sheepers

i bought a set of Bridgestone Adrenalin's, 205 50 15's.

ive had them on the car for two days in the pouring rain and they rule.

i will see how they go on the track but so far they are excellent.

sheepers.

ive been working on this car flat out recently.

the motor is all back together and ready to go. traction control gear is all gone from the TB, loom is all stripped and back on the motor. hydraulic fan drive is gone and the cambelt and water pump are new.

ive sorted the rack and the crossmember and thats all ready to go. new fuel lines are in as well as brake and clutch lines.

i need to make the hoses to go to and from the power steer pump and make up some heat shields for where the zorst goes past the fuel lines.

manifold flanges are being made and ill be making extractors this week.

im aiming to have the extractors finished by next weekend. then ill get them stress relived and coated.

then the motor can go in for the final time.

PROGRESS!!!!! YAY!!!!

sheepers.

got new tyres (bridgestone adrenalin's which are the best tyres ive ever had) and the car is back on the road.

ive driven it around for the last two days and its all good. now i can take it up to Peter's to get the finishingtouches put into the bent bits.

ill probably paint it again and make it look nice. its the only car ive ever had that had a good paint job so i might try to make it look good again.

i have many plans but i think ill just drive it for a while and work on the other one........

sheepers.

dont get me wrong, im talking street/track tyre.

i run R888's at the track and they rule, they are in my will and i have left my shed and its contents to them, but i would be fucking mad to run them as street tyre, as i said in my first post, they are fucking sketchy in the wet, and they dont last to good.

i do 55K's a day to work and back. they wont last long.

also, R888's track real bad, they will follow ruts in the road, any uneven surface causes them to dive off all over the place.

and you cant get the 45 profiles here unless you import them your self.

im not concerned with circumference, really only want a fatter tyre on the back with a bit bigger contact patch. the car is starting to spin the inside wheel real bad now the power is starting to increase and its a bit of a pain in the arse.

edit: they dont make a 225 50 15. i have spoken to the "man" at bridgestone and they do not. they listed it to begin with but demand was not enough for them to go into production.

fuck this sucks.

it looks like the only decent tyres i can get aren't made in 225 50 15, megga gay.

do i run 4 205's?

my life is about getting the widest tyre on the back i can, this is conflicting, what do i do!!!!!!!

i guess ill run with 4 205's

i run R888's on the track and they are perfect for that purpose, but on the road in the rain they can be a bit scary!!

i might buy those wheels and tyres though, they are well cheap for what they are....

cheers for that automatic fire man!!

sheepers.

im after a tyre that grips like a slick but is ok on the road ie, will last a good while.

from what i hear the bridgestones are excellent at doing both.

would be cool to find out if there is anything else out there that will do the trick.

the car is all fixed bar a bit of finishing work on the bonnet and the guard but i dont have any tyres so i cant take the car up to Peters shop........

let me know what you find out.

cheers,

sheepers.

im in the market for 4 new tyres for the celica.

i need 2 225 50 15's and 2 205 50 15's. i have heard from people whos opinion i respect that Bridgestone Adrenalin's are the go for street and track.

problem is they dont make a 225 50 15. i can run 4 205's but i really want that slightly fatter stance (not to mention contact patch) on the back

so, can you recommend a set of tyres that preform well on the track but will last a while on the street and are available in the two sizes???

im looking at about 200-250 a tyre so options that are 500 per corner are probably out of my range.

any thoughts????????

thanks' sheepers.

my friend Peter (jordan panel beaters, Ph 3608428. 364 great north road Grey Lynn) is the king of rust repairs and panel making. hes been around for a while and has fixed plenty of rusty cortinas. hes about middle of the range price wise but he knows his shit and he knows old cars.

sheepers.

my old man bought an X2 HR brand new from Auz, he still had it for a good part of my childhood. it was pretty sweet but by the time he sold it it was fucked. it had done about 40 bazillion miles and it had a 202 in it. still had the factory twin carb manny and the bucket seats. had cragars too. some dude couldn't pay him for a job so he gave him the wheels.

some young dude bought it and his eyes were like saucers when he was looking at it, he was so stoked.

good days.

sheepers.

that all sounds reasonable.

i don't see any reason why the link shouldn't be able to do all those things.

and more....

is this going ahead tonight?

and is it in ellerslie????????

i still have the slicks on the celica, i could baby it to dom road but i cant get it to ellerslie, its fucking undrivable in the wet with those tyres on it.

sheepers.

hey man, ive just paid for,

1 short sleeve shirt size XL.

1 pair of blue (would be keen on black if it happens) overalls size 11.

now i can reprazent at the bowls club.

sheepers.

i will order some shit, just give me two days to figure out sizes and shit and ill place my order.

keen for overalls and some shirts or something. i should read what's on offer really.....

order placed by sunday night or DIE!!!!!!

i will be there, celica and all.

sheepers.

got new radiator fan. red the instructions and discovered that the old fan had the fan blades on the wrong way round. amazing what happens when you read the instructions.

ive made new mounts for the fan and reassembled the front. radiator and intercooler are in, headlights are on and everything lines up fairly well.

need new fan belt and glycol and were back in business.

oh, and i need to get my backup bumper to fit, its rusty as and bent to fuck but not as bad as the one spencer modified for me

plan is to drive to work on monday.

plans have been known to change.....

and i am captain beautiful.

this has been proven at least twice, maybe even three times.

na, everything is superficial, all the bits that bent are like brackets, headlight buckets and such. the bonnet and guard are bent but they can be easily fixed (if Peter is to be believed) the only thing that is causing some concern is the intercooler. it took a pretty hard hit. i know this because of the dents in the chassis that the intercooler made in its travels. visual inspection tells me that its in good shape, i lost no boost that i was aware of when i raced after the crash. i will have it pressure tested but i can tell you this, the quality of a genuine skyline GTR intercooler is extraordinary. it was twisted and bent, quite substantially, and i put it to rights. i can tell you its still good, tests will follow but if i had a cheap chinese copy i would be throwing it in the bin now.

while ive got the front apart im taking this opportunity to tidy up a few things, i wish i had a proper AC welder........

anywho, will see you at the next track day.

sheepers.

You'll never get any sense from the internet.

Steve

as long as you keep posting, then never a truer word has been spoken.

you talk in circles, your "facts" are actually "opinions" or at best, ideas. you clearly demonstrate almost every time you open your mouth that you don't know what your talking about and everybody here (with possibly the exception of Fuel) is ignoring you.

ive said it before and ill say it again, post in a constructive, positive manor or fuck off.

sheepers.

as your all aware this happened at the last track day.

after the incident my and KK checked the car over and decided all as well, a little bent on the outside but the important bits were ok, so i went back out and raced for the rest of the day. the car was fine (except for the radiator fan falling off) i did a 1.25.1 before the crash and i did the same time latter in the day. the car felt fine so im sure nothing fundamental was bent.

skip forward a few months and im now back from holiday and getting stuck into fixing the damage.

ive pretty much fixed all the little bits that were bent, my great friend Peter is going to fix the gard and the bonnet but the rest is done and ready to go back together.

if i really needed to i could drive it to work on monday so all in all, not to bad. ill hold off re-spraying the gard/bonnet for the meantime. i want to concentrate my time (and more importantly my money) on getting my RA28 going. its been waaaaaaaaaayyy to long since that car has moved under its own power.

my only regret is nothing. i built this car to race, and race i shall!!

sheepers.

might stop in for a beer on my way home, have to see what time i can get out the door from work.

ill text up some address loving.

na man, if your thinking about a pinto then you obviously want something really shit.

253 is the motor for you.

any old shit will work OK as long as the surfaces are clean. isopropyl alcohol is the way to go. clean it really well and you wont have another problem, wipe it with a rag and leave a nice layer of oil on the flange face and it will leak every time.

sheepers.

There are a couple of quiet car parks in Parnell I know of...

dude you wanna be a bit careful about posting your late night habits like that

Unlike some of you guys I only have one car...lol so its gotta be back on the road asap.

oh snap.

dont worry, it wont be long untill you "cant say no" to another cortina, then its only a short ride to 4 cars rusting on the lawn.

we've all been there, its just a matter of time..

good work though, keep fixing and learning, soon you'll be able to tell Gaz how to re-build pintos (because they need re-building every 50 miles or so ).

sheepers.