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Started by A9X , Apr 29 2007 10:37 AM

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 03:30 PM

That car looks outstanding well done

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 07:17 PM

no worries mate, im just intensly curious. :spoton:, as toddles said outstanding job

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 07:50 PM

Forget Rory, clean that dam ugly washer motor, its letting the whole car down.

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Yep clean it.

It may be "only a race car" but you've gone to such a high degree of standard so far that it's a shame to see one token origional condition part, its just not matching in.

Bring on Targa Tas we want to see this beastie in the flesh down here.

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 08:23 PM

Sorry it's not just a race car, it's a TORANA HATCH.

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Posted 30 July 2007 - 09:06 PM

You will notice the windscreen wiper motor is 'as is' complete with 30 years of tarnish.

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I have left this in it's original state because, as Rory keeps reminding me, this is only a race car.

Last job of the day was to install the drop tank.

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Every one loves a fatarse Torana.

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Welby

Its only a race car...Welby?..You doing the Lemans 24 Hour with that tank?..Sheesh!!..I am running 50L and I am sprinting!..You going to Sydney on one tank?
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Posted 30 July 2007 - 09:42 PM

Its only a race car...Welby?..You doing the Lemans 24 Hour with that tank?..Sheesh!!..I am running 50L and I am sprinting!..You going to Sydney on one tank?
R

Nah, he just wants to be able to dial in more oversteer with a few more litres hanging out the back :D

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 12:27 AM

I read in the Melbourne Hearald Sun last Friday that they are adding 3 more classes to the Bathurst 12hr production race including tarmac rally cars.
Will this car be eligible?

I'd like to see that! :spoton:

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 09:39 AM

12 hours...omg.. you would need 4 drivers... mate doing 12 laps is hard... let alone 12 hours of the stuff and the strain on the car :rolleyes:

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 03:16 PM

Don't tease.

Are you sure.???

Pit crew needed , the line starts to my left...

Might have to reco the windscreen wiper motor now.

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 03:34 PM

I just did a search.
Looks like its limited to current cars e.g. Subaru and Evo.
Sorry.

http://www.bathurstm..._July_Draft.pdf

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 04:17 PM

We can take it to Bathurst for a few laps next year

Lets just finish the f*cker and get it on track for THIS years Targa first



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Posted 31 July 2007 - 04:41 PM

Quality race car / hatch either way, just get a 2 buck can of black spray paint and paint that wiper motor! LOL Just kidding, leave it, looks fine as it is. I don't think anyone is going to be looking at it once the donk goes in.
Anyway, I was wondering, and not meaning to sound like a dumb arse, what is the purpose of the winged bits on the side of the drop tank?

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Posted 31 July 2007 - 04:42 PM

That would be awsome about the team shirt welby !!, size XL thanks, and if datto doesnt have the address i'll will pm you it

I wish i was over there, i want to see this thing in action...
So when are you's coming over the QLD?

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 11:03 PM

Winged bits on the side of the droptank are mounting gussets ,to mount the tank and hold the weight of all that fuel ,Davis Brown tank or something I think , Do they still run the internal blader like they did on the group c's? :D

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 11:09 PM

Winged bits on the side of the droptank are mounting gussets ,to mount the tank and hold the weight of all that fuel ,Davis Brown tank or something I think , Do they still run the internal blader like they did on the group c's? :D

How much for one of those baby's?

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Posted 01 August 2007 - 11:18 PM

I think around 1thou mark depending how larger and what mods you want when you order it ( eg rear centre lower fuel pod pickup ) but they dont leave good clearance for road going exhaust on the sides where the gussets are...
internal blader ???dont know!!!

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Posted 02 August 2007 - 01:39 AM

Winged bits on the side of the droptank are mounting gussets ,to mount the tank and hold the weight of all that fuel ,Davis Brown tank or something I think , Do they still run the internal blader like they did on the group c's? :D

I thought they were filled with a big foam block or multiple foam blocks not a bladder. The foam was of a type that took bugger all of the over all volume.

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Posted 02 August 2007 - 10:12 AM

They are these days with foam, Marcela foam I heard its been called I think .
I rang Davis Brown a couple of years ago about an exact group C tank , they stated that they the cam Group C rules of then required the tanks to have a bladder....but they could make what I wanted...
I can only say what I have been told ,can any one back this up???

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Posted 02 August 2007 - 12:11 PM

the ones you buy from brown davis, are baffles and do not contain foam or bladder's, i spoke to the yesterday....

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Posted 04 August 2007 - 09:06 AM

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Posted 05 August 2007 - 11:48 PM

I would like to thank those that helped this weekend get us as far as we did
Dave = 355LX
Dan = Dan355
Welby = A9X
BJ = BJ (and everybody loves a BJ)

Happy to announce we now have the following

Tate 331 cube 435HP inplace on rebuilt crossmember
Crossmember in car
Tremec TKO600 box installed in car
Full floating 10 bolt diff installed in car
Kmac front and rear adjustable bars installed
All suspension installed
Almost all brakes plumbed and ready for fluid
Clutch hydraulics plumbed

Need to still fit a few hundred little items to make it actually go but were on track
Its a rolling (pending wheels) racecar now with most mechanicals

Welby has a couple of hundred pics to sort thru then he will pop some up
She's looking very sexy and on track for Aug 16 unveiling at the racetrack

Only another 10 days to go to get it driving (fast)
Lots of late nights and another long weekend next week I guess

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 12:03 AM

Group C rules of then required the tanks to have a bladder....but they could make what I wanted...
I can only say what I have been told ,can any one back this up???


A friend who has since passed worked on many a car in those days and did a lot of alloy fab./roll cage work. He told me a few years ago the 77 patterson bathurst hatch fuel tank had a dummy made up and a latex bladder installed along with miracell at a factory near moorabbin airport. The tanks ran this way so there'd be no leakage if the tanks or welds fractured due to fatigue or damage. As for the special foam - apparently it's more absorbent than spongebob. Only loses %2-3 volume and practically eliminates fuel slosh.

Dattoman - you'll have to wait til tuesday for the photos- only managed to scrape the surface in the garage (no room to move) :fool: - could only take some pics of the LJ today.

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 12:15 AM

My finger hurts.....stupid ladder. You missed out on the best bit Neil, pushing it up the grass in Welby's backyard!!

Sorry I wont be there for the first start up, make sure someone has a digital video camera handy!!

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 12:41 AM

I would like to thank those that helped this weekend get us as far as we did
Dave = 355LX
Dan = Dan355
Welby = A9X
BJ = BJ (and everybody loves a BJ)


It's me that needs to thank every one, especially Datto.
Without his facilities and hoist, we would never have gotten this far.

A really big weekend put in by all, and we even managed to have a good time doing it.

I've left photo's out that identify the lads, for their own privacy, but here is BJ and Friday nights engine unveiling from the crate.

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Dan & Dave put in a lot of time getting the crossmember and diff assy ready for installation

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Posted 06 August 2007 - 12:47 AM

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Late friday night getting bits ready for a big saturday,

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We raised the old girl on the hoist, dropped the old crossmember and diff out, attached the engine and 'box to the new crossmember and dropped the car back down on top of it.

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engine almost in.

Took all day though.

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Diff in,

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Back down on her wheels.

Hotwires are the ducks guts.

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But being as we can't get 15 x 8 fronts, we'll settle for V5 Simmons.
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