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Today we've got a little update for you and we've been pretty busy with the race car. Take a look. So the obvious things first, we've got a big wide white body kit sitting on the car. This has come from Eminem Honda in Japan. The actual kit when it came through to us, came from a massive big box on the hand packed and started getting onto the car. The actual fitment of where it actually meets body lines all around the rear skirts and the rear So to actually put this on, it's just going to require a little bit of pain, flatten down in places and then you're pretty much good to go. So the kit comes pretty complete with front b Although on the rear, we don't actually have any rear b So that led me to want to actually do some more aerodynamic work ourselves. So as we walk around the rear, I just must explain now that by no means do I have any sort of understanding of aero. This is all stuff I've kicked off along the time that we spent racing and working with other manufacturers as to what vapour it is. To start on the front, we've got a big front splitter here. It's made of 12mm ply and it's bolted directly to the body of the car. But ultimately we want to make that as big as possible to help with that downforce on the front end. Coming around to the rear then. So I've popped over to Revere Carbon and bought a few sections here, just box sections initially. And it's the start to make the basis of our rear diffuser. I wanted something that really wide on the back just to show off the width of the car, bearing in mind we've put a wide arch kit on it as well. Another thing that I wanted to do was keep these rear wheels exposed. Just the look that It just compliments the whole design of what's going on with the car here at the minute. So as I mentioned, these were just box sections from Revere Carbon. Now Simon at Revere, he did explain to me that I need the optim I know we've pushed this a little bit further, but it was just to get the full range. We're actually mounting here on adjustable tie rods, so we're going to be able to drop this down as we need to. But then also to compliment the rear diffuser, our friend Elliot who makes that downpipe for us, he's also come up with the exhaust here where we're going to try and blow the back end of the diffuser. Pushing the hot air to help the cold air sucking out the back of the car. We've done that with a slash cut and left it a little bit over so that once we do start to alter this angle here to try and optimize, we can then trim this back in to nice and flush with the back of the diffuser. Effectively, the minute has just been bolted together, but this will get sort of resined into place and made us one piece. So it's a big solid diffuser in the end. But for now, just for sticking up, getting the arches fitted, I've just bolted together just to get myself the idea of the shapes and sizes that we need to work with. So one of the little areas that I had to work on was actual trimming in around this M&M body to get onto the rear diffuser that we've made. So And then to start cutting it up, I've only really got one chance in trying to make that right. So obviously all the rear here, I'm going to try and accommodate all the original type heart grilles that go into the rear b So back around the front, we've got the b I've put in this air duct that's going to go up to the air box as well. Probably noticed we've got a PWR intercooler on the car now as well, as well as putting in a HKS oil cooler around this side. It's all ducted as well, so again, it was trimming in and making sure that we're not going to get any rubbing on the back of the b So a lot of trial and error in putting the b Having previously picked up one of these back in 2019, and that was with a road car, must remind. Obviously the road car, it was with basic bolt-ons. It was everything from air filters into coolers. We had pistons and rods in that car, as well as a side-vex. So that would be all stuff that we'd then sell to customers, to everyday road users as well as track day users. But with this car in particular, this is obviously Honda's X-Race car. It's a 24-hour car. We're now converting to a time attack car. It's a good basis for us to really try and exploit the benefit of this platform. With our idea in mind is that we just want to put more power into the car and more air to see what sort of lap times we can really extract. One of the areas that I wanted touch on really, and that was after spending time at the first-round time attack in Cadwell Park, looking at some of the other competitors cars and what they were doing. There's a guy there, Michael Andrew, who was actually running some form of aero disc over the rear wheel. But what we've gone for here is some of the rock-shaped aero discs, along with a cap to then screw into the front here. This unfortunately isn't going to fit onto our wheels. That with the fact that we've got a new lighter set of wheels coming next month, I need to find some way to secure these wheels as a bit of a universal fitment, depending on what we'll be using. So, front splitter. Obviously, I mentioned before that we've got the board mounted now. I'm just waiting really to clarify on the regulations as to how far we can then have the splitter sticking out. So, in the regs in the class that we're going to be going for, we've got 150mm of extension. That's the length there, but it's whether we have to trim it in round here, or whether we're allowed to leave it to this big square shape along the front here. Obviously, b It hasn't all been bodywork that's been going on the race car. There has been a little bit going on underneath the engine bay. So, let's have a look under here. We've got one of the P600 PRL turbos on the car now. That's made it what our dream downpriced as it previously was, and we're going to be using a different intake on this. So, previously when Honda were running the car, they had a 3D printed bracket coming off the side here, down to a tube, and they used to run a panel filter in the front b That we're doing away with, and we're going with the conventional up and over pipe across the front, and then feeding from the left hand side over here. You probably noticed that we haven't got any mirrors on the car at the moment. That's not only because I'm waiting for some carbon mirrors to come through, but I'm also working on a temporary solution for, So, what I've made up here, effectively, cut up an old mirror and a base plate. It's got a nice little bit of carbon that's going to slot across the front there, and then allow us to mount a small aero mirror just around the side here. So, that's a little update for you. I hope you've enjoyed watching it. Now, if you've got any questions, please leave them in the comments below. Please remember to