Rebirth of a racecar - project pics
01-07-2007, 11:48 PM
#61
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wow, cool project. have you thought about adding some bracing to the cage at all or changing to 6 point harnesses?
01-08-2007, 07:04 PM
#62
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Originally Posted by Skip Wolfe
Took advantage of my holiday vacation to pull the motor from my parts car. Brant Giere, a local Rennlister, has a nice mid-rise scissor lift in his shop, which made life easier, and Tom Leigh, another local Rennlister, came over to help wrench. Took us about 6 hours with a short break for lunch. The last hour was spent removing little bits and pieces that were causing the motor to hang up, and figuring out that the input shaft is damn long. I trailered the motor back to my house, got it in the garage and will start prepping it to go into the Technodyne car this week.
01-08-2007, 11:29 PM
#63
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Reno - I'll have to find out for sure. Its a little over 2/3rds of the way up in the pic. It's a Bend-Pak lift -pretty sure its the same one Harbor Freight sells. The go for about $1200 and I was very impressed with it. I'll probably be over at Brant's place this weekend and I can take some more pics and find out the details if your interested. Maybe he'll chime in on this thread as well.
01-08-2007, 11:35 PM
#64
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Joseph - I'm planning on staying with a 5 point at this point because I already have that setup in my '87 and will be transferring it over to the racecar, but have given it a whole lot of thought.
Wasn't planning on adding any bracing but am always open to suggestions - do you have anything in mind?
Wasn't planning on adding any bracing but am always open to suggestions - do you have anything in mind?
01-08-2007, 11:41 PM
#65
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i have an e36 bmw (previously a 944 owner). this cage is from a bmw racecar, but some bracing along the A and B pillars as such:
01-09-2007, 12:56 AM
#66
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I like the B-pilar bracing as well as the taco gussets in the door x braces, but I would be concerned about the escapability with the A-pillar brace in place.
01-09-2007, 11:25 AM
#67
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SKIP please do! my email is reno808@gmail.com Thanks. i am holding out on my coil overs to "invest" on this lift.
06-16-2007, 12:20 AM
#69
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It's been a while since I have made an update, so here are a couple.
New Lindsey Super 53. Its a new turbo in the Super lineup and is replacing the Sport. Here is a pic comparing it to a T3 that is similar in size to a K26.
And the obligatory cell phone pic:
New Lindsey Super 53. Its a new turbo in the Super lineup and is replacing the Sport. Here is a pic comparing it to a T3 that is similar in size to a K26.
And the obligatory cell phone pic:
06-16-2007, 12:23 AM
#70
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The motor is almost buttoned up. I am waiting on a Lindsey 2-piece crossover conversion and a Clewitt trigger mount. Should have them both this coming week and hopefully I can get them installed and drop the motor. Unfortunately I am going to be out of town a fair bit so it may not happen until the July 4th week. Hope to take some time off and really hammer throught some stuff.
07-07-2007, 12:07 PM
#74
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Originally Posted by shiners780
That turbo looks gigantic sitting in there! It's gotta feel good to finally get the engine back in the car, huh? Lookin' good!