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 Turbo54
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| posted on March 9th, 2007 at 01:26 PM |
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Where do you work?
Is that a Pac Performance R100 in the background?
Nice as work, wish you were in Adelaide.
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| posted on March 9th, 2007 at 02:55 PM |
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cheers for cool comments guy,s
we work at padstow,westside mufflers.
the r100 belongs to a customer that is sponsored by pac.
we are just down the road from them.
this is the car we built for auto salon,check it out.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vVP9n7_WQ14#
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| posted on March 10th, 2007 at 10:40 PM |
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just finish of the arse end here's some pic's
i hope it works as good as it looks.
i am not real hppy with the shock mounts,so i have only tac welded them for now,has anyone got any pic's of something similar.
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It's great to see someone else doing things differently.:thumb
Don't know if you've thought about this, (I notice you haven't welded the kafer setup yet) but how do you plan on getting the gearbox out, with
that arrangement?
Are you going to pull the axles out every time the gearbox needs to come out?
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| posted on March 12th, 2007 at 11:47 PM |
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i will try to find a standard setup to copy so i can make you a rear brace ,just give me a bit of time because i want to try and get my pan
finished.
i just got my sway away axles and front and rear brakes.
i did the front brake coversion on saturday,type 3 hubs,falcon disc's,nissan four spot calipers
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| posted on March 12th, 2007 at 11:56 PM |
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oh,
i nearly forgot ,yes i will be pulling out the axles every time i need to change the box,i don't realy want it to unbolt,it's just something else
that could go wrong.
to koolkarmakombi,i had already ordered my gearbox and wasn't going to do anything to the rear of this one,but i got bored and i had some nice bits
just laying around.so i thought why not.
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 07:17 AM |
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I tried to post a photo last week but it was so SLOW it never came up.
I used the roll cage back-bars as my point of load on my top shock mount.
You can lean the top of the shock inboard and forward a little with the swingaxle wheel travel.
Once this is done you can down-size the bars going down to the forks, and have them removable and closer to the bell housing.
Just make sure they clear the engine/heads/ exhaust.
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 07:27 AM |
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 07:30 AM |
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My bars were NOT removable because the car uses CVs,
but it is simple to flange them(or something a little more refined)
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 07:32 AM |
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It was a tight squeeze:
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 08:50 AM |
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thanks for the info and photo's,what a tight sqeeze,you must have a big shoe horn.
what happened to that car?
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 12:03 PM |
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love the work man !
thought about dropped spindles tho ?
will fix up those front arm angles a bit and also the angles the tie rods are on
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 02:48 PM |
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i am going to be changing the tie rod end to rose joint,so i will play with the steering geometry then.
i am trying to build the car with stuff i have lying around and i am a cheapskate,so dropped spindles are out.for now anyway
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 04:43 PM |
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so in the rear will you be able to fit wide rims?
if so how wide?
cause it looks like you'll be able to go big and the look of a drag car eg tubbed with fat rubber under the rear
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 05:04 PM |
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without the body on it's a little hard to guess.but 295 maybe 305.
the four link is about 100mm in from where the spring plate was.
it should look pretty fat
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 05:49 PM |
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what happened to that car?
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crash
http://forums.aussieveedubbers.com/viewtopic.php?tid=47146
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| posted on March 13th, 2007 at 10:37 PM |
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hope you don,t mind me asking ,but why aren't you fixing it,you would be untouchable in all motor.online wouldn,t have a chance.
they have approx 220 hp in a 600kg car.fast as it is ,the motor doesn't have any more to give.
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| posted on March 14th, 2007 at 07:35 AM |
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I am already close to the minimum weight for VWs at 1750lbs.
Hondas can be 100lbs lighter.
I am still thinking of fixing the car just to be lighter in any class,
but engine development dollars would have to be diverted.
The future holds all sorts of mysteries.
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| posted on March 15th, 2007 at 08:50 PM |
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do they weigh the cars often,
the only reason i ask is because they have told me personaly that there car weigh's only 600kg's without driver,
i thought that was a bit light but didn't think any more of it.
and the calculation's work out pretty close. for the mile ,weight and gear ratio's.etc .etc
i also hear there might be some rule changes for all motor coming soon.
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| posted on March 16th, 2007 at 07:12 AM |
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If you are trying to set a record, then they will weigh you.
Some tracks will bounce you if you are under,
which is pretty bogus since it is only bracket racing and not "heads up" yet.
I think they would be close to the minimum weight for their car(honda is 1650=750kg...650+ driver?)
But then again, it is NOT their car that holds the national record is it? LOL!
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| posted on March 16th, 2007 at 11:12 AM |
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to true dave.
like the old school deck lid
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| posted on March 16th, 2007 at 08:21 PM |
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mmm
Westi,i want of those decklids as well!!!:P are they fibreglass or metal? So my list is Decklid ,Gearbox bracket:thumbthanks
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| posted on March 17th, 2007 at 10:46 AM |
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there fibreglass ,i don't know what they are worth .this one has gone on to a list of favour,s .
i got him to make it ultra thin,you might want your's to be alittle thicker.
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| posted on March 17th, 2007 at 12:41 PM |
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it is only an outer skin
the same as i have is $200 cash only
if you want it to bolt on like standard it is around $250
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| posted on March 17th, 2007 at 04:59 PM |
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Nice decklid indeed...so those prices are for all of us interested?
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| posted on March 17th, 2007 at 07:01 PM |
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yes ,those prices are for anyone interested,if anyone wants one i will u2u his number.
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| posted on March 22nd, 2007 at 01:07 PM |
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my gearbox arrived y'day.here r some pic's.
has any one ever bought a gearbox from rancho performance before,if so what was it like.
question time?
has any one stuffed around with collector lengths or how thet merge,i make alot for customers ,but you don't want use them as test pig's,so i
usually just make the norm.
but for myself i thought i might try something a little different.i copied a set of F1 style collectors .any info would be great.
i am going to make a few different styles and see which one works best with my combo.any pic's u have would be nice.
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| posted on March 22nd, 2007 at 02:07 PM |
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Hey Westi,
This is how I set mine up, Collector look the same as your inside, Not same runner lengths but I wanted a clean look over spagetti!
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| posted on March 22nd, 2007 at 02:45 PM |
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in the case of a turbo equal length's don't make any difference any way.the quickest path is the best path,unless you are using a split pulse turbo
housing.
who did your pipes,give them a pat on the back for a job well done.did you perge weld them.
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| posted on March 22nd, 2007 at 03:43 PM |
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Yeah purged, they are boiler pipe and really thick but we found they moved around a lot when they wee heated. We even got some peices to move by just
adding water when really hot. Incredible stuff. Yeah he did a really good job. http://www.aseturbo.com did some of the pipe work and a friend and myself finished it off.
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| posted on March 22nd, 2007 at 04:03 PM |
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great stuff.
with the steam pipe i usually won't tak any more than 3 pieces at a time because they tend to pull quite a bit.
nice polish job on the pipes.that takes just as much time to do as making it.
i look forward to seeing more on your build,keep the pic's coming.
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