What did you do on the rally car today?
Posted by Carl S
Brian Driggs Infallible Moderator Location: Glendale Join Date: 06/08/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 832 Rally Car: Keyboard. Deal with it. |
fiasco Wrote:
------------------------------------------------------- > DR1665 Wrote: > -------------------------------------------------- > ----- > > I got it fucking running. > > > > > > So, what was the culprit? > Sorry to miss this, man. Turned out the ignition coil transistor wasn't fully plugged-in. I was reaching in to find it and went into "re-check connectors" mode. Pushed on it and *click!* We had spark. With the stock exhaust back on it, now, it sounds like a stock Nissan Sentra or something. So tame. 
Brian Driggs | KG7KCA | PHX, AZ | 89 Pajero alterius non sit qui suus esse potest |
Carl Seidel Godlike Moderator Location: Fe Mtn, MI Join Date: 02/10/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 765 Rally Car: 1993 honderp |
Heres some pics of some work I've done on the car recently:
New hatch latches. $8 from a wrangler. No more wrestling with my stubborn hatch button. 
New ventage. 
Ventilator from the inside. 
Ut oh. Large hole in floor. Had "some" rust issues. I did the other side a few years ago, but this side was worse than I though. 
11.5lbs battery. Failing alternators be damned! This thing is wicked. 
Some new gauges, moved some switches, removed center consol. 
Patch welded in. This is what I did this morning. I'm thinking of welding some more plate on the bottom just to be sure, its 14 gauge. WTF is a gauge anyways? 
And a fancy helmet net. Its some cargo net from a minivan at work, but it got painted when we repainted the shop around xmas so I pulled it out of the garbage and put it in the car. I have a friend bringing me a windshield on monday. And sometime next week we'll probably start sanding for the new paint. Less than a month until Shooting Star! I gotta hurry up. At least the thing runs good. Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 05/12/2007 08:25PM by Carl S. |
Chad Eixenberger Mega Moderator Location: Grafton, WI Join Date: 02/01/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 484 Rally Car: 1988 VW Golf #687 |
Carl Seidel Godlike Moderator Location: Fe Mtn, MI Join Date: 02/10/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 765 Rally Car: 1993 honderp |
Chad Eixenberger Mega Moderator Location: Grafton, WI Join Date: 02/01/2007 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 484 Rally Car: 1988 VW Golf #687 |
Sanding is overrated.
I stripped the rear quarter on my car before I painted, and just barely sanded and unless you get real close, you can't even tell. Saturday I got the rear windows, hatch, and doors installed. It's starting to look like a car again. This week I'll get the windshield installed, then flaps, door reassembly, navi seat mount, skid plate (have to trim the front panel), bleed the brakes, alignment, and interior bits. I'm hoping to have it done a week early so I can DD if for a bit and make sure all the kinks are worked out. 
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Michel Hoche-Mong Super Moderator Location: Campbell, CA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,156 Rally Car: Golf, Golf, RX-3 |
Please tell me those aren't your seat mounts, just bolted to the floorpan.
Self-righteous douche canoe |
Carl Seidel Godlike Moderator Location: Fe Mtn, MI Join Date: 02/10/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 765 Rally Car: 1993 honderp |
Michel Hoche-Mong Super Moderator Location: Campbell, CA Join Date: 02/28/2006 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 1,156 Rally Car: Golf, Golf, RX-3 |
John Vanlandingham Super Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
A good alternate to square tubing is formed and stamped shelving rails such as "Unistrut"
The formed shape gives strength, the perforations gives lightness and someplace to mount the seats to. run east west from sill or sill bar to the tunnel, and Ford runs a length on the floor from sill to tunnel just behind where your heel hits the floor. 
These tubes support crazy amounts fer foot and are excellent and cheap. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Carl Seidel Godlike Moderator Location: Fe Mtn, MI Join Date: 02/10/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 765 Rally Car: 1993 honderp |
Painted! mostly. Bumpers will get blacked too, just not enough time right now.
Just a couple things to do tomorrow then its all set for next weekend at Shooting Star! |
John Vanlandingham Super Moderator Location: Ford Asylum, Sleezattle, WA Join Date: 12/20/2005 Age: Fossilized Posts: 14,152 Rally Car: Saab 96 V4 |
We took this:
And with the excellent help from fellow Anarchisto de rallye Graham "Graminal" Cullen from Lyndeborough, NH, we lowered it in this old Xratty I had laying around with a FIA spec cage: 
Looks kinda nice sitting in there, can't wait to get it going.....again. 
Oh yeah, last week when I started this (or when ever it was) I forgot, I put together this for my friend DJ 
This week? getting 40 upper seats, lower seats, lock rings and 26 extended rear seats andf 26 bells anodized and working on RSX Honda, Audi 90, and ford Focus suspenders, plus milling some rods 2.5mm narrower. And sending off the ring and pinions to all you guys IF they arrive. John Vanlandingham Sleezattle, WA, USA Vive le Prole-le-ralliat www.rallyrace.net/jvab CALL +1 206 431-9696 Remember! Pacific Standard Time is 3 hours behind Eastern Standard Time. |
Jason Wine Senior Moderator Location: Seattle, WA Join Date: 02/20/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 448 Rally Car: Started a Golf... Never Finished It |
Eli Gilbert Ultra Moderator Location: San Diego, CA Join Date: 03/30/2006 Age: Midlife Crisis Posts: 307 Rally Car: 91 Galant, 02 WRX |
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Andrew Steere Super Moderator Location: South Central Nude Hamster Join Date: 12/29/2005 Age: Possibly Wise Posts: 2,008 Rally Car: too rich for my blood, share a LeMons car |
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