JEEPER'S.... Street/Strip Jalopy Build.

[edz]

You going to seam weld the shell and run a chassis kit in this O'l girl Kev  ? .. Might have  to try and limit her hurting herself a bit when she does  the twist  riding the wild ponies ..
Zip tying the doors shut might not be a good look .

[Jeepers Creepers]

Chassis connector and a 6 point chrome moly roll cage will do it just fine.

Seam welding is for those rally wankers who just thrash cars through the scrub. 

[noel_w]

Seam welding is for those rally wankers who just thrash cars through the scrub. 

Ever tried it? it's a lot of fun. My poor old 70's datto just loved red line sucking huge amounts of super through the twin 45DCOE webers while dodging trees. 

[Jeepers Creepers]

Nah... a drag racer through and though.

Spoke to the engineer this morning.... looking pretty there so far.

[edz]

Ahhh that  Raucus bellowing high / low growling through the carbs, of an engine at revs echoing through the forrest, The glint and flash in the distance through the trees, of a wild bucking beast bellowing and trailing a cloud of dust ..
Driving it straight Sideways Yumping the lumps, Holding it on the limits not daring  to snatch that next gear for fear of unloading  it into the scrub ..
190 klicks flat strap through the green trench , eyes as big as plates, Arms legs hands and feet moving in an automatic  blurr, One of the best workouts, even the toughest fittness  instructors would be impressed by  .. You know you are alive .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlAY-3-SoxE  ..

[Jeepers Creepers]

Geez Edz, if ya have to have someone to blabber instructions in a foreign lingo, I can just go for a drive with the wife and get her to yell at me in Norwegian.   

[doc evil]

Ahhh that  Raucus bellowing high / low growling through the carbs, of an engine at revs echoing through the forrest, The glint and flash in the distance through the trees, of a wild bucking beast bellowing and trailing a cloud of dust ..
Driving it straight Sideways Yumping the lumps, Holding it on the limits not daring  to snatch that next gear for fear of unloading  it into the scrub ..
190 klicks flat strap through the green trench , eyes as big as plates, Arms legs hands and feet moving in an automatic  blurr, One of the best workouts, even the toughest fittness  instructors would be impressed by  .. You know you are alive .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlAY-3-SoxE  ..

Awesome nav.........top motivation skills.

I'm old enough the remember the works ford teams coming here for the Alpine and southern cross rallies in the late 70s and early 80s.
To hear a BDA escort at full song is the stuff dreams are made of.
To see the eskys and dattos on 3 wheels on the bitumen stages outside Albury/Woodonga in the new housing estates.
Then the group G Dazdas..................oh times were good back then.

Anywho, I was a member of Ford Four car club for a number of years in the mid 90's. At the meetings the bitumen boys (circuit racers) would sit on one side on the auditorium and the dirt boys (Rally, autocross etc) on the other...................was a massive divide back then!!

[Bird]

Ahhh that  Raucus bellowing high / low growling through the carbs, of an engine at revs echoing through the forrest, The glint and flash in the distance through the trees, of a wild bucking beast bellowing and trailing a cloud of dust ..
Driving it straight Sideways Yumping the lumps, Holding it on the limits not daring  to snatch that next gear for fear of unloading  it into the scrub ..
190 klicks flat strap through the green trench , eyes as big as plates, Arms legs hands and feet moving in an automatic  blurr, One of the best workouts, even the toughest fittness  instructors would be impressed by  .. You know you are alive .
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JlAY-3-SoxE  ..

I like https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D9-voINFkCg

but how big a balls do you need to be a navi in that first vid... not to look at the road at all... Im a bad passenger just going down to the shops.

[Paddler Ed]

It does surprise me how few (global) rally drivers are from Australia - in the same way that the Finns had the ice to learn their magic, on Aussies have the dirt roads galore to work with.

[doc evil]

It does surprise me how few (global) rally drivers are from Australia - in the same way that the Finns had the ice to learn their magic, on Aussies have the dirt roads galore to work with.

I think it has more to do with coin and that the sponsors are european Ed.

We have had/have drivers (and navs) who would cut it with the best of the europeans. Cody Crocker and Simon Evans comes to mind 10 odd years ago.
Ross Dunkerton, Geoff Portman, George Fury and Colin Bond of the earlier rear wheel drive era.

Australia was/is just too small to facilitate a international rally team or fund a driver overseas.

[NZMarkb]

It does surprise me how few (global) rally drivers are from Australia - in the same way that the Finns had the ice to learn their magic, on Aussies have the dirt roads galore to work with.

But in rallys they have corners
Not 200 km long straights 

[Jeepers Creepers]

I got this message earlier today.... made me pretty happy..... hope it fits. 

It's a brand new 2000hp rated Inland Empire Drive Line Services ally shaft. Best part of 2k to have made and shipped here.

It might be totally the wrong length, but if you can use it, it's yours.