"Hey" my daily driven race car!

[bertvorgon]

You do know I meant a block of STEEL went into the rear passenger seat well.

[icehouse]

Since everything has been canceled, well except work.. It's time to swap in the turbo motor. Since the future economy is looking gloomy I decided to just make it work with all stuff I have laying around. So for now I won't be running any sort of cooler. I plan to add an air to water setup later. For now it's like the FJ20 I have in the corner of my shop. J-piped like 80's turbo motors. Also just going to send it through the old 2" exhaust haha.







I almost messed up and installed these on it!!!



Then I found my stash freedom clamps, few.

[eastbaysolo_73]

nice!!!

[510rob]

freedom clamps. nice. hahaha.

[bertvorgon]

Watch it buddy, we all ready won a war against you guys!

Just because you guys are stuck with Philips screws.......

[JordanTr]

I love shipping crates that are built with Robertson screws to the USA!

[icehouse]

HAHA I tricked you guys. I used both those clamps!!

I love my junk. In the summers, when I go to yard sales I keep an eye out for old hose clamps. I've scored boxes for a couple bucks. I love the old ones. They can handle some real torque. Unlike the stupid modern auto part stores 2 for 5 dollar clamps. I can break those with a flat head screw driver. So lame!

[icehouse]

[Byron510]

Nice...

Envious, I would be!

[cartel]

Byron, do you not have a lift ? i cant imagine that anymore-- far too old to be on the ground.

icehouse-- ive seen lots of lifts outdoors in Cali-- but your same as us here almost perpetual wetland-- how does it stand up to the wet all winter? i have a few inside-- but was always thinking of putting a 2 poster outside for pressure washing and trucks-- but i wasnt sure how it would take the weather..

[icehouse]

Sure am loving the turbo SR! Even with no intercooler and tinny exhaust its way more power then before. I've now driven it at 3 events. My next upgrade will be brakes. The stock brakes are fading by the end of 1 lap. At the last event they were so bad they didn't even last a 1 minute lap. Which allowed a few guys on Hoosiers to beat me..... Damn. I am surprised how fast I got used to the power. It already feels normal and I want more haha. There was two driving instructors at the last event. One of them said if there was an award for the most wreckless driver I would have got it. Which I took as a compliment. My thoughts are if I botch a lap why would I not find the limits on the remaining coarse? If it slides a lot I will try and connect the gates with a drift Also when my car was low powered you had to carry every drop of speed you could. Might as well continue to do that or at least test.

On a more technical level I asked Jeff who runs the timing system if he would text me my top speed at the last gate since his system can do that. I was very surprised that no matter how well I did the final transition onto the last straight my top speed was within 1/2 MPH of 75mph my goal was to get to 80mph which turns out wasn't possible... There was a Porsche GT3 and it make it to 93mph!! That's out of 12 laps too. Sometimes I drifted onto the straightaways, sometimes super clean without a slide at all...... All about 75mph

[icehouse]

finally swapped out the front brakes and front dampers. I had the tokico alumina 5 way adjustable which I felt like all 5 settings were identical. Now I have the Tein street Coilovers for a S14. I can defiantly feel the difference in the 24 different settings. I feel like they are way better but unfortunately Since the layout and the cars are always changing I don't know for sure. My normal marker got a new car...

First two laps I had them set at full soft. It seemed to be really pushy and didn't rotate under trail braking which I like. I switched it to full hard and adjusted the brakes and it was way better. Although buy the end the day it seemed a bit to tail happy. I was super tired and didn't want to adjust anything. Next race I will.




gotta jack up the car to get it on my lift. My boy likes to help out where he can

[icehouse]

The ZX modified parts are off and on with me and Sam's new hubs. They use S chassis brakes and coilovers. They also correct scrub radius and add caster offset. Took me a week to get them on. Kept running into little issues like moving the brake lines again and getting incorrect parts. Today I should be able to take it for a test spin. So excited!!! I need to lengthen my LCA to get my Wheel back to where it needs to be since it's pulled in 1.5" from stock struts. That will come later.

[Stu]

Looks awesome. Let us know how it drives.

You are also dangerously low on Fireball...

[andrew.lori]

Where can I get information on those hubs ?