Mk1 Astra Track Car Project
#106
Posted 16 September 2016 - 12:08 AM
#107
Posted 05 October 2016 - 11:30 AM
Seat position is sorted and lush...only issue is that Safety Devices have put the harness bar way too high on the rear section of cage. So that rear cage is going back and they're sending me another one.
I've welded a set of 3mm plates (approx. 100x100mm squares) into the inner sills and the exhaust tunnel. Then welded 25x25x2mm box section between them. The seats are pretty far back in the car (seeing as I'm a big un). But there's still plenty of head room and side-to-side room for head/neck movement. Obviously going to pad the front cage where my legs could bang into it, but don't really need much padding on there at all.
Also cleaned up and prepped the new front legs, the rear beam and that's all painted black now. Got to crack on with more welding then it could be ready to slap paint on within a month, hopefully.
#108
Posted 04 November 2016 - 02:31 PM
Need it OTR in one month from today. Eek!!!
#109
Posted 17 November 2016 - 11:46 AM
Inspiration!
#110
Posted 17 November 2016 - 11:47 AM
Reality!
#111
Posted 17 November 2016 - 11:51 AM
#112
Posted 17 November 2016 - 11:57 AM
Vectra V6 calipers and pads. Fiat Coupe 16V discs. All fit together ok. The Vectra V6 has 5 x 112 PCD so I couldn't use the discs. They're 288mm diameter. I found Fiat coupe discs of the same overall offset, 284mm diameter and 4 x 98 PCD. Vauxhall 4 stud are 4 x 100 PCD. These discs fit. Centre bore on VX discs is 56.1 IIRC, FIAT coupe closer to 58.9. So I got some spigot rings to centralise them and they will work perfectly. Decent sized brakes seeing as even with new discs and pads, plus good second hand calipers and new hoses only totalled 95 quid!
#113
Posted 10 March 2017 - 11:19 AM
Solid alloy top mounts and custom strut brace, 17" 5 spokes, bilstein dampers on the front, Konis on the rear, just need some track tyres and all is good.
Got the allot fuel tank and swirl pot added in too. Also got a Facet redtop supplying the swirl pot and a Bosch 044 supplying the injectors.
#114
Posted 04 April 2017 - 11:25 AM
Getting there, slowly
Had an issue with the spherical bearing sleeves not fitting my Billy dampers, so had some new ones machined
#115
Posted 03 May 2017 - 07:10 AM
RAWWWWWWWWWWWRRRRRRRRRRRRRR
SO in love with the way this car is looking now.
Decided to fit some 15" BBS RZs off an E30, they look SO much better than the 7x17" KN Dytecs. I need to sell them now, but am still tempted to keep them as a set of spares to bang some super low profile tyres on.
#116
Posted 03 May 2017 - 05:16 PM
good project - if your engine bay ends up looking as good as the pics of the black one you will definitely achieved something!
#117
Posted 05 May 2017 - 01:25 PM
Loads more done, not many pics. Got a video of it running last night. I'd got the pumps wired up so that I primed them with ignition on, then whilst cranking it was cutting the feed to the relays. Now I've corrected that it's starting fine. Bit tappy when cold.
I've got a little list of jobs to do over the next week and then it's time for it to get OTR at last.
Mainly bodywork, but I do have a few little niggly things to sort like brake bleeding, make some guards for the fuel lines, new set of rear pads...nothing major, but still need doing.
So it's go go go in time for the big Germany trip on June 8th!
Just hope I can get lots of practise driving it before I hit the 'ring on June 9th!
#118
Posted 08 May 2017 - 02:17 PM
#119
Posted 08 May 2017 - 05:57 PM
How?
#120
Posted 08 May 2017 - 07:34 PM
My dash went up in smoke
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