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Yokyoval
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 Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 12:25 am Post subject: Flogging the hell out of a racing oval -My YouTube link |
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Hi Everyone,
In May my friend and I drove my oval in 68 short events including hillclimbs, auto tests, circuit sprints, drag races & closed road section time trials over 3 grueling days. There was no time to work on the car and we travelled over 1500kms all up which included driving between stages.
We whipped a fair few exotic cars. The little oval proved bullet proof.
It was by far the best fun I've ever had in my car; any car for that matter.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lVeSipsqi0M&mode=user&search= |
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thebucket
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johnshenry 
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Pretty cool. Stock 36hp?
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Undis
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 8:05 am Post subject: |
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| Pretty cool. Stock 36hp? |
36 x 3 perhaps |
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markm
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splitjunkie
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the coolest part is the view from the inside.
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splitjunkie
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:56 am Post subject: |
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Pretty cool. Stock 36hp?
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1916cc 9.61 CR & 44IDFs, on an IRS pan. Check his profile. Most may not like the look of an oval on an IRS pan but IRS does handle much better than swing axle.
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johnshenry
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| Posted: Fri Aug 03, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Pretty cool. Stock 36hp?
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1916cc 9.61 CR & 44IDFs, on an IRS pan. Check his profile. Most may not like the look of an oval on an IRS pan but IRS does handle much better than swing axle. |
I'm sure. I could tell by the way it was going around those corners it was not a stock susp...
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billb
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| splitjunkie wrote: |
| the coolest part is the view from the inside. |
Yeah, that was cool. Looks like it is fun to drive. |
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Yokyoval
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Location: Sydney Australia
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| Posted: Sun Aug 05, 2007 2:31 am Post subject: Fun. |
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Thanks for the comments.
For those who are interested I'll elaborate on the specs.
The car is fun to drive now and really encourages you to drive on the edge because it doesn't bite. It is so predictable.
It wasn't always like that. I used to run 7 inch fuchs on the rear but the extra track really upset the car and made it mid-corner oversteer.
The car is on an IRS pan but I've tried not to modify the body. It's all stock on the outside from the Polar Silver colour to the gauges in the dash which are housed in a motometer dash panel.
Mechanically the car is not exotic. Simply it has welded drop-spindles on the front, bigger rear springs and small non-adjustable swaybars. The front brakes are standard for the '69 pan except for cross drilled rotors and hard pads and the rears are drums from a type 3 wagon.
The engine has a stock crank (counterweighted), lifters, pushrods, rocker arms and the heads are 040 mini D-ports and the cam is an Engle W130.
The gearbox has custom 1st, 2nd & 3rd but the diff and sideplates are still standard.
Its proven to be a fast bullet-proof combination. The light weight helps too. |
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