Swallowtail Race Car

[Dub Toffee]

Awesome mate, hope you get her ready for the Nats nothing like a deadline to get things moving hey

[Jarred]

Good Work Matt. I'm glad someone that knows thier way round a spanner (and a mk 1) picked this up!

[Peter Jones]

Always fun discovering the quirky bits in these sorts of things.

Looks like there's been some interesting adaptions to the hydraulics.

Mono wiper is also non standard, something funky going on with the bulkhead around the clutch cable too.

I'd love to see more detailed pictures of the previous owners mods.

Do you have any of the cars prior history to share?

Looking forward to see what you come up with.

[velly_16v_cab]

looks liek a great little project

[gldgti]

Hey hey - good fun project by the looks of it. You inspire me!

[static1800]

Always fun discovering the quirky bits in these sorts of things.

Looks like there's been some interesting adaptions to the hydraulics.

Mono wiper is also non standard, something funky going on with the bulkhead around the clutch cable too.

I'd love to see more detailed pictures of the previous owners mods.

Do you have any of the cars prior history to share?

Looking forward to see what you come up with.

It has a hydraulic handbrake and bias adjuster setup. I noticed the hole for the clutch cable, nothing was on the car when we got it but I figured it may have been a quick change setup of some kind.

Apparently the car was originally built in the late 70's for rally, the previous owner got it sometime in the 80's I think and ran it in some club events until the engine blew up and it's been off the road ever since in his garage. I've been promised some old photos of it at amaroo park I will definitely put up.

I'll put some more photos up tomorrow, showing all the interesting bits.

[static1800]

Didn't get the best photo but this is the handbrake setup. Was thinking we might remove the standard handbrake and leave the hydraulic setup.





How is this for a compressor, 1200cc aircooled vw engine running on 2 cylinders! We used it to paint the car and it worked great. It kicks itself back to idle when it comes to pressure and revs back up to refill which only ever takes a few seconds, so it just ticks along.



Prepping.





And all painted, we just need to buff it back now. It's not the best job but it serves its purpose.





Decided to not use the bonnet that was on the car as it is a bit of a mess. It is a swallow tail bonnet too...



Got an inlet manifold on the way from Germany to fit onto these. 40mm Dellorto's



Currently have a mk3 front brake setup being machined to run on the mk1 to go with a mk3 gearbox so we will have 100mm drive shafts etc.

Next step is getting the engine running and then getting all the final parts on to the car.

[hiho]

Awesome progress!

And great to see a veteran car returned to race duty.

[DubSteve]

Great work Matt, this is moving along quick!