Redwarf

Gday, and welcome to rollaclub. A couple of handy hints for you so that you time here will be well spent. Search and you shall seek. Many topics have been covered before. The rides and projects threads are a wealth of knowledge, and if it's not covered somewhere in there, then it probably can't be done. Try putting more info into you post. We can make many different suggestions, but if you only have $300, not many of them will be practical. Are you good on the tools? Do you have 10 thumbs? Are you a P plater? Will it be road registered and therefore need engineering? You have to keep in mind that we get asked very opened ended questions like yours about once a day at the moment, so if you don't have a think about the questions you ask, you're not going to get answers you're happy with. Regards Dwarf

That and old age. There seems to be more of me now than there used to!

If you haven't been using a strut brace, the very first thing I'd do is measure the towers on the two cars.

It's hard to explain, and I don't know if the 70 is the same as the 25, but here goes. The crossmember on a 25 is not flat on the bottom. The shape is sort of bowed, concave shapeif looking from underneath. After many years of rallying, fairly high spring rates (due comparitively low clearance) and really shitty QLD roads, it kind of flattened out on one side, therefore pushing the "flat" side out, thus more camber on one side for equal length LCAs. This also spread the rails about 10-15 mm, and the holes on the new crossmember didn't line up. A chain block between the rails and a quick pull sorted this. I'd also measure between the tops of the towers on the red car as well, as I've had to spread them out before too.

Picking up my new (non-motorized) bike on Friday. Quite chuffed. :) http://www.ridley-bikes.com/pd/au/en-gb/1/329/road/damocles%20isp

Either your car is bent, or the crossmember is bent, or both. I've had this before and it was fixed with a new crossmember, and a bit of massaging of the front rails. A bent tower will also cause this.

I think thats an excellent idea. The 70 is obviously good at what it does, but I think you were in for a world of hurt if you took it circuit racing. Rob, I disagree here. I think a well presented car is a reflection on how you do things. And the same as you , I've been around for a while, and we both know neat, well presented cars attract a lot less "official" interest, particularly at the track where scruts tend to be more anal than elsewhere. Good decision Mitch. :thumbsup:

And that's great, really it is. And things like motorkhanas and khanacrosses give you an excellent grounding. More people should do them. But you're not getting what I'm trying to tell you.

^^^^^ You need to aspire to greater things. You're fully capable of them.

I stand corrected on the super taxi, and withdraw previous comment. However, comments on presentation stand.

*sigh* It reads like I'm knocking you, but I'm not. I like the work you do, I like the initiative. But if you want to be taken seriously, the presentation needs a whole lot of work. Case in point is an escort I did a fair bit of work on. We turreted the rear end, custom trans tunnel, boxed the rear floor for a 4 link rear. By the time it was finished, it looked factory. This thing gets attention for all the right reasons. Whether it's the Corolla, the V8 Super Dinosaur or the F-truck, you're level of presentation should be the same.

^^^^^^^^^^^ Fail. The presentation of your car is a reflection of yourself, and your workmanship. Anybody who prepares cars will tell you that. If for example, you turned up to an event I was scrutineering, I'd go through that thing like a does of salts. And I'd find things. If it was a track day, it probably wouldn't run.

I agree with Rob. I'd be starting with a better platform than the black car to cage. Half the trick to building a decent car is presentation. The black car doesn't have it.

It's not the "no cage" bit that concerns me. Many sprint series run without manditory cages. It's the slicks and no cage that you may have issues with. That said, I can't find anything about it in the current CAMS manual. (yes, I know, AASA....) Do the Supp Regs for the event have anything t say about it?

I've been out of the round and round stuff for a few years, but it used to be that you couldn't run slicks without a cage. Which, oddly enough, I agree with. That was CAMS, I'm assuming this is AASA being Winton?

Soooooo..... let me get this straight. You're taking that black thing with no cage on slicks to Winton. Is this a club day, and does the car have to get through scrutineering?

Not enough lateral thinking Ken. Car battery under fish tank, battery trickle charger to keeping it going. Do you have a battery charger? If so I need one, and am willing to swap a fish tank for one. (No neons.)

No, but you should have seen the size of the wheels we used to run!

I used a halogen light, but the water boiled and the fish died. I can rig up some 12v ones from under the Civic if you like.

It was a while ago. Shaved off the moustache since then.

Swap you a fish tank?

Quoted for absolute truth.

Yes it does.

I have my 25 on club plates. Your car need to be in the same condition as if you are registering it for the road. Roadworthy, blue plate requirements remain the same. You also require a letter from the club you belong to saying you're a current member and they know the car. It's actually more complicated getting a car on club rego than it is to get it on normal.