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If you do that I'm nearly positive you'll wreck the beam pattern of your dipped headlights and probably won't do much for your full beams either. Fine if its a show car but otherwise a MOT failure

Some say yes, some say no! Anyway you have it bought now, a little late for research don't you think?

Hi folks, Just wondering how the rear track measurement is taken? Is it from outside to outside of the wheels, from the centre of each wheel or is it taken from the mounting face of the disk and therefore has nothing to do with the wheels that are used? Trying to figure out if a set of wheels that I'm going to look at this afternoon would, when mounted, actually make the rear track value smaller than the front track. Rear rim is 17"x9", ET+44 Front Rim 17"x8" ET+32 Does anyone know the kind of effects if any this combination might have on handling? TIA

You've just emphasized my point

Ah yes but don't forget opinions are like arseholes, everybody got one. Trouble is tho, like arseholes, they are usually full of shite.

I think he means hub cover, the little cap in the centre. I use a large open end spanner, get one jaw behind the lip on the cap and tap lightly with a hammer, rotate the hub after every few taps to stop the cap from coming out lop-sided

Except Chris Wilson!!

I'll have them if m45sey declines. PM sent.

Does anyone know if Work Emotion Cr Kai rims in 17", ET+32 will clear UK spec front brakes. Thanks guys.

Theres lots of things specific to Ireland, rain, the smell of shite in the country and mile upon mile of brown boring bog!!

http://www.mondello.ie/images/data/gallery/29_4482_2009%20Time%20Attack%20Club%20Series%20Tech%20Regs-CSTF2009.pdf Its needed in Ireland mate, simple as.

Your concerns are duely noted and appreciated Steve I may have come over a little "gung ho" in that last post. What I mean to say is that I don't want my own safety to be playing on my mind much less a mate's when I should be enjoying the essence of motorsport. As I have invested so much time and money at this stage in this project it would be pointless and foolish of me to hit the track with the notion that I'll be the first person to break the sound barrier in a NA Soop! The real objective is to learn more about cars in general, what difference small changes to suspension set-up and such translate to in on-track behaviour as my knowledge of such things is very limited. The car will be an on going project for a long LONG time to come. But should I find the time and money to get competitive the roll cage is a requirement for even the entry level series in Time Attack in this country so it was a point that needed to be addressed one way or the other.

Is that description from the Haynes workshop manual? Don't believe everything you read in those numpty guides

Yeah, thought so. Did a quick search where it seems to spring up alot in single conversion threads and with mine being a NA i started to wonder if I was wide of the mark. Any idea of its purpose and can it be of any benefit to remone it from a track car? Cheers.

Yep! I have done day courses and such but I wanted to save the €500-a-pop expense and build my own version of a track car, but I don't want any excuses for not pushing both the car and myself so safety must be covered in my opinion.

While we are all here can someone tell ME what the black plastic unit with the 2 small hoses running into it, located at the top right hand corner is. Its just behind and to the right of the ABS unit. Cheers

Great minds often think alike

The siren from your alarm

Whichever ones are available Jim, just going to do as many trackdays as I can and maybe see about the Clubman series in Time Attack also, budget permitting, but thats the main reason I was so hung up on a proper roll cage

Dropped the old girl off to get the roll cage fitted last night. After all the eyeball drying hours spent trying to locate a suitable bolt-in cage on the net I got talking to an engineer not far from me, turns out he has built a few in the past, I managed to track down an example of his work and I was suitably impressed. I asked him would he be interested in fabricating a weld in cage for me, I supplied him with the details, he got back to me with a price and said we'd compare prices on the material (C.D.S.). My quote turned out to be the best so I ordered in the tubing last week and dropped car and tubing off at his place last night. The cage is closely based on the fine example Wez had fitted to his car, I thought a good example of a genuine Supra cage would cut out alot of the headaches associated with fabricating something from scratch. I downloaded every shot and angle of the cage I could find (sorry Wez ) and when you put them all together they offer a fairly detailed build guide. I'm expecting the car back sometime next week then, if all is well, I can finally crack on with fitting the UK brakes and set of freshly booted (Eagle F1's) 17" Volks I bought from Michel Lane months ago along with an uprated anti-roll bar and polybush kit I sourced locally. Nic is supplying me with a Carbing front brace, hopefully the cage negates the need for a rear one. There is still a fair amount to locate and fit, seats, harnesses and the like (the list varies according to budget!) but I feel the cage was the biggest hurdle I faced and now with that hopefully in the bag I can actually think about getting out on a track before the summer is in full swing:ecstatic: Wish me luck! Damien.

They are a little circular for my taste

What model are you going to look at? It'll save having to list 14 years of gadgets and gizmos

Received the canards yesterday bud. Thanking you.

Won't make a blind bit of difference to it bud, it'll be fine.

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