mattj

Yeah still have all the photos, just got sick of photobucket asking for money so deleted my account with them. 

Still have the car, has had a few upgrades but is in bits at the moment while I try and source some motivation to get it finished

On 21/06/2020 at 22:59, Willdat? said:

Clubsport may have been driven by a Mum with kids in the back...

Anglia is nicely balanced, so much grip at both ends. I should have worn ear plugs, a few hours in the Anglia took me a few days for the ringing to stop. Bring a Valiant next year! 

Ha ha, your ears are just soft from spending time in the Colt

On 21/06/2020 at 21:57, Valiant said:

Good timing. 

I was thinking about this car the other day.

Is it still going well?

Yeah still going good, needs to be faster though so have started getting some bits together for it

On 21/06/2020 at 20:58, yoeddynz said:

Thread dredge @mattj  Hannah saw an anglia, with what she was pretty sure sounded like a rotary engine,  when she was running in Kaiteriteri today. Was it yours Matt?

Hey Alex, nah wasn't me, I haven't had the car out since Chrome back in March. I do remember hearing that there was another one being built in Nelson but I haven't seen it.

On 8/22/2017 at 18:19, ynot said:

If anyone is keen the Nelson car club is holding a standing 400m sprint on Redwood Road Oct 1st. Car should be of wof standard or motorsport logbook. Helmet and cotton overalls. A great chance to find out how fast your car really is!

Definitely keen on this, I assume details will be posted on the car club Facebook page?

3 hours ago, Willdat? said:

Ha - I don't think that the Beagle will qualify as vintage for quite a few years yet....

How was it Matt? More fun than terrifying?

It was awesome, little intimidating when I arrived and everyone was unloading their dedicated race cars off their trailers, then all donned their flash race suits while I put on some overalls that i grabbed from work. But once we actually started it was all good. The car ran like a champ so now the driver just needs to get a whole lot better / braver.

3 hours ago, sidewaysickness said:

No problem at all Matt, what's the best way to get it to you?

Thanks man, will PM you

There were quite a few uncaged cars there, think they were all with the vintage car club though.

Cool photos Shane! Any chance of a copy of that first one?

Ha ha, nah trailered it to Chch for the guy who built the engine to check it over and tune it. It is all run in now so will finally be able to open it up and see what it will do.

Have taken the family so driving it wasn't really going to fly. 

I reckon next time you should drive your brothers car, he will have been giving it death because its not his.....

looked like a lot of fun though, that Escort sounded awesome!

Got a bit more done, not quite as much as I hoped as the weekend was a total fail but I am getting there

All the fab is done

Front welded back together

So the motor can go back in now, however there is one small snag, because I can't leave things along there was something else that has been bothering me, basically the muffler hangs too low and it would be good to quieten it down a bit so a few months ago I bought these

Now the exhaust is a bit of a basted to get in as it is all one piece so I chopped it and added some v-bands, this way the headers won't have to come out again

Not sure if I will get the whole exhaust made this week as there are a few bits to figure out so it may end up with the old one back in for a bit longer yet, will just have to see how the week goes....

On Tuesday, March 07, 2017 at 22:19, Willdat? said:

https://www.facebook.com/events/139750353213667/

19th of March Autocross/Grasskhana - I think this is the same place as Marahau Nats...Beagle will be there racing!

Pretty keen on doing this, guess that leaves this weekend to get my car back together...

More progress from yesterday, I decided to remove a bit more steel, basically the bits at the side were going to end up looking a bit funny as I was going to chop away most of them, so I cut them out as well leaving this.

Then I made up some new ones

So these will mount here

and from the front

this is going to give me an extra 140mm of width in the front intake and probably about 200mm of height, so that is a pretty massive gain. It is going to end up wider than it needs to be but I am thinking that if I end up needing to go to a bigger radiator (not that there is really any room for that....) down the track then at least I have some provision for it.

So todays mission is to get those bits welded in and replace the crossmember that I cut out, rather than replace the crossmember with something like it had I am going to make it out of tube as I have some left over rollcage tubing that should do the trick.

So cool man, nice work!

Yeah could be keen, will message you and get some more info

Hey did you ever get the mx5 motor in before changing direction? I have bought myself a b1600 and thought the mx5 motor would be a good fit for mine

Cheers mate yeah took it out of town yesterday and got into some twisty back roads which was a heap of fun, I am really struggling to keep the revs down as it just wants to keep going but it was a blast anyway. Think I have already burnt the packing out of the mufflers but that will learn me to use cheap ones haha

Yeah wasn't me today, had a few beers last night and wasn't up to much today. Definitely taking it out tomorrow though. I am in Enner Glynn

Thanks man, yeah it's a lot of fun, probably should have finished it years ago eh

Yeah it's been a long time coming

OK I'll do that, cheers

Yeah it is kind of wrong but right at the same time

You will probably see some more of it to as I'm working out there at the moment