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steering wheel quick release and looks like a brake balance adjuster or line locker or rather a proportioning valve?

and the exhaust heat wrap.

rear lower arms

rear upper arms

rear traction rods

front castor rods

F+R sway bars

water to air IC

radiator

radiator hoses

brake kit

coil over kit

oil filter gauge adapter thing.

that's about all I can clearly see. :dry:

Beer Baron has got it all but one and it's damn near impossible to see from the pictures, and that's the sump baffle in the middle box. Well done!

Oh and the coilovers are a production prototype which never made it in to production. The canisters are nitrogen canisters. They are bound and rebound adjustable, plus height of course.

nice one. yeah the canisters look pretty cool. I run some ohlins on my 32 which I like a lot and they have the remote canisters and more adjusments that I know what to do with. that is the danger of the 4 way damper adjustable shock is that you spend 12 months getting the right settings for the right track! my possible damper settings are 600 different combos per shock (30X20), X 4 shocks gives you years of head scrathing! like mine yours look to be all alloy body too which is nice for a bit of weight saving.

I can't wait to see this bad boy up and running.

Those quick release wheel hubs are outstanding value.... I got one off Steve coupla months ago and was pleasantly suprised, no slop even! :ninja:

agree with that. I have bought about 5 of them! 1 in the alfa race car, one in the 32, one in the silva, one in another alfa, one in my GTST, and I think I still have one lying around. just take out the little safety switch, then it's much easier to operate (just pull the cuff). there is still zero chance of you ever accidentally pulling it off.

funny story. my friends GT3 cup car. another friend and I prepp'd and gave him track support for nearly 2 years in prod sports. his GT3 had a $500 sparco quick release. the spline type one. it was always a bitch to seat properly and sure enough one day he hopped in and didn't put it on. half way between turn 1 and 2 the wheel popped off in his hands. scary stuff. luckily no damage done and it was not during a race. his race suit needed dry cleaning though.

lol... funnily enough the white 34 had a Sparco one too and it was a pain. Was a bitch to line up the spline if you parked without the wheel strait and yeah, once drove out of service without it clipped in properly and it came off in my hand at the first corner! Slight soiling.

lol Neil has been known to have the same problem with his spline style one too. it seems pretty good to me I am going to grab one for the race car as well.

Mark....good work with the progress yesterday, feel free to finish off the whole car anytime you want.

BTW I notice no-one picked the extra set of arms......count em again. Mark has some funny ideas. again.

we've also sorted out some geometery adjustments for the front to go with the adjustments happening to the rear subframe....and Gary made up those lovely custom sway bars for us.

will be interesting to see if we have wrecked everything and it handles like a bucket of shit.

lol Neil has been known to have the same problem with his spline style one too. it seems pretty good to me I am going to grab one for the race car as well.

Mark....good work with the progress yesterday, feel free to finish off the whole car anytime you want.

BTW I notice no-one picked the extra set of arms......count em again. Mark has some funny ideas. again.

we've also sorted out some geometery adjustments for the front to go with the adjustments happening to the rear subframe....and Gary made up those lovely custom sway bars for us.

will be interesting to see if we have wrecked everything and it handles like a bucket of shit.

what the f**k are you doing buying toe arms? It's not a silvia....

you really don't want to know steve....we have had a lot of assistance with this car - we would never have got this far without the help because neither of us have the spare cash to put into another race car atm. Neil's labour has been the biggest cost so far. Or maybe the stagea's fuel bill for deliveries.

Hills Motorsport

Just Jap

Ghea Race Engines

Unique Autosports

RR Engineering

All of those guys are long term supporters of the team and have really come to the party with this new car.

Neil you can criticize as much as you like, but you know I never listen! Bang for buck, shoestring budget, call it what you like. The whole theme of the car is to see how fast you can make it on the smell of an oily rag. Now if they only made sequential gearboxes in china....

Russ, hadn't been over to your thread for a while. Had a look but couldn't quite make out the setup. Looks like you have some custom hubs and a different setup for the lower a arm? Hard to see. Plan is to mount the u box section around the hicas steering rod mounting point with solid nylon bushes or even rigid centres and then build a connecting box below the first turn up of the rear cradle. I'll have to measure a properly loaded cradle to make sure all the clearances are right and that the rod sits close to level when neutral, but visually it looks like it will work.

If not, I'll shorten the toe rod and mount on the side of the cradle. Same result, bit more work, and the shorter the rod, the more the rear will toe out under normal movement.

BTW, the boot lid looks just a little more professional than ours and a little better fitting, hope it cost a million dollars, because it will make me feel a whole lot better about the less than beautiful finish of the alloy one I built! Where are you going to mount the spoiler?

Give me a week and I'll post some pictures. Have a crazy idea that's just crazy enough to work. Death to all things HICAS :D

I'll wait to see the pics before commenting.

Most people seem to want to remove the outer ball joint (fair enough, known point of failure) and replace it with a bush (added compliance and alignment changes under load).

I have my own ideas about how best to tackle it but i'll wait to see yours :(

edit: damn! you spilled your guts while i was posting!

Edited by BHDave

that sounds like it should work in the rear hicas mate, and bloody hell it will make a difference too! the r34 has top a arms alot like the lower one so you can do away with the hicas rod altogether.

as far as cost goes , i got a really good deal from hi octane for all the parts from the Tomei r34 drag car so has helped heaps with costs,

i think the rear wing will be mounted on plates inside the boot almost out the back of the car and the bootlid will have slots cut into it so it can slide down over the wing mounts, if that makes sense

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