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 Craig Torrens
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| posted on April 25th, 2011 at 05:48 PM |
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Any more updates ?
Will it make the track in 2011.......or will it be 2012 now?
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| posted on April 25th, 2011 at 06:14 PM |
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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
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| posted on April 25th, 2011 at 06:47 PM |
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| posted on April 25th, 2011 at 08:06 PM |
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oh yeah, cant wait to see this baby roll out....
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| posted on April 26th, 2011 at 08:44 AM |
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posted by bat69
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.
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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
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| posted on April 27th, 2011 at 07:48 AM |
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Colin, the car might be finished but I think Nat has a wedding to go to that weekend.
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| posted on June 30th, 2011 at 09:51 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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| posted on July 4th, 2011 at 12:33 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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Thanks about the compliments. The wheels are Vforce rims with Toyo tyres.
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| posted on July 4th, 2011 at 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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| posted on July 4th, 2011 at 12:53 PM |
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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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| posted on July 4th, 2011 at 07:16 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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| posted on July 5th, 2011 at 05:21 AM |
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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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Thanks about the compliments. The wheels are Vforce rims with Toyo tyres.
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That's mad Alan.
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| posted on July 5th, 2011 at 08:35 AM |
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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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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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| posted on July 5th, 2011 at 08:42 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
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| posted on July 5th, 2011 at 06:37 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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| posted on July 23rd, 2011 at 08:53 PM |
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does the twin plug dizzy fit with the porsche fan shroud????
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| posted on July 24th, 2011 at 07:13 AM |
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does the twin plug dizzy fit with the porsche fan shroud????
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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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| posted on July 24th, 2011 at 07:18 AM |
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Become this!
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| posted on July 24th, 2011 at 07:35 AM |
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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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| posted on July 26th, 2011 at 08:04 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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| posted on July 26th, 2011 at 08:01 PM |
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Good to see it getting close Nathan
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| posted on August 18th, 2011 at 05:08 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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| posted on September 9th, 2011 at 08:29 AM |
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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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| posted on September 9th, 2011 at 08:38 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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| posted on September 9th, 2011 at 10:00 AM |
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looks so good nathan.....
why the hotdog and not a fatboy syle muffler??
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| posted on September 9th, 2011 at 03:18 PM |
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Cool!
Hot dog for comical effect I presume???
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Cool!
Hot dog for comical effect I presume???
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looks so good nathan.....
why the hotdog and not a fatboy syle muffler??
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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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| posted on September 9th, 2011 at 03:59 PM |
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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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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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| posted on September 9th, 2011 at 05:12 PM |
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Cool!
Hot dog for comical effect I presume???
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looks so good nathan.....
why the hotdog and not a fatboy syle muffler??
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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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| posted on September 10th, 2011 at 07:11 AM |
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So no dB limits down your way??
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