my car!! (updated 05.09.2005)

sim_rx3 · December 13, 2004, 02:22:02 AM

QuoteOriginally posted by clive
Congratulations on getting married and congrats on a monster project, sounds like your going to end up with one of the very best on the planet:D

Please keep us posted when you get underway .

Thanks clive. Going to have the best of both worlds

A top rotar and a missus that suports my hobby!! Woo hoo!! Sheâ€™s the best.

Ive decided **** it and just go for it ay.
The auto electrical buisness has picked up now.
Giving me the funds to sculpture an ultimate project.
So ive just got to get past the no spending till after the wedding rule and the rx3 project will be underway. :cool

QuoteOriginally posted by travellinbob
sweet jeezus. That is one impressive work load you have planned for yourself! Sounds and looks like an amazing project. I wish you al the best with it. And the marriage too!
No need for me to be the homesick aussie over here anymore since there are so many of us runniing amok on this forum. Good to see them all in the old skool section too:D

Thanks lol

Yeh with the new rules coming in to aussie now its getting harder to do a 13bt project rx3.
But im doing everything it takes to have it street legal with rego.
Just got to jump through the hoops to get it done right and legal like.

Where abouts in aus ya from originally??

QuoteOriginally posted by t2rew
two words to describe that , first one starts with F second one starts with H.

i like the look of it now, but i cant wait to see it on 20". it will look like a roller skate.

yeh I like the original look as well. Was hard to pull her apart.

But she will be back bad with some serious nuts!! Lol

QuoteOriginally posted by Martiny
Hope you can make out an idea of the type of seat I want from this picture. This is me in my Road car, on (The old) Kyalami Grand Prix circuit ( Before the FIA F***ed up the track!) I am approaching Clubhouse corner.

not sure mate its hard to tell

I will be posting progress shots guys/girls!!

travellinbob · December 31, 2004, 10:34:00 AM

Hey sim sorry for the delayed response, the cold slows my brain down to a walking pace these days. I am originally from wollongong. Born and bred there for the first 24 years of my life before escaping. Spent 6 longs years mucking about with old skool stuff with spac. Still trying to recover.:rollin

sim_rx3 · January 03, 2005, 11:35:29 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by travellinbob
Hey sim sorry for the delayed response, the cold slows my brain down to a walking pace these days. I am originally from wollongong. Born and bred there for the first 24 years of my life before escaping. Spent 6 longs years mucking about with old skool stuff with spac. Still trying to recover.:rollin

tis cool. yeh im a hunter valley boy originaly. moved to sydney about 2 years ago now.

bahaha cool. yeh spac will do that to ya!!:p

travellinbob · January 30, 2005, 06:31:53 PM

Hey Sim, just wondering about legality type stuff. The front suspension that you are planning seems a top idea. Have you found a sympathetic engineer to agree to your wacky ideas?
Also wondering if you had started work besides pulling apart stuff? I know that the wedding is...soonish so you are probably busy with that. Hope it goes well, cheers, michael.

sim_rx3 · January 31, 2005, 10:40:41 PM

hey micheal yeh it is a big job. ive got a couple of engineers that said they will put pen to paper for me so its cool.

basically the way im looking is ICV - individually constructed vehicle.

so everything has to comply with the ADR\'s of today.

the rules are heaps different and really tough (will cost extra) and to get around the pollution laws in seriously considering gas ie straight LPG.

ive made a few decisions too.

im definetly going bridge port turbo.

im selling the holset turbo and getting either a GT42R or GT42RS turbo!!:evillaugh

travellinbob · February 01, 2005, 10:01:23 AM

oooooh baby. I havnt heard a great deal about the ICV laws but can well expect them to be quite harsh. LPG sounds like a good option, especially if you bridgeport it i guess. More overlap=more unburnt fuel =more polution I would reckon. Could be wrong though.
What are you going ot do with the gear from the original set up?

sim_rx3 · February 03, 2005, 05:41:59 AM

most of the gear is already sold.

Martiny · February 03, 2005, 05:21:03 PM

QuoteOriginally posted by Carl
Hey Martin!
How did that handle with the tiny width of the tyres?
LOL
Regards
Carl

Hey Carl.
Well it was quite entertaining! And look at how high she rides, too. I\'ll bet it was fun to watch.

The racing I did was pretty much open to anything, because it was run on a handicap system. So the times were worked out from your practice times. We all started at different times, with the theory that we should all cross the line together! With 30 something cars, the last lap was very busy!

Anyway, I would drive that RX-2 the track, take off the hubcaps, do my racing, put the hubcaps back on, and it was then my daily drive for the rext of the week. Fantastic cheap motoring/racing!

I could only afford standard road tyres - we used to try and get Uniroyals. Now, a lot of guys I raced against had slicks, and I could outbrake/outcorner some of them!

Wish I could find a handicap formula here .... one day I will have an RX2 on the track again......

OLSKOOLROTAR · March 15, 2005, 03:54:59 AM

Congrats to you and your wife Sim:D

remember now whats your is hers and whats hers is hers too now!!!!

Looks like a good time had by all, saw the pic\'s on the Aus site, damn those rex\'s looked the biz:cool

regards OLSKOOL:wave

sim_rx3 · April 05, 2005, 04:09:02 AM

thank man.

sim_rx3 · September 05, 2005, 05:55:52 AM

bit more of an update (ive fixed up my first post to reflect the changes).

t2rew · September 05, 2005, 08:44:52 PM

your not afraid to spend money on you car are you

nice wheels.

sim_rx3 · September 23, 2005, 04:11:23 AM

nah not at all!! lol

it will take time but ill get there.

yeh they are nice $4000 AUS from the US to my door.