Congrats on your 14.3 sec lap! And a 5th overall. Wow. Thrilling to see this creation on the track beating tuned 911 GT3 RS's, GTS and Lambos. What I love about this channel is superior engineering followed by track time. And a local Ontario resident. Keep up the great content.
Congratulations mate. It is good to see the car starting to perform closer to its real abilities. Looking forward to seeing what sort of times it can do with the extra power next time.
Can you turn up the sound of your voice overs for future videos, the engine noise is much louder so im constantly having to increase and decrease the volume. Also, car looks awesome, I feel like you could pick up some time by picking up the throttle earlier but increasing the amount slower to not get wheel spin. The car seems to want to oversteer into corners which is probably the fastest entry behavior but it doesnt seem to plant and drive out of the corner but might be hard to tell since the pitch and roll looks pretty small. You just seem to be fighting it and waiting on it in the mid corner and exit
I`ve commented multiple times already and said something with the suspension is off. The car bounces around and hes fighting it all the time. There is no mechanical grip, a car this light with such wide and sticky tyres should have much much more mechanical grip.
Congratulations! on your Race Car E55 ASL doing so well, I have been watching since you started the project, well done. Looking forward to more Videos of you at the track with it and the F1 Project! Keep it going and thanks for sharing! Len Rulason Queen Creek, Arizona
U really should stop pushing the synchromesh gear set and go for proper dogbox so u wont need clutch during any gear shifting at all.. apart from moving from stand still and coming to a stop... That way u can keep your automated h pattern system... Or contact hgt gearbox for full proper sequential gearbox (and use your own automated shifting mechanism again) The m4 and 911 were faster on the straights not only because of the power.. also because of how fast their gearshift is even in stock factory setting
Congrats!👏 I have been watching your videos before your even start this monster project and looking now how far it evolved hat off to you! And thanks for all the knowledge shared with us! 🙏
I might be completely wrong, but it sounds like you're coasting before a lot of the corners? And also the car always seems to be one gear to high? Might be way off though.
I think it's time to put professional driver in that thing - I will tell you: 1. how quick it is 2. What is missing in it (proper set up, further development points ?) 3. Setting a benchmark for you to aspire.
Considering how little time you have actually spent on the track getting a chance to iron out the bugs you have made amazing progress with the car. I think also as you get more time driving it and getting used to its quirks you will drive it faster too.
I strongly suggest u to build a professional car racing booth so u can practice at home. There r few great videos on RUclips, it may give u an idea how to build ur own.
Man, that was insane!! And that was running with low power and the track is really bad compared to other ones... lol.... Congrats!!! Looking forward to the next iterations!! :) Btw, you got my car in the shop already?? Lol...
I think it would be a good idea to replace the shifter assembly with a rotary actuator. Could save a bunch of room, weight and maybe improve the response .
This such great viewing. I have enormous respect for you making such a competitive race car. All the videos are really enjoyable. It's so refreshing to see someone so capable yet so unassuming achieve such amazing things. Keep up the outstanding work
Freaking amazing project! Nit picky and low priority af, but won't the charge coolers hurt for air flow so close to wheel wake? At the same time I really can't see a better spot for them. A V-mount would be awfully crowded in the front nose
Congrats on the 1:14! I love the E55 ASL and I can't wait to see it in it's final, finished form. Thank you for taking the time to share all this stuff with us.
Brother we really missed your lovely work a lot, I've noticed recently that the new land videos were removed !!!! I hope everything is okay with you, and waiting for the great projects to be continued shortly, :)
Love the channel man. I also have an interesting suggestion for your XF1 project. If you would like a very different sounding exhaust, look up either 180 crossover headers and check out the 5.3 LS powered E36 or check out 8 to 1 headers. I’m interested to hear what it would sound like on the Mercedes V8 because of it’s unique kind of really beefy sound. Edit: Just realized those header setups might be hard to implement with a twin turbo setup.
I've loved seeing this car come together , so its great to see it on the track! Having done some racing myself, I was a bit concerned that you only had gloves on the first session and also concerned the track marshalls let you compete without them!
Great car, congratulations ! Quick question, why are you doing all that complicated gearshift mecanism with compressor and stuff when you could just get a BMW DCT for exemple and run it with a standalone TCU ? You might even gain weight.
Ah perfect for my Suspension , Steering ... boring titles playlist . This should spark the interest of the Dave Farr UK racing team competing next in June at Dijon apparently !
Congratulations! That thing is insane. You should probably start looking into improving that cage/roll bar design. Right now you don't really have much protection in case a another car ends up on top of you. Second, if you're not using HANS/HNR or similar neck restraint, you should - I couldn't see anchor points on the helmet.
I like your car but don;t like your shifter system. It seems incredibly slow even by manual standards let alone not 100% reliable. Even our street-race cars are nearly instantaneous with the right setup and practice. Enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Just stopping by after concentrating on viewing other content. Very good progress from XF Motorsports. The E55 ASL appears to be doing very well on track with a few tuning issues and mishaps. Probably just another day at the office for what appears to be a young race team, considering the new F1 car concept. I also watched a slightly older video XF posted where you show your custom pistons. I was thinking, as I am interested in also engineering some of my own components using CAD/CAM. The programs appear to have pre determined values for many of the calculations that must be done for these components. You made a point in bringing up simulated piston weight vs actual weight. Considering the density was incorrect for the weight, I was not sure if the density value was going to affect the expansion of the material, though it seems it would. I am not a mechanical engineer, but I have an extensive background in the brand you specialize in. Not relevant to the statement that I have been teaching myself how to use FreeCAD. I have not gotten to the point that I need to use either pre provided, or downloaded values that are a part of Autodesk that I presume you use. Unfortunately If I am correct, it should mean that your clearances for piston crown are not correct. Whether that means they are too tight or too loose us up for you to determine. That is research that I have yet to perform. Though that type of information will be important for my knowledge later.
So I know on motorcycles and probably cars but when they do shifting like this, up shift they don't use the the clutch and the kill ignition. Down shifting needs a clutch. Since you program all this, have you considered doing something like this? It would increase you up shifts dramatically. Not down shift, it would be the same.
XF Motorsports - E55 ASL on the sheet right there at place 5 inbetween all kinds of cool cars. And it's a one-of-a-kind scratch build racecar! That must be the best feeling ever that you can compete with a lot of carbuilders like that and actually best a lot of em!
Nice car, very nice event, but I don't understand the reason of the automated manual?! It shifts slower than normal shifting! Congrats on the build though! Really cool! :)
Such a cool build. I'll start by saying, I'm nowhere near qualified to criticize your design. Isn't the pneumatic shifting part adding a lot of complexity? I remember when you first showed that way back. I thought to myself, really cool, but seems like a something that introduces another possible failure point. I was going to be EVEN MORE impressed if it worked flawlessly.
Just found you guys, this is really sick - I've often daydreamed of building something similar. Is this car classified as open wheel, or does the bodywork fore and aft of the wheels mean it can run alongside these full-body cars?
In 15:04 , was it intentional to start from 2nd gear or it was a mistake? But on my bike (its really smol engine and power, 124cc honda with probably 10-ish hp 😂 ) it was intentional because the stock 1st gear ratio with stock final gear and stuff were sooo high that its really faster when launch the bike straight from 2nd hahahah but Its need a little bit of "half-clutch" from dead stop to get higher rpm so the engine won't stalled and then full clutch release once the bike is moving. Is it the same on your car?
Has anyone tried an air pump to pull a partial vacuum in the crankcase and send the volume teed to the valve covers? It can help the oil return from pooling under the valve covers. The airflow trick worked great in a strange industrial application but we had planned it from the engine build stage so it was easy to visualize what would happen, probably hopefully, and make changes to the oil return paths. I suppose it was little more than a reverse direction PCV system.
dude.. i love u and everything.. i see how smart u are and how much u know about cars,plus i also love mercedes (i got one).. but.. the car u made is a little bit ugly.. and it kinda ruins all the pasion about merc and all car stuf..
This car is awesome - I love following this build since the beginning. The only thing I can think would make this car better is an all motor setup with a single cam. You can probably get the same power out of an LS7, save weight and center the weight more (i.e. - single cam in the center of the engine instead of overhead cams). Prob also good for long term reliability too, but in no way is this a criticism of this car. The E55 TT drivetrain is sick and you've built a truly impressive car! Can't wait for next video!
Pink mark your bolts so you can just look and see if there a problem. This should help you tremendously when at the track and not having much time between runs.
The fact that you built this whole thing from scratch alone is mad impressive, big up man
Congrats on your 14.3 sec lap! And a 5th overall. Wow.
Thrilling to see this creation on the track beating tuned 911 GT3 RS's, GTS and Lambos.
What I love about this channel is superior engineering followed by track time. And a local Ontario resident.
Keep up the great content.
Congratulations mate. It is good to see the car starting to perform closer to its real abilities. Looking forward to seeing what sort of times it can do with the extra power next time.
Thank you! Looking forward to seeing the Alferrari coming together as well
yay, I love that you follow XFM
@@xfmotorsports Me too :D
Both of you guys are awesome!!!
J
Congrats man! incredible to see
Sup deboss
Can you turn up the sound of your voice overs for future videos, the engine noise is much louder so im constantly having to increase and decrease the volume. Also, car looks awesome, I feel like you could pick up some time by picking up the throttle earlier but increasing the amount slower to not get wheel spin. The car seems to want to oversteer into corners which is probably the fastest entry behavior but it doesnt seem to plant and drive out of the corner but might be hard to tell since the pitch and roll looks pretty small. You just seem to be fighting it and waiting on it in the mid corner and exit
Yes. The suspension wasn't setup for these tires yet. Will make a few changes before heading out next time!
I`ve commented multiple times already and said something with the suspension is off. The car bounces around and hes fighting it all the time. There is no mechanical grip, a car this light with such wide and sticky tyres should have much much more mechanical grip.
Congratulations! on your Race Car E55 ASL doing so well, I have been watching since you started the project, well done.
Looking forward to more Videos of you at the track with it and the F1 Project!
Keep it going and thanks for sharing!
Len Rulason
Queen Creek, Arizona
U really should stop pushing the synchromesh gear set and go for proper dogbox so u wont need clutch during any gear shifting at all.. apart from moving from stand still and coming to a stop...
That way u can keep your automated h pattern system...
Or contact hgt gearbox for full proper sequential gearbox (and use your own automated shifting mechanism again)
The m4 and 911 were faster on the straights not only because of the power.. also because of how fast their gearshift is even in stock factory setting
I couldn’t imagine crashing that lol.
Such an awe-inspiring project.
5th place is amazing man! The fact that you're beating m3's, gt3's etc is a major accomplishment. Well done!! Loving the progress and the content!
@Ez Pz okay keyboard warrior, how many race cars have you built in your garage that are capable of beating a world class super car?
@@knobcaller3277 going by the fact he takes mirror selfies, im guessing none lol
Might it have been clutch fluid on the floor of the car and not oil from - since you noted the oil level looked good?
Yeh, possibly a bit of both
The only thing I dont like about your videos is that they end. Could binge these for days but I've watched every one of em already!
whats funny Is the drivers last names, they’re pretty much all asian 🤣
Congrats!👏 I have been watching your videos before your even start this monster project and looking now how far it evolved hat off to you! And thanks for all the knowledge shared with us! 🙏
I might be completely wrong, but it sounds like you're coasting before a lot of the corners? And also the car always seems to be one gear to high? Might be way off though.
Your car and your driving have gotten really well sorted, congratulations! I hope my project turns out even 1/2 as good and I’ll be happy.
I think it's time to put professional driver in that thing - I will tell you: 1. how quick it is 2. What is missing in it (proper set up, further development points ?) 3. Setting a benchmark for you to aspire.
Are you guys ever going to properly finish the E55 manual swap or just leave it with hacked up programming that barely works?
Considering how little time you have actually spent on the track getting a chance to iron out the bugs you have made amazing progress with the car. I think also as you get more time driving it and getting used to its quirks you will drive it faster too.
I strongly suggest u to build a professional car racing booth so u can practice at home. There r few great videos on RUclips, it may give u an idea how to build ur own.
A guy with that accent complimenting your driving is the ultimate achievement
Yeah "Homebuilt Race Car" built by an engineering genius.
This is a seriously underrated channel. Great work man
I love that you keep pushing this M113 platform! Keep up the great work! Patiently awaiting my CD00A swap kit!
Man, that was insane!! And that was running with low power and the track is really bad compared to other ones... lol.... Congrats!!! Looking forward to the next iterations!! :) Btw, you got my car in the shop already?? Lol...
I think it would be a good idea to replace the shifter assembly with a rotary actuator. Could save a bunch of room, weight and maybe improve the response .
This such great viewing. I have enormous respect for you making such a competitive race car. All the videos are really enjoyable.
It's so refreshing to see someone so capable yet so unassuming achieve such amazing things.
Keep up the outstanding work
Freaking amazing project! Nit picky and low priority af, but won't the charge coolers hurt for air flow so close to wheel wake? At the same time I really can't see a better spot for them. A V-mount would be awfully crowded in the front nose
My brother you truly are the Enzo of our era. Im extremely happy to be watching your progress and very happy for much deserved success 👍🏻
I think I'd safety wire all the banjo bolts so that never happens again.
Agreed. Loktite is also good.......
I really enjoy your coverage of the events and your car. Keeping it honest. Good luck with the future projects, I will be following for sure.
I noticed you got a hacker to help with the manual swap. I was wondering if I could rent him for deleting tele-aid. Please let me know.
Need this deleted in my Benz as well
the hacker sits shotgun permanently autoblip short shifting haha.
Congrats on the 1:14! I love the E55 ASL and I can't wait to see it in it's final, finished form. Thank you for taking the time to share all this stuff with us.
sheesh that car is no slouch. it can handle full blown race cars
Congrats, your emotion is super! And the best part is that this is your DIY car. Very nice.
Brother we really missed your lovely work a lot, I've noticed recently that the new land videos were removed !!!! I hope everything is okay with you, and waiting for the great projects to be continued shortly, :)
subscribed!! learnt a lot about cars and it was really fun to watch!
Love the channel man. I also have an interesting suggestion for your XF1 project. If you would like a very different sounding exhaust, look up either 180 crossover headers and check out the 5.3 LS powered E36 or check out 8 to 1 headers. I’m interested to hear what it would sound like on the Mercedes V8 because of it’s unique kind of really beefy sound.
Edit: Just realized those header setups might be hard to implement with a twin turbo setup.
Sent here by Adriel 🤩
Absolutely Awesome! Love the Car! Love your DriveTrain!!! THE Only Way This Car Could be better is Mid-Engine, Baby-Zonda!!!
Very cool. Can’t wait to see the xf1. You may want to start looking for tire sponsors.
wow.. I remember seeing this car when you first started welding the chassis together. So awesome to see it running!
I've loved seeing this car come together , so its great to see it on the track! Having done some racing myself, I was a bit concerned that you only had gloves on the first session and also concerned the track marshalls let you compete without them!
I've been watching this built right from the starting and now watching this going on track makes it all worth it
Great car, congratulations ! Quick question, why are you doing all that complicated gearshift mecanism with compressor and stuff when you could just get a BMW DCT for exemple and run it with a standalone TCU ? You might even gain weight.
Ah perfect for my Suspension , Steering ... boring titles playlist . This should spark the interest of the Dave Farr UK racing team competing next in June at Dijon apparently !
That engine noise 😍
Scary FAST
Congratulations! That thing is insane.
You should probably start looking into improving that cage/roll bar design. Right now you don't really have much protection in case a another car ends up on top of you. Second, if you're not using HANS/HNR or similar neck restraint, you should - I couldn't see anchor points on the helmet.
What aftermarket ecu will be used for m275 mercedes v12? Will the stock coil packs be substituted ? Will the firing order be seqencial?
I like your car but don;t like your shifter system. It seems incredibly slow even by manual standards let alone not 100% reliable. Even our street-race cars are nearly instantaneous with the right setup and practice. Enjoy your videos. Thanks.
Just stopping by after concentrating on viewing other content. Very good progress from XF Motorsports. The E55 ASL appears to be doing very well on track with a few tuning issues and mishaps. Probably just another day at the office for what appears to be a young race team, considering the new F1 car concept.
I also watched a slightly older video XF posted where you show your custom pistons.
I was thinking, as I am interested in also engineering some of my own components using CAD/CAM. The programs appear to have pre determined values for many of the calculations that must be done for these components.
You made a point in bringing up simulated piston weight vs actual weight. Considering the density was incorrect for the weight, I was not sure if the density value was going to affect the expansion of the material, though it seems it would.
I am not a mechanical engineer, but I have an extensive background in the brand you specialize in. Not relevant to the statement that I have been teaching myself how to use FreeCAD. I have not gotten to the point that I need to use either pre provided, or downloaded values that are a part of Autodesk that I presume you use.
Unfortunately If I am correct, it should mean that your clearances for piston crown are not correct. Whether that means they are too tight or too loose us up for you to determine. That is research that I have yet to perform. Though that type of information will be important for my knowledge later.
So I know on motorcycles and probably cars but when they do shifting like this, up shift they don't use the the clutch and the kill ignition. Down shifting needs a clutch. Since you program all this, have you considered doing something like this? It would increase you up shifts dramatically. Not down shift, it would be the same.
XF Motorsports - E55 ASL on the sheet right there at place 5 inbetween all kinds of cool cars. And it's a one-of-a-kind scratch build racecar! That must be the best feeling ever that you can compete with a lot of carbuilders like that and actually best a lot of em!
Looking EVO lap time on the top, its sad Mitsubishi stopped manufacturing EVO.
Nice car, very nice event, but I don't understand the reason of the automated manual?! It shifts slower than normal shifting! Congrats on the build though! Really cool! :)
👍 *EXTRAORDINARY* video Thank you!🕊️🙏🙏
Such a cool build. I'll start by saying, I'm nowhere near qualified to criticize your design. Isn't the pneumatic shifting part adding a lot of complexity? I remember when you first showed that way back. I thought to myself, really cool, but seems like a something that introduces another possible failure point. I was going to be EVEN MORE impressed if it worked flawlessly.
Just found you guys, this is really sick - I've often daydreamed of building something similar. Is this car classified as open wheel, or does the bodywork fore and aft of the wheels mean it can run alongside these full-body cars?
In 15:04 , was it intentional to start from 2nd gear or it was a mistake?
But on my bike (its really smol engine and power, 124cc honda with probably 10-ish hp 😂 ) it was intentional because the stock 1st gear ratio with stock final gear and stuff were sooo high that its really faster when launch the bike straight from 2nd hahahah but Its need a little bit of "half-clutch" from dead stop to get higher rpm so the engine won't stalled and then full clutch release once the bike is moving. Is it the same on your car?
Has anyone tried an air pump to pull a partial vacuum in the crankcase and send the volume teed to the valve covers? It can help the oil return from pooling under the valve covers. The airflow trick worked great in a strange industrial application but we had planned it from the engine build stage so it was easy to visualize what would happen, probably hopefully, and make changes to the oil return paths. I suppose it was little more than a reverse direction PCV system.
Dude, always wear racing gloves when on the track. Also, have you considered adding build in jacks? Cool car though ;-)
Hey why don’t you give the e55 asl abs, traction control and active suspension like the fw15c and freevalve.
dude.. i love u and everything..
i see how smart u are and how much u know about cars,plus i also love mercedes (i got one)..
but..
the car u made is a little bit ugly.. and it kinda ruins all the pasion about merc and all car stuf..
getting gloves?
This car is awesome - I love following this build since the beginning. The only thing I can think would make this car better is an all motor setup with a single cam. You can probably get the same power out of an LS7, save weight and center the weight more (i.e. - single cam in the center of the engine instead of overhead cams). Prob also good for long term reliability too, but in no way is this a criticism of this car. The E55 TT drivetrain is sick and you've built a truly impressive car! Can't wait for next video!
Awesome project! You need panic-handles for the passenger though 😅
Pink mark your bolts so you can just look and see if there a problem. This should help you tremendously when at the track and not having much time between runs.
Even though you said you didn't have any plans to actually make these into production. I will still order one in the coming years ;)
Still comparing your tube chassis dedicated racing car to production car stuff huh?
Springs seem a bit firm, Shock settings and roll bars look ok. Softer spring rates probably worth at least a second on that track.
I really enjoyed this video. The pneumatic shifter is amazing.
Good job, but it seems like you could make up time on your braking zones. Looks like you are off the gas waaaay too soon.
That's one hell of the modified m113k ASL ever! Respect 🫡
This is a very cool car and channel; however, get some nomex gloves. Also, the guy in shorts riding with you is nuts
Seems like you just need better baffling for the catch can so it won't push so much oil out in the first place.
any noticeable pressure or heat differences due to the alignment being off?
You're spending way, way, waaaaaay too much time below the powerband.
I'd be willing to bet if he had some high-quality tires on his custom home-built that he might have won that race.
With the engine pushing that much horsepower do you anticipate having to tear it down again and "overhaul" it soon?
Nice drive, extra job but I think the gear shifting is stil very slow.
great track tool..for sure a more rigid thought out front wing will add better front down force..
What's up with that 2002? Is it yours or a customer car? What's the plan for it?
Why you don’t consider using the bmw dct transmission faster and precise
That pneumatic shifting is slow and not reliable...
There is a lot of things to say but i'm gonna say one thing: That engine sound is unbelieveable.
Would love to see you playing around with OM606 or the M104 for projects
That would be amazing I feel like XF is the only RUclipsr that can expand the mercedes community to greater heights in Canada and US
Awesome car :*
XF1 weight/power ratio like a F1 ? :D
bro you made us [proud. india, bangladesh where ever you from , i pray for you,.
You definitely need faster shifts. You are losing a lot of time and boost on shifts.
Brilliant car and you guys are also Brilliant
Curious why don't you have just the driver to reduce weight?
yes, good job hitting your target time.
Bravo to the guy in the passenger seat... Wearing shorts.
Wtf
Does it feel like the shifting action is a bit slow or am I imagining things?
Slow gear changes and a fraidy cat in the braking zone.
I wish my mechanic was even half as good as this guy.
What happened to this Chanel and the owner
1 month and you cant even give us an update or something
Would you ever play with the om648
Awesome you need to mount your incar cam to the car