5 posts tagged “notch”
Well I went back to the drag strip last Wednesday and they wouldnt let me in like I was told the week before.
Ive now got to get an official coupon to get back in for free. It looked like rain again so I decided not to pay again. We will try and hook up another drag day in the new year.
Anyway a few pics of the finishing up of the Notch Refresh.
Finished and ready to roll. The hardest part really, about this job was not havin the old girl on the road for the past 2 weeks. So now I can go out for a burn!
Yeehaaw!
Drag day has been run and won.
Couldnt tell who was quickest though, all I know it wasnt me.
But hey wasnt for not trying.
I did an all nighter on Tuesday, and finally by about 5pm Wednesday had it all screwed together and fired.
Went round the block. Made a couple adjustments, came in changed grabbed my lid and headed for the track.
But just as i rolled up to the staging lanes, they closed the track cos of rain. Damn global warmings beat me again!
The officials said I get free entry next wednesday, so ill be in that.
The boys got a few runs in, it was excelent to see VW's at the strip and even a dude in a bus, so cool.
Lets see more of that.
Anyway a few pics of the Notch build up.
Ok, so now with the engine out, its time to cut the RHS frame horns out. These just hold the gearbox bell housing and not much more. So I am gonna beef this area up and extend em to the engine carrier bar.
So I removed the gear box and axles. Cut the old tubes out and started mock up for longer tubes. I decided to make these outa 30mm RHS. I had some 40mm, but there was just no room for it around the nose of the gearbox.
And the engine comes out for the first time in years.
Everything looks pretty good, but for a number of small oil leaks. I plan to try and fix the rocker cover leaks at this stage, but as the drag day is fast approaching I doubt ill get much chance to tackle any more.
Im endevoring to purchase some Porsche cookies for this car. So i needed to change the bolt pattern. I decided to give the old girl a birthday and bought new parts.
Well i found out the studs were gonna be too short for the alloys and aluminium nut I have. So i needed longer studs. I found I could get porsche ones for about 30 bux each, but the knurl is smaller diameter than the holes already, So had to find a different solution. I made some calls and found Landcruiser studs may fit. They look long enough and the knurl is about 1mm bigger diameter. Sweet! Toyoyta wanted 10 bux each, this looked good compared to Porsche, but I found Coventries saved the day again, cos they only want 2 bux for the same part, double sweetness!
Jackin and Striping
Now im planning to run my notch at the drags. I havent done this for a while. There is many reasons for this retirement by me of my notch from the strip. Mainly its cos I actually didnt build the car for that purpose. In the begining this car was a experiment, to see if I could build it and to see if I could actually get the thing road registered. As it turned out years ago, last century actually, registration was easy.
So for a long time ive been happy just cruising around smokin V8's.
Sure ive taken a few runs down the strip in the low 13's... Yep I drive like a granny.
But the main reason im so slow is axle tramp. Ive blown a gearbox or 2 because of it, so I take it easy these days.
Well the time has arived , its time to get this 960kg lump into the 12's.
So the first job is to mount the drive line more solidly.
Ive started the strip down and am looking at some simple methods to brace the rear subframe better.
Its a road car so all mounting will be rubber or urethane if you prefer.
The task is to do it without having to move or modify whats in/under the car already.
