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Tuesday, June 7, 2011

The Race Car

This is the car that we're planning on building to race with. It's a MA70 Toyota Supra, automatic with a hard top. Before I got hold of this car, the previous owner had managed to park it inside a lunch bar in Perth's northern suburbs.



Before I can do much at all with this car, I'll need to straighten the radiator support panel and replace both the doors, the front fenders, bumper, nose cone, bonnet and windscreen as well as both headlights. Asides from that, the cars in pretty good condition.

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

I Have A Dream...

...and for now, that's all it is. The dream involves a black MA70 Supra that I have sitting out the back of my house, a 1JZ-GTE and 7 miles of salt. My rather long term plan is to develop the car into a F/BGCC car, in laymans terms, a 2.01 - 3.00 litre blown gas competition coupe, or in other words, a turbocharged, stretched bodied car, running petrol. This is one of those plans that will probably take years to come to fruition and as those plans develop, I'll post more of them up here, on this blog devoted to my motorsport asprirations.

My rendition of a JZA70 F/BGCC land speed car

Before I get anywhere near that, I plan on running the car as a /BGC car, which basically means it would have a much more stock appearing body on it. And if that is to come to fruition, it in turn means that I'll probably have to pack the car into a trailer before the Westernationals one year, and send it towards Lake Gairdner, for the DLRA's SpeedWeek event, flying out myself just after the Westernationals in order to catch up with the car and head out to the salt.

The ill-fated Stringfellow and Kirk /BFCC at Bonneville SpeedWeek 2010

Mind you, before I even get anywhere near that point, the car has a little panel damage, mostly front end damage, that needs to be fixed. Once the front end is fixed up, I can put a new windscreen in the car and start work on turning it into a race car. Having only ever driven on the salt in the Cadillac so far, I'm planning on putting this beast together as a fairly tame number in it's first incarnation, in order to get to grips with the low levels of traction available on the salt, hence my plan to run the car in a much more 'stock' class to start with.