englishy1 Posted September 25, 2018 Share Posted September 25, 2018 So a coupe of years ago an event was recommenced to me on Facebook a grass auto cross. I though this looks like a shit load of fun so i got a friend to come got up at like 7 on a Sunday and headed to my first event in the trusty corolla and i got to say it was a hell of a lot of fun and i was hooked. Photos of fun follows 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishy1 Posted September 25, 2018 Author Share Posted September 25, 2018 So really bad at taking photos but i did 3 of these events in Barb (the corolla) before she met an untimely death. At this point i had joined a local club here in wellington, Harbor Capital Car Club. I had an mx5 for a weekend car at this point a decided to head to manfeild for my first track event this was a really fun day being the full main and back track linked together making it 5.4km. Unfortunately 6 foot 4 me dosnt really fit in an mx5 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishy1 Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 After this i decided i wonted to relive my boy racer teen year and brought a Mazda BFMR sight unseen from Christchurch. When i turned up (after sitting on the dock for a week as 1 of the 4 corded triers and gone flat (fresh Wof from clearly a doggy garage)) i relisted it wasn't as clean as it seemed and might of been a thrash pig for meany years with out any proper care. but i though i can sort this. So after Finding and fitting a new turbo (was fucked), remaking the exhaust (welded my pigeons), replacing the rear shocks (had fwd ones witch are longer that 4wd ones), got proper sway-bar mounts, rewired the rear light loom (had shored out?), made a tie down to hold the battery, new wheels with semi slicks (well second had anyways), a new steering wheel that wasn't bent and adding a catch can i though lets do a couple of auto crosses in it. These were held in Upper Hutt and i did enjoy them but the that was was going to blow the box or center diff every timew i whent around a barrel left me with deciding to sell thiss for something else. I don't have any photos of the events but here a few of the car 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishy1 Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 At this point I didnt really have a daily Due to the death of Barb the BFMR not having a Wof and being in the middle of selling the Mx5. So i ended up swapping the BFMR for a black top Carib. I though great this will do both daily and could be a bit of fun After replacing the knock censer I quickly got to replacing the rear shock and putting in some firmer spring as well as throwing in some camber bolt to sharpen up the handling Also had to find some new wheels for my semi slicks to go on ended up with 2 pairs Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
englishy1 Posted September 26, 2018 Author Share Posted September 26, 2018 I ended only doing 1 grass auto cross with this and also a hill climb in Teihape Have managed to lose the photos of the auto cross but here a a couple from the hill climb A v8 caprie Super clean MK1 And a cool supercharged beetle from the pits (yes that a Lancia Stratos hiding in the background) 8 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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