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it looks good mate. you certainly don't muck around! I'll be interested to see where the car ends up weight wise. they may be some saving in the engine, and lots of sheet metal gone, but then lots of steel added back in with the gearbox frame, new firewall, new floor, roll cage etc. I honestly couldn't guess if it will be lighter than stock or heavier. please let us know. :P

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Looking at the amount of work you have done just to get the chassis to a state where you can start building your own parts (i.e. removing old things to prepare for new things) you must have gotten the chassis for a song, to make this build worth it!

Yeah, I know... But when I sell the engine and gearbox that followed the car for aprox. 2000aud, witch should be possible, I got the chassie for free... including two 18" wheels and two 17" wheels...

it looks good mate. you certainly don't muck around! I'll be interested to see where the car ends up weight wise. they may be some saving in the engine, and lots of sheet metal gone, but then lots of steel added back in with the gearbox frame, new firewall, new floor, roll cage etc. I honestly couldn't guess if it will be lighter than stock or heavier. please let us know. :)

Thanks!

The steel for framing off the gearbox tunnel is suprisingly light.. The hollow square tubing I uses is only 20x20x1(.5?)mm. But since I also fabricated the gearbox mount as a part of the frame, it needed to be a little bit beefy... I do not think the wheight will be a issue.

There is some quality fabrication in that gearbox frame, amongst other things.

Thanks for the compliment!

I am trying to do quality work, so I dont need to worry about things braking during the season...

  • 3 weeks later...

Time for some updates. Since the last time, I have been extreamly busy prepping the car for Roll-Cage building, so I havent had time to update any of my build threads...

But the following has been done:

  • Engine and Transmission has been taken out
  • The brakes that I installed, is removed, but the disk is till there, or the rims wouldn't fit.
  • The hols that was left over from the removal of old Roll cage, has been welded and grinned, so it looks nice.
  • Mounted a temporary steering wheel, and got the car back on its four wheels.
  • I primed all bear metals, so it will not rust on the trip over the Norwegian mountains in snow storm...
  • Ordered a bunch of parts from Driftworks.com :P

The parts I ordered are listed below. Some of the parts was in rest, and they will send those parts when they arrive, without extra cost. The rest is in town somewhere, they arrived to bergen at 06:00... :D

  • Whiteline Rear Anti roll bar
  • Whiteline Front Anti roll bar
  • Driftworks R32 GTSt Suspension Arm Kit
  • Poly bushes (4 for the spindels, that cant be changed to Unibals)
  • Solid Subframe bushes
  • Driftworks Total HICAS Eliminator
  • Carbon Fibre Roof Scoop
  • Kaaz 1.5 and 2 way LSD
  • Driftworks Lower Arm Front and Rear S13 S14 S15 R32 R33 R34
  • Driftworks Control System Coilovers

Here are the pictures from the work I did:

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  • 2 weeks later...

Hello again!

Time for some updates!

Friday, a week ago, I delivered my car to my roll cage builder. Driving from Bergen to Oslo (Aproximly 550km), over mountains and so on... We used almost 12hours one way...

Below you can see how the car looked when we arrived at the builder...

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I also got parts for the undercarriage. I let the pictures speak for them self:

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  • 4 weeks later...

Time for Updates!

This weekend I collected my car from my professional Cage builder, JH Linnerud, who builds WRC class cages...

And I must say, the cage looks Awesome!!

So the next stage is finish up the welds inside the car, Mount two new Sparco Pro 2000 bucket seats, weld some rust on the fenders and under the car, and finishing things up...

I also got more "Gifts" from DriftWorks.com,

Whiteline stabilizer bars, Front and Rear

Driftworks HICAS Total Removal Kit

Driftworks Adjustable Camber Control Arms (Rear)

But I'm still waiting for the following:

Driftworks Traction Control Arms

Pictures from the Parts that has arrived, will come later.

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Not to mention the dedication, I'd say 99% of us here in Australia would sit infront of the fire with a beer in that kinda of weather.......

Or find a cage builder closer :)

Thanks!

I would rather sit in front of a fire and drink a beer, but then the car would not be finished...

And the reason for not choosing one closer, it this one is one of the best, and he was cheep... :down:

Great build - I like your engineering approach to solving some of the problems!

Please keep us all updated with more fabrication pics etc!

I would have thought that you would have done the roll cage yourself given your fabrication experience?

Great build - I like your engineering approach to solving some of the problems!

Please keep us all updated with more fabrication pics etc!

I would have thought that you would have done the roll cage yourself given your fabrication experience?

Thanks!

There where a couple of reasons, and one of them are equipment. We don´t have a proper pipe bender, and a proper one is expensive. And time is another one...

If he haven´t had trouble with the delivery of pipes, he would have had it done in one week, and it is Rally approved (Stiffer, tighter to the body and so on)... And he was sheep.

The latest update is that I am changing out the lift that I had, because the old one broke down... and I have finished up the welding and grinding on the firewall and gearbox tunnel...

Pictures will come as I get finished with the things...

  • 2 weeks later...
Any further progress?

Hi!

There has been quite a big progress, but I have been to busy in the workshop, that I havent found the time for updating any of my build threads yet...

I will update soon.

This is what I have finished so far:

  • Both Seats
  • Hydraulic hand brake
  • stearing completed
  • completed all the welds on transmission tunnel, floor and firewall...
  • all pedals mounted and reinforced
  • seat belts mounted
  • New inner fenders in the rear is made, wider for the Widebody kit I am mounting
  • Firewall in the back of car, isolating trunk from the cabin, trunk will contain fuel cell, battery and so on...
  • Ordered for 4500 USD from Summitracing, 2000 USD not ordered yet...
  • Carbon fiber roof scoop mounted

As you can see it is a large list, and currently I am fixing rust on the car, and it is a pain in the ass...

Only one month and one week until first big training day on a large track...

just finished reading your build thread for the first time. excellent dedication to what looks to be a huge task!

great fabrication, and a lot of money has gone into this. I look forward to seeing the finished result and also any videos you can take of the car finally on the track!

  • 4 weeks later...
  • 4 weeks later...

Hi everyone!

I have been extremely busy on the car, trying to get it finished, and I promise some updates soon. The car is going into the paint booth on thursday.

And a lot of pictures will follow. You can see new pictures in my gallery...

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