any updates on the ubermiata?

 

Nice of you to ask and good question! Actually, there is a fair deal going on with the Ubermiata and it's gradually morphing into the ultimate racecar. I think I'll split this into main categories with numbers to keep it organized. I try to cover all the basics but there will probably be something I'm missing

I'll work on getting Pictures up soon.

Brakes:

1. Removed E-brake and selling my new centric sport calibers.

2. Replacing with goodwin's str-21's and then use V8R's cap/rotor assembly because it's two pounds lighter per corner than the 1 piece rotor. (waiting back for goodwin to notify me if this is doable)

3. Thinking of replacing brake lines with some stainless steel hardline but I need to investigate this a little further

4. Ordered singular brake duck set with high temp polyurethane hose

5. Ordered a pair of aircraft spruce 3" brake ducts that I will insert into my air dam

6. Need to return singular brake ducts because they wont work with my keisler drop spindles. They had singular brake ducts made specifically for the drop spindals, but low and behold, they are discontinuing those and everyone is sold out of them 🙄 so going to need to figure out a good way to attach my brake hoses now .

7. have a new master cylinder I need to put in that came with my kmiata kit


Fuel system:

1. Still waiting on my brake flange tool from summit that has been back ordered for some time!

2. Received my imperial 1/2" tube bender

3. Going to go with 1/2" stainless steel tubing throughout car

4. Have bought mostly russell and some fragolia fittings to adapt

5. Bought ethanol sensor

6. Bought radium fuel damper

7. Bought radium fuel pressure regulator and pressure guage

8. Bought fuelab micronfilter

9. Drilled fuel out OEM fuel tank apparatus

10. Installed terminals into fuel tank (insulated, of course)11. Modified fuel tank and shifted it down a little and forward

11. Bought fire retardant covers for all fuel/oil lines

12. Looking into buying peguses fuel pickup net

13. Bought DW400 fuel pump and adapted that for tubing


Suspension (big changes):
1. Sold my tein flex z coilers

2. Bought keisler automation drop spindles (with ABS capability) all around.

3. Used all my money I made on my Teins to buy Xida Ace's

4. I finished powdercoating my OEM control arms and replacing all my bushings with the polyurethane and the SADfab bronze retro kit with baurer extended ball joints and supermiata upper ball joints.

5. Decided once my control arms looked all pretty that I would sell them. I sold them and used a good chuck of the proceeds to fund V8R pro-series control arms. I was going to go with the x-lite uppers but after reading about them on MT, they didn't sound so hot. So.. Sticking with pro-series all around.

6. Talked at great lengths to Ed at 949 racing and he recommended 800/500 for my spring rates given the weight of my vehicle and my aero. He mentioned I may need to increase my spring rates down the road.

7. shouldn't have sold my Bauer extended ball joints because everyone (that I know of) is sold out of them now. Anyone know where I can find?

8. Sent v8r stage 2 axles into driveshaft shop to have rings put on for future ABS install



Turbo:

1. Going to go with stainless steel tubing for my water lines and oil feed line.

2. I have been buying fittings to adapt 3/8" tubing for my oil feed and 1/2" tubing for my coolant lines.

3. Reordered torx screws for wastegate bracket since mine has gone missing

4. Need to dig though other MT builds with similar setups to mine to figure out how I want to route water lines.

5. Need to dig through other MT builds with similar setups to mine to figure out how I want to hook up EBCS





Aero:

1. Sold my 9LR aluminum foil **** from my medium downforce kit

2. Bought a 64"carbon fiber **** with endplates

3. Bought 9LR plastic splitter ramps by Morlind engineering

4. Waiting for 9LR thanksgiving sales so I can buy the 64" dual element for my ****.

5: Bought https://www.jegs.com/i/Harwood/487/1...g+Confirmation to secure airdam to splitter

6. Having some custom mounts made from 9LR for my pylons to have them attach to chassis OEM rails. Since I removed so much metal from my trunk, I don’t feel like that's a good connection now for the pylons



Exhaust/intercooler:

1. I was able to get in touch with ABE from artech and while he told me he no longer welds, that he had access to the parts I would need for welding my custom downpipe and exhaust.

2. I am going with a magnaflow 5x11x22 muffler since that seemed to be the muffler of choice on MT. He is sending me extra flanges so I can make the muffler swappable if desired

3. He also had 2.5" intercooler piping kit, so I picked up that also.

4. Looking into welding all my intercooler piping and using vibrant flanges so I don’t have to deal with couplers



Electrical:

1. I haven't spent a ton of time on this, but I did order new and better wires than I had before.



Random:

1. My QA1 carbon fiber driveshaft fits perfectly

2. I traded in my 5starbodies lexan windshield in for the 949 racing windshield that fits.

3. Looking at ordering some Lexan side windows from plasticsforperformance

4. Looking into wrapping the whole car in 2080 3m film

5. Relocated gas fillup to rear of car and welding OEM fuel door in it's stock position for wrap job.

6. Been talking to Alex Todd and working on getting used ABS components that I need

7. Thinking of fixing my ugly looking trunk. Anyone have suggestions on how I should fix it?

8. Selling my sparco sprint seats and looking at going with some custom kirkey race seats to lighten things up a bit but don't know yet for sure

 

Random photos. I'll get more later

SADfab control arms that I sold for v8r pro-series arms

New 64" carbon **** with new fuel location

Random Weight reduction (you can tell i'm OCD)

Tone rings Installed

 

 

WTF is going on with those fittings and the Ethanol sensor?

 

To route 1/2" od stainless tubing. Since I was reading that I don't want to limit my fuel return line, I'm doing something similar that I saw sadfab doing. I know I still need to get fittings sorted and I'm working on it.

 

Wut?

 

I was reading on MT that the ethanol sensor is the limiting reagent of flow and that it could cause issues in a true return system in more or less words. So trying to prevent that if possible.

 

So what are you doing, exactly? Are you trying to split the flow of the return line in hopes that some will go through the sensor and the rest not? You do realize that like most other things, fluids will take the path of least resistance, and you aren't going ot get much flow through that sensor, right? And who cares about flow on the return line? lower pressure gas going back into the trunk is not an issue.

 

use more words not less

 

I think he's saying that there's a flow limit on that small ethanol sensor, so he's made a bypass of sorts. The ethanol sensor should still get plenty of fuel to get an accurate eth % rating, but will flow as much as possible with the bypass.

Now, it was my understanding that if you are running the ethanol sensor on the return, that flow limitations are not a concern, but I don't know what the rest of the fuel system is like.

Edit: Looks like boileralum beat me to it.

 

yes, that’s exactly what I was thinking by splitting the flow- to not cause a backup at the sensor. But, if that isn’t an issue, I’ll gladly return those fittings and get my money back haha

 

why waste time say lot word when few word do trick?

 

haha, I’ll try to be more descriptive for you guys.

 

I don't know what you are using for control, but MS3 has wicked delay to the ethanol sensor reading on startup and it's made worse by a dry sensor in the return line. Therefore, if I were going through the trouble to split it's feed I'd put it in the feed line.

It might be possible for you to outflow the sensor in the return line which would increase the fuel pressure under low loads, but I highly doubt it.

 

Good information to know. I am going to be using a bofi MS3 basic, but I'd imagine it to be similar in how it functions. From the sound of this and what other's are saying, It seems like it would make most sense to just run the ethanol sensor on a single return line without a split. Thanks for the heads up