Thought some of you guys might be interested in my race car build. I brought the car as a log booked hill clmib car about a year ago. It came with an Isuzu G180w twin cam with an Isuzu 4 speed. The car was missing a lot of parts, so a "small" build began.
One yaer later and the car is now being built to IPRA regulations. At the monet I have a 2lt Toyota 3sge (with a Holden Apollo block) bolted up to a Supra W55 gearbox. Unfortunately the car is an early model TX with a ridiculously narrow transmission tunnel. Hours of panel beating went into it to get the gearbox to fit, no cutting allowed.
I removed the Piazza front brakes and am now in the process of fitting RX7 4pot calipers with BLuebird rotors, all bolted up to the Piazza hubs.
THe car didn't have any rear brakes, so I've fitted up some Commodore calipers and rotors.
I've modified the front sub-frame and now have approximately 7degrees of camber at a ride height of 100mm. THe rear has had the standard pan-hard mounts removed and I've made new mounts with roll center adjustment. At the moment the RC is way too low, so more work is required. Originally the car had a rough watts link fitted. I'm sticking with the standard diff at the moment, just going to lock the axles, but will eventually invest some time into making something a bit better.
Race Fabraications have just finished my roll cage for me and have done a fantastic job. It'll be one of hte stiffest Gemini's getting around.
The car when i first picked it up.
The 3sge going in with the W55 gearbox.
The RX7 calipers mock mounted with the bluebird rotors.
Could have gone bigger on the rotors, but the things were getting damn heavy as it was.
Machining the rear rotors.
Rear rotors and calipers fitted.
Pedals mounted.
Front suspension all done and cambered up.
Making the rear pan-hard bar and mounts.
Scaffolding all finished, Fabraications did a great job.
Still lots of work to do, but I've been pretty lucky that the car was straight and fairly rust free. It was originally log booked way back in 1995, so its been a track car for a good portion of its life.