My 68 BJ/IRS 1916 EFI Twin Plug Race Car. 1st Event

bat69 · 2009-08-04T04:43:20+00:00

SNEAK PEAK! Well the build of my new race car is starting to come along now. I thought I would give you a little look. After a few false starts due to my children being in and out of hospital because of illness and some prick stealing my ute, burning it out and me having to fork out coin to buy an new one. I now have had some time and saved some MONEY to devote to the new race car. Phase one was to pull it apart. I completed this a couple of months ago. The shells has been sitting in the shed waiting to be worked on. Well the bug has got some love and now Im onto phase 2. Roll cage. I just finished assembling it and Im a little excited so I thought I would show you what it looks like.

Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

8,040 posts · joined Jan 2003 · 25 Apr 2011, 5:48 pm

#837569

Any more updates ?

Will it make the track in 2011.......or will it be 2012 now?

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 25 Apr 2011, 6:14 pm

#837577

Im hoping to be on the track this year. Its very close now. Its all bolted back to gether apart from the bumpers. Its wiring gets finished tomorrow and then wheel align and bleed brakes and tune the EFI.

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Craig Torrens 6 times Australian, 7 times State Hillclimb Class Champion

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cnfabo Custom Title Time!

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oh yeah, cant wait to see this baby roll out....

colin Fahrvergnugen

984 posts · joined Mar 2007 · 26 Apr 2011, 8:44 am

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bat69 wrote:It will be on the track this year. Its very close now. Its all bolted back to gether apart from the bumpers. Its wiring gets finished tomorrow and then wheel align and bleed brakes.

Hurry up Nathan, how hard can it be to build and prep a race car! LOL.
Are you going to finish the car for Tamworth Round 14th-15th May?.

Cheers Col

fastnuf Slammed & Awesome Dubber

86 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 27 Apr 2011, 7:48 am

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Colin, the car might be finished but I think Nat has a wedding to go to that weekend.

White Knuckle Racing Team.

stagvee40 Commited Dubber

68 posts · joined Jan 2011 · 30 Jun 2011, 9:51 pm

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Great GREEN!!!!! really sets the lines off, what wheels will you compliment that with? Can you get wide fuch's? anyway great build looking good,

cheers

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 4 Jul 2011, 12:33 pm

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stagvee40 wrote:Great GREEN!!!!! really sets the lines off, what wheels will you compliment that with? Can you get wide fuch's? anyway great build looking good,

cheers

Thanks about the compliments. The wheels are Vforce rims with Toyo tyres.

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 4 Jul 2011, 12:43 pm

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I cant believe a couple of months has passed... I'm in the process of building a new home and that along with work and family have taken a priority of late. Anyway. Back to the car...

The monumental task of a full custom rewire has been completed. Man this task is not as simple as it seems. Although not difficuilt, it is very very time consuming and fiddley.

Now I have head lights, tail lights, brake lights, blinders wipers.....etc.

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All I have to do now is replace the fuel tank and lines (had to re-tap some fittings), fit bonnet/boot and doors, replace windows (after the ECU is wired - easier to work on without the glass in), get new tail pipe made and tidy up the wiring of the ECU hard wear, connect the throttle linkage, bleed the brakes, wheel alignment, fit 6 point harness, remember were I put those dame new bolts I bought, spanner check, where the F&%$ are my wheel nuts, spanner check again..............The list goes on... Slowly getting there!

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1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 · 4 Jul 2011, 7:16 pm

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are you still running the widened steelies nathan...and are they 6.5 or 7" with 205's.....damn questions....:😂

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5,901 posts · joined Jan 2005 · 5 Jul 2011, 5:21 am

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bat69 wrote:
stagvee40 wrote:Great GREEN!!!!! really sets the lines off, what wheels will you compliment that with? Can you get wide fuch's? anyway great build looking good,

cheers
Thanks about the compliments. The wheels are Vforce rims with Toyo tyres.

westi wrote:That's mad Alan.

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 5 Jul 2011, 8:35 am

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cnfabo wrote:are you still running the widened steelies nathan...and are they 6.5 or 7" with 205's.....damn questions....:😂

No, I am not running the steelies anymore. I am running 6" x 15" VForce Spider rims and 195/50/15 tyres.

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hellbugged 48's and straight cuts

5,080 posts · joined Apr 2003 · 5 Jul 2011, 8:42 am

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long road to haul anybuild like this.....keep chipping away one at job at a time and eventually the last job will be done!

keen to see it going hard again too

PAZZAN Wolfsburg Wizard

592 posts · joined Jan 2008 · 5 Jul 2011, 6:37 pm

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probably cook 195 tyres on the back 205 on 7inch rims where on the limit at the end of a 10 lap race at eastern creek and they where 60 series..see how you go😵‍💫

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1,353 posts · joined Apr 2008 · 23 Jul 2011, 8:53 pm

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does the twin plug dizzy fit with the porsche fan shroud????

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 24 Jul 2011, 7:13 am

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cnfabo wrote:does the twin plug dizzy fit with the porsche fan shroud????

No it doesnt. The twin plug dizzy is about 5mm to big in diameter. Hence why it has taken a little longer to get on the track. I had to come up with a solution to over come this so I sold off the twin ignition and old Haltech, replaced the old Haltech with a new one, bought all the new EFI bits and bolted the Porsche fan on and added all the other stuff including a crank angle sensor, the new fittings to the fuel tank, fuel lines, wiring etc.

So this!

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I had it basically running with the webbers and standard fan but I though while its apart/not racing I might as well put on all the equipment I already had and set it up for the circuit/rallies as I have always intended.

Deispite already having the EFI system (Haltech F7 ECU, loom, pump etc), it was not just a simple change over to the newer ECU as the looms are not interchangable with the new Haltech so I had to buy a whole heap of new stuff like map sensors, igniters, coils, TPS, sensors etc which are compatable with the new Haltech. Plus the loom I got with the computer off ebay was a home made one so the wires did not match the colours on the wiring diagram (FFFFFFaaaaaaaaark), so I bought a new one of them too. Despite this the car is very close now. The above photos are a few weeks old and I have progressed a little futher since they were taken. Had it not been for the rain this week I prob would be running at Ringwood next week. Whilst on the subject of rain. If it stays away today, it may progress a little further again.

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fullnoise Fahrvergnugen

964 posts · joined Sep 2002 · 26 Jul 2011, 8:04 am

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I love the Porsche fan (Are you listening Santa?).

You're almost there. Judging by the quality of the build, I think the hard yards will be worth it.

Keep up the good work.

I can't wait for you to fly past me on the track!

Regards CT

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2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 26 Jul 2011, 8:01 pm

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Good to see it getting close Nathan

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 18 Aug 2011, 5:08 pm

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Been busy over the last few days. With the help of Greg Ward I have managed to finish off the cock pit and almost got the engine bay done with all the EFI stuff like mounting coils etc.. Getting closer now. Here are a couple of update pictures.

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Been busy again the last few days and almost have the bug finished off. Had a couple of little set backs. Got all the plumbing down, filled my nice new fuel cell and went to pressurise the fuel system.. Bugger. Fuel pump $hit its self so. Anyway here a a couple of updated shots.

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791 posts · joined Apr 2005 · 9 Sep 2011, 8:38 am

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So thats it for now. So we have the brakes working, lights working EFI almost working. Those little jobs, one step at a time are making this thing finally come together. Chassis wise all I have to do is fit the doors, bumpers and secondary bonnet catches then a proper wheel alignment..... Got to go so I can work on the car

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looks so good nathan.....

why the hotdog and not a fatboy syle muffler??

vassy66T1 Wow ... are U reading this?

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Cool!

Hot dog for comical effect I presume???

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vassy66T1 wrote:Cool!

Hot dog for comical effect I presume???

cnfabo wrote:looks so good nathan.....

why the hotdog and not a fatboy syle muffler??

NOISE....

After all it is a race car

Plus I dont like chrome on a race car and those chrome fatboy mufflers look gay.

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2,220 posts · joined May 2007 · 9 Sep 2011, 3:59 pm

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bat69 wrote:NOISE....

After all it is a race car

Plus I dont like chrome on a race car and those chrome fatboy mufflers look gay.

Heh heh... but it's too pretty now to be a race car !!!

😉

Lookin good dude... keen to hear how you go with firing it up on the EFI for the first time.

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bat69 wrote:
vassy66T1 wrote:Cool!

Hot dog for comical effect I presume???

cnfabo wrote:looks so good nathan.....

why the hotdog and not a fatboy syle muffler??

NOISE....

After all it is a race car

Plus I dont like chrome on a race car and those chrome fatboy mufflers look gay.😂😂😂

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2,120 posts · joined Jun 2003 · 10 Sep 2011, 7:11 am

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So no dB limits down your way??