Hey nick does your spare 1200 sedan have good rear quarter panels? I'm not afraid of a little rust but am mainly after something fairly straight.

I hate to hijack but on the same subject, has anybody got some spare 3.7 gears for the skyline 28 spline diff.

Why do you want a roll cage in a street car may I ask?

I used to have a 89 in mine and it was fine except on the track the oil temps would get quite high because it was getting heat soaked quickly by the motor. I changed down to an 82 and the engine still runs fine but oil temps stay that bit lower when going hard which is comforting.

Both temps are listed for the motor, a hot or cool version which I guess must be to do with the climate the car is in. I would say go with the cooler one.

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As described, I'm after the pattern for the CA18 head to exhaust manifold flange. I know you can buy them but am still after it.

cheers in advance

Interesting design, I hate to pick holes in it but you never know, it might be constructive. Firstly that bolt is undersized to be taking a lateral load like that. Threaded bar/bolts are designed for stress in pure tension. Sure you can use them like that but threads are horrible stress concentrators and that bolt will fatigue in time and may not show signs of it until it fractures.

Have you got any specs for those rose joints? That looks like one of the ~$20 items you get from the bolt shop and for the price I would like to know their rating because, and this is the most critical part, if ANYTHING lets go in this setup you may die! In any other standard/aftermarket setup they only rely on a spherical bearing/rubber bush to resist the shock loading and the corner weight of the car is always resting on the strut tower. If your bolt breaks or bearing craps out then the corner of the car will collapse and seize the front wheel.

I think the idea has legs but reckon you need to find a way to fail safe the design if you are going to be hitting ripple strips on the race track.

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3SGE + 6 speed EBAY

I'm pretty sure these lexus 3SGE's had over 200hp. Someone had better buy it and plonk it in a 1200!

Yeah get pumped guys.

Boof would be keen for sure! Ange, time to hit the track?

I pulled out the rear swaybar and pretty much fixed the problem. Turns out the rear swaybar was way too stiff once the chassis stopped flexing so much. It was weird, I'd turn it in and it would lean but also pitch in towards the front end because the rear was so rigid. The other factor was that there is just so much grip on that skid pan when it's warm and there is a bit of rubber down.

Soooo, anyone want to buy a rear swaybar? Worked ok with a standard chassis! Easy installation

G'day guys,

Just thought I'd report in about my weekend up at shepparton at the DECA driver training for the skylines Australia motorkhana. My car has been pretty competitive in the past finishing as high as 3rd outright so I thought I'd be even more competitive this time going back with a handbrake for the first time as well as a rollcage.

How wrong I was! As always I ended up in a massive rush at the end of last week getting everything ready in time to the point where I got the rollcage bolted in, tested the new hydraulic handbrake a couple of times and then set off.

Long story short, the first time I pulled the handbrake in anger I bent the mechanism I had rigged up rendering the handbrake useless for the rest of the day. With the rollcage and stiffer chassis, the swaybars were so far out of whack that I nearly rolled the car ON FLAT GROUND on the skidpan (see video)
here

Nonetheless it was still a blast and I ended up finishing 10th out of 50 outright and 4th 2wd which i was wrapped with in the end.

Here is some more videos and pics

cheers

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