Rhyscar

thought i'd chuck a bit of an update up here. ran bearings after clutch etc was back in, got CXGPWR's old engine that is real mint. put that in, drove it for a week, then markku crashed it at manfeild after brake pad fell out.

so then changed front panels with some from a cheap as chips levin, repainted it in the garage using crc primer and the cheapest enamel white paint it could buy. turned out kinda shitty (painted it on the night it snowed with waay too many beverages/no masks in us) but thats ok its a gay looking car anyway. haha so now its white.

put fibreglass bonnet on with scoop to a. save weight and b. get some cold air going towards the open trumpets. IAT dropped by over 10deg so thats a step in the right direction, but still wanting to make a plenum/airbox to seal off when bonnet is closed. painted it black cause thats the only paint we have. kind of looks better than a whole lot of white i reckon.

then put a G3 link on it and did a bit of road tuning. got it pretty good now but still needs to go on the dyno for a final check and power figure (won't be much!)

had it at taupo trackday but was kinda disappointed in how it handled differently than before (had changed a few things) so made a few more changes and now its handling awesome. got some mintex pads and stuff to sort out the brakes problem and sorted spring rates. got down to a 1.25.4 at manfield on the CDCC trackday which i was happy with considering it was semi-wet and it still needs a bit more fine tuning. just loving the shit out of daily driving this thing to uni and raping the saddle/H50 on the way back to hawkes bay.

taking the sliders out, polishing and using some copper grease on them is always a good idea. do mine every time i change the pads.

will be air up that system somewhere. think what has happened is kind of what joker described but also modern cars have a trick/stupid proportioning valve that doesn't like fluid/air going through it backwards. they also block up really easily when doing this so its general no-no (not worth it). when pressing piston back in just undo bled valve to stop any fluid going back up the system.

best bet is to bleed the bejesus out of it. also bleed rear drums as well cause lines will run diagonally on a caldina. if you go through a whole bottle of fluid when bleeding and its still not working then i'd say you'll have to look a bit further.

wow i have to commend you on your efforts these episodes are awesome! so good seeing older cars and the stories behind them.

i hope you keep going and we get to see more of these!

for a good condition one i would expect to pay between $1500-2500. probably at the lower end of that scale if it not charging the battery.

they are great cars you'll love them. things to check are supercharger oil level/condition (can be bloody expensive) and the front main seal tends to go a bit on them.

other than that, put some pulleys on it and enjoy positive pressure from 1500rpm...

Seems like the gorge will be closed till christmas at least. Saddle only adds 2mins to the journey though.

Spose I could bring it along for the ride (we're heading to Taupo for a race meeting) but an AE101 with cage etc isn't an ideal parts hauler.

may be able to sort something out. I might be towing the racecar + trailer back to hawkes bay with adventura so plenty of spaces for g box. and you can drive ae101 back. ahh dammit naiper taupo in caged car >>> napier taupo with family wagon + trailer

whats the plans for sunday arvo/night? get super choppy and have a sweet fire like nats? (couldn't find itinerary but i could just suck at looking)

oh yeah shit forgot to mention. will be heading up early friday morning coming back sunday whenever.

can promise fun times going to be rolling there and back with track tyres on and might have to use vinegar hill to properly bed in my new race pads....

anyone keen for a ride up? looks like my passenger has bailed so someone may as well have some giggles in the silly seat.

definately expressing some interest! sounds like an awesome idea for a 21st. as long as the track day is pre drinking and not post drinking...that could be a challenge to say the least.

hey folks.

i'm pretty new to oldschool, been around a few other places people might recognize me from so thought i'd chuck up a thread of where i've got to with my car and see what OS thinks.

plan is to keep it road legal so i can still drive it to uni all week, then to the track and home on the weekend. eventual plan is to do targa with the old man. this thing just loves windy roads, almost as much as i do. and thats probably the sole reason i haven't moved on to another car. had this for almost 4 years now. most of the progress has happened in the last year after attending a few track days then started thinking 'shit this is cool!'. have been a uni student studying engineering the whole time i have owned this car so has all been done on a very tight budget and all done myself.

this is how it started;

4afe, single pot brakes, shit arse respray, jamex springs (laugh)

went through and modded the 4afe a bit and also put koni adj. shocks etc in until i got to the point where i needed to do things properly. so went on a big money spending mission

wired in a blacktop with c56 LSD gearbox. added oil cooler and custom extractors to get it a bit better race prepared. oil temps were getting up towards 140deg after track sessions. works nicely with my massive airbox

converted to discs all round and big 275mm rotors with twin pot brakes on the front running TRD black pads i scored super cheap.

then decided to do it properly with a cage and racetech seats and harnesses. still daily driven and love every minute of it!

recently smashed the clutch to pieces at manfield. got a TRD clutch for 30bux and replacing syncro's in gearbox so no more curnchy crunch. hoping to get it all back together this weekend in time to get the suspension a bit better sorted with stiffer springs and HUGE rear swaybar in anticipation of winter series coming up. hoping to do all of the manfield rounds if money permits/nothing goes bang.

let me know what you think. hopefully will meet a whole bunch of GC's at nats for mean yarns!

damn this is a cool boat tenfive. thought maybe drunken yarns were an exaggeration.

will be sweet to see it all going and you doing some mean backflips!

ford indigo; rear mounted V8. looks awesome except for the mid-chin spoiler on the front. they actually made 2 of these, one was auctioned off and the other one still belongs to ford. really like the concept it could be the new way foward for sports cars.

Name: Rhys

Location: Palmy

Cars I own: ae101 trueno

Mods to them: daily driven race car, full cage, 20V blacktop 4age, LSD box, TEIN adjustables, racetech seats/harnesses, a few bits of custom fab work here and there

How I found out about oldschool: know a few GC's who are involved and can't turn down a few good yarns