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More importantly, what's the Toyota truck in the background?

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*Cough Splutter* *sprays bourbon on the keyboard* WHAT!!  Dan mate, theres nothing more important than our car! haha!

 

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Your build has been one of epic proportions and has taken considerable time to get this far! Whilst my enthusiasm for your project and it's completion have ebbed and flowed with your progress, there is nothing more important than a new "tin top", particularly one in NSW where they seem to be unbelievably thin on the ground!

 

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dan wrote:

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*Cough Splutter* *sprays bourbon on the keyboard* WHAT!!  Dan mate, theres nothing more important than our car! haha!

 

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Your build has been one of epic proportions and has taken considerable time to get this far! Whilst my enthusiasm for your project and it's completion have ebbed and flowed with your progress, there is nothing more important than a new "tin top", particularly one in NSW where they seem to be unbelievably thin on the ground!

 

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hey dan you could pop to the eastside for a race, we would love to have a crack at your tin top , we could meet at warrilda it could be a classic eastside /westside rubble in the streets of warri

 

Looks great, you'd have to be proud of that. Has inspired me to get off my lazy ass and get back into the shed.

Just want to say thanks to 2204 who rocked over on Saturday arvo/evening to wire up the trailer for us while we were working on the car.

Cheers Kelvin, appreciate it mate. Hope you had fun taking the piss outa me with the boys for a few hours! haha!

Spewy.

haha! noice!

Well, we've sent the entry in! Haven't had confirmation of our entry yet tho. Were on the dyno tomorrow, testing next week.

Possibly, but as we're leaving at sparrows fart the following sat were not sure. Depends on how testing goes next week.

A couple of youtube clips
www.youtube.com/watch?v=L-mvXvH2vvQ

www.youtube.com/watch?v=4G_PHpEzueM

Sorry rick no we didn't video you out on the paddock earlier

Well, as the forum regulars would know we made it to alice with the car, but didnt make it down to finke.

The push to get it to the Finke was HUGE and we would never had made it without the assistance of Number One Engineering.

Thanks to Paul Grant for the use of his shed, tools and time. If it wasnt for him the task of getting to Finke would have been much harder, if not impossible.

We've found some weak spots on the car (as you could imagine after running Finke in an untested vehicle!) namely the front end setup was much too soft resulting in the shocks pounding the chassis which did a bit of damage, but nothing insurmountable. We snapped an upper a-arm which was what put us out of the event about 10km after a sphincter clenching off-track excursion, but we've got our jigs and will make it better for next time!

After only a few km of testing the suspension and steering needed some attention, but by the time we hit the Alice to Finke leg the rear of the car was much better, the car was handling ok and mechanically it was performing faultlessly.

We'll be doing an upgrade on the front end in the future adding by-pass, boxed arms and new spindles/hubs, but not yet. For now, we'll fix what weve got and go racing!

Our next task is to get the commodore boys hilux up and running. They helped us out heaps to get to Finke and also while we there. Its time to repay the favour!

Thanks heaps to the following people, your assistance/advice was invaluable!

Paul, Fay and Mark-Paul Grant, Number One Engineering
Big Mick
The commodore boys - Ash, Kev, Chris and Brad for their help before and during the event
Cameron Ritchie, Racer Imports
Bill Croft, Unicap
Ivan Grieve
Aaron McClintock
Chris Western, Off Road Rush
and everyone else Ive forgotton!

Thanks also to our families - Alix and Briony, Tina and Rowan, for their support and for the fact that we were ghosts for the 2 months prior to leaving!