Vintage Grumble

These kits you talk of, are they cut and scalloped ready to weld, or do you have to cut and scallop them yourself?

Shadow garage is a fictional japanese tuning company..... yeh I dont know what I was thinking, but hey, stickers! Shadow garage gang? The west side story racers? Gang bang garage? Smack for your pony! (thats the official SG catch line btw) HardCORE parkers? Rotomar rompers? BOP cunts?

I happen to have 200 stickers of the below logo, so that would work out well?

IT SHOULD BE! Better make sure we dont use the wrong colour for our jackets that we will no doubt get, other gangs may take offence. I'm pretty damn sure most of us Whakatane boys be keen on a meet up once a month/bi monthly or something? Have it in a different town each time?

Haha, ken as, i've always wanted to be in a gang .....

Looks mean, leave as is.

Spot lights look silly there, look very ungainly.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/Trade-Me-Motor ... 647190.htm ??

Holy shit. Nice.

Looks chur, seems pretty damn tidy, do a skid? Also, wouldnt this still count as european? You could rebadge it as a Plymouth Cricket and say its american I guess? Edit: Do this,

Yep, is their national race weekend, not sure what classes will be there, SS2000 was mentioned?

Rite, so sat the 8th, what shall we do? Ideas? Meat somewhere, go to races, cruze somewhere for a family lunch, insert an activity here, cruze back to races, have a din dins then bugger off? Something along those lines?

Looking good, now do a skid.

Not much of an update, but all this talk of velodrome racing prompted me to fish the motor out and give it a tune, still havent sorted out exhaust pipes, so slapped some threaded pipe on for the hell of it, and fired it up. Played around with it for a while and got it running pretty sweet. Its set nice and rich, it blows a nice amount of smoke, back fires like a champ, and idles like a fox! Only thing that worries me is its fucking heavy, and so am I, hope my frame and rusty wheels can take it! I hope to get the frame welded up this weekend, and mount the motor (even tho I should be working on one of the cars or house, dont tell the missis eh)

WELL DONE THAT MAN! I can imagine how ecstatic you must be, looks and sounds amazing. In the first vid, I thought the timing light was exhaust flames, I was waiting for the bench to catch on fire. Once again, well done.

get building and compete Shit yeh, super down with this.

I heard there wont be an OS one this year, but there may be a motorkhana at nats. Lovely wiring BTW, its good to know theres still auto sparkies with skills/who care. (theres none around here, thats for sure) Skids seem like the perfect thing to do apon completion, I look forward to the video.

Can someone make a documentary of this event, I need to hear the amazingness.

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!