Hey everyone I said hello in the hello place buy thought i should make a thread. I think this is the right place for it to go this is the car The lows have been achieved by raising the A arm mounts 2" and using extended early strut tops at the front and 3" drop plates at the back with the tie rod ends flipped so i actually have pretty decent steering geometry (a arms are only pointing up very slightly and the tie rods are at the same angle). Seeing as its pretty low its got a surprising amount of travel but i still have plans for some different coilovers on the front to get a bit more Its running this little beasty which i just did the head gasket on and will soon be getting twin 40s on it instead of the gsxr600's. Please excuse the wiring, that is likely to be sorted next. Ill stick some more info up as i do more stuff..
think i saw you at spring fest...?? remember the hoop thingy dangling... might have been someone else though good work!
yeah it was at spring fest, the hoopy thing is a 'tsurikawa' (japanese train handle, shows lowness in certain car scenes that im into). ill try to get a semi decent update tomorrow showing the things people are actually interested in and hopefully the bits for my 40s that im picking up tomorrow
so i got my manifold and linkage from Regal this morning. Real nice manifold, gotta get new chokes for the carbs and a few other bits (jets etc) and get them on the car hopefully next week!
now that is well cool what are you doing with the old gxr carbs and manifold once you fit those rather shiny 40's first dibs if poss
random assortment of pictures of stuff that let me get low. No pics of the drop plates cos anyone can do that.
oh and a pair of huge notches, but everyone has seen chassis notches before. Ill take a few pics of the tierod/a arm angles tomorrow while its on the floor. Ghetto oil catch tank construction tomorrow, wish me luck.
Committed work on the wishbone inners. I'm impressed - never seen that done. Trying to figure how you'd get comfortable there's enough strength in the relocated mounts - are they braced back on the inside? It'd be interesting to see the work down the inside of the inner wings.
Everything was that was replaced was 5mm plate or thicker. and was braced back underneath, ill take a photo when its in the air next.
That looks really good. It will be fun to drive with the tuned 1300 in it, what other plans are there for the engine, apart from the carbs?
atm just carbs but i have a solid lifter engine which will be getting a cam and hopefully a megajolt setup. should be fun
Ok so due to desperate time the solid lifter 1.3 will be going in the car tomorrow, today we chopped the bottom off the sump (and moved the drain plug out of the way) so I can lower the car more (and hopefully not beat it to death). Ill be getting my hands on another engine to do the megajolt set up to at a later but not to distant date.. couple pics of the sump (kindly welded my mr coltech classics) update tomorrow night hopefully with a working engine and more lows
got this far tonight. still needs holes drilling for the cables, hook linkage up and sort out a choke cable. got a little fuel leak but its easily fixed so no biggie
