michaelme

Stickers will be in attendance, talk to Chris (Lada) or Karl (Mustard Escort) or Yowzer if he makes it up.

You'll be asked to help clean up any coolant you leak...

yeah that sucked.... new hose tonight

Was a primo day despite the car wees

any spare oldschool.co.ng stickers available?

I'll need about 3

Only had 2 runs before the heater hose burst and spoiled the fun, so the best I ran was 18.43 @ 116.5kms, but I'm sure it has more in it.

Looking forward to the next drag day!

So this happened

Incredilbly fuel efficient this car, got from Mercer back to West Auckland without using a drop of gas!

Glad I topped up my AA membership the other week

Took the Chevette to Meremere for the Oldschool Drag Day (which I can wholeheartedly recommend to anyone thinking of attending), was brilliant fun.

Two good runs, then let my mate have a fang down the track and the blanked off heater outlet explodes and fires antifreeze all through the engine bay and through to his legs in the driver footwell!

Didn't have any heater hose with me so tried to McGyver up a quick replacement with an empty water bottle and insulation tape.

FIlled the radiator and discovered there was also a split on the hose leading from the block to the inlet manifold.

Something missing here.....

Filled the radiator and a few bottles of water and limped back to Mercer

Close up of the photo on the rear hatch, gets a few chuckles.

Cam and spec sheet:

Great footage! What sort of camera are you using? Cool how it's got your speed, laptimes and the track included

Got a replacement front right guard, just need to match up the paint and do that at the same time as the roof 

Discussion thread here

Picked this up from Richard from Oldschool back in September.

Only done roughly 180,000km's, drives well and suprisingly good on gas.

No huge plans for it but hoping to tidy up the paint and panels, lower it and maybe tint the windows.

Going to keep the original wheels but get some decent rubber on them.

That’s pretty much all the work to do to the car until the wedding is out of the way, then it’ll be looking at getting the windshield/window rubbers replaced, a speedo cable made up (or an adapter for the old Vauxhall cable I have), carpet and a cert. 

Well, jinxed the shit out of that, wedding is off. 

Glad we figured it out sooner rather than later though.

Don't pull out your tiny violins just yet, there's heaps of positive stuff happening (I won't mention exactly what just in case jinxy lightning strikes twice!).

Also means I can free up some money to work on the Chevette

First up, a pair of front brake calipers from a Pontiac Fiero courtesy of flyingbrick, and a pair of rear disc brakes from a Piazza.

No photos as both are currently being rebuilt at Sterling Brake and Clutch in Penrose.

Also got a spare G200Z camshaft reground, nothing too gnarly but should give it a bot more go and sound great

I'll throw some photos of the spec sheet and the camshaft later.

What a brilliant day!

Made my mark on Hampton Downs... one of those streaks of red paint on the concrete barrier on turn one used to belong to my bumper

A couple of spins here and there getting used to the new (secondhand) tyres, started in 41st finished in 30th so happy with that

Will have to look at getting out there for some track days/driver training one of these days.

Next race at HD is in February.

I can't recommend this race more, it was crazy good fun.

Get yourself a $2000 car that can handle 2x 33min races in a day and get into it.

Spectators are free:

fucking great news! I hope the car is in ok condition.  Sucks you had to go through all this, but at least justice has been swift this time!

yearp

In if the cars survive Meremere!

good luck, man I hope the car comes back in one piece and this guy gets strung up and made an example of

they'll be 195/55/15 on the front and 225/50/15 on the rear

track day was cool.  Must get tyres on the 15" wheels, the piddly 195s on the 14"s are not doing me any favours

Looking foward to next week!

could well be a go 

cant say I've ever been to Kaiaua, expressing interest.

Closest I've found to a schedule just yet

http://www.hamptondowns.com/event/56/2013-12-8/71/TACCOC---OUTSOURCE-IT-CHRISTMAS.htm

Start Date:8 Dec 2013
Finish Date:8 Dec 2013
 

OUTSOURCE IT CHRISTMAS AT THE DOWNS RACE MEETING
Sunday 8th December 2013.

Entries are now being called for Outsource IT Christmas at the Downs race meeting being held at Hampton Downs on Sunday, 8th December.  Come and participate (enter online atwww.motorsportentry.com), or enjoy watching the racing from the many vantage points around this wonderful facility.  This meeting is being organised by TACCOC for the AES, Arrow Wheels, and BMW Series groups together with the Apparelmaster Classic Trial Series.  Some races will be handicapped. 

Spectator entry is free.

The provisional programme is as follows:-

0700  Gates open
0730 - 0900  Documentation and Scrutineering
0830 - 0845  Drivers Briefing
0900 - 1030  Practice (all groups)
1030 Racing commences
1230 - 1300  Lunch Break
1300 - 1630  Afternoon programme commences

na neither, but I'll arks them on Friday (if the rain goes away by then)

24. Is Friday a race or a practice?

It's a practice, $70 for 5pm-7pm but you have to have the car registered for the 2KCup.

Next race is December 8th at Hampton Downs.  Free to come down and watch