cool build theres goin to be some serious cool machinery in pro drift this year
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cool build theres goin to be some serious cool machinery in pro drift this year
Well another busy few days have gone by! Having a broken hand hasn't made having a very tight deadline any easier but nothing is supposed to be easy in motorsport i reckon!
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After returning from EA Games in Vancouver on Need For Speed Shift 2 duties Darren has welded all the cage in place except the door bars
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And he stayed on Saturday night to seam weld the engine bay which turned out really tasty. Legend Darren!
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The outside seams and chassis legs are next on the list
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And this eve the shell was put up on the spit. This will allow the rest of the welding and cutting to the underside to be done much more quickly and easily
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Now that I can't do ANYTHING I can get a bit creative with the pics :)
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Team member and drifter extraordinaire Sean Townie Town-Land Healy made a welcome appearance this evening with his big pipe and tidied up the underside of the shell, cutting off every unnecessary bracket
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Nice work lad :) Fair play to Sean....
Fair Play, What would you have to do with Shift 2???????
i think it was darren playing shift 2 shur he broke his hand/arm ....:D:D
cool build cant wait to see this in action ....:D:D
its good to see your kept busy on the camera mike..:p would'nt ya think ud give the lads a hand lazy fooker..:cool:
Lol at Townlands big pipe! haha
Nice one Mike
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Originally Posted by KerryKid1JZ
Yep! Darren was on promotional duty for Shift 2 for a few days, taking on American Le Mans racer Tommy Milner in a time attack battle in the game. Some peple get all the shitty jobs :DQuote:
Originally Posted by Stevie e39 drift
Ha ha ha :rolleyes: Id have given em a hand Christy except it was on a break :pQuote:
Originally Posted by carpo
Yeah it was massive :pQuote:
Originally Posted by Cezeli
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After Holly saw the pictures of Townies pipe he decided to bring his hose today :D
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And photographer supremo Paddy McGrath turned up to shoot the Need For Speed car for the latest build update over on Speedhunters.com
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Buying paint, a good sign :)
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The boys clean the chassis legs for seam welding
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loving the pics dude
tis comin on well mike fair play to the lads
Coming on nicely, will be keeping an eye on this thread.
Best of luck with the build :D
looking well mike well if you hope to be ready i have no excuse if im not ready :P
great pictures man... great build too.
Your getting fair arty with the pic's dude :)
Right boys and girdles, sorry bout the delay in getting an update posted up, with the hand being broke, working on Prodrift Round 1 and Holly giving a hand at Darren's (frankly awesome) Need For Speed D-Mac 86, we've been flat out at other things aswell as working on the FC. One of the main time consumers has been the fact that the car was a UK model FC and spent some of its years on the Isle of Wight, which has left it with quite a lot of surface rust. We decided that while were going to the lengths were going to with the this shell that we might as well get rid of all rust altogether on both the shell (although it wasnt too bad) and the subframes and arms, as the shell might last one event or it might last 10 years, so while it was up on the spit we said we would do it right if we were doing it at all. It was very time consuming but the end result is a minty fresh shell which has been treated to a nice coat of white paint on the underneath by one of my new sponsors, Daniel Hegarty of DansBodyWorx (big thanks Dan!!!) down at MCNSPORT in Buttevant on the Friday before Round 1
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Dan also laid on the satin white/satin black paint scheme on the Need For Speed car so his work speaks for itself.
After the usual madness that went on in Ennis Monday was a write off so bright and early Tuesday we got the car off the spit with Holly acting as chief forklift operator!
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In order for it to take its place...
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In the main bay, where the Need For Speed car has recently vacated
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Indeed!
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And so we have the 4.3:1 two way diff, and also the rear subframe with rear lower arms and modified front subframe with front lower control arms, all fitted with polyurethane bushes from another new sponsor, Mazdatrix, who are based in California (www.mazdatrix.com). We are also fitting a camber adjuster rod, toe eliminator bushes as the FCs have rear steer as standard and individual camber adjuster links left and right which are to come from Formula D driver and FC specialist Justin Pawlak.
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Satin black FTW! :D
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Holly's brother PaddyHalloran (pronounced as one word :) ) makes a welcome appearance to do some sanding to get the inside of the shell ready for paint
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We had bespoke polyurethane bushes made for the diff, which were made to perfection by my good friend Philip Shine. Philip can can more or less anything, from anything, so give me a PM if you would be interested in having any parts made.
Now the back of the van is after seeing some fairly quaere things in its time, but this time its pretty normal in the shape of an SR20! :D
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Happy and Holly fitting the front subframe and arms
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Happy tells me where to go as Mulvey plants his rear end on mine! : D
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The knuckles of a dedicated man
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Happy removes the support the old way!
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Happy Darren did a top notch job of tubbing the rear arches, welding them the whole way around. He went way up with the tubs so we should be able to sit her right down on top of the 18x10 inch wheels, which are also from a new sponsor and will be unveiled with the car ;)
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FC, meet SR, SR, meet FC!
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Back at the end of 2010 when this project started there was no talk of any problems as far as cutting bulkheads to fit engines further back went, but now it's banned in Formula D and it looks like a lot of series in Europe might follow suit in the future. Only might though, it remains to be seen. The SR lined up pretty well as far as the gearbox tunnel side of things went. The problem is that in an S body the steering rack is behind the subframe and sits level with it height wise, and in an FC, which was designed with a compact rotary in mind, the rack sits at the front and is on top of the subframe. We knew coming into this that we had several options: Use a complete S13 front end including subframe, steering, and suspension, modifying the top shock mounts aswell to take the S13 shocks. Make a custom sump and oil pickup for the SR and move the steering rack of the FC either 70mm forwards or about 55mm downwards, extending the steering column, but this would totally alter steering geometry and by changing the angles of the steering arms it would affect things like ackermann angle, bump steer and lock, aswell as making the arms go into a bind situation early in the suspension travel and possibly putting a lot of unnecessary pressure on the steering arms. Thirdly, and most likely, we could cut the bulkhead, shove the SR with the modified sump back a few inches, cut a tunnel for the exhaust, more cutting for the gear lever, and move the wiper assembly and clutch cylinder. But this may be outlawed in the near future, abroad at least. Hmmmmmmmm....
A bit of thinking to do so, but in the mean time, cos I'm a huge size of a man, we line me up early with my seat, wheel and awesome new, long handle ASD hydraulic handbrake complete with .75 Wilwood cylinder so that we can have all the inside fabrication work done and ready for painting by Dan.
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The boys allow me to use power tools again after 'The Drill Incident'! :D
And another day at MCNSPORT ends
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We had brackets made to fit the sear direct to the floor, but Darren produced FC specific rails which provide seat adjustability in what is a very tight cabin so they were very welcome. I like to sit high up while driving anyway but with my helmet on it's a tight fit to the cage! We decide to go with this height for the time being and we can drop it at a later date if it's too high
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We might have to leave the sunroof out!
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PaddyHalloran in the safest place for him: Behind bars!
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Mechanic turns fabricator
jesus shes moving on now mikey cant waaaaait to see the finished product :D
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yes do it :evil: :cool:
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yes do it :evil: :cool:
Mwhahahahahahahhahahahahaaaaaaaaaa!!! :p
Looks sweet! will ya have her finished for fermoy mike??
good work fitz, looking awesome..
Nice to see you back on track lad. Pardon the pun :) U gonna be ready for Rd 2?
this is jus beggin for a 20b to be dropped into her
some build lad well done fair play will be savage final product keep up the great work!!diff too with the FC :)
you know ya want it to sound like this :)
YouTube - [HD] Mad Mike Gone Mad with RX7 4 rotor Monster!! in Formula Drift THAILAND 2009
Mad Mike Fitz, woooop woooop!!
looking well cant wait to see this going
Coming along sweet alot of work before round 2 cant wait to see it out in action, be good to get battling with you again bbbboooooooiiiiiiii
serious amount of work mike...that fc is gona be full of win by the looks of things :D
Just read the whole thread from start to finish, some build lads, fair play :cool: