Popular Post Rhyscar Posted June 12, 2014 Popular Post Share Posted June 12, 2014 So thought I'd put something up here. Bought this car about 8months ago with a friend with the intention to get into rallying a oldschool RWD car for cheap and having some fun (the way they used to with mo's a beer for lunch) as we both have circuit cars as well and came to the conclusion neither of us could handle ever selling our POS circuit cars to fund a rally car. We are planning to do the Daybreaker Rally in 2014, there is a clause in the rules that still state that the co-driver can drive some of the stages if they want. So we are doing stage-for-stage driving the car. Neither of us have any rally driving experience, only rally experience is servicing stupidly custom hayabusa starlets so doubt that'll be much use to us... so will be an interesting learning curve considering neither of us can read notes so will just do the rally blind at this stage. Got the car cheap from down south where it had been running for a number of years. Mechanically pretty sound few bits and pieces we have had to sort but all in all its pretty good. Car just needed a birthday really. A lot of things were done really hory and the interior was a sight to behold.. A bit of TLC is what it needed. It has a COD (certificate of description) which means we can run legitimately in the classic class and also gives the car a bit more value. As we got the car got rid of the racetech 100's that neither of us could fit our fat arses into and mounted the seats from my circuit car. only just fits in there theres a 10mm gap between the seats and each seat just clears the door on the outside of the car. This is what we are aiming for the car to look like by daybreaker; took it for a skid at the farm to test it all out. Goes bloody well! the 4K in it is grumpy as hell got a massive cam, dellortos and revs out over 8K so were pretty happy with that. Has a AE86 diff (TRD plate diff), gearbox and front struts with Bilstein shocks all round so handled it all really well. Was super tail happy so after this we put it on the alignment machine; turns out it was toeing out by 8mm.. nothing a angle grinder and welder can't solve! So the strip down begun, just to tidy up everything as there were bits of rust, birdshit welding and general horiness in quite a few places. our aim was to tidy up the inside and do everything right. As well as sort out the crunchy synchro's in the gearbox which hindered us while testing Some of the good bits.. grp 4 inserts in the front Some of the shit, starting to strip the whole interior of paint ready for a full respray (check out how dented the floor is - this has been a rally car for quite a while!) Tidying up the struts Jase (ekezetec) made me some new footplates New parcel tray to tidy it up So we had a bit of drama with this. We intended to use my paint I used ont he 101 and it just turned to shit. Apprentice painter painted it for us and did a shit job turned out rough and not glossy at all and was never going to cut it. So got some white CV and did it again with a mate Rob at the gun. Damn he's good at pretty much everything and only wanted a 24 box of export for it which we pretty much drank while he painted... what a GC! Had to spend a lot of extra time re-prepping it again which sucked but at least its done properly. All masked up and ready to go for round 2. Rob at work So much glossier than 1st time round. Main thing was it had to be glossy so dust can be cleaned out properly after every rally. Finished result - really happy with how it turned out! New battery mount welded in and nice straps made. Also ran new cables and put a nice sheath over the outer to keep it all looking tidy Toolbox has been restored taking it right back to bare metal and repainted/remounted using some tidy go-kart washers. Also painted the fuel tank while it was out to tidy it up Nick spent heaps of time cleaning up the rear trims. We used expanding foam up the pillars to try and seal the dust out of the cabin. hopefully this will work well along with our new door seals - got a full set of brand rubbers from thailand so that will make everything seal really well hopefully. Dash has been fully re-coed. Looks 10000x better than it did before. Just looking for a small black retro looking tacho to run now so we can get rid of the monster tacho it currently has.. Dash mostly back together now just need to replace the indicator-lamp-oil-light with a nice little LED unit and mount in the new carbon panel. Also had the top panels of the dash repainted and flocked, looks super tidy and definately worth the money to do it properly! Waiting for the foot plates, seat mounts and isolator switch bracket to return from anodising this week to finish off our nice shiny bits and pieces.. Will post more pics when they arrive. Got new Flywheel bolts for it and machined the flywheel properly so the new TRD close ratio box can go in this weekend hopefully. Also have decided to make a new driveshaft. The output of the TRD box has a ae86 spline which we had to change, Nick had a ae86 driveshaft sitting there so thought we may as well use that! just need to shorten by a few mm and weld back together. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted June 12, 2014 Author Share Posted June 12, 2014 Finished Result; Note the attention to detail on the handbrake/kill switch mount. I know Nick is quite proud of that one.. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 21, 2014 Author Share Posted July 21, 2014 All back together now. Finishing details take forever and cost the most! Has come together very nicely though everything looks awesome and works well. Dash complete, wiring all sorted, windows and doors back on and car runs. Starter motor/alternator wiring was pretty frustrating there just isn't any room! plenty of heat shield and shrink wrap to make sure it lasts the distance and we never have to take it out again. Is running a massive starter off a 5K van or something so that doesn't help. Did a final spanner check and got the basics of the graphics done. Also spent an evening fitting out the safety items and padding the rollcage. Took it out for a shakedown on the backtrack at Manfield last weekend to make sure nothing will fall off. Was more of a motokhana/autocross setup which didn't really suit the rally tyres + suspension but it was still good to throw it sideways. tried to use as much grass as possible to make it more interesting/do some skids a couple old toyotas, worlds apart Lunch is always the most important part of any motor racing event - the way it should be. parked up under the toyota sign for nostalgia's sake. We have entered our first rally for next weekend. It is a clubmans rally in Tauranga for novice drivers which describes us to a tee! 80km of stages should be a good introduction and should be a blast. Still plenty more things to get sorted with the car; Diff has a leak, need catch can sorted, hole in tunnel to cover, mudflaps to make + attach... the list goes on but we will make it. Most importantly I need to sit my rally license and get the authority card back from MSNZ! Will all be worth it when we can throw some stones around - hoping to have some vid of the 4K going strong on the gravel. 7 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 Thanks to Brett for the pic 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 23, 2014 Author Share Posted July 23, 2014 It's the finishing details that take the most amount of effort. Been a big week but making good progress Mounted new oldschool looking tachometer. Definitely going to be seeing 8k frequently!! Gear lever boot all sorted. Looks nice and tidy and keeps the wind on the outside! New catch can and breather hoses I slapped together tonight Spare tyre mounted - nick did a super nice job with this one Restored toolbox is a perfect place for the tow rope! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rhyscar Posted July 28, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 28, 2014 So on the weekend we hauled this car up to the tauranga clubmans rally. Both of us having never competed in any gravel events and not having given the car a good run, we thought it would be a good chance to do a lot of learning before daybreaker as the rally was aimed at novices. Hauled the car up on sat. Did documentation and didn't have to do scrutineering luckily as we got it scrutineered before the back track day last weekend. They had a display of the cars etc so we had it parked up. Seeded 49 out of 50. Yeah!! Was a very cold and frosty morning so plenty to be careful about. Nick jumped in the drivers seat for stage 1 which was a real nice road and got up to speed quickly getting used to the car and me getting used to reading the road book notes. Stage 2 we switched driving. Had an issue on start line with no battery/starter motor. Roll started it and got into the stage. Was a fast flowing stage which suited me perfectly and slowly got into the groove. Within the first two stages we had encountered everything from the novice drivers briefing/rally license test. Came across so many crashes, one which happened just in front of us so we had to stop and make sure they were ok etc. Some of the places where people were crashing was just stupid, obviously just pushing way too hard. We didn't have that problem at our pace! Servicing after stage 2. Alternator wiring plug had come loose. Cable tie to the rescue and we had charge back in the battery. So just kept it running for the rest of the day. About 75% through stage 3 it started losing power, having to use 3rd gear to go up a slight hill. Pushed on through though. Stage 4 was very open and fast but missing was getting worse, not being able to go over 80kmh in stage. Got some sweet pics of no power skids in stage 4 Struggled with losing power in stage 5 and 6 until about half way through it came to a stop. Lost all compression essentially. Compression test showed up all except #2 having no compression and the spark plugs had melted. The only way to finish the day; All up it was an awesome experience. We learnt heaps about the time cards, what to do in every situatio and got a handle for the car. Also we were both happy with both of our driving and road reading. The suspension is awesome and has so much grip so can't wait the to get the engine rebuilt and take on daybreaker! Discussion;//oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/43936-rhyscars-ke20-rally-car/#entry1339137 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 31, 2014 Author Share Posted July 31, 2014 Good solution for not having a Terratrip/monit. Downloaded free app that had gps speedo and trip meter. Had another app that was a clock set to rally time. Co driver could just operate the touch screen dash. Worked really well and was accurate to within .1-.2km over a 15km stage or so. Some cool stuff in the engine as nick pulled it down. Thought it would be pretty simple but it has had some serious work done with forged pistons, very well ported head, nicely lightened crank etc etc Pity all the pistons are stuffed and there is a crack in the head. Apparently we can weld the head but are going to need to find more pistons. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted August 17, 2014 Author Share Posted August 17, 2014 So we spent yesterday building this motor. In continuing tradition, plenty of alcohol was consumed throughout the day and everything took twice as long as it should of as we were going through and double or triple checking everything but at least we know it's right! Exibit A: carbs So these bad boys may have been part of what leaned it out. So they are off to roskilda next week to get checked out and setup for running in this motor. Exibit B: new pistons! Got new block and pistons from Brad. They are 10thou oversized Arias pistons. Fitted up with the standard rods and the crank from the old engine. Exibit C: precision ring grinding Had to get 20thou oversized rings and grind them down to fit. Took some time with a broken file.. haha Exibit D: head job Graham from B&H in palmy had a look at the head for us and deemed it was good enough to use again. Have him the head to find some valves and sort it out. Did an awesome job, skimmed the head and the block, turns out the head is from a 5k. Graham did 2mm oversized intake and 1 mm oversized exhaust valves and Did a 3 angle valve grind also. Roskilda wanted to know compression ratio for the carb setup so we put the head on the level bench, and measured water into it until it was to the top. Worked out the compression chamber to be 17.5 cc. Exibit E: maths hurts my brain Compression worked out to be 12.9:1 which is relatively high. Need to make sure everything is right or else we will have built another grenade. Also turns out we are close to 1400cc which actually works out alright as class A rules have changed to include 1400s. One of our concerns was with the height of the pistons coming right to the top of the block deck, 12 mm lift on the cam and naff all compression chamber, Google provided us with a recipe for playdough to measure valve clearance. Exibit F: playdough making Turns out we have just on the manufacturers specs for clearance after a putting the head on and off about 5 times. At first we had some slight contact but after redoing the cam timing and checking it again and again we got it right. Quite a cool double timing chain and sprockets By the end of the night things were getting a bit blurry but at least we got it together and done right. Will piece the rest of it together over the next week and get it back in the car to run in and get tuned by Roskilda. Going through and replacing the fuel pump and regulator with good quality stuff also as well a s rewiring the charging system. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted September 17, 2014 Author Share Posted September 17, 2014 Daybreaker just around the corner. So it turns out we did an ok job of building the engine drunk as anything. Ended up essentially completely rebuilding the carbs. Got it running to run engine in and the fuel pump gave up. Also replaced the reg with a holley one, now we have mint fuel pressure all the time. Big thanks to Roskilda autos for the time spent on the Dyno and rebuilding the carbs and did a good job. Made some (not much) horses approx 87hp which wasn't altogether bad. Has heaps of torque for a 1300 and pulls through the gears well with the TRD ratios Apparently plenty more in it with more timing but goal is to keep it reliable and not have to rebuild the engine every year.. Found one of the wedges which hold the rear calipers in place was missing also so desperately in need of some ae86 rear calipers even if it's only to borrow for the daybreaker. Having a look at down at oldschool today hopefully. Just tidying up the final bits and pieces of wiring and having the alternator re kitted to make sure it can handle running the 4x hella spotlights we'll need for the first two stages (4am start Woohoo) 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rhyscar Posted September 30, 2014 Author Popular Post Share Posted September 30, 2014 The Story of Daybreaker 2014 This is the one event which we essentially bought the car to compete in and finish after being involved in it for a while and loving the local manawatu roads. There was plenty of preparation coming up to the event, on wednesday night I took the car for a few drives and tried out the lights. After I got back and put it in the shed we had an issue with the charge light coming on. Sometimes it would be charging at 13.8V and others it wouldn't be charging. Since this was a freshly rebuilt alternator a week prior (juice it up to 85A to run the lights) after a bit of faffing around we dropped it back at the auto sparkies. There was some fault with the stator? apparently and the guy was a GC so put a brand new alternator on it for us for a box of piss. So anyway Hella Flash lights mounted (110% pun intended) We were seeded 40th as we didn't even finish our first rally and had engine problems the whole time. about half way through the first stage we caught the car in front and passed them in a flurry of style (i.e. completely sideways and throwing stones errywhere) The sun was just coming up at this time but there were a number of enclosed areas of the road through pine trees etc so we kept the lights running... approx 2km from the finish of the stage we had a wee bit of an electrical fire caused by the alternator charge wire glowing red hot from running the lights. It was an old wire and not the biggest so may have been overloaded or could have had a few cores broken etc. Got towed to the end of the stage where we called the service crew to come give us a hand. Found a friendly farmer who had a box full of wiring including some amp wiring. Grabbed this off him and Nick set about rewiring the alternator wiring on the side of the road. Within an hour or so we had the C*^t going again (with lights removed). We are lucky it didn't cause any more damage or catch the seat on fire (was very close) and we had good extinguishers on hand. Managed to rejoin the rally at stage 5 where we settled into the groove and took things easy. Stage 6 was a bitch of a road, real tight and twisty with massive drop offs and unpredictable surface. Nick did a good job making it through that one without incident. Stage 7 was 42km long but quite a good bit of road. Lots of very slippery places though, coming across 2 or 3 understeer-into-fence cars in the first 15km or so. Took things easy and kept a good pace, catching the BMW in front about 2/3rds of the way through. Was awesome seeing some OS'ers cheering us on in there and the always-looming Brett taking pics and egging us on to do a bigger skid. Unfortunately it didn't always come off.. Stage 8 was fairly uneventful from memory, just settled into the pace. Stage 9 was a mint bit of road, I was back in the drivers seat and made some good clean pace, catching the BMW in front again by the end of the 7km stage. Ended up placing 28th for this stage (our highest time of the day) beating a couple of BDA's surpisingly. It was a fast flat out stage which the mighty 4K struggles with a bit with two fat bastards in the car.. Stage 10 was a cool bit of road and Nick had really good pace Stage 11 was Ridge road. Quite a famous daybreaker stage that we always heard about. Didn't quite know what to expect but was good fun. Wasn't as tight and twisty as some of the other stages but was definately challenging - getting it wrong had pretty big consequences at times. So for this stage we started in front of the offending BMW from stage 7 & 9, placing us behind a WRX which we thought we wouldn't (shouldn't) catch in our 1300... about 5km into the 24km stage we came across his dust which was heavy and very difficult to see through. Slowed down a few times to wait for it to clear then caught up again. After a few times decided to just charge on up through the dust and get past. This was no problem but he obviously wasn't paying attention to his rallysafe saying that we were right behind him. Followed him like this for some 5mins before deciding to use some our IB cup winter series skills and give him the Tap and run. After this I was fairly furious and the driving was terrible, running wide everywhere, clipping a fence with a massive dropoff and generally just driving loose as anything. Made it to the end though in good time and made the trip back to palmy for the official finish. Love tap of fence; WRX shaped bumpering dent.. Had a wee issue with the oil cap coming off (my fault) not far from the official finish, rust-coating the inside of the engine bay for us.. that was nice. Fire extinguisher powder makes a bloody mess! Got to thank all these guys for getting behind us and helping us with the little things to get to daybreaker after blowing the engine at Tauranga. Every little bit helps! - Mag and Turbo Palmerston North - Wright Metals - Tigpro Engineering - Roskilda Autos (dyno time) - Broadway Auto Electrical (last minute fresh alternator) Here is a selection of air guitar action shots from Brett @ Pitcrew design and Nick's mum And finally, this pretty much sums up the event for us (taken after stage 11) Car is going in the shed and being ignored for some time now as I get into my ae101, go on holiday and relax a bit and Nick gets into his property and perhaps looks at the 1200 (don't hold your breath). Will aim to do a few gravelsprints around manawatu and hamilton area (girlfriend lives in Hamiltron so up there regularly) List of stuff to fix; - Guard - Bumper - horrible mess everywhere - Replace amp wiring with fit-for-purpose wiring - Get it retuned to get rid of the richness (averaged approx 30-40L/100km) during touring and stages, hopefully eliminating the massive hole in the power delivery between 3000-4500rpm and making it possible to get off the line without stalling it.. Thanks to everyone who came out and supported us, got involved and made it a fun day for us. 16 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted January 25, 2015 Author Share Posted January 25, 2015 Managed to fix (mostly) the wiring issue that hampered us at daybreaker. Which reminds me I still need to machine an isolating post... This gives you an idea of how tight/close the extractors/start motor/alternator are. Have taken the wiring around inner guard with a new grommet and in behind the alternator in a hope of having less heat this way. Learnt a few interesting things about rating of automotive wire as well which no doubt explains the melt down.. Had a bit of an issue before xmas. car was performing some ceremonious drinking voodoo dance around the clothes line. Managed to spit the alternator/water pump belt and get awfully hot. It seems the pistons grew by 1mm and the valves grew by 1mm, evaporating our 2mm of piston-valve clearance.. bent all the exhaust valves but luckily no other damage so new valves have been installed and head gasket is on its way from Japan (not overnight unfortunately) Currently investigating how we can quicken up the steering. Don't want to install a quickner as then it will require a cert so we are thinking about making new gears for the steering box. has anyone had any experience with doing this before? We've got to imporve on the 4 turns lock-lock we currently have its easy to end up with an extra turn of lock in your hands at stages which is a bit too much to deal with on tight twisties! Keen to do some skids in this thing soon! Some old pics of this thing came up from when it was down south thanks to smokin'joe. Cool to preserve it's history/glad we got it fully white! Unsure on if I will bring this up to Leadfoot or not, needs the panel work repaired and its a long way to drag it to not compete in anything. Will see how in the next week or two. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 27, 2015 Author Share Posted July 27, 2015 After the flywheel warped we mucked around for quite a while trying to figure out what to do. After talking to some old guys from down south decided to down rate the clutch from the 4age 200mm paddle clutch to a standard 4k size exedy heavy duty. Main reasoning for this was the overall clutch/flywheel assembly weight ends up about the same but with a lighter clutch all the weight is in the flywheel where it should be so drivability is much better. Works a charm and drives much better now. Friend machined a standard flywheel down from 11 kg to approx 5kg still has plenty of meat left in all areas. Sandblasted a set of wheels so we can paint them silver. Should look much better than the white.. Done some panel work to tidy up the dent I put in it at daybreaker last year. Turns out that corner has been repaired before but still turned out pretty good. True test will be once its painted. Still waiting for painter availability. 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted April 20, 2016 Author Share Posted April 20, 2016 I think the paint is acceptable.... Flywheel ended up coming loose due to being warped. Always had issues with clutch being extremely difficult to drive so replaced it with an Exedy HD unit which is smaller in dia nad much more progressive so we can give it plenty of slip to get it off the line with the very high first gear. Lightened the flywheel as much as we could, think it got down to about 5kg or so which isn't bad. First event I did was Otaria rd run by Dannevirke car club. First time in the car for a while so was pretty rusty. Good battles with Blake/Blizzo though. Won A class and got a sweet certificate. Tararua rd was next. bit longer so managed to get into it a bit more/blow out some cobwebs. Car went well all day but struggled to commit/stop being a pussy. Managed to find some pace in the last run and beat Blake for A class honours again. There was a cool ke26 which has been running in the series too! Here's a helmet-cam view of the first and slippery-est run of the day http://youtu.be/AcLnxVXnxRk After catching up with mates in palmy after tararua rd, I got up at 3am to make it to a gravelsprint in Pirongia. Early morning trip and day of rallying was tough work on 4 hours sleep! Was well worth the effort though at 9km long. Was a cool datsun 1200 running that day also. Ex Reg Cook car from 70's with a Nissan Micra EFI engine and 7 speed sequential box. Needless to say it was 30sec quicker than me! Road was epic fun but had fuel pump woes by the end of the day. Trying to get to the bottom of it now. http://youtu.be/cabAQVqlt7E 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 9, 2016 Author Share Posted July 9, 2016 So I finished off the last round of the sprint series run by Dannevirke car Club with Blizzo/Blake. Managed to beat him just in the end but the corolla was running like a massive pack of slimy balls and managed to slip the clutch too much on the last run and couldn't get it to hold 3rd. Placed second for the day but since he had done 1 (or 2?) more rounds than me and came 2nd to me each of the other events he was way too far in front to catch. Was happy with second in A class for the series as both Blake and myself were quite often towards the pointy end of the 1600cc class also. Day was wet and slippery and cold. I only had some crap old hard silverstones for the rear (they are rubbish when they are new yet along 5 years old!), and some very worn dunlops on the front. Was a narrow and short bit of road which I struggled to precisely attack without overcooking it. plenty of laughs were had though which is the important thing! Next on the list is rally Tauranga next weekend (17th July) at Tect park - come along if you're looking for something to do!. We DNF'd in this event 2 years ago when the engine expired completely so will be rewarding to get to the end of it. Seeded quite low so I imagine we are going to be doing quite a bit of passing - and hopefully no shunting! So since Nae Nae rd Nick organised a new Puk clutch for the exedy pressure plate to get rid of the slipping. Seems to work Ok but hasn't had a real test yet. Was also in need of a good service of new plugs, leads and some gearbox oil. The old plugs we were running were superseded and there was a resistor and non-resistor option. Got both and will see how each goes. Definitely running a lot smoother now and not coughing and farting like it was. Feels like we actually have all of the 88 horsepowers back now which is relieving! Also had questions over the strange behavior of the fuel reg. Would jump all over the place and generally just be unpredictable so ordered a new diaphragm and spring kit for $30 (they are only $6usd from summit GRRR) which did the trick nicely. When I took it apart there was fuel on the top side of the diaphragm also which explains the lack of functioning regulation. Its now super steady and runs like a dream very happy. New set of dunlops for the car too. Looking forward to having grip again! Looking forward to next weekend and not being hampered by how poorly it has been running. After that the car will head back to palmy into storage at Nicks for a while so I can focus on getting my AE101 racecar finished. Might aim to do one or two rallies next year maybe just to try beat Blake in the series this time. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted July 14, 2016 Author Share Posted July 14, 2016 For anyone in the tauranga/rotorua area and wanting to come do some watching on sunday here's the spectator info for the event. Come say hi if your around. http://www.mbop.org.nz/index.php/download_file/view/353/188/ 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rhyscar Posted July 18, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted July 18, 2016 Bit of a shit day rallying. Ran a bit wide into a tight blind left hander from top of 3rd gear. Turns out there was already another car in the same spot. Bounced into gutter which tipped us on the drivers side and slid into the back of their car. Rear tail light came through windscreen. Next step is to figure out how far we need to go to fix it. Will be getting a new cage but not sure how much of pillars etc is usable. First crash. Definitely a learning experience. Fun times. Will upload some videos later in the week of some of the good bits. 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Rhyscar Posted October 16, 2016 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 16, 2016 So we decided to repair this thing properly which included going back to bare metal. Got the roof sorted first then went onto fixing all the rust and previous sins an old car like this has. Sandblasting took ages but the result is good. Nick mounted it up on a spit which makes working on it a breeze and set about seam welding the whole chassis. Found plenty of rust to fix in places such as here And here And here.... and here.... I took a week off work to go down to palmy and help Nick out and managed to do some rust repair relatively successfully. Engine rapped in condom so it can't impregnate any palmy yolkals Chucked a diff in it to get it rolling and down to Nick's work to start the rollcage. Also gave it a base layer of black primer (only primer on shelf) to stop it rusting to buggery while moving to and from workshop. I did this as a base plate for boxes. Boxes are yet to be confirmed but essentially raise the bottom of the cage up to the sill height so you can make it nice and tight fitting while being able to get 360deg weld around the base of the bars along with allowing you to drop the boxes out to lower the front part of the cage inside the car to weld up and over the front stays/crossbars Fitting up main hoop (yup she's toight!) front stays are of the same fitment Oh yeah this is a supertourer that Nick has been working on. Being repaired and fitted with V8 Supercar hubs and running gear and a healthy dose more power than a supertourer would normally have.. pretty cool stuff so yeah the corolla is in good company. And here are some actions shots because they look cool. Super stoked about the top crosses going in. Building a cage like this will save so the car (and us!) in a massive crash. Good to have a chance to do things properly 13 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted October 17, 2016 Author Share Posted October 17, 2016 here are a couple of vids from before the crash at Tauranga. Engine was going mint (apart from start of SS2 when it spat the alternator belt we think), new tyres felt good and we had good pace. SS1 Part of SS2 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted October 24, 2016 Author Share Posted October 24, 2016 Cage done. Super happy with the cage Nick did a great job on it and is much higher quality than most cages you see out there. Seats almost mounted also. Almost sit in the back seat its wicked. 25m of rollcage tube later.. Yup she's pretty tight against the pillars and roof. Perfect fit! 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rhyscar Posted January 7, 2017 Author Share Posted January 7, 2017 Nicks managed to paint the inside and underneath of the car. A huge amount of work has gone into seam welding/strengthening and tidying up the shell before this stage. Most of the panel work on the car has been completed also, doors and guards will be going to panelbeater in the next week or two to get tidied up and sprayed professionally to make sure its the best quality finish we can afford. Like a brand new car Twin batteries in the rear seat this time. Previously had single battery in boot but was a bit of a pain in the arse and would like to run 2 batteries if we end up with charging issues etc. Strut tops have been strengthed so we can do some mad jumps. So I've been between jobs for a few days so spent a bit of time in palmy helping Nick out assembling and cleaning stuff. Everything is being cleaned, repainted and repaired before being installed. Time consuming but will be worth it in the end. Got the car rolling. Subframes/suspension and diff have all been sanded back and repainted with CV black which should wear pretty well with the stones. They look amazing (picture doesn't do them justice) Mounted fuel pump (Nick was cringing while I drilled holes in the brand new paint). Spent heaps of time cleaning fuel and brake lines then covering with protective rubber/plastic tube to protect them from the stones. Foot plates re-installed. Also cleaned and repainted the heater box and installed the wiper assembly and steering column/pedal box. With this cage we were able to move the seats back a good couple of inches. The seating position was very tight before and we are both 6 foot so being able to move the seats back and lower will make a huge difference. Really looking forward to driving it like this! Thumbs-up seal of approval... <a href="http://s1101.photobucket.com/user/touge_ae101/media/Mobile%20Uploads/_20170108_094229.jpg.html" target="_blank"><img src="http://i1101.photobucket.com/albums/g437/touge_ae101/Mobile%20Uploads/_20170108_094229.jpg" border="0" alt=" photo _20170108_094229.jpg"/></a> 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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