nothingsfree Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Have no idea where my old discussion thread went, so better put up a new one... Should prolly change the name of the project too haha. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted March 9, 2010 Share Posted March 9, 2010 Nice one man! I'll be watching closely... Do you know if Simon did any calculations for those headers? And what dia tube they are? I'm going to be making some for my engine soon and it'd be cool to know what others get up to. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted March 9, 2010 Author Share Posted March 9, 2010 Cheers dude. Those are the standard Altezza headers. The only thing hes done to them was port matching, as there was quite abit of metal sticking out. Other than that, he cut them off just before the second flange, and just welded new pipes on from that point. Apparently the standard headers flow pretty well, so alot of people just stick with them... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted March 24, 2010 Author Share Posted March 24, 2010 See ya end of the year boys... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ned Posted March 24, 2010 Share Posted March 24, 2010 mmmm, beams 3S Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Been making some progress on this lately, so will have a number of updates soon. Decided it would be better to start a new build thread, as the old one was quite disjointed with changing cars etc. So hopefully this will be abit easier to follow.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikuni Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I liked the quote about being prepared to push it off a cliff, if reference to race cars. A little strange that it made you go from a KE70 to an FC3S though? Look forward to seeing progress on this now that you are back into it. The BEAMS conversion has been done a few times into these or similar now, so likely plenty of mistakes have already been made to learn from, which is always a good thing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanners Posted January 28, 2011 Share Posted January 28, 2011 I would appreciate it if you could make some mistakes before me though please? Thanks was the rusty car the purple/maroonish one with the huge firewall mods? That sucks if it was, what an unfortunate waste of your time huh. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 Haha, yeah was a few reasons for choosing an fc for the race car. Mainly I found a very good condition rolling body for cheap, but also its a more capable chassis to handle the intended power etc. As for learning from others experiences, Simon has already gone through the joys of fitting it in his ae85, and to a large extent the chassis are very similar. I have the engine and box mounted now, its sitting basically where I dropped it in. You cant move the engine forward or back very far without something important touching. But its not really a problem, as where is sits, is where I want it anyway. Will have a few updates over the next few days, as I try to get the thread current.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted January 28, 2011 Author Share Posted January 28, 2011 As for the rusty car, no it was a white dx I picked up. The rest of the body was in real good condition, all the normal trouble areas were rust free, like completely. It seems it had saved up all its rust, and stored it in that passenger side of the wiper tray. But yes it was a big waste of time, as I didnt find the hole until I had already cut the firewall and gbox, started mounting the 13bt, and completely stripped the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted February 2, 2011 Share Posted February 2, 2011 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted February 2, 2011 Author Share Posted February 2, 2011 Hey dude, you asked ages ago about headers for a Beams. Dunno if youre still interested or not, but if you are, may have some details for you. Simon is currently building up another Beams 3s to replace his standard one. Hes going all out with a n/a build, cams, pistons etc. Anyway, hes got the specs to build his headers from some very knowledgeable guys.. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Truenotch Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 We built a set at the same time as building the engine, but it would still be interesting to know. I might get in touch with simon about what he's doing because the plan for my car is going in a similar direction now... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
KKtrips Posted February 3, 2011 Share Posted February 3, 2011 Is it necessary to run the spacer for the steering joint AND the RCA's? Couldn't you get away with just the RCA's? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted February 4, 2011 Author Share Posted February 4, 2011 Yep the rca drops the steering arm down, so both the tie rod and the bottom arm are dropped down. But because the car has been lowered quite abit , along with the extra castor, shorter p/s arms etc, the tie rod end is still near its limit. The length of that spacer is not what I will end up using, it was just some aluminium rod we had lying round, so I fitted it so everything could be bolted together. The final product will be shaped like an icecream cone, so there is a much larger surface area against the bottom of the steering arm, and shorter... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanners Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 I may be wrong but that thing looks like its gonna be so fucking low? Mad Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rot808 Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 so much delightful mods in one place, nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
spanners Posted February 6, 2011 Share Posted February 6, 2011 so many delightful mods in one place, nice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 I may be wrong but that thing looks like its gonna be so fucking low?Mad That is the plan. Hence the effort to get the arms and angles sitting better, as the height it is sitting at in the photos on the hoist is the height I am aiming to have it driving at. Obviously the wheels are drooping in those pics, but it only droops about 20mm roughly, so if I wind the HSD's up a little till that is the static ride height, I should be good for clearance, travel etc. Will find out once its actually drivable I spose... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nothingsfree Posted February 6, 2011 Author Share Posted February 6, 2011 so many delightful mods in one place, nice Cheers boys, pretty stoked how its starting to come together, almost makes the time spent in Ozzy worth it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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