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Posted: **Mon Aug 15, 2011 8:17 am**

...cause these pair are long reads!

Sorry about linking to another forum - I know it's a pain and it puts people off - but the threads are pretty long and picture heavy, so I'd rather not fill this thread up, but if you have any questions or comments, fire away and I'll answer them in here.

My daily driver, it's a tiny little 1.4 engine but has a shedload of shiny parts made for it:

And the weekend racer, spaceframed buggy with a Mazda rotary engine in the back to compete in Safari's:

(Click the pictures to link to the build threads)

I hope you enjoy reading them as much as I enjoy building/breaking them! :lol:

Posted: **Mon Sep 05, 2011 12:33 pm**

Wow that buggy thing is awesome

Posted: **Tue Sep 06, 2011 2:00 am**

Haha, cheers.
Cheap, ugly and built out of scrapyard bits but it puts a hell of a grin on the front of my head

Posted: **Wed Sep 07, 2011 10:30 am**

They tend to be the best

Posted: **Mon Sep 12, 2011 6:03 am**

They do, can't seem to get rid of this mid-range misfire at the moment though so it's learning new swear words...

Posted: **Tue Sep 13, 2011 8:46 am**

That buggy looks like a Lotus 7 took steroids.

Posted: **Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:33 am**

Oops

Posted: **Wed Sep 28, 2011 12:21 pm**

Owch...

What is the diff out of?

Posted: **Wed Sep 28, 2011 10:14 pm**

Uffda. That's not what you want to see when you crap open your diff.

Posted: **Wed Sep 28, 2011 11:23 pm**

Time to weld the diff.

http://www.pirate4x4.com/forum/showthread.php?t=763645

Posted: **Thu Sep 29, 2011 4:05 am**

^I'll pass on that!

The diff is a Renault UN5 unit - generally regarded as pretty damned strong - but I think all the impacts are making it flex and fatiguing it.

Still, does mean we can take the gears down the road to HPC to have some alterations made for next year....

http://www.vimulator.com/#/v3/drag/12091+12090

Posted: **Fri Feb 03, 2012 7:08 am**

Well, good news, local firm can make the gears -

- somewhere between £600-800 for them.

Bad news, the money budgeted for those has had to go for some new tyres and brake pads

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2012 11:41 am**

Might have accidentally bought the gears instead of the brake pads, whoops.
One makes you go faster, one makes you go slower, had to make a choice

Simulation says it should drop the 0-110mph time from 42 seconds to a rather more respectable 19s....

Posted: **Tue Feb 28, 2012 1:53 pm**

well think of it this way: before you didn't NEEEEED the brake pads. Now you do :mrgreen:

Posted: **Wed Feb 29, 2012 2:30 am**

We'll, I'm sure the remains of the steel backing pads will do something....

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