Month: July 2007

Ok, time to continue this, despite the broken wrist, and stupid arse being able to type.

So about September 2004 i ended up in Canberra to visit my olds for the holidays and to generally chill out for a bit. While i was there i managed to catch up with a mate of mine from when i first got into cars. One certain indigoid. While i was there he thought i should meet up with mate of his who has a race car. A week or so later im standing in Tim Button’s shed looking at his 1600 race car sitting there.

Somehow about 2 weeks later i started thinking about this strange thing called IPRA.

I put it off for a while in order to complete the car, but it was still on the back of my mind.

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The junkyard called my workshop.

Had a few issues about how close the water outlet sat to the quads….

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And fixed them:

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Had suspension issues, and fixed them too

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3510-2/DSCF0007_012.jpg[/img]

Got new gauges, and a bit of black drift bling.

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3520-2/DSCF0012_005.jpg[/img]

It was tons better than the original black that was on there

Did the battery, fuel and struts:

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And then the camera broke.

More updates when my wrist stops hurting from this batch of typing.

Ok, im slightly bored at work, so i thought i would start a compendium of the IPRA car which i have and run.

I bought this old AE86 Sprinter thing in 2004 when i was living in Melbourne, because i remember seeing them run at Bathurst in the late 80s, and always thought they were pretty damn cool.
It started off looking like this:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3033-2/Picture_002.jpg[/img]

With more things wrong with it than you could poke a stick at. Nevertheless, it didnt have much rust in it, and was going to make a good little weekend racer/club car, which i was originally going to keep rego on.

As 2004 wore on it started looking less and less like the old road car it used to be:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3060-2/DSCF0001.jpg[/img]

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3078-2/DSCF0005_1.jpg[/img]

But i was still going to put a good interior back in it, and maybe a half cage and just use it as a weekend racer.
So i took the 4AGE out of my old FWD Corolla and started to work at RWDing it:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3114-2/DSCF0017.jpg[/img]

Meanwhile, coilover bits came, and more suspension and driveline parts:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/5272-2/DSCF0004_002.jpg[/img]

Engines went:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3129-2/DSCF0007_002.jpg[/img]

And then half of the car went:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3149-2/DSCF0007_1.jpg[/img]

New Diffs came:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3173-2/DSCF0003_002.jpg[/img]

And then i decided that the stock sound deadening was too heavy:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3190-2/DSCF0002_002.jpg[/img]

Note the quality tools used in this photo cough

A bit later in the year i was up in Canberra for the snow, and picked up some trick bits from Ben Wilson (cheers mate), as well as my new suspension, and throttle bodies:

[img]http://gallery2.plebeians.net/d/3249-2/DSCF0006_003.jpg[/img]

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Later still i started shovelling it all into the car:

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And thats where all my nice little plans went wrong…….