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wha? i hope not. :banana: we need good shops and guys that are willing to try different stuff. from the pics and info in this thread stu is well up there. i know things are pretty rough at the moment though. :P

anyway, hopefully you can keep going in some capacity mate. :sick:

thanks for the kind words guys, but as you have heard i have closed the workshop indefinately.

There were a few contributing factors that i wont go into but at the end of the day when going to work feels like a chore and not fun anymore then decisions have to be made. I found that i had lost the passion i had when i opened 5 years ago and that business pressure was increasing with all outside factors such as fuel prices & interest rates earlier in the year and now the global collapse, all which indirectly affect small business. Also the fact that my landlord felt fit to increase my rent 40% on my first renuwal after he new i was settled and established.

At the end of the day i was working to pay bills, and felt guilty when id spend a bit of cash on the car.

Going to work early and coming home late also has meant i have missed spending time with my young family which i will now have the opportunity to do.

Thanks again to all of you who trusted me to work on your cars and supported me in my business.

The good thing is now ill have more time to spend on my own car and hopefully get to some events to enjoy it with the rest of you guys.

Cheers Stuart.

PS Chevys Rule lol...

well it's always sad to see another shop go down. but it sounds like you've made the right choice for you mate. :D best of luck with whatever you are up to next. :D

looks like I'll have to check out the yellow peril at an event instead of the shop, but that's even better. :D

Hey man,

Not good to hear that Bezerkly has now closed.

Any chance though, you could post up what things are actually needed to make this fit exactly?

From what I read on another thread, it's new engine mounts, notching the cross member, gearbox mounts, and a new clutch master, plus the electrics, piping, and custom exhaust etc...

Anything else you can enlighten me on?

depends on what you are fitting it in....

in a 32 it required engine mount brackets on the block to be fabricated, clutch master is off a 33, i ran a VL manual steering rack, but guys reckon you can leave the standard one, but i think its to tight, cross member is untouched. fabricated a gbox crossmember for the tremec, can leave standard radiator. exhaust, wiring etc goes without saying. All has been detailed with pics in this thread.

If you plan on street registering this car i would talk to an engineer first.

Hey man,

Not good to hear that Bezerkly has now closed.

Any chance though, you could post up what things are actually needed to make this fit exactly?

From what I read on another thread, it's new engine mounts, notching the cross member, gearbox mounts, and a new clutch master, plus the electrics, piping, and custom exhaust etc...

Anything else you can enlighten me on?

Cheers Baron, make sure you let me know when your in town..

well it's always sad to see another shop go down. but it sounds like you've made the right choice for you mate. :) best of luck with whatever you are up to next. :P

looks like I'll have to check out the yellow peril at an event instead of the shop, but that's even better. :)

ordered my trick mufflers from gonzo today, in QLD next week so will pick them up then, ill post pics when i get them as they are different from mufflers most of you would have seen.

so planning on getting exhaust, tin-work & a few things in engine bay like breather can and overflow made. want to run car at that 6 hour at wakefield in march so have a deadline now. also need to tune car , set wheel alignment and suspension set-up and find a rear screen.

I've been reading this thread for a while now (blardy interesting!) and it's a shame to see the shop go. It seems you have made the right choice for yourself though, so that's good :)

Can't wait to see this thing finished and rolling! :)

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OK, after a week of perfect weather in QLD on holidays i took the oportunity to pick up my hand built mufflers from Gonzo, who is the exhaust guru. These are his new trick mufflers, and like i said they are nothing like you would have seen before. They are 3" merged into twin 3" pipes but with the spiral vortex baffles welded inside. They excellerate gas flow while muffeling sound.

Gonzo also had a software programe on his PC which after entering some engine specs gave us the ideal collector diameter, merge collector area and ideal dinstance from collectors to merge collector.

All of this aids in throttle responce, torque and peak power. Hope to have car back soon to fabricate exhaust and other tin-work etc.

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ha, ha, they werent as much as you might think, payed $320each. Also bought all the flange plates, mandrel bends, hanger brackets and some straight pipe. whole system will owe me about $1700 including the extractors and HPC coating.

how many thousand did that set you back?

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