I Built a Go-Kart of a Nissan Micra - Let´s take it to the Track!
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 26 มิ.ย. 2024
- My first track day with this budget race-Micra!
The car was so much fun to drive. It's mind blowing how go-kart'y the car felt.
It performed just like I hope to, super nimble and very planted around the bends.
Is it fast in a straight line? -No! But it is so much fun none the less. - ยานยนต์และพาหนะ
throw some strut braces on it, that'll help with a bit more body control, but cool lil project man. well done.
Thank you! Yes, I'll definitely do that, especially if I put on gripier tires on. However, the car feels really flat and planted around the corners. I think the head mounted gopro footage gives the illusion of the car having more body roll than it actually has, since I lean my head into the corners.
Ehh, i really think those strut bars are more visual than structural.
Observation:
The metal sheet you took out of the front will dramatically increase the pressure in front of the radiator, causing increased flow of air through the radiator.
By taking it out, that air can bypass the radiator and just skip around it.
It would be interesting to see coolant temperatures logged with that plate fitted and then without.
Also, having direct air contact only on one side of the engine i don't think i'ts beneficial, the other side is quite hot. Making the diference of temperature bigger wouldn´t be a desirable side effect. Adding up, temperautre messured from outside the block doesn´t really matter on a water cooled engine.
Yeah that baffle plate is supposed to help with cooling. It's common for people to remove it but it worsens radiator performance . If you want to get heat out of the engine bay, perhaps exit vents near the back of the bonnet/hood will be better.
Interesting. Thank you for the input, I didn't think about that aspect honestly. I'll definitely look in to that and put the plate back on if it helps with cooling.
@@StuTubedgotta be careful with scoops near the front window. There the high pressure pushes the air in the bonnet rather than letting escape out
@@Moli571 That's a good point, didn't consider that.
Great to see. Tires make the BIGGEST difference above anything. A good set of track tires will make all the difference. Great to see you enjoying the car. If you want a more oversteer then understeer, get a bigger rear sway bar and smaller front one, of when i used to track, id disconnect my front sway bar (fwd). It's a lot of fun doing track/autocross days.
btw inspections in Sweden are every year? Yikes, they really want ur money lol.
Every 14 months if the car is younger than 30 years. Between 30 and 50 years, every 24 months. Older than 50 years, not required at all.
Almost everywhere in Europe it's every year :/
Yes, tires definitely makes a huge difference!
I thought about getting a rear sway bar, but the car actually rotates quite good and you get lift of oversteer if you let go of the throttle in cornes, just because it's so light in the rear.
As someone mentioned, we need to inspect our cars every 14 months if it's newer than 30 years old.
@@jazzventura it's every 2 years in France :)
@@ejoautovideos i prefer oversteer then under even in fwd cars
Good to see that you back from track without any issues, car seems perfect on track.
Thank you, yes the little Micra was perfect for this small track. 👍
Cool 👍
Next turbo 😏
Cool! Congratulations!
You can try playing with the brake bias, or rear spring rates, make the car more tail happy, maybe you will get faster lap times. Although the track is actually quite wide, still, would be interesting to see.
Just a few tips, your hands are all over the wheel just leave them at 3 and 9. That way if you lift off the gas hard and the car goes sideways you always know where your wheels are pointing. Moving your hands around the wheel is only confusing you. You did in fairness have one hand as a reference. Talking of lift off oversteer go round a roundabout on the limit and play with lifting off to get a feel for it. (Just get on the gas this stops the oversteer instantly) One part of the video you came off the gas fast and the car did go very sideways. If you came off slower this wouldn’t have happened. Once you have mastered lift off oversteer you can use it for some really big slides and if you ever come too fast into a corner you can flick it in with a lift so you can lose speed, having the car pointing where you want to go. The K11 is a great balanced car so lift off oversteer comes as standard. I have driven one and loved it. Use your heat gun on the tyres… If it's a clockwise track the left tyre will be hating life if you're getting more understeer on the right handers than last lap this is due to exceeding the working temp of the tyre. Come in, get a heat reading and let the tyre cool. You don’t want to do laps of understeer. With a FWD car you lose about 10 - 30% power with the steering lock on this is used by the CV joints also it damages your CV joints. So the sooner you get the lock off the sooner you're using all your power. Try this next time you will be amazed by the difference in lap times. Get that lock off ASAP.. Having a set of driveshafts for a track day is also advisable. If the car is pushing on do not ask more of the front tyres by putting more lock on. If they were skidding with 15 deg locks they would be skidding to hell with 30 degs on. At that point you can control the car with the throttle lifting off the gas tightens radius. Driving front wheel drive is all about driving on the throttle not the steering wheel.
Watch every one of their videos.
www.youtube.com/@CamberandCombustion
Thank you for taking the time to write this comprehensive comment 🙏
Looking nimble my guy. Really loving this build! Never get rid of this car.
Thank you :)
Yes, it really was perfect for this small technical track!
Being the owner of a Nissan primera p11 mark 2 ( the big sister of your micra k11 I would say) you made me fall in love with the micra 😍. My primera has a lot of problems that made her undrivable and I’m highly considering switching to a micra k11 1.4L.
Thank you and GG for your build !
So glad to hear that! Thank you so much for your nice words 😊🙏
Who can say that they can prepare a small car for racetrack, then packing everything needed for track day in said car and having the race track just one hour of drive - that is perfect conditions imho.
Deffinitely kudos to you, for building this thing yourself.
Yes, I'm really happy about that! 🙏
Thank you 😁
Amazing seeing this little thing on the track 🔥🔥
Big fan of your channel keep up the great work.
Nangkang NS2-R semi-slicks with the softer compound are a great budget track tyre. Had them on my 205 GTI which was definetly faster than this car and they still performed great 😁
Best micra I eva seen the thing sits so good love it
Thank you so much :)
Excellent!
素晴らしいですね!
Looks like a fun ride, got a great sound too.
Looking forward to see any improvements you come up with in the future. 👍🏻
Thank you, yes that induction sound is really nice! :P
Awesome little project car! Looks like you had a blast!
Thank you! Yes we had so much fun, and I barely spent any fuel! XD
Fan va det går!
Love the car and videos! one thing Id recommend is heat wrapping the intake
Bra jobbat, riktigt cool liten banbil 💪
Tackar! 😁
Awesome, that looks like a whole lot of fun in a small package.. it’s definitely more fun driving a “slow car” fast;-)
You're absolutely right, the fun per dollar factor is off the charts! 😝
Snyggt jobbat! Vilken bana körde du på?
Tackar! Salabanan :)
Bad as car 🔥🔥😁
Personally one of the cars i see myself driving as my first car, just such a simple gremlin beater.
I'm absolutely in loved with it, I've already put down a lot of miles since this video! 😁👍
Hello a great video 👍👍👍greetings from Germany 🇩🇪 👋👋👋Kai🙏
Thank you so much, thanks for stopping by! :)
man that looks so fun
It was really fun! :D
@@ejoautovideos now i want to do a build as well but tracks here are so expensive i dont think it would be worth it
You should defenitely replace the stock exhaust manifold with proper headers since changing the exhaust manifold is the most important performance mod you can do to a K11 micra. The stock one is so bad that even with cheap homemade 4-1 or 4-2-1 headers you can increase the power output of a 1.4 engine by around 15%. And no other modifications are needed to achieve this power increase.
Yes I really would like that. I should do it!
Looks excellent fun. One observation - try to be smooth (and less snappy) with the steering inputs. I'll be less likely to get unsettled and should help with the understeer. Jackie Stewart (when coaching James May) said to treat the car like it's a dangerous dog, and move slowly and purposefully; any sudden movements and you'll be bitten!
You're 100% right. By the end of the day I tried to be smoother and I actually enjoyed myself more and shaved of some lap times as well. 👍
Nankang NS2R are not that expensive and work great on lighter cars. Keep up the great work, it motivates me to finish my Primera trackcar.
Thank you :) Nice, will you upload any content of your Primera?
@@ejoautovideos I would love to, but I have no experience in video editing. In addition to that, since I‘m from Germany, my english is not that great 😅
Hi
This small car looks great! :)
Can you tell me what's exact rims and tires size? Those fits perfectly. Did you have to make any body adjustments to avoid any rub?
Thanks and congratulation!
😎👍
Wonderful video, for the brakes I could advise you to mount the discs and darts of the nissan almera or sunny n14 1.4 which are ventilated, if you also put the air intakes from the bumper it is obviously even better.
I have a couple of curiosities, how long does it take to do 0-100km/h?
How much did you spend on modifications?
How much would you like to sell it?
Thank you! Yes a brake upgrade might be something for the future ;)
I haven't measured 0-100 yet on the new setup, however 20-70 it accelerates 45% faster than stock, which is pretty mind blowing considering I haven't done any engine modifications except an intake.
The better acceleration times comes from; short ratio gearbox from an 1.0, weigt reduction, smaller wheels and lower rotational mass.
I actually don't know exactly how much I've spent on mods, maybe ~ 3000 euros on mods and 1000 euros on spare parts and maintanence.
Loved this build, used to have a K11 Micra about ten years ago and though it was completely stock I would treat it like a rally car when I lived in Asia. Very nimble and so much fun. Will you consider replacing any of the windows with polycarbonate? There is probably another 15-20kg you could save, and it will come from the top of the vehicle (but I don't know what the rules are in Sweden, for roads and track).
Nice!
I have considered it, but it comes at a cost of practicality.
Fair enough, it's good to have a car that you can use in different situations.@@ejoautovideos
@@Secretlyanothername absolutely👍 I've been using it a lot during the summer and just enjoying it, thus the lack of content on it recently. But I have some stuff in stored for it that I'm saving up for a video. 😁
More on this build
Love the work you did, good job. You would not by any chance want to sell it at the moment? I grew up with k11's and would be happy to do so.
Thank you! No, I don't have any plans on selling it any time soon. I love it to much! 😂
Snyggt. Riktigt rolig busbil. Banan verkar väldigt kul, vilken bana? 😊
Tackar, ja den var sjukt kul att köra! Salabanan körde vi på :)
Wow! What kind of laptimes u get? Compared to gti?
My friend, who is a really good driver drove both cars and he actually got a couple of tenths better times in the Micra! :D
But I think that's mostly due to the fact that the gti had old and worn out tires.
👌🏻🤩👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻👍🏻
Did you adjust the tire pressure during the day? It has a big impact as you most likely know 😅
Is there a way to make the steering a bit sharper? It's like you're driving a truck now. I'm considering a micra turbo. I had a mk11 for a couple of years. Was a fun car
Snyggt bygge. 😊
Nå vil jeg bygge en billig racerbil.
Cool build.
Now I want too build a budget trackcar.
Thank you! So happy to inspire you 😁👍
I dude I follow as a mentor said that expensive tires hide mistakes, and it's better to learn to drive with shitty tires first because they will make a faster driver in the long run, but awesome video dude
Exactly, thank you! :)
Jättebra video mannen, har själv en nissan micra k11 men från 97. hur kom du igenom bess utan baksäte? ja har tagit ut all min interiör förutom baksäta för har alltid trott att man måste bessa bilen med så många säten som den är reggad med
Tackar! Satte dit bältena bara så gick den igenom. 👍
@@ejoautovideos då vet man :D tack för svar!
you have to do baffle in the engine oil pan if you don't want to starve the engine out of oil and blow
It out.
How much horse power does the car have now
Tjena! rekondar du bilar åt kunder för pengar?
Tjena! Tyvärr inte :/
What panhard rod do you use? I'm looking for one but can't find one :(
I actually built my own, check it out here. :)
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Need more negative camber in front also toe out +30min and no more indersteering :) Now you eat tyres too much
6:47....put that back. You want the air to go through the radiator, not flow around it.
Where did u drive?
In a town called Sala, they have a small track there.
Stupid question, but is this car street legal? If I make a car with so many weight reduction mods, can i be sanctioned for taking it out on the street (perhaps on my way to the proper track)?
Not a stupid question at all! :) Yes, this car is road legal and inspected in this state. I don't know where you're from, so I can't speak on your behaf, sorry. I live in Sweden.
What engine is that mate? Is it a 1.8 turbo?
1.4 NA
1.4 NA (CGA3DE)
Out of which car as the micras didn’t come with 1.4, they were 1.2 or 1.0 I believe?
@@TheNorthernmunky stock engine, micras did come with 1.4s from 2000-2002
Awesome thank you, I suddenly feel like buying a micra now
Hur gick det med baksätet? Går den igenom utan dom
Så länge bältena finns på plats! 👍
Kan du göra samma fast med en peugeot 206?
Det hade varit riktigt nice! 👍
Cool! Congratulations!
Cool! Congratulations!
Thank you 😊🙏