Latest News / Blog - Archive Jan-April 2009
Carbonetic join forces with JRM’s Group N Evo X rally car
With the recent release of the Carbonetic Blade clutch, Carbonetic really wanted to see under what conditions the clutch would take and also excel at.
Carbonetic had the opportunity to work with JRM/Ralliart Evo X and this was something that could not be turned down.
The Evo X is running a standard Carbonetic 4 paddle Blade clutch with an up rated Ralliart cover plate.
On March the 28th, the team had their first outing at the MSA British rallying championship, proved a very promising start for them; David Bogie brought the car home in 5th place.
And importantly for us, the new Blade clutch was loved by the drivers and the team; it performed faultlessly through the first round. For a Clutch that was only going to be used for a few events, we are pleased to see its still being used 800km later.
We asked the team if they could measure the wear of the clutch and to our surprise only 0.1 mm wear had taken place, which is great when you are putting way more than 450 ft lb of torque through it.
For further information on the team please go to http://www.lancerregister.com/showthread.php?p=2624500
Also keep an eye out for further developments with the Carbonetic and the JRM Evo X
DMS Racing DC2 round 1 & 2 Nippon Challenge Series
Some news from one of the teams we sponsor, DMS racing had a great result in round 1&2 in the Nippon Challenge race series.
After a depressing year in 2008 with engine reliability problems with the B20 engine, Hybrid racing and DMF Performance decide to use a K20 in their JDM DC2.
They decided to rebuild the car from scratch again from new paint work, engine, roll cage, chassis upgrade with full K20 conversion, they started their new project in mid February our car was completed within 2 weeks. With our new engine from DMF performance fitted and mapped by Artech tuning. The engine was pushing 242bhp and after a testing session at Brands hatch they are very happy with the new car.
So the first race event is up, we got to the track on Friday afternoon with everything setup on the track and we settle down for the night ready for the battle on Saturday.
For further information on the race, please go to http://www.dmsracingltd.co.uk/news/nippon-challenge-race-1-2-snetterton-race-report/2009/04/05
Carbonetic sponsored but they are running the Carbonetic 1.5 way Carbon LSD and they are also running the Carbonetic Twin plate clutch.
I asked Dixon, who is the driver of the car to comment on the Carbonetic LSD and what his own personal thoughts were, this is what he had to say:
"The different between the Carbonetic diff and the Kazz diff is the Carbonetic diff is more progressive. The Kazz metal plate was good but way too aggressive, is too on/off and you have to be more careful with the throttle during the corner, with the Carbonetic one I can use the throttle to control the backend movement to get the car slide into the corner. Specially in high speed corner, the front end will just pull into the apex as soon as I hit the throttle and in low speed they don't make noise like the normal metal plate diff."
Formula D - Long Beach Season opener
April 16th, 2009
Formula Drift has started off. Here are some pics from 1st Round, Long Beach!!!
CARBONETIC REAR LSD: ACNRA109130
Driver: Carl Rydquist
Team: The City Tire / Kallusive Clothing
Extract from Carl’s blog: Complete article:“Thanks to everyone coming out to cheer on, great thanks to City Tire who never fails to deliver, everyone at Kallusive Clothing (your design team worked soo hard with the amazing livery on the car), Hankook for awesome rubber, Carbonetic for a diff that really makes a difference, Technosquare for tons of power (and we still have more to crank out), South Gate Collision for keeping our backs if things go wrong + Attic, Zeal, Endless. Also a note of appreciation to all FD and Long Beach event staff for a really good event. I haven’t had fun like this in a long time.
See you soon and don’t hesitate to stop by at City Tire for the latest gossip.
Cheers!
Carl”
http://blog.carlrydquist.com/2009/04/tribute-to-grassroots.html
http://www.kallusive.com/
http://www.citytireonline.com/news/
And also, Mr. Eric O’Sullivan the Dublin-based driver who is supported by CARBONETIC UK was also at Long Beach!!!! Unfortunately, CARBONETIC UK supported AE86 is still being built and will compete in Europe… but keep your eyes on him!!!! http://ericosullivan.com/wordpress/
Installation Video for VQ35HR
As we mentioned before, the clutch for VQ35HR is already available in Japan. In the USA they are waiting for it to be released. In the meantime you can see the installation video.
Also it may provide an helpful insight into how a Carbonetic clutch is installed.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EUnxtG0ClhE&feature=channel_page
Blade Clutch Featured in Banzai Magazine
Click here to read Banzai's article http://www.banzaimagazine.com/newsitem.asp?newsID=37
Keep an eye out on further magazine features on our new Blade clutch!
News Alert! Carbonetic UK Sponsors Eric O’Sullivan for 2009 season
Eric O’Sullivan is one of Europe’s top drifters, culminating his invitation to the first Red Bull Drifting World Championships’ event in Long beach. This year is set to be another top year for the Dublin-based driver. After two extremely successful years in his AE86 Corolla the time has come to replace and upgrade many of the components. With another 100BHP being extracted from the Honda engine, many parts needed up grading to cope with the power hike, the first of which is the clutch assembly.
Carbonetic are delighted to be sponsoring Eric for the 2009 season and will be following his progress and giving their full support
Eric was asked how he felt about being sponsored by Carbonetic and this is what he had to say. “I am delighted to have Carbonetic on board as a new sponsor to the team and I am confident that with its extensive knowledge of these extraordinary clutches I will have many more trouble-free and successful seasons in the Corolla.
Eric’s Corolla is using a Carbonetic Pro-spec single plate clutch with a 1600KG pressure plate, these clutches can hold 520PS.
Good luck for the 2009 Season!
Meguiars Evo has the New Blade Clutch Fitted!
News about the Blade clutch has been floating around for some time now, the good news is that the release date is a approaching very quickly.
Carbonetic recently sponsored Lee Smith’s Meguiars Mitsubishi Evo to run a production version of the Blade clutch.
His car is the first Evo in the UK to be running the new blade clutch!
As soon as the car is back together and on the road I will give you further in depth report.
For the time being here are some pictures of the install.
Tokyo Auto Salon 2009
According to our man in Japan, the total attendance of Tokyo Auto Salon 2009 was more than 2008.
We found Tein over there!
It seems that Exhibitors are more focused on the decorative products or custom parts at Tokyo Auto Salon. In this recession, Tokyo Auto Salon was very lively still!
And a great news from Japan!
Both Clutch and LSD for VQ37VJR are now on sale in Japan!!! Will keep updating the status in UK and European market!
Keep your eyes open.
Happy Belated New Year!
Everyone at Carbonetic hope you’re all well and had very nice break over the Christmas Season. And I hope we all have a successful 2009 season!
We would like to pause briefly to thank you for your past patronage, and look forward to your continued business with CARBONETIC in the future.
Exciting news from Japan for the first CARBONETIC news in 2009. The carbon clutch for VQ35HR 6MT is now on sale in Japan! We will keep you updated with the release date in the UK and Europe.
And also as you may know, Front LSD for a new GT-R and Evo-X are also sold in Japan. These will hopefully be on sale in the UK and Europe very, very soon.
