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[White2i]

thanks for that.

have to say this is another great car for insperation

[~nomad~]

Glad to see its finally moving forward,

Stop fannying about with the paint and get it ready to thrash you couple homos

we are doing both mate! its very pink and covered in overspray at the mo, so needs some sorting!
we need to sort the wheels out too, ones on it catch on the coilovers, and the slicks catch them too. So its diff wheels or hubcentrics i think. Sure Paul will think of the best way thou, after all the wheels he has tried on the green one!

[Chris 2i]

nice one, hope to see this on track at the shows next year

[~nomad~]

Spent a long overdue day on the trackcar with Paul today, in readiness for this years trackdays, of which i might actually do some.

First order of the day, make the drivers seat adjustable, it was previously mounted directly to the bars off the cage, fixing it in one place. If you know me and Paul then it will be obviously why this is not suitable now he coowns the car

So out with the seats and harnesses (2 pairs as one was just in the car on the seat) How mouldy is the pass seat!:




Had a think session with some runners and the side mounts.


Paul welded nuts into the bars, as captives to hold the bolts for the runners in place.



Adjustable bar cut in half and combined with another as the runners are now further apart than normal.



Seat in and adjustable, looking good!



Safety first!

[~nomad~]

Next up was sorting the dash out from what was in there, basically a very rough cut down dash that I did as quick as poss to get to the last trackday I did. Basically its the same as the one in Pauls green beast. Looks lots neater. Sorry for the dark pics at end, ran out of light!









Also started getting rid of the massive amount of overspray on the out side of the car, muchus thinners!
And removed last of the vinyls. Before and after pics (not in order)

[Max M4X WW]

Good stuff, Can Paul reach the pedals now?

Looks like there is a bit of water in it?

[Turboboy67]

Good to see some progress on this at last Dave

[~nomad~]

Good stuff, Can Paul reach the pedals now?

Looks like there is a bit of water in it?

yeah there was, from the sunroof and a massive amount of condensation.

[Capri]

Charlieful

[~S1~]

Good stuff, Can Paul reach the pedals now?

Yep, Just about!

Ive done a bit more on it over Christmas, when Dave was round last we found we had a bit of slack in the steering. I since traced that to none of the drivers side suspension being bolted up so I've tightened all that up as well as fit the lower "S" bracket that links both sides up. I've had a go at bleeding the brakes after we fitted braided hoses a few weeks back. Pedal is still soft though so we can have another go at the weekend. Ive been playing around with wheels and found the best solution out of all the wheels we have is some 6.5 X 15's with a 35 offset. We'll hopefully get some tyres on them so we can at least drive it. I'll probly try n paint them black as they are minging wheels!

[JamieFRST]

Good to see its coming along, dash chop looks good

[Rhinopower]

Looks good guys, looking forward to seeing this out and about this year

[~nomad~]

yeah its gonna be a good year for the trackcar I hope!

[Captain Tightpants]

Deffo have to get some track time together.

Steve

[~nomad~]

Deffo have to get some track time together.

Steve

Lets hope so mate, what days / shows you planning on doing?



Should be a update tomorrow night, after a day in the cold tomorrow!

[~nomad~]

Me and Paul spent a very cold day getting some more done on the trackcar today.



The first order of the day was to sort the trackrod ends, hubnuts and lower arm pinch bolts, all in need of renewal. Pretty simple and not alot to say, heres a couple of pics for what its worth!




We also made a trip to the scrappy to get the pipes for the sunroof drains, which have gone missing at some point. Heres Paul removing them, no pic of them fitted, use your imagination Paul cut his finger, so he is now a Finger Slashing Moron, as opposed to his normal Finger Smashing Moron.




The main issue today was sorting the wheel situation out, the wheels on the car catch on the coilovers without spacers, and we dont wanna run those! We had already fitted the long studs to the front in readiness, so was just a case of selecting a set of wheels.







The white team dynamics I had in my garage fit perfectly so its those we shall use, just need to get a couple tires on for the front and swap the rears over from the old wheels. Glad to have this sorted, was beginning to stress me out!



We also did the tracking (cool to learn how to for me, I learn loads from Paul!), got the pads back on the seat and took the front bumper off (have another, slightly less ropey one to go on).

We also bled the brakes in the dark lol.

I think thats about it for todays work, prob forgotten something!

[Rhinopower]

Cracking update, if i knew i was going to finish work at half 10 i would of joined you.

New dash looks good, what are you doing about passanger seat?

[sjoyce666]

Whats going on with the white OZ Racing wheels and what size and offset are they ?

Scott

[~nomad~]

Cracking update, if i knew i was going to finish work at half 10 i would of joined you.

New dash looks good, what are you doing about passanger seat?

will be bolting the recaro in for now, prob get a bucket in soon thou, think we are gonna keep eyes open for another sparco evo 2 i think.

[~nomad~]

Whats going on with the white OZ Racing wheels and what size and offset are they ?

Scott

the solid ones? they are Pauls, only 2 of them and a mad offset lol

[MotorcyclesFish]

Those vinyls were a baxtered to get off.

[~nomad~]

Those vinyls were a baxtered to get off.

eh? how would you know?

[Captain Tightpants]

Not sure reallt mate, deffo the main ones, trax, FF ect. A few at castle combe no doubt too.

I think those sunroof drains may be my fault buddy,

Think I may have taken them out when I welded in the front cage parts, and forgot to put them back in,

My bad, sorry paul for damaging your finger!

Steve

[Smo]

Some nice little updates there... Good to see more track stuff going on

[~S1~]

I think those sunroof drains may be my fault buddy,

Think I may have taken them out when I welded in the front cage parts, and forgot to put them back in
Steve

One was still kinda in place so i pulled it out, it had ever so slightly been welded where the cage stiffener was on the a-pillar!

(by ever so slightly I mean burnt to fudge)



All good tho, finally got to drive it yesterday, albeit the massive distance from mine to me ma n pa's, a whole 200 yards and back.

[jmeBDC]

Nice little read


Looks better with the dash all the way along the top though

[Max M4X WW]

Looking good, I see Dave's dumped the blue thing at yours Paul



That black thing on the inner wing, Is it the Zetec engine mount? Just asking as I've never seen one before

[~nomad~]

erm not sure mate, lol. I think yes. Will grab a pic next time my head is in there.

Paul has sorted some Toyo Proxys for the front, the rears are ok for one more day I think

[MotorcyclesFish]

Those vinyls were a baxtered to get off.

eh? how would you know?

Spare door for the shonky RS.

Max I think that is the OSF bracket mount. They bolt to the inner wing just above the chassis rail IIRC so it seems the right position.

[~nomad~]

Those vinyls were a baxtered to get off.

eh? how would you know?

Spare door for the shonky RS.

Max I think that is the OSF bracket mount. They bolt to the inner wing just above the chassis rail IIRC so it seems the right position.

Ah right, that wasn't on my car, was off a diff car I broke.

[~S1~]

I dropped a pair of wheels off this morning with baldies, picked em up this arvo with a fresh set of Toyo Proxes. The rear two are having a set of Falken's fitted from the myriad of spare wheels we have! I have found a Sparco bucket for the passenger seat so hopefully this weekend we should have it fully sorted and ready for our first trackday.

[~nomad~]

trackalicious!

Shame we kinda misunderstood the tyres thing, will get a second pair of proxies on ther asap thou!

[Max M4X WW]

Misunderstood tyres thing?

[~nomad~]

yeah.

[Max M4X WW]