Show Me Your Racing Machines

[Beer Baron]

heres my big camshafts .....not finished yet....these puppies should make some trunks a bit lumpy

lol, there's a hole in that housing where the port should be mate... hehe. that will be nice. should slot those housings into my road car...

[ylwgtr2]

no....theres a hole where metal is supposed to be!

[Marlin]

Selling her? Any particular reason? Shame, the thing looked to be a decent little bus, and no doubt well driven.

No particular reason mate, and once push comes to shove might not be able to actually go through with it. But I'm feeling it's time to maybe take a break and show my little lady the attention she deserves. She's missed out on alot over the years due to me going racing.

[SABBAi]

Troy that's an insane port job..... No chance of that sucker idling below 1500rpm....

Dane it's looking good mate. Have you got the dash flocked yet?

[phunky_monkey]

That porting is massive. Should sound very nice indeed!

It's getting there Scott, hopefully driveable by Monday. I haven't got the dash done yet as a few things have gone over budget, so once that' all sorted I'll pull it out and get it flocked.

[Roy]

Troy, throw it in the work ute. Improving delivery times, means more profitability, so justified spend? Or some BS like that. Plus it will just be funny having a work ute that cracks windows as it drives by

[NickR33]

I haven't got the dash done yet as a few things have gone over budget, so once that' all sorted I'll pull it out and get it flocked.

says the man with the Stack dash!

I'm jealous... I like shiny stuff...

[Beer Baron]

I even like the uras type lights on this one where they are covered. it would probably help the aero a bit as without that nice smooth cover it would for sure create drag or turbulence.

[evil_weevil]

wonder if they do the same on mx5's?

[phunky_monkey]

says the man with the Stack dash!

I'm jealous... I like shiny stuff...

Haha that was in the budget... but a few thousand other things weren't!

I think you're right Richard, and it's something I've thought about, but I just don't like the covered ones so I'm not doing it by convincing myself the open ones make for a great ram air intake But I should really do it, so I might when I have some more money and can do the aero stuff I want.

Chris: I'm sure some companies would

[funkymonkey]

from a guy on another forum I'm on...

GT class Porsche I did some work on yesterday.

Did an alignment on it then a little tuning on the dyno.

[phunky_monkey]

That's awesome! I wonder what GT series that would run in?

[funkymonkey]

dunoo, will have to ask him. Maybe google the name above the door if you can make it out.

also, bought this from Revzone in melb.

replacement rear half should be arriving at the shop next week. rebuild imminent. tempted to chuck an SR in it for shits n giggles

[Beer Baron]

it's funny looking at that porsche it just screamed american to me. I know it's LHD but that's not the give away. it's the cage design. the side intrusion design to be specific. so american. they all seem to do it that way with the ladder type side intrusion. I guess it's come because oval racing is their premier tin top racing and that cage design filters down to other categories. you would never see one like that in aus in any category. except benms lone nascup car which of course was US built or at least designed.

[hrd-hr30]

actually, the speedway guys in Aus use exactly that style of intrusion proection.

[dezz]

I thought USA when I saw it too, not because of the design, but just the photos/background in general... Looks US

Then there's the sticker on the back, looks US something too..

[NickR33]

actually, the speedway guys in Aus use exactly that style of intrusion proection.

any particular reason why oval guys use that style?

[zebra]

I dare say due to the fact that they crash a lot, they would need as much side impact protection as possible.....because I know id hate to be T boned at 180MPH (NASCAR i'm talking here)

[hrd-hr30]

any particular reason why oval guys use that style?

It looks like the ultimate in side impact protection. As Zebra suggests American oval racing has far greater likelihood of high speed side impatcs.

Speedway in Aus requires that design, obviously a hand-me-down from the states oval racing regs.

[R33_Dude]

Just picked up this for a fun track day project:

Will be set up for drift or circuit with fun being the key word, times coming second.

Coming up will be a heavily modified N/A 4AGE. Not too sure yet how I will swing it but I think lightweight forged internals, larger cams, light ported head, bumped up compression ratio, twin weber's in an alloy air ducting enclosure (gogo cad skills!), MSD electronics and a few other bits and pieces.

Suspension wise I am not to sure... More research will need to be done!