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 DieSchnelleKafer
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| posted on January 16th, 2011 at 01:20 PM |
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awesome awesome awesome 
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Aussie Dubbin
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| posted on January 16th, 2011 at 03:03 PM |
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marcus I think that handbrake has us all excited can you spill any more info and is it street legal? So what rear callipers, sorry if you already said
that . Cheers
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| posted on January 16th, 2011 at 04:59 PM |
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marcus I think that handbrake has us all excited
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There is nothing that exciting about it I dont think. Its a hand brake that runs in the rear line with a master cylinder. You pull it and it locks the
rear wheels. Rally cars have been running them as 'standard issue' for decades. You can buy flash mechanisms, like ones similar to Marcus' from
rally places like Revolution etc.
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| posted on January 16th, 2011 at 07:20 PM |
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Extreme Motorsports
197 Toombul Road, Northgate, Queensland, Australia 4013
Phone: 07 3630 4377
Fax: 07 3630 4355
They are nice guys. Bought my Sparco helmet off them also.
The rally and drift guys have been using these for a while. You can mount the handbrake lever vertically also which is what the rally and drift guys
would do I hazard a guess.
I liked the idea that I didn't have to piss around to have a handbrake. No idea on the street legal.
Calipers were from a rear wheel disc kit I bought through VW and Volvo centre (from a Formula V build that did not go ahead). Looked a bit like one of
John Shermans but I couldn't be sure.
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| posted on January 19th, 2011 at 09:33 PM |
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great build Marcus, we'll have to catch up and compare notes. I'm working on brakes /front end and rear brakes at the moment on my 69-EJ2TT race
car and keen to see how your suspension set up works on the track.
Love the pan work you did. Worthy of a show car....
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| posted on January 20th, 2011 at 06:11 PM |
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Thanks for the kind compliments lou0060.
It isn't a show car but I wanted people to look at it and think "that is tidy".
Happy to share notes when I have some. At the moment it is a hopeful for mid year to see it hit the track. 
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| posted on January 22nd, 2011 at 09:04 PM |
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are you heading up for dubs at the taven or pie or whatever they call it now?? I think it's Feb 20th. The Top Gear series starts at Lakeside same
day so will probably split the day between the two. might catch up then.
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| posted on January 23rd, 2011 at 03:07 PM |
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gday marcus what spindles are you using and have you worked out a way to adjust your rear camber?
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| posted on January 24th, 2011 at 08:13 AM |
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Hey mactaylor
I am running dropped spindles on the front. (2" I am fairly sure)
The rear camber is going to be adjusted via the crazy Porsche copy camber adjusters.
See the close up in the photo below. Adjuster is the one in the bottom left hand corner.
Honestly have no ideas how they work but am assured that they do.
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| posted on January 26th, 2011 at 08:15 PM |
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A couple more photos ... why not
Put the wheels on today. V force spiders with some s/h track tyres. From the look of things I will need to get the top arms bent to get the desired
-ve camber on the fronts.
Have some aluminium arriving tomorrow to start fabricating a pedal assembly. Looking forward to that one.
16mm solid for the rod straight through for the accelerator, 25 by 3mm tube that will need to be honed out to take some 16 by 20mm bushes. Uprights
are 40mm by 10mm flat with holes to come
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| posted on January 26th, 2011 at 09:19 PM |
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Looking great Marcus!! You must be getting excited with it on wheels
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| posted on January 26th, 2011 at 09:26 PM |
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Awesome mate, big week eh???
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| posted on January 29th, 2011 at 08:10 PM |
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Gday Marcus,
Your project looks awesome, i love your attention to detail.
Glad to see my old tyres went to a good home.
Cheers Col
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| posted on January 29th, 2011 at 09:46 PM |
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Thanks Col.
Will have to come for a drive to watch you guys run one time this year.
Tried to last year but family commitments clashed. Your engine is sounding very sweet,
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| posted on January 29th, 2011 at 11:27 PM |
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looks sick marcus...love the first photo of the rolling pan....
are those 205's on a 6" rim????
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| posted on January 30th, 2011 at 11:06 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by vassy66T1
Thanks Col.
Will have to come for a drive to watch you guys run one time this year.
Tried to last year but family commitments clashed. Your engine is sounding very sweet,
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Thanks mate.
A good hillclimb which is the closest to you would be Grafton on the 12/06/2011 which is the June longweekend.
Practice is on Saturday afternoon with racing Sunday. It,s a great hillclimb for spectators as you can see the whole track from one spot.
Keep up the good work on your racer.
Cheers Col
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| posted on March 12th, 2011 at 05:06 PM |
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Little bit more work happening
Got some Aluminium to start fabricating the pedal assembly.
Cruddy drawing and fabrication work to date.
All things going well I will have it mostly together by the end of next weekend (the pedal assembly that is)
One of my neighbours is a Timken bearings rep so we are catching up tomorrow to detail the bearing solutions.
Another neighbour is a very good boiler maker so will be doing the alloy welding. 
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| posted on March 12th, 2011 at 10:29 PM |
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Looking good Marcus
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 01:25 PM |
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Slow progress but bought the body home (it's got a way to go till it is finished but I need to make sure that master cylinders, pedal boxes and the
like will fit where I want them)
It looks like I will be needing to flare the guards.
Didn't really expect that one but heights are looking good.
Now to wait for some parts to arrive for rear sway bar fitment and to finalise the fabrication of the pedal box. Oh and a whole pile of other stuff.
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 01:29 PM |
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Great mate.....how did the pedals fit?
Looks like fat guards all round.
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 01:48 PM |
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Hey Matt
I am waiting for the pedal pads to finalise the fabrication.
I also wanted to check the fitment of the master cylinders just so I got the pushrods and travel correct.
The pedal box will be sturdy (read overbuilt) but hey that's alright.
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 02:03 PM |
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Yeah mate, the number of trial fits of every component when your in the fabrication stage is always surprising.
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 03:46 PM |
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Great to see progressing again Marcus !!!
Instead of flaring the guards... possibly run a thicker beading rubber ???
I've got 10mm wide on my front guards, and have fitted up to 20mm wide on the rear before making the bolts line up gets too tough.
Gives a nice bit of extra clearance, without changing the look too much... just makes it look a bit fatter really.
Oh tell ya what tho... that's a bit low in the front... 100mm lowest point for sprung components buddy !!!
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 04:27 PM |
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Thanks Dave
Interesting idea.
I will have a look at yours at Mt Cotton this next round.
I was waiting for the height to be mentioned.
I'll be cutting that stock tow hook off ... 
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 05:13 PM |
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Looks great Marcus.
You may have some material left to machine from the back of the wheels too.
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| posted on March 26th, 2011 at 05:16 PM |
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hi Marcus, what a small world hey! only thing I'd say is don't believe anything Brett tells you.....
We are about at the same stage with our cars. Brett was here a week ago and drooled over my car but didn't mention anything about your car. He must
have had a mental block or something.
love your idea on the pedals, might have to copy yours if my flat feet don't work on the standard ones.....
might have to take a run over your side of town one day soon.
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| posted on March 27th, 2011 at 07:30 PM |
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That would be cool Lou.
Brett only spoke highly of you ... is that the part I don't believe???
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| posted on March 28th, 2011 at 06:30 PM |
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absolutely!
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| posted on August 12th, 2011 at 07:33 PM |
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Haven't been totally asleep though not much to show.
Here is a sneak peek of the pedal assembly
Solid as a rock
Some sparco pedal pads to be fitted to these
Body goes to panel beater for some work Monday week
progress is nice when it happens
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| posted on August 14th, 2011 at 09:39 PM |
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Pedals looking great Marcus
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