News — Excel Cup

Welding out the LCA mounts is allowed in the rules due to it being a weak and common failure point on the Hyundai Excels. The front LCA mounts with a bracket that that sort of saddles the LCA to the chassis with a through bolt, a majority of the weight and load hangs out in front of the pick up. Over time the seems and mounts pull apart especially if your heavy on the curbs (cough - turn 7 Wanneroo cough cough).

When these do pull apart or the mounts warp and you can end up chasing your tail with wheel alignments as the LCA can flex and move under load. Wheel alignment and set up makes a massive difference in a control category like the Excel Cup, so anything to control and keep your alignment constant can help get you further up the pack.

Quick update from the WA Sporting Car Club August racing meeting at Barbagallo race way, we had local Karter Anthony Jewell drive the Luxe Performance Excel.  At 15 this was Anthony's first circuit race meeting, he was the youngest on the grid of 24 cars - he qualified well, keep the car clean and was fast. Anthony way exceeding any expectations and looking forward to having him back in the car. Qualifying we got into P12 out of 24 with  Making up a spot in race 1 finishing in 11th. Race 2 was A split reverse grid and we started...