar.

The car must be dropped off in the following condition.

- The cars interior should be stripped, including all interior panels, dash, carpet and seats.
- Sound deadening materials should be removed from the areas where the cage is to be attached to the car itself. This will include the areas on the floor pan or frame rails below the A and B pillars of the car, as well as the area around the rear strut towers.

- If your team is interested in having any other preparation items completed by So Much Win.
We will offer a 10% discount on all other race preparation services for teams registered with this group buy. This would include things like mounting a window net, tow hooks, seats, ect.

For more information please contact us Via the contact form here on the website, or take part in the discussion HERE

SMW did our part this weekend, helping to volunteer for the Eurasia GT Invitational race at the Honda Edmonton Indy.

Tom and Mike were on hand as a part of the NASCC timing crew. This meant that we were issued a set of race control passes which  meant women couldn’t control themselves around us. (see attached picture).

The weekend went well and as usual the Eurasia cup was by far the most exciting race.

In addition to racing,  the DMCC guys were out for a drifting demo. They put on a great show, and I was able to make it out on track to click off some pictures. You can find them in our Indy gallery on photobucket HERE!

We also brought out what some of our new products this weekend which will soon be available in the SMW store here on the website. These being our new SortaFlush Decals. Now you can represent for form over function!

Well its a couple days before the Honda Edmonton Indy. The Northern Alberta Sports Car Club is running a support race filled with amateur racers from across western Canada. We got a call yesterday asking us to come out and weld a couple bars into his Autopower bolt in. So we packed up the welder and we were off.

Mike was going to take car of the cutting and coping of the pipe so all we had to do was drop in, weld the bars and go. Soon we arrived to see his huge trailer with its attractive new decals. The dash bar was all ready in place and ready to be welded.

Joel got to work right away. Before anyone knew it the welds were done and we were headed back home. Good Luck to Mike and his #777 R&T Networks solutions sponsored race car this weekend. Hopefully he brings something home in the Eurasia GT Invitational race!

For more pictures check out the gallery here

this time around we are doing some work on a sweet sweet Nissan GTR. Yeeaaaaaa R34 front end swap, sexy.

So this is the plan 8point FIA style roll cage – Remove a portion of the trunk floor and lower the fuel cell – Clean up the interior and removing some heavy unnecessary junk. (map lights in a race car? psht)- paint the interior and cage.- and some odds and ends.

Forgot the camera the first day so pics start a day deep, not much exciting happened anyway.
We started with removing what was left of the interior, to make room for the spiffy roll cage, mainly the dash and drivers seat. The dash will be modified and put back in after the cage is finished. So after a lil’ bit of work we had the dash out no problems
You can also see the factory side impact protection bar here. This is being removed, as well as its associated mounting brackets and being replaced with the dash bar from the roll cage. Heres how it looked just after the dash top was removed:

Then out comes all the rest of the comfort junk. AC stuff, heater core and blower motor, the controls for this were already removed, so its not like it was any use right now.

After all that was all cleared out it was time to give the sound deadening another hit of the spice weasel. This shows the left side all cleaned up, and the right side is awaiting some solvent and a once over with the grinder.

Here the drivers side foot well, before cleaning and after.

There is a main seam going accross there, the seam sealer was pretty tough took a while to get rid of, it turned out nicely. We also decided to tidy up the water/meth injection and fuel pump wires to make things a little less hectic down the road.

Now to do some fun stuff, time to start bending some tube!
After taking some careful measurements and doing some maths, we start bending the main hoop. This will serve as the foundation of the cage, everything will be measured off of it, if it doesn’t fit right, it will be very difficult to make the rest of the cage fit right.So obviously we want to have a super tight fitment to maximise interior room and safety.
This was also our first oppertunity to try out our new home-made tubing bender, and were pleased to report it works perfectly.

Heres Tom inspecting the bends and watching the angle as it bends. A couple minutes later, she’s all finished. Now lets see how it fits!

Great success, couldn’t ask for much more, it fits perfectly!
We also managed to get the two front lateral bars bent up, but it was getting late, lots more pictures when we get those fitted and start the other bits of the cage later this week.

Minor update, we got the front half laterals tacked in, along with the forehead bar, and the roof X. We’ve put lots of time into getting nice fitting bars and joints and it is paying off The cage is coming together nicely so far, here is some pics of the roof bars.

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This is the node for the main hoop X-brace and front latter on the passenger side, this particular joint gave us a lot of grief, we got it fitting better now, and there is still at least 3 more bars that will intersect at this point. The front node where the forehead bar, front half lat, and roof X all meet.
Right side main hoop node, not nearly as tough to fit-up.

Here is the entire of the X, just held on with tape now so we can check everything out before cleaning all the ends.
Front lateral fitment along the A-pillar on the passenger side

This will also get gusseted once we are finished raising and lowering the cage to weld the top of the roof joints.
and all together on the drivers side, lookin’ snazzy hey?

So, thats all for now. Next is to drop the cage through the floor and start welding the top, do the gussets and then get started on the lower portion of the cage and rear stays.
stay tuned! Same Bat e-channel, no guarantees on what bat time it will be though.

Work continues on Levi’s uber sexy r32 GTR, taken care of a few major pieces of the cage puzzle, I’d say were on the home stretch as far as the roll cage is concerned. There has been a few delays, now that we have wrapped up some other things getting in the way of progress we can go full bore again and get this car out on the track ASAP.

The cage got lowered down and all the roof bars got welded, as well as taco-gussets for the centre of the roof X.

Door bars are in-place, taco’d and welded.

And we’ve completely replaced the factory dash bar with the dash bar for the cage. I’m pretty proud of how this turned out, I think its clever, it only needs a couple tabs made to mount the console and the fuse box.

So we’ve been slacking pretty seriously on the blog-post front as of late, I’m not gonna lie to you, the last post was just photos that had been sitting on someones camera phone for a while…. But progress has not ceased! As of tonight, the cage is at 97%, it is only awaiting 1 taco gusset and welding to the feet plates before the car is ready for the dash to get put back in and some finishing touches.

Rear Stays with an X between them were cut, mocked up, then welded.

Next up was a pair of lower rear stays. Not required in the rules, we expect them to help out with chassis rigidity.
Then it was time to put the final bars in the main-hoop, for those of you who aren’t keeping track at home, there is 6 (count ‘em!) bars meeting at the 2 top corners on the main hoop. Strangely the notches don’t come out looking all that out to lunch. Here it is:
Now you can see how the notch fits together with 5 other bars, looks pretty busy eh?
Harness bars too!

Incase you were wondering, yes it was awkward to weld.Lastly, we would like to welcome grindobot to the So Much Win team!

the GT-YAR now comes to a close here are some final pics of the end product . we also did a lil extra work and installed a bitch’n wing at the same time

here is the rear section of the cage all painted up .

Here is with the seat up.

Complete dash.

A shot with the wing installed.

All in all project went great and turned out fantastic cant wait to see the car out on the track

Stay tuned for more awesome projects and some big news coming soon!

We decided to take a trip down to the Spec D drift practice at Castrol Raceway on Thursday June 18th. A good time seemed to be had by all with very little carnage. Sadly for one of our customers, his car decided to blow a turbo or two. Which could put a end to his season before it even got started. But Sanjay, another customer of SMW. Had a great night polishing off a set of tires. Here is a pic taken by one of our fans !

In an attempt to help you guys feel a little better about us as a company we have decided to put some work into a fancy new website. Now you won’t have to worry about being blind and unable to drive after viewing it. Hopefully the blog will be updated a little more frequently in the near future with all the exciting stuff we have going on both in the shop and out on the race track.