It has been a few weeks (months) since an update, I was hoping to have everything done and painted by this point, but theres still a fair amount of work to do. I finished off the rear end/diff rebuild on my brothers car and got that all back together and driving, which has free’d up some space and cleared my plate so to speak. With my attention focused back on the front clip for my car, I was able to finish off a majority of it.
With the brake booster gone and compact Wilwood master cylinder now mounted on the firewall with the adaptor I machined, I had a heap of space behind the strut tower to fill. Enough space I could fill it with a catch can. Made a paper prototype to check the fit and then as usual left it in the good hands of Adam at C’s Garage. Hes become my regular ali welding expert lately haha, works out good though as he often needs bits and pieces machined up here and there.
As always, slack to update this blog, but I have been tinkering away. Although it seems I start something, hit a bit of a road block then start something else before finishing the last, so lately I have been trying to get those unfinished bits done before starting anything else. Continue reading “Unfinished Business”
After Taupo, the car was still in one piece and running good. But it got a few battle scars and few other issues arose that I want to sort out. After clipping the tyre in the morning it had bent the exhaust some where, along with scratching up my freshly paint fuel tank and denting some of the panels/floor under the car. Tried to tweak it back into place at the track but it no longer sat where it used to, which caused the hot muffler to melt a wider cut out in the bumper. So new exhaust was in order.
Still here! Have been keeping busy as usual… Did a Zero Class drift day at Taupo back in March. First time I had driven there in a few years. Was a good day overall. Forgot how to drive properly in the morning, couldnt get it right. Spun a few times and collected a tyre when I ran too wide once. After all that I decided I would drive it how I should have been. Managed to burn through a few tyres, was getting pretty comfortable in the car by the end of the day.
Got some in car footage from the day too. Just a quick run:
Next time Ill give fourth a go exiting the sweeper along with some high boost engaged haha.
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