Truenotch

Great car! Looked like a lot of fun at Manifeild in december. It definitely turned a few heads!

Looks good!

Keeping the bumpers black?

Seats need some give so you won't break your spine in a crash. I'd get rid of the criscross in the back of it because that could cause a lot of pain in a crash.

Have a look at a well made steel frame seat to get ideas - sparco sprint is the best example. They are all steel rails for the shape + material to sit on + foam to keep it comfortable and a cover on top. It's possible you could crash your car backwards into a wall at a trackday oneday, could hurt.

Brake fluid is the key - no shit. Cunts used to buff paint with that shit in the '70s.

Changing down too hard while turning into dunlop & getting a sweet compression tweak on the way in... It puts a lot of strain on the LR wheel & axle. RH axle is also twisted but not sooo bad.

My CWP is mint now that we're overfilling the oil. It's quiet at the oil stays clear, so no issues there.

According to Mark/toycrazy the late model T series from GT4's are 26.5mm axles and F series is 28mm. It would be a lot easier and I don't think they'll be any weaker than F axles.

I think I figured out how I'm killing the T axles too.

If anyone hears of a Celica GT4 rear diff for sale I'm interested. Apparently they're T series with 26.5mm axles as opposed to the 24mm ones I have at the moment. Prefer a plate type LSD but can also work with a locker, so open is fine.

Chop chop then . Winter series starts in June!

Tested the setup in the weekend at the IRC race meeting and all is well. The front suspension feels good and the rear is reasonably well settled. It needs more fine tuning but we're starting to get there.

All three of the weekend's races were intense and busy, which made for an exciting weekend. Qualifying was wet (which works to my advantage) and I ended up qualifying on pole after two hot laps. Then the gearbox jammed in 4th gear and wouldn't come out, so that spelled the end of qualifying.

We pulled the box to re-locate the selector and had it all back together in the nick of time. Made it out JUST as the field was leaving the dummy grid. Drove around the warm up lap and took my spot on P1. It was dry so I took it easy-ish off the line and was swamped by escorts and Paddy in the Ute which meant I had to play catch up for the rest of the race. Managed to get back up to second and was on Paddy's tail at the finish. Good race.

Race two was a handicap ( ) with Paddy & I starting from the back. Missed a gear off the start again and fell behind. Still managed to drive through to 6th and had a sweet battle with a Torana driver who was quite adept at blocking lines.

Race three was the best of the lot. I started 55 seconds behind the lead car and Paddy started 5 secs behind me. We had a lap or so of hard running on an open track. By the time we caught the pack they were all together, so we had to find gaps around each corner. Craig slipped the ute into a tiny gap on the inside of dunlop and took a 8 places in one lap! It took me 4 laps to do the same and I ended up in third.

So overall it was a successful weekend! It was a lot of work but it all payed off after three trouble free races. I broke a left hand axle in the pits as we loaded it onto the trailer... Lucky timing! It might be time to figure out how to shoehorne an F series head into the T series housing.

Pic for proof - the slam makes it look LOTS cooler in shots. And Richy's photography isn't too bad either .

Yuh, moly is a waste of time unless you're in a one make class or other highly regulated class where every bit counts.

When was that pug cage done KK? The 44.5mm tube is freckling expensive compared to the old stuff... And Timo was charging 2500 or more for fairly basic cages before the regs changed..

** Edit** and it'll be something like a 4 week turnaround.

Mitsi powered race cars dominating Super lap

reliable

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We built a set at the same time as building the engine, but it would still be interesting to know. I might get in touch with simon about what he's doing because the plan for my car is going in a similar direction now...

Oh BTW, I wont be there. Gotta load racecar + make a trailer for FA50.

Not that one... That is cheap though .

Beams 3SGE + MR2/Celica gearbox in east/west format with clutch type LSD and supercharger. Tits. Beams is 11:1 factory and I've got pistons to go to 11.5 if you wanted to. Add 12psi and that shit would go crazy. Would get 200+ KW in that format I think.

Use beams. I've got all the bits lying around to build a good one with or without VVti. Trade you for engine mounts, intake manifold etc.....

Oh yeah - Napier boes want to do a Sunday meet in the future. Lets start planning.

Yum.

Thinking about another Flawless type trackday in October-ish if there's enough interest.

Am I doing it right?

Still can't feel my legs after using the dash as a foot stool for 6 hours.

THANKS LENNY for spewing on my shit. You are the spirit of WagGina.

Wagnats was sweet, lets do it again. Good to meet all the kernts that I hadn't before... All good sorts - OS does it again as usual.

See y'all at Nats?

Cheers guys.

Needs more of this though right?

Glad it looks like this thread has met its end...

Now go put a 4AGE in all of your cars and make up.

Want.

Anyway, that last post shows the new track after fitting negative camber RCA's. It's sorted out my arm angle but has changed the scrub radius and could cause issues in turn. We'll see at the next day on the track, which could be Feb 4/5/6th.