oldschool.co.nz Nationals 2012 PtII

Posted by coupekiwi on 27/04/2012
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Now,

One of the highlights of nats was the first proper meeting of the OS velodrome racer division. I had not the time to finish mine however what I witnessed that afternoon was well beyond expectation.

The rules: Well, not many really. Only that the motor has to be of stationary decent. ie, from a water pump, wood splitter, generator, or other machine that is not self propelled (lawn mowers and rotary hoez are still legit).

I believe most of the high fives should be aimed at Joe Goat Flange for sparking the notion in early 2010 at the Taupo Nats there.

The second WOAH moment was at the bicycle gang summit 2011 where ROT808 Stephen and Sentra Dave turned up with their horizontally opposed 2 stroke contraption.
I’m going to guess that you have no idea what a horizontally opposed two stroke is. You may think “har yea subaru lol” but NO.

So here I will explain with a professional drawing:

Take two two stroke motors. Cut the heads off and attach them together with a belt connecting the crank shafts. No there is no head, but the compression is created between the two pistons as they come closer to each other.

 

Pretty cool tbh. But of course the lifted the bar again this year.
When their weapon for this year started in the car park I couldn’t believe my ears, It’s rotary powered…

 

So much fun and looking forward to what pops up next time.
The first person to build a steam powered bike will instantly win.

Here are some more photos from the day. Not many as taking photos of velodrome racers is insanely difficult with my limited skill bank.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

oldschool.co.nz Nationals 2012 PtI

Posted by coupekiwi on 20/04/2012
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My favourite event of the year!

Well, what can I say… Usually these epic weekend posts start with and early morning picture and a car on a trailer. Not this time. I decided I’m too old for that. So I booked in the Thursday night at a motel in Taupo, ready to spring out of bed and hit the race track in the morning. What a good move that was!

I never finished my race coupe in time so I took along my camera and spent most of the day shooting cars when I wasn’t driving someone elses.

I had some fantastic duels in the MX5 against Angry Andrew in the silver AW11 MR2. Like old times.

Here is a picture dump anyway.

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And of course, some after track day antics at camp in Rotorua where the rest of the weekend would be spent doing various activities.

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Like a poker run

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More to come!

Chop shop

Posted by coupekiwi on 07/04/2012
Posted in: ST140 Corona Coupe. Leave a Comment

Need IRS and mounts from this for conversion into the bagged one that currently has live rear end. So I took them this afternoon. Also took wheel arches and shock towers etc.
Rest of car will be off to scrap asap.

Everything has sooo much surface rust, but will sand blast it all and replaces bushes. Will tidy up like new.
Hoping to de spot weld most of the mounts and put them on the other body but may just end up making new ones.
shouldn’t be too hard as the main body is the same.

Lake Arapuni

Posted by coupekiwi on 19/02/2012
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Snapped millions of photos of the boys this weekend at Lake Arapuni. It’s ridiculously hard to take photos on a moving boat!

Simon’s Selection 12

Posted by coupekiwi on 24/01/2012
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I said there would be no more but after much request here it is. The final mix. 12′s a much nicer number anyway haha.
Definitely saved the best tracks for last.

I even took the photo myself for this one :D

Don’t forget to download it as the quality is better and you don’t have to stream it again next time :P
I’ll update the Archive too once I have it uploaded on the other server.

Yeah ok the star thing is gay but I cant be bothered working the 3D in photoshop again…

Anyway, here it is!

Simons Selection 12 by coupekiwi

Tracklist:

  1. Martire pres X&Y – New Beginnings (Solid Stone Remix)
  2. Arty Feat Tania Zygar – The Wall (Arty Remode Mix)
  3. W & W – Impact (MaRLo Remix)
  4. Adam K & BT – Tomahawk
  5. The Blizzard & Yuri Kane Feat Relyk – Everything About You (Original Mix)
  6. Alex M.O.R.P.H. feat. Sylvia Tosun – An Angel’s Love (Alex M.O.R.P.H. & Chriss Ortega Remix)
  7. Heatbeat – Roses Never Cry (Original Mix)
  8. Kyau & Albert – A Night Like This (Original Mix)
  9. Hannah – Falling Away (Armin van Buuren Remix)
  10. Arty – Around the World (Original Mix)
  11. Armin Van Buuren Feat Laura V – Drowning (Avicii Remix)

Dat rast

Posted by coupekiwi on 15/01/2012
Posted in: ST140 Corona Coupe. 2 comments

This is why you never drive your car through salt water friends…

It’s a recently acquired RT141. The independent rear suspension from this will be going into the bagged one and the W55 gearbox + swaybar will be going into the race one. The 18R-GE will be going on Trademe.

This is bump stop height. I needs to go about 45mm lower when in the other car.

I found the amount of rust hilarious. Soo much rust. The boot floor is basically not there at all and I took one of the windows out the bottom of the door!

Car will be fully stripped within the next couple of weeks. I will cut it in half and send the front to the scrap. Will keep the bum for the mount points etc of the rear sub frame.

Swinging donk

Posted by coupekiwi on 10/01/2012
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Definitely recommend cutting the slam panel out for race cars. Makes removal with box still attached sooo easy.
Result is smashing my personal best time at getting a motor out of one of these things with out even trying haha.

Got an empty W55 gearbox and my bell housing and will try get a empty block tomorrow for dummy fitting the v8.

Also finished the dreaded patch that I had been putting off for a long time because it’s so tedious. Thanks to a mate for helping with the hard part.