Vintage Grumble

You are a fountain of useful information and links Mr Mikuni. As for bending the pipe myself, im hoping the man who owns the bender will help me, hes building a space framed 350Z out of chromoly ATM, so I guess he did a lot of practise bends and so on to work out the best method, as you dont want to be wasting chromoly. And I do intend on getting this car road legal and racing it as is for a while, hope to do all the local car club motorkhanas and track events, plus the dual sprints in winter.

Cheers for all the info Mr Mikuni, I really do suck at finding stuff, haha, hopefully this helps others out also. I did notice the new rules coming into effect in Jan 2011 regarding main hope dia and so on, makes me wonder about people who are half way through building a car to the old spec and wont get them homologated till after that date, I know of two people in this boat. Also, I agree, it looks a lot easier and cheaper to go through this process then I thought, and luckly I can get my hands on a proper tube bender, so will make it that much easier. Also, I priced up the tube through steel & tube in TGA, this is what I was quoted, 44.5 x 2.6 (the only seem to stock it in 2.6mm) comes in 4m lengths = $77.85+ per length ($19.46+ per m) 38.1 x 2.6 " " comes in 5.5m lengths = $75.00+ per length ($13.63+ per m) (also, these length are 12.4kg/2.25kg per M)

Good day, I thought it may be a good idea to put up some information about/get input from people that have gone through the process of building a race car. I myself hope to build a road legal club car in the near future, but suck at this internet business, so any input from those in the know would be chursome. The rules for building a race car can be found here: http://www.motorsport.org.nz/manual/#App2 What im struggling to find information on is: The process and costs of homologation for the cage/seats/belts. The process and cost of the authority card so that you can still use the car on the road. Anyone able to help out here with information?

Tiz sexy. Me likey.

Nice car, I dont know anything about them, but always liked the shape/80'sness of them. Interested to see how it turns out. Also, if cat is 12KG, you better hope it stays off roof/bonnet of car

This thread is chursome for the following reasons: A) Pretty pictures I'm now E famous C) Two strokes! D) You will soon be back on/off the road again displaying a blatant disregard for public safety / life.

Cars were made to be driven dude, chuck and extra $20 in your tank and that will be enough. Its a really nice drive out those ways aswell and only 10min, if that, from the beach if you want to cruise out there after I vote paddock Yeh, make a weekend of it, it's a celebration bitches!

Pretty sure a re-cert is the same price as a normal cert. I have held off doing mine as I dont have the racetech drivers seat that the cars certed for, so will lose cert for that.

Yeh, im keen to have a one day meet on a weekend at some point, something we could do a few times a year maybe?

Sounds very good to me, I'm sure the Whaka boys would be keen. Good idea to base it round a motorsports event, SS2000 and support classes are good viewing. Pity my car wont be going by then, i'll have to bring my next oldest car

Just wondering if anyone in the TGA/ROT/WHK or near by areas would be interested in a small meet at some point? Just thought i'd chuck the idea out there and see if anyones keen. Chur.

http://www.willtheyfit.com/ Is kinda handy.

The 13x6 A3A's I got fit over my front brakes (only 13's that ever have) so was thinking about widening them. They have a rim half either side of the center, and each half is welded to the center, so two beads of weld. If I can get my hands on the 5th one, I may have a go at machining into the weld and try split the outter half off without eating into the center, should be doable. These places that make the halfs will make up and size rim/PCD you want wont they? Any ideas on how deep the weld would penetrate?

Has anyone successfully split a welded 3 piece rim from its center? So that the center/one half rim is still useable?

No, they dont have gaskets, just a layer of goop between sump/splash pan/block.

Looks pretty damn good, I think car goatee looks good as it is, would look a little odd joining higher up/having body work behind it like you say.

I'll take the pallet wrap home and wrap them up to the EXTREME.

That would be chur, PM me their addy and i'll drop it off tonight/say hi to your mum for you.

Hey Mr Wag, I think my wifes coming over on Friday night, be ok for her to drop them at yours? She should be there about 7-8pm.

Shit yes, colour is so nice, matches interior even, top notch work.

I'll see if anyone I know is going over to TGA, good chance someone will be.

Yeh, could be ECU, but odd that it happens at the same RPM/speed, ECU problems are normally random as buggery. What about the pick up in the dizzy? Or maybe a fuel supply problem?

Hawt.

Def get rubber grease, or else rubber will expand/go all shit house. Is also more fun trying to handle parts when they are lubed up.

SC14 is the toyota S/C aint it? dont these melt the blades if you spin them to fast? Pretty sure you could only do minimal over drive on them before they shat their pants?