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and what little photos i have of the tube frame rebuild

i was very thankful to know some one who had a flat front kp fully stripped waiting for me to go and take measurements to ensure my front end would end up with the same kp geometry.

the decision to tube frame was made the monday night after all this wall hitting stuff happened, i managed to cut the front end off

down to the rails the next day and then spent the rest hunting down tube and box section to rebuild. the wednesday and thursday were left to get the job done.

friday morning all that was left to do was lock the spare diff and head down to taupo for the club-k tenth aniversary track dayon saturday.

all to turn around and come back up for hori dori ten on sunday

here is a couplke of picks of it back out in action

and here are all the damage pics

crumple zone did its job

drivers side chassis rail got all kinky

due to the movement of the engine it ended up with the cam against the inner gaurd, very thank full i chose to run steel pulleys instead of the typicall plastic/polycarbonate crap

okay now that im home and i can organise all this stuff heres some photos i took before the pukekohe j spec test day (before the accident)

will sort pics out soon when i get home(aus) havent got my own pc to colate pics and host

front end has been fully replaced it handled a whole day at taupo track 3 with high speed drifts and mucking around at hori dori, all with only 2/3 of the tube frame welded. most welds i was unhappy with (wind rain, mig and no sleep) also the whole tube frame front was assembled whilst engine was in so not all pipe had 360 degree welds.

next holiday i will pull motor outs and reweld alot of it and make a few tweaks to the design

Tubes box section and a hole lot of plate sourced

my tube from cross member held up and fucked the drivers chasis rail also passnger side is beyond repair

written off, now what, tube frame front end?

my thoughts also, had to do it one day with those sill allen key wheel nut things. works a charm

Spotted this 65 isuzu bellet and ended up talking with the owner for hours, so ratty yet so subtle on the eyes(the car not my crap phone pics)

Irs anybody?

Check out that bad boy for new old stock, such an out of it design yet so efficent, drive in a storm and not get wet

Just picked this up yesterday. Will be economical as, looks qwerky an should hopefully keep me out of trouble.

I will officially be the 2nd owner of this little carry,

Plans are wheels, slams, better diff ratio, panel & paint then fibreglass and stickers

Love this sort of crazy shit. Have been clocking up the fixed miles. Recently did a 148 km round trip in 6 hrs with 2 blow outs and a few fruit stops. Thats running 50 16 also so starting to get The endurance up. Just working on average speed ATM siting on 32 kph for an hour. So keen to do a brissy to Sydney boost soon.

Keep up the good/mad work. Is inspirational.

By any chance is the big ride you're training for, Cairo to cape town?

from what i hear Mark (Ae25) is organising for this to be an autumn nostalgic meet also so why not? i think it would be choice to have all the boes together for another landmark day!

http://www.fpp.co.nz/home.aspx <<<<<<

these guys do F.K. rod ends got half of mine through them and at a good price. they could also supply pillow balls and all that sort if gear also at a good price.

also had these guys http://bslracing.com/parts/accessories make up all 6 if my trailing/watts likange arms for a good price. all chromoly tubing and rod ends labour the lot for under $600.

...........................^^^^^mt wellington/ sylvia park^^^^

Who is doin the welding? If someone who knows there stuf is going it then you could possibly get away with it but if getting certefied I would just sell them and buy the right size

love the engine stand! 2 thumbs up'

have found the pics from whn i built the long block. short block was delivered to me by possum bourne motorsport.

passengers bank

Drivers bank

passenger head

drivers head

PBM rally baffled sump

all the parts in the back of the wagon that was never meant to be

genuine subaru multi layer head gasket

heads going on

ahhhh harrys diner, how was it in personal opinion, i found tham to have fag fetishes with a dump truck load of bogan tipped on top!

this came into work the other day, so much pinning

was quite an old chap. the colt was in original condition, original paint and everything. he had just bought his first ever computer and had it dtrapped in on the passenger side

Nice and peppy isn't it!

please bring this to the club-k track day in june

so gaurds are rolled but no rust repair as of yet? love your style

Only 2nd day of testing still though Mikey, pretty stoked to be honest really. Wish I had brakes hooked up an boost wound up for that run that you followed me! Damn this running in stuff. Make me go slowISH!

bowdens car care products- best thing out of aussie

ford mountain gives me the shits aye. puky has deteriorated so much since the last time i was there! (3 years ago) but i guess once i get more comforetable with it i think it want feel so bad. i had castrol corner sorted though, i knew i had to to get best top speed so worked at it first.