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JNRacing put the 5EXi-R STRAIGHT!!!

Jon@JNRacing.co.uk 1 Feb 2007, 3:15pm
Dear All,

As some of you may be aware Nick & I are using a Marlin 5EXi-R to race in 2008/2009. If you were one of the lucky people to view my personal web page, JNRacing.bebo.com, then you would have seen that our 5EXi-R is a little different to the normal road going version. One main difference is that we have a race chassis so some things are in different places and fitted in different ways. The major difference with our car (without saying too much at this stage) is the location of the engine.
We have moved it back by a small margin to allow us to run straight drive shafts. The Main reason for doing all this extra work and spending hours in the cold garage is so that we can run a complete Honda Civic Type R power plant all the way to the hubs. This helps on cost, utilizes more of the Honda parts and saves having to modify drive shafts.

Our car is currently at Marlin having the engine wired in and body fitted and should hopefully be back with us mid to end of March. Once we have it back with us our website will be updated with pictures of the modifications for you all to see.

Marlin may look into reviewing the current location of the engine on the road version sometime in the future and anybody interested should contact Terry at Marlin direct.

Cheers

Jon
[url]www.JNRacing.co.uk[/url]
craig 1 Feb 2007, 3:38pm
I thought they looked like honda shafts!

Will the rear clam defo fit over the engine? and where have you put the exhaust
Jon@JNRacing.co.uk 1 Feb 2007, 3:49pm
Thats because they were, only one or two people could started asking about it most didn't notice. Mark at marlin thinks it will, but will be tight, the engine is as low as it can go, as far forward as it can be (to have the shafts straight) if not we will just play with it.

The Exhaust is going to be made like the road version but the back frame that bolts onto the road versions is welded onto ours, so the manifold will come over the top of that and the run between the two rear panel mounts (stupid bits sticking out) and then jsut flow round and out on the near side, our silencer is were the CAT is on the road version, and just before it goes up to the 180 bend it will exit, sadly for the road you need a CAT (well for the MOT anyway) but the exhaust is quite minor at the moment