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It’s running again!

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Maladar got some stuff from AIM, mostly data logging stuff and wires. Also, there was a steering wheel and a lcd gauge system. This stuff is going into someone’s F3 project. I’d love to see the result.

I’mtesting drooling over the steering wheel.

Maladar got some new vinyl and I found one old design I made not so long ago. I have a Chowini’s (Tom’s) tachometer for AW11 (goes to 10krpm) which I got from a acquaintance of mine. I had to pay 50 euros of it, but that was a bargain.

The first cut was bit misaligned, so it ended under the screaming chicken 🙂

 Here’s some more info about Chowini’sSpeedHunters Team Chowini’s AE86

Again, some progress with bumper and front lip. Bumper was torn apart and the skin went to paint shop. Front lip got some fiber epoxy and is being sanded at the moment.

Some progress with front lip. It’s still broken, but at least I’ve sanded it. It’s now ready for epoxy and glass fiber. Next time, I’ll buy a some sort of machine for this.

Just to see how it would look, we lowered the car and added some camber. Maladar measured everything and we agreed that 40mm lowering should be fine, except some miscalculations happened and car ended lower than we wanted. I took some pictures, looked nice 🙂 (Really, I had to stop whatever I was doing at the moment and grab my camera and take pictures)

 First test. Tire change took only 9.23 seconds. No additional gas needed to complete the race. I’m off to set new lap records.

Maladar and Richie Rich mounted tires on my rims. Thank You very much! Pictures are from Maladar’s archive. Please ignore the expensive cars. 😉

 

Yeah, I had this great idea to get new black bolts to my rims instead the chromed ones. Maladar said that I need to tell the story.

Ok, I asked from the SSR/Tanabe USA about the bolts some time ago, and I didn’t get any reply. I thought “how hard could it be?” and took one bolt off. I measured the bolt carefully and I found out it was a M6 x 25mm, pretty easy to replace, eh?

After some googling, I found a local company specialized in various screws. I made an order of 160 screws and got ’em in no time. Then, one day at the garage, I started to change the bolts. Mr. 3ngin3man (he likes trains) had a vacation and nothing to do, so he offered to help me. At the second bolt, he said that there is nothing on the other side, and to my horror, I noticed that half of the bolts we’re fakes. We checked one fake bolt, which measured M6 x 6mm.

Well, time to order some more. After a very long time, I got my M6 x 6mm’s. There were only 41 of them (I needed at least 80) and they had the wrong coating on them. Great! I called the company and asked about the bolts and they told me that M6 x 6mm is really rare and they recommended M6 x 8mm instead. I wasn’t sure at the moment if that size would fit, so one more day to wait (until I got new measures). I measured the length of the threads and ordered those M6 x 8mm bolts.