*first post*

 

Hullo, names Ben and I live in nth qld, nice to meet you all.

Been getting into racing lately, joined a local CAMS club and now want my own rally car. Picked up an ae82 twin cam from a local wreckers for $1000 with only a stripped clutch as a fault. We have stripped it out, built strengthening plates for rollover and half built the roll cage, custom fit racing seats, removed steering lock, mounted harnesses, mounted skid plate and replaced a hd clutch. Rally tires are on with the suspension razed a bit! All the welding and fab is done by me. mechanical is me with huge mechanical knowledge support from Dad. Getting my cams license and racing with it next weekend just at a club event for the first time... should be good. Suprised to already have a sponsor-SV Steel Supplies in Mackey are supplying any steal needed for roll cage or anything else steel in exchange for advertising on the car and some photo shoots in Townsville. Will post the relative mods we will do to it here as we go. Planing to refab the dash with gauges sometime soon.

Edited September 2, 200620 yr by BiGGy

shes going to look cool man i like ur OHNS there

shes going to look cool man i like ur OHNS there

 

you talking about the forklift? Shes as sturdy as a rock mate. Hydraulics are supported just in case.

looks pretty sweet, are you using it for rally or autocross?

looks pretty sweet, are you using it for rally or autocross?

 

I'm starting off at "motorkhana" level. A small dirt circuit time laps style, lots of turns no long straights. I want to get into proper off road in the near future but this is the place to start.

Edited September 2, 200620 yr by BiGGy

you talking about the forklift? Shes as sturdy as a rock mate. Hydraulics are supported just in case.

 

lol jokes man i had to do that one day to

ROFL @ Hoist.

 

Welcome to rollaclub, Looks like you've been busy with the twinky, good work :thumbsup:

more progress pics.

 

Still to do to get it on the track: refit muffler with a new bracket, cut and fit skid plates to mounts, fix driver side window winder, oil change.

 

Same people I got the car from has got another of the same model and year. Buying entire running 4age engine from him with extractors for $400, we will mod this engine to what we want then simply replace the stock one when its done.

 

Still need to finish the paint work.

You should have some fun in that little beast. Motorkhana's rock, as I'm sure many other members would agree. Don't know about motorkhana's with raised suspension though, but at least it'll be easy to shift your weight balance around. ;)

The track ill be practicing on is a very ruff dirt circuit, almost like sand. We rarely do tarmac events, but sometimes one come up, prolly have to replace struts and tires for it.

Fair enough. Don't get me wrong, I'm sure you know what you're doing, but I did wonder (at first) why you lifted it for motorkhanas. Hope it all goes well.

update: painted it this weekend. sanded back the red shine scraped the twin cam stickers off and masked up everything. 1 coat of protective primer followed by wet and dry 400 all over then 2 coats of 'tinted white' for finish will give a light polish. Bumbers get all paint sanded back, adhiesion promoter 2 final white coats. Got a few bugs and crap on the final coast but nothing that wont buff out.

thicker, longer and stronger high sensile bolt replacments for the rear strut bar. Got another whole *working* seca for parts for real cheap. Took it out for a bash on a friends track suspension needed work. Got Boge shocks with king springs, never buy boge, they are shit! KYB on there way with a much heavier thicker spring for the front from king spring.

update, been awhile on this site.

 

New paint scheme.

 

Vinyle stickers: Toyota, company logo, my name and number.

 

Isolator switch with new battery.

 

1st outright in a kharnacross.

 

Brakes acid dipped, machined and painted.

 

heavy duty pads all round.

 

We lost the key so we installed a missile ignition.

 

Fire.

 

Hillclimb last weekend, alot of cars, came 3rd in my class. short vid on the day

Nice work there mate, good to see this coming along so nicely!

 

I will be starting to convert my twinky very soon.... can't wait!

 

Jarrad