Nostalgia Dragster Rebuild

[Water Boy]

Preen your ol man has a wicked workshop set-up going for sure

[Treza360]

15.911315 litres.
(3.5x4.54609)

So dry US gallons as opposed to liquid US gallons as opposed to UK gallons. Geez the imperial system/s is/are dumb.

[Preen59]

So dry US gallons as opposed to liquid US gallons as opposed to UK gallons. Geez the imperial system/s is/are dumb.

Yeah its crap. I'm just distance measurement is a contant between them!

[Oneofthegreats]

Looks Waaaaay better. Just the right amount of RAKE (Yeah, you heard me, Tim! haha)

Thank's for showing me the rake Preeny! hahahahah

The ol girl has a fair battle scar on the rear passenger door & dogleg!

[Preen59]

Thank's for showing me the rake Preeny! hahahahah

The ol girl has a fair battle scar on the rear passenger door & dogleg!

Yeah she's got a few battle scars.. And some hail damage. It's going to Brian Keegan to get fixed up later on.

Gotta lurve RAKE! hahaha.

[Mrk_Mickey]

Fine, I gave in. I read your fricken thread!

Top work throughout this build man, hopefully I'll be doing some similar work too, in good time of course. I still don't see seXC written ANYWHERE in your thread

[Preen59]

I knocked this up yesterday...



It's a spark plug T bar.

I used an old Sidchrome spark plug socket and some 3/4" stainless tube. You have got NO idea how tough those sockets are to drill.. I had to drill it in the square end about 5mm so i could bore it to press the tube in the end, ensuring it was straight when it was welded. I put the notch in the end of the tube on the mill using a 3/4" cutter, which allowed the cross tube to match up perfectly and weld up really nice. No, i didn't weld it.. I'm not that good with a TIG (nowhere near that good!). I got my mate that i always get to weld intricate stuff for me to weld it.

[Mrk_Mickey]

It looks like a pogo stick with no springs or feet pegs!

[Preen59]

It looks like a pogo stick with no springs or feet pegs!

Hahaha That is now the name for it.

Grab the Pogo stick and knock the plugs out for me..

[Preen59]

Started on the throttle pedal mounting bracket today...



I've made it out of some 8mm 6061 Aluminium plate. I tried bending it with no success.. I tried it on some scrap first and it just fractured and split in half after it went about 30 degrees.. So i cut it in two and got Craig to TIG it up for me..

This will mount on the back of the bell housing. The holes from the bell housing will be spotted onto the bracket when we work out the exact position.


I started stickering up the XC this arvo..





Yeah baby! Sexy as!