Hi there!
Im kind of new here, I have been reading only untill now
I want to start a thread for my car, and its building, etc. Well actualy, I had a thread on another forum, but its not as drift related as this one. Im going to cheat btw, and copy some of my post from there, hope you guys dont mind
Im hoping that I can discuss my ideas with other people, and make my car better
Oh and I will be quite random, so forgive me.
Sooo. Why lada I hear you ask
Well my first racing related moments were in a lada, in one of my friends car. He participated in a lot of slalom racing back than, and imidiatly I was in love. RWD, twin webers, lovely sound, what else do you need? So I bought my car when I was 14-15, worked for it a lot, and bought this piece of crap (well, back then it looked good...):
Well now of course I wouldnt have bought it, but this is my first build/ first car, so I didnt know how to buy a car. Anyways, the building has started, I ripped out the interrior:
Than I took it to a guy who claimed that he will do all the metal work, and give me my car back full rust free. Well later of course it turned out he wasnt as good as his promise...
Later the car got painted (also very horribly I have tomention
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And I started to put the car together. Well a lot of time has passed, I was in high school, so I couldnt work to much, the total time of the build was 2-3 years!! Yeah talk about patience...
The engine it got is a lada 1600 ccm engine with first 296° cam, than later 316° cam, ported head, and twin dellorto carbs:
Suspension: Well first I didnt knew anything about why you need harder springs, etc. For lada's there are a lot of rumors, what you should put in, so that it will be good, so that was my starting point. Front and rear, I used lada NIVA springs, witch are harder, and I took my shocks and refurbished them, also managed to make them slightly stronger. Also fitted 30mm spacers around. Suspension was "finished" well I thought...
This is what my "rust free" chassis looked:
I was fed up with people not doing there job properly, so I bought a CO welder and did the jobmy self. It turned out pretty good, and solid so far:
So I was breaking the engine in, Iwas using it on the streets for a while. Lowered it more,changed the cam to the 316° etc etc.
Some random pics:
Becouse Im quite a big fela' (192cm, 100kg), I had to lower the seating position, witch ment cuting the old ones:
No pic ofthe installed seats tho.
Also, I bought a lots of books, here is one:
This helped me a lot! My carbs are 95% set up, so Im happy
Interrior with my old wheel:
This is how she looked back then:
More to come