hey james, it is worth taking the whole rear torsion housing out of the car and replacing the rubbers with aluminum bushes as i have done, also a very strong front mount on the box and i also made mounts that bolt onto the top shock mounts and bolt onto the bell housing top and bottom. replace the original spring plate retainers bushes with jcl solid ones. after doing all these to my car it has made it so solid nothing moves and its actually not that much engine or gearbox noise. if youve got any questions let me know...troy
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Spiffy parts James,
What have you decided to do wth the diff.?
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
Going back to swingaxle?
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
Bit of gear there Troy 😵💫
What is the plan??
It never stops...never.
westi wrote:That's mad Alan.
Just curious why you chose swingaxle instead of a beefy IRS setup?
um, what's that bracket do?
James, busy busy busy as all your pics show! A little bit back into the post you mention the desire to make a removeable rear apron basically because of pain/time when having to remove stuff. I am very much toying with the idea as well as its damn hard work taking the Suby engine in and out. Have you progressed with this at all ? I am doing a big engine rebuild next couple of months including 915 box and just thought at same time it would be great thing to do, of course if I did (Murphys Law) I wont need to remove the engine again. Could be a good omen for you 😎
Anyway, its all looking good. I like your comment about street/strip to strip/street, Im adding air/con at same time of engine rebuild, whats that say about my intended usage? 😊
Cheers, Andrew
1971 Type 3 Fasty - EJ20T
I love 242HP sleepers. 🤪
How many sets of lights does it take a $229k Carrera S to learn? 😂 UPDATE: Cayman S, M3, B4 now added to the list.
GTMac wrote:James, busy busy busy as all your pics show! A little bit back into the post you mention the desire to make a removeable rear apron basically because of pain/time when having to remove stuff. I am very much toying with the idea as well as its damn hard work taking the Suby engine in and out. Have you progressed with this at all ? I am doing a big engine rebuild next couple of months including 915 box and just thought at same time it would be great thing to do, of course if I did (Murphys Law) I wont need to remove the engine again. Could be a good omen for you 😎
Anyway, its all looking good. I like your comment about street/strip to strip/street, Im adding air/con at same time of engine rebuild, whats that say about my intended usage? 😊
Cheers, Andrew
I thought suby's lasted forever or waaay longer than an air cooled volksy
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Looks like a big shopping spree James!! Hopefully one day we'll get a chance to gut troy's car and get to the 1/4 mile for a run to see what she can really do. would be real nice to get it down to your car's weight but we'll have to see how much stuff we remove to achieve that first.....
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Funny one Brennden 😂
Yeah nothing wrong with the current Suby motor at all, going very strong indeed, just that silly thing of chasing more HP and thought with the expected power a 915 would do the trick behind it, the 5th gear comes in handy for my freeway cruising as well.
1971 Type 3 Fasty - EJ20T
I love 242HP sleepers. 🤪
How many sets of lights does it take a $229k Carrera S to learn? 😂 UPDATE: Cayman S, M3, B4 now added to the list.
Looking good! Love to see some more pics of all the support stuff your doing to try and combat skip and hop. Dont think any of it could be utilised with my car as the Suby engine and placement of my turbo would get in the way. Portland, sounds like a deadline 😎
1971 Type 3 Fasty - EJ20T
I love 242HP sleepers. 🤪
How many sets of lights does it take a $229k Carrera S to learn? 😂 UPDATE: Cayman S, M3, B4 now added to the list.
I really hope you make Portland James.... My first fast dub was 69 Fasty and it is sorely missed..... Looking forward to seeing this beast in the flesh....
See ya there!
hey james, i am coming down to portland with peter page, we will have to catch up and have a look at this fasty of yours and compare stories. As for the weight mentioned early there is a bit of difference in weight from early to late models. My car would have to weight i think around 1200kg as it sits now with the full custom interior, big stereo and all the other bits added to it but will be interesting to see it on the scales, will talk next week at portland..troy
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Well done.
Good luck at Portland.
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Hey James.... Spotted you at Portland.... Didn't see you near your car when I was walking around so couldn't introduce myself.... Was an awesome weekend.... Loads of peeps asked where my car was.... Obviously not in Victoria!!!!!..... A long trip from WA, but well worth it..... Maybe bring the POS next year!!!.... Here's hoping!
Awesome to see the Fasty at the track James.... I love my TIII's and Fastbacks in particular, so your efforts give me the fuzzies.... Best of luck at Heathcote..... It's looking good for your target and that's a bloody awesome effort..... Keep it up!!!!!
