Popular Post Lincooln Posted September 20, 2013 Popular Post Share Posted September 20, 2013 Disscuss //oldschool.co.nz/index.php?/topic/40413-lincoolns-westy-as-hq/ Well since I started a new job three weeks ago I have been busy being happy as hell. I bought an ex championship winning HQ with three engines and all sorts of parts for $2k. Almost rust free but has had a hard life as it was the HQ club car for a while too with guest drivers etc so body is not straight but who cares. seeing to that me new job is a sales rep for Lubrication Engineers which is very high performance Lubricants, I will be running them too in the engine, diff, gearbox and some of our grease in the wheel bearings. Current motor in the car is a petrol 202 with an AVGAS head and the baffled sump. This was done by previous owner as he didn't want to pay for AVGAS. I will not contest this season of the HQ series so it will stay in place while I do track days, hill climbs and generally enjoy the fuck out of it. However I will be putting the AVGAS motor back together with help form my mates and teh the team I pit crew for in the HQ series, Hazard Motorsport. I can do this know as we can know run AVGAS motors in the HQ series again. wheels and tyres will have to change, but that can wait till I know if that will change at the end of next season. So far I have attached the bonnet, got it started. Left to do is adjust clutch, attach gear linkage, attach the rear driveshaft and rip out all the old woring and replace it. Which will be easy as the previous owner had bought all that was needed for this. and because no body likes a photo less thread, I have some photos, more to come when i get a chance in some daylight. Cheers Biatches 10 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincooln Posted September 23, 2013 Author Share Posted September 23, 2013 So tonight I wired up the tail lights, brake lights and front lights. I will not use the head lights and most likely will remove them completely to make sure that they don't get smashed up. also will be putting in original HQ tail lights at some point so I can comply with the HQ series rules. But these will do for now. Piccies: Brakes Brakes and Tail lights Front Lights tail lights. I did this just to make it easier and to make them stand out better. and because I can Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincooln Posted September 29, 2013 Author Share Posted September 29, 2013 Well this weekend I got the rest of the wiring sorted, connected clutch, connected gear linkage, painted odd bits and pices, had to re-do the Water Pump gasket as the previous dude had done it and it leaked like a bowl made out of swiss cheese. Water blasted underneath a bit to get rid of the old oil and try and see where the G-box is leaking from. Some dodgy looking poo's on it so will keep an eye on it when it gets going. Left to do is hook up the drive-shaft, and then fit all the Oils that I sell into, so Diff oil, Gearbox, and engine, and will probably use my high temp grease in the wheel bearings too. All for reliability. Oh the oil is Lubrication Engineers. Absolutely the best shit around, no exceptions. Picco's: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincooln Posted October 15, 2013 Author Share Posted October 15, 2013 so been having issues. Drained engine oil, only no more man two litres came out, so hopefully it has done no damage. Gearbox is leaking like a sieve. From the Tail shaft to gearbox seal, form the O-ring in gearslector panel, the whole gear selector panel and from the speedo cable bolt hole too. Also the tail Shaft has been broken and re welded, so it could be that it has warped. Still also need to get the bits too hook up the driveshaft as they did not come with the car. so work will be done on it after Labour weekend as next weekend is dads birthday weekend and then labour weekend is the first round of the HQ series so I will be pit crewing down in Taupo. No Pictures either sorry Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincooln Posted December 16, 2013 Author Share Posted December 16, 2013 So I have fixed all the gearbox leaks with new gaskets etc, got a new tailshaft housing, I have also had it to Pukekohe once now. It went alright, had a constant missing issue that got worse, also was leaking fuel from the carb and the front bolts on the sump were loose so leaked a bit of oil. oh and the tappatey things in the head are well and truly fucked so they need to be replaced soon too. I will be rebuilding the AVGAS motor so i have got new bearings ordered through Auckland Cams and will get new tappatey things soon too. Might look at getting some new ACL things ( ithink its ACL) as they are stopping making things for the HQ/ going out of business in6 months so will get some some spares. Fixed the oil leak by tightening things up and spreading some poo on the sump join. The missing issue I am sure was a grounding issue as I had just one earth and it was a crap one, so now I have 3 and it seems to be ok. Also got the gear linkages sorted for smooth quick changes. The car fixed the fuel leaking carb after it had proper grounding, probably glad I fixed it. Had the radiator unblocked a sit was over half blocked and they even painted it for me. So far the I have spent $150 on the car which was the radiator. Also found out it has a locker rear in it. Handles awesome though. looking forward to getting back out there. A few piccies: 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lincooln Posted April 23, 2014 Author Share Posted April 23, 2014 Well its been donley years since I last posted on here and Lots of have happened since. There will be a huge picture dump too, so its not all words. It now runs a fully rebuilt new petrol spec motor built in accordance with the HQ series rules. This was done fairly cheap. We used the Avgas block as that had already had plenty of money spent on it back when it won the championship. Kept the Crank, the shot peened rods, the old race pistons. We got the last set of rings for those pistons left in the country as they are a discontinued item now. I ended up having to get a brand new head, got it for a steal at $500. We tried another head we had but found it had a big crack almost the whole way from side to side across the number 5 cylinder. We thought the diff was a locked item a sit would chirp the inside wheel, we pulled it put and it was just a really tight open diff, so we just drained the old oil and refilled with Lubrication Engineers oil. Runs nice and quiet. I also ended up buying the new wheels and tyres that we have to run in the class but I lacked the budget so that played against me at my first meet at Hampton Downs. We also ended up replacing the bonnet too as you can't run any extra venting. So my first race meet was at hampton downs. as mentioned earlier the tyres were brand new so were slippery as. The reason is they are just a normal Nankang road tyre, when the tyres are new they have big tread blocks that move, heat up and melt and make it slippery as. Just like a wet tyre on a v8 supercar in the dry etc. The racing was good. I qualified 6th out of 10 and in the first race finished last as the car handled like shit. So we swapped teh rear shocks out and put in Bilsteins we had lying around. Well to say the difference was night and day would be an understatement. The pedders that were in there offered no control or any thing, the bilsteins are reliable, offer heaps of control, don't do anything weird etc. Well worth it. The second and third races went much better with me being able to get a few good battles in and just enjoying the car. By the end of the weekend though the car was down on power quite a bit. It turns out it was the coil, so I replaced it with one I had lying around from the Lada and mounted it on the firewall away from the heat as much as possible. The last coil died due to it not having a ballast resistor, new one does not need it, I also relocated the kill switch so I could reach it while racing and covered up the wiring behind the dash. also got a new clutch from my team mate, just had to have a freshen up. Turns out the old clutch was a good one all the same being a brand new RPM clutch. Pics from Hampton and the work that went into it: So the next round was over easter and it was the final for the HQ's and the IRC rounds. After hampton along with the other stuff I mentioned we also got an alignment done with thanks to professional tyres and automotive in Takanini. changed engine oil again and painted the underside of the bonnet and in the boot. We also changed out the pads and put in Ferrodos. Otherwise it was good to go. So Taupo was wet, so I was happy as. Got some good practice in and the car was so much better. It turned in way better an the stopping power was just insanely better with much better pedal feel. I got 4th in qualifying on a damp track and with a completely broken seat too that was moving all around. The first race was also only damp, I came up to the hairpin going onto the back straight on the first lap, locked up and went potato digging. So me and another guy had an epic battle for a few laps until I got bored and started to drive off. The second race was wet, so I was happy as. I started off in 8th and got to third by the first corner. I was heaps quicker with the heavily treaded tyre. but as I was on the front straight coming into my second lap the gearbox broke. The input shaft gear broke 4 teeth off and chipped third gear. We thought we had a spare but instead we had two diffs and no gearbox. so that was it for the weekend. My team mate however won the championship, even after a big engine fire. So in the off season it will be painted, new seat, new gauges, probably rewire it completely and make the kill switches actually work, try some endless brake pads for it. Will also go to a few track days to take family and friends out, might do an enduro with my team mate and try and do at least one hill climb. I will try and keep this updated too. link to my teams facebook page; https://www.facebook.com/pages/Hazzard-Motorsport/358992234190634?ref=hl Link to the HQ and super six club: https://www.facebook.com/pages/NZ-Six-HQ-Super-6-Saloons-North-Island/226539434200346 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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