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[its Paul]

Thanks for the positive feedback Guy's, much appreciated.

Is it me or dose it seem that everyone that has laid a finger on this car gets a cramp in their middle finger??

Hahaha, this has to be the winning cramp then, frocken ET cramp.



Besides, we're special kids, you don't pick on the special kids.



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[its Paul]

My pants just got tighter. When's it coming home?

Too many donuts ???

Went and saw Tim today, did a couple of little things while Tim was rerunning the hand brake setup, he said I should be able to bring it back home with in two weeks, so I'm looking forward to that

[its Paul]

Tim started to measure and fit the hand brake cables, we started to use the original mount it the tunnel.
But soon realized that doing it this way was going to scrape against the tail shaft.

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So Tim whipped up another bracket to run the cables lower and miss the tail shaft.

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Its mounted to the lower section of the gearbox.
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He made some brackets to mount the casing ends and welded them onto the seat mounts.

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Tim cut the tank brackets to get clearance for the exhaust.

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So that was excellent, now we can continue with the exhaust.
Tim loaded up the hatch onto his trailer.

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And dropped it off to the Exhaust shop.

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Only to find out that there is going to be a clash with the Handbrake cables, who knew, they were up nice and high, but I wanted the exhaust up as high as it could go, I have a stupid steep driveway. :(

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So we decided to disconnect the cables, and sort it out later, and they carried on with the exhaust.

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So I am quite happy with the way it came out

[its Paul]

Tim went down and picked the car up from the exhaust shop and started to nut out a new idea to run the handbrake cables.

So he came up with this idea, he's a bit of a clever chap.

Removed the exhaust and tail shaft.

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Made a new bracket to bolt to the side of the gearbox.

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Now it sits up nice and high.

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Then he made new brackets for the casing ends again, but up in here now.

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And with the cables in, I think it looks very neat.

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Plenty of clearance with the exhaust and tail shaft in.

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Cant see the cables now.

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I went to put the air cleaner on, sounds simple enough, NUP, the bolt it came with, was too small. so Tim made one from two bolts.

One on the left is a stainless steel bolt that Tim had, and on the right is what the air cleaner came with.

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He turned down and drilled a hole in his lathe.

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And TIG'ed them together.

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All fitted up.

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Well that's about where were up to, thanks for looking.

[Stinga]

That final handbrake cable setup is very neat! Tim is a show off

[fatslr]

So many photos and not one to be seen you guys are slipping.

[YELLAcakeu308]

hey paul where'd you get the exhaust done? & what size speed demon are you using? the old boy has a new 750 speed demon siting around that was bought for his C3 350 thats no longer required......

[its Paul]

So many photos and not one to be seen you guys are slipping.

Yeah, pretty bad hey, I think the car did one this time, bloody handbrake.

hey paul where'd you get the exhaust done? & what size speed demon are you using? the old boy has a new 750 speed demon siting around that was bought for his C3 350 thats no longer required......

Exhaust was done in Nambour on the sunny coast, cant remember what they were called, Tim would know.
The Demon I have is an 850, I did have a 750 DP Holley on there, but went for the demon.

Thanks Stinga, Tim's pretty good at sorting the issues out, seams to like the challenge.

Thanks Jeff, all hatches look good.

[LS1LX]

Top job on the handbrake, you fella's might of started a bit of a handbrake trend, very neat setup and solves clearace issues. Well done

[a9x868]

coming along beautifully!
tims work is impecable
and from your build thread so is yours paul!
enjoy

[Rob2408]

The handbrake set up worked out sensationally. Another great effort Tim

[Ando]

Thanks Paul! Photos saved for reference when I do my hatch build. lol

[its Paul]

No worries Ando, don't mind being the guineapig.

Hi Trofa, Mate I thought about doing a loop, but I'm going to use it as a cruising car, if my idea changes then I will do one.

Thanks for the positive feed back Chris, Rob, Jeff and every one else, It certainly helps with the motivation, cheers.

Oh, and Dane'o, this pic should make up for the lack of Birds in the last lot of photos.

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[its Paul]

Hi Brett, I purchased the power steering from Lenny (Axistr) and he uses Subaru power racks, and in my opinion they are very professionally made, the steering feels great, no more sweat on the brow when turning with wide wheels.

Here's his thread.
http://www.gmh-toran...ge__hl__+axistr