Cressy- AWSEOME! Keep it up man
Young- Cheers mate
Right, jus took a few pics...
Car is still down Andy Robinson Racecars (
Andy Robinson Race Cars - roll cages, complete chassis, fabrication, setup, race car engineering) having a cage made, so no driving or anything fun, but in the meantime I been sorting shit out.
I needed a big oil cooler as when drifting the oil temp was going thru the roof, and I was all set to spend 150quid I didnt have on some Mocal or Setrab effort when I found a fricking big and good nick oil cooler on an early 80s LWB Shogun down the local scrappy. 7quid later and it was mine.
My gearbox is about to die, and no doubt many more in the future will too, and as im poor, spending 400quid every month on a gearbox dont really appeal to me, so decided id give the transmission as much help as poss, with diff and gearbox oil coolers.
Needing a pump and cooler each, it looked like I was about to be raped to the tune of 500quid by ThinkAuto etc for that lot, but then I thought frick it, S14 200SX's have it as standard, and paid 30quid a pop for 2 of them.
The coolers are decent enough nick, esp now I gave em a thin coat of satin black, but the pumps are still a bit rusty and crappy, so didnt take pics of them. But at 60quid all in, im happy, sure as frick beats 500quid...
I smashed my bumpers up a while ago (not) street drifting, and recently repaired them, pretty nice job of it too.
The thing is, a few days later, while (not) racing a BMW at high speed the rear bumper kind of exploded in to small bits, so I needed another.
I am poor, so spending 500quid+ getting another from Japan was out the question, but luckily BonBon had his old Kids Heart one still, so I crossed his ginger hands with silver (well, 20pound notes) and I had a rear bumper again.
Thing is, Bons has a Chaser rear end, which has the number plate in the rear bumper, and mine is a Mark II rear end, which has the number plate between the rear lights, so there a fricking great hole in the rear bumper.
I was gonna just fanny about and fill it etc, but then i thought about it and realised its an ideal place to wang the transmission coolers.
Once fitted properly ill put them on top of each other and fill the gaps a little, but for these pics, i jus luzzed em in place.
Also I finished modding the manifold, with the correct flange for the wastegate, quick released the turbine flange, and fully heat wrapped the whole thing.
Its a complete flange to fully wrap it, and i mean FULLY, no metal showing, mostly due to it being very twisty and having 6 branches.
If/when the wrap dies, it can frick off, im not doing that again
I planted a rubber tree at the bottom of my garden a while ago, and its starting to bear fruit, as you can see.
Its only bearing part worns at mo, but a good 30 odd 17s and 18s, so I cant complain.
My rubber plant isnt good enough to grow slicks yet, but luckily some top people have given me some they had lying around.
Tony Ryan had a pair of 2008 235 wide 17in BTCC ones that were too fricked to sell, but still useable, so he gave me them to try out, which was nice
And last Friday my mate Rich kindly gave me 4x 235 wide 18inch Pirelli P Zero slicks he had spare too
And thats about it really, hopefully very very shortly my car will be done at Robinsons, and I can get back to crashing, I mean driving, it...