Mr2 Turbo Sprint Car (Banshee)

[stephano]

managed to get a bit of practice in before the first race of the season

flew off to Croatia and had a blip in a MK2 escort.

http://youtu.be/lYzel5_lwig

[ashley]

Good to see you're training hard mate

[stephano]

well i got another autosolo on monday so will be real world training then.

[stephano]

The autosolo went well!
had a good bit of fun doing this

http://youtu.be/k4zB4IhgCm0

and after 3 runs my tyres went from

This...



To this!!



Didnt even make it till lunch time


Anyway ive finished the customers turbo conversion so got to crack on with my car for once

only 4 weeks untill werrington hillclimb so need to get my ar$e in gear. still need to fit cv joints, gearbox seals, rev1 subframe, tyres etc....the list goes on.

the first job was the longer studs as ive changed to abs hubs for the traction control





Hammer time!



does anyone have a simple way to get these in?
this is not the easiest



all in!



got on with the cv joints.













the abs cables have been damaged in the past so i decided to repair them (again)



some how grease or something has got onto the wires so they wouldn't solder so just crimped plug on them



Managed to get started on the rev1 subframe today



cleaned, scrapped and wire brushed



nice thick coat of hammerite



not sure what colour to have it this year

Thought id strip and grease up the control arms
so gave them a good soaking with a bit of 40



stripped them down. came apart nice and easy



and all back together

[Magic Beans]

Nice video

[stephano]

very proud of it.

so thought id go for chrome on my rev1 sub-frame



and red for the 25mm arb



quick difference shot
rev2 left rev1 right



new gbox seal in and waiting for a new drive shaft bearing then tyres and RACING!

[stephano]

Thought id wind the mrs up again by taking her out in the Altezza at the autosolo

http://youtu.be/0h_GFGuBhfM

[sketchmyster]

pmsl she learned from last time then lol

[stephano]

yeah but my persistence paid off!
she just did it to shut me up.

[sketchmyster]

hahahaha

[Magic Beans]

Stop wasting tyres and get that car of yours finished

[stephano]

yeah would be a good idea tbh as im racing it this Saturday
only the back end to put back together, just hope it runs! didnt when i parked it up.

[Magic Beans]

Minor technicality then

[stephano]

It'll be fine dads is parked next to it so just a case of part swapping!

[Magic Beans]

No wonder he still hasn't got the car finished then, as every time he comes to work on it something else is AWOL

[jimGTS]

nice work!

[stephano]

No wonder he still hasn't got the car finished then, as every time he comes to work on it something else is AWOL

before he knows it'll ill be running a 5s with custom pistons, rods and dry sump

[stephano]

nice work!

Thank you.

[dan mkii]

Great project mate.

Can i ask where you got the studs from and how much longer are they?

[stephano]

Thanks
i think they are extended by 20mm and im not totally sure where i got them now as it was a year or more ago but if i was going to buy more i would get these.
http://twosrus.com/catalog/product_info ... cts_id=354