I live in Hong Kong and over the last year have been renting a Ginetta G20 to race in the China G20 Cup as part of the Pan Delta Circuit Hero series in Zhuhai, China. There are not that many races a year at Zhuhai so I've been thinking about getting more race weekends elsewhere. The challenges is imported cars have to exported and reimported to move between race tracks a costly and lengthy exercise.
So I set out to buy a Chinese built car after talking to various people I tested a Qingdao Atom.
Ok a few laps later I was sold
It's a Motorsport Spec car so has the Alcons, roll hoop, brake bias valve and probably more.
The Chinese cars are indeed very well built and use the Japanese K20 from the FD2 Integra.
Got a few things planned already:
1) Install the V8 side pods and install radiators - mainly to reduce the cooling distance and improve radiator capacity a little. Its hot out here and it does run warm, not too hot but not far off. This also means I can install a little weight at the front to get it to bite a bit more positive. This is a low priority change.
2) Higher priority is to get rid of the current moulded seat. I don't fit as I am pretty small therefore I rattle about and hold on to the wheel to compensate. Needs to go.
3) Change the ECU, I need more info on whats on there right now but probably switch to Hondata and map up to 240+ where it should be.
4) Geo setup and alignment probably ok but needs checking.
I'll be out racing next season in Circuit Hero at Zhuhai and probably a few other series. Will certainly be out a Guangzhou International Circuit but would like to get to Shanghai and Ordos (Mongolia) but I guess we will see.
The car has form, its been driven out here this season and used to qualify for the Macau GP Roadsport race. Unfortunately it can't run in Macau but thats another story.
