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Thanks guys... Especially for putting up with this on a Skyline site!

As for the specs...

The 1968 chassis is radically customised, 200mm widened so it has the same footprint as a Porsche 944/968. I've used parts from a 1994 968 Porsche to do the rack and pinion steering conversion, a-arm/mcpherson strut front end, and the IRS rear end. Brakes are 986 Porsche/brembo 4 spots all round. Wheels are from a 996 and are 18x8 and 18x10's. Bridgestone RE55 rubber. Coilovers are Tein super streets... yet to sort out the spring rates and valving. The gearbox is from a 911 turbo, axels and CV's are 968. Clutch is a custom twin plate that will support around 500hp.

The core body is a 1966 shell and is mostly stock except for the single piece glass and power windows. All the rear windows are plastic for weight reduction. Door linings, dash and the floor of the car are all made from carbon fibre sheet material. Guards are custom made fiberglass. The firewall is a 2 piece bolt in aluminium job, and is extended forward to allow a lot more driveline/engine to fit in the back end. The entire back end of the car is removable and unbolts to allow full access to the rear suspension and engine. Air intakes for the turbo's are ducted from the rear quater windows.

The engine is entirely custom and is based on a VW water cooled die cast aluminium block, but is converted to air cooled. It is bored and stroked to 2.5lt. Induction side there is a pair of 8cm trust T517z's and PWR 600hp water to air intercooler. Oil system uses an external RPM 4 stage dry pump. The oil tank, coolers and battery are mounted at the front of the car for better weight distribution. The engine runs a distributorless 4 coil MSD igniton with a AEM CDI. Fuel injection with a Wolf V500. Air cooling is based on a 911 turbo setup with a carbon fibre cooling shroud.

And a video of the engine running. If you have good speakers crank them up!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W_P2mtkncNM

And 2 more pics.

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Cheers,

Ian

We have been playing with bump steer adj over the last little while. Typical me, "can't be that hard to make". MkI was pretty basic and worked well...... until there was a big excursion at speed hitting the back of a ripple strip at an odd angle. Result below.

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So then the thinking was we would try a commercially available option. Just Jap sent these ones that were cool but way to short. My brain did its usual trick and put me infront of the lathe again, And this is what came out after 2 0r 3 nights of toil and frustration. 9Mine left, JJ right)

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And fitted in the pig. I'm slightly ashamed to admit, Its a Toyota. With all Nissan underpinnings!!!!

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That is a nice bit of engineering Noddy. Have you made similar roll centre changes to the Yellow R33?

got mine back on the track this weekend, the guys at UAS did a great job. 150+ laps flat out without any temp problems. Basically the only time we stopped was to refuel it.

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next up is a 1 hour race at wakefield in 5 weeks

great news dundan! good luck for the 1hr mate. :ermm:

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Here's the shed on Christmas Morning.

I hung a shed key on the Christmas Tree and when all the presents were gone I pointed it out to my 8 year old son and played "hotter colder" with him til he found it.

I've now upgraded to an Arrow AX9 too.

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Here's the boy at Monarto Go Kart Track

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Here me at Mallala I've now added some cusco goodness to keep it a bit flatter.

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Very cool mate. I'd love to have received a go kart under the Christmas tree!

So would have I, now I have to live all my motorsport dreams through him.

I suppose it could have been worse for him, I could have been into Stamp Collecting.

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