Love the cage Barry... With those new seats as well the interior has gone in the perfect direction.
Ill stop by to check in person, looks awesome from here
Project Greenstone.
The other night I had a dream where I won millions on the lotto, got a nice place with a warehouse/workshop type thing and started buying sx's, yours was the first one I bought for my collection...very nicely done Barry!!
Shot guys ! Nice dream there bud...!
The cage went in after I saw a BMW lose it a while back. If it was not for the cage I doubt the oke would have made it.
Sh*t happens incredibly fast ..
must also say my car handles differently now..strange, will get more road time and see if it is my imagination..Tomorrow is Kyalami again with the BM boys. Always a pleasure with them.
Looking Good! Even with the GTR's, I noticed a great handling improvement after the Cage is fitted. Enjoy!
O P R wrote:
Looking Good! Even with the GTR's, I noticed a great handling improvement after the Cage is fitted. Enjoy!
Did some Kyalami laps Saturday and Swarties laps Sunday. What a difference in handling ! The suspension is actually working , I can feel the rear end is "softer" and more compliant.
Mid corner the car just settles so much better than it was before..Initial on power turn in is also so much more controllable.
Makes me want to put a full weld in and tie up all four corners as well.. 8)
So, in anticipation of this weekends shenanigans at Swarties and the fact that sometimes I could not get the gearbox out of 4th at Kyalami , we pulled the box this week and overhauled it.
Back track a little here, I bought a Z32 gearbox from a mate of a mate of a sisters ex boyfriend...anyhow, you know how these things go down..box is in magnificent condition and blah blah blah !!
So this was to be the base of my new fatboy box. Ja, right, opened it up and it was totally fubarred !! and I mean fcuked ! Teeth on gears worn in half type of fcuked.
Scrap one Z32 turbo box !!
So I haul all the spare fatboy boxes out and we start stripping to check. I find a good box and order new synchros and selector forks from Nissan.
Give the box in to my mate Wes across the road from the shop and he starts building. Yesterday we discover the Enjuku clutch is practically finished. (Good value though, over 50k km,s of hard driving with it !! ) Panic stations and I source a flywheel from Tobie.
It does not arrive today so I fit the Nismo twin I bought for the RB26 a while back. NOT what I really wanted at this stage..
Box in, clutch in and some mods since the Nismo clutch is pull vs push.
I drive the car this morning and she feels seriously perky ! Lekka I think...Box is beautiful and slicks into all gears effortlessly !
Now I'm super chuffed , clutch is gorgeous and box is sublime.
Im driving home this evening and jirre, the engine is revving its nuts off !! I start checking a few things and then it strikes me . My mate Wes ! He used a bakkie gearbox ! First three gears are super short ,big drop of 1700 rpm from third to fourth and a measly 200 rpm from fourth to fifth !!
Wes , you chop !!
So Im stuck with these ridiculous ratios for Sunday , too late to do another box right now.
Stew, show mercy dude.... :facepalm:
Esh that's some bad luck there.. Best of luck for sunday
You got plenty mercy! Im riding shotgun in your passenger seat! 🙁 Unless Tobie works flat out for the next 52hrs I wont have a car to drive..... To much work and not enough time. Gave the guy a monster task and minimal time, hes tried hard though.
Driving into work this morning , this is at 5am btw , I give her some horns. This box is totally useless !. 140km.h >4000 Rpm. Eish........200 top end odd..
Going to open my old sticky box this morning and see what I can do before Sunday. I broke my own golden rule..Dont mess with anything before an event !!
I have broken it many times.
Ya, tell me about it !!
Closer to RB26 goodness.....!
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CAUTION: Packaging may be sharp. .
Now all the charous are scheming it is lekka packaging. . .
Sent from some crappy hand held device.
So did she survive the track day??
Did not have much to do this weekend so I thought Id get cracking on the turbine/waste gate setup.
Will have to get a smaller waste gate as the 60mm Tial just will not fit the way I want it to..
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Yea that 60mm waste gate is huge!! Why don't you run twin wastegates off the housing??
The shop needed an ally welding bay for our upcoming Hyundai approval.
Off I go and get a Lincoln TIG welder and all its paraphernalia .
Lekka ! Now we can weld stainless and ally.
Oi !! I try welding some stainless stuff yesterday. Now Im pretty good with my hands but yowzers ! What a royal fcukup !
Any coded or experienced TIG welders around Jhb that can come show me what Im doing wrong ??
Please ??
BigKriss wrote:
Oi !! I try welding some stainless stuff yesterday. Now Im pretty good with my hands but yowzers ! What a royal fcukup !
Any coded or experienced TIG welders around Jhb that can come show me what Im doing wrong ??
Please ??
Lol, ja that's no joke getting the hang of Tig, my welder is covered in dust ,haven't tried in at least a year... 😳
I'm no pro but ill come give it a shot
Adrian wrote:
I'm no pro but ill come give it a shot
That's almost like saying:"... I'm not a Gynae, but I'll take a look..."
LOL
Hotstuff wrote:
Adrian wrote:
I'm no pro but ill come give it a shot
That's almost like saying:"... I'm not a Gynae, but I'll take a look..."
LOL
:facepalm: 😂 Think I just pissed my pants!!
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