Team Djw's Dedicated Track Toy Project: Update Post 167. New pics page 6

[Djw Dave]

For years we've talked about doing a track car project and sort of have done by using our road cars/ a share of another track car on track last year. We'll continue to do so this year whilst we build this up but when the opportunity came to buy it we just couldn't say no. Especially as we have so many parts lying about from both of our previous cars we could rebuild it relatively quickly for people with full time jobs and families.

Some of you may recognise it as the 182 Adam. bought last year and has been advertising for a while after stripping it down a few months ago. The main draw for us is the full welded in Oreca 'race' cage. Bit much for a daily, perfect for this.

So first job of the day was to pick it up from Adams Dads house, us being us, Dave borrowed this from his work

along with this

And we quickly got it on a pallet with timbers and a strap round it

Happy Dave

'Helpful' John

Nearly good to go

Why we've bought it

When we got to our borrowed garage the entry was just a bit tight. So faced with going big or going home Dave naturally went big!

And its temporary home until we get it on its wheels

Plenty to more to come, sorting out lists just now and will move things down to it soon, possibly even tomorrow morning, going to be a little while till we can really get our teeth stuck into it as we both have lots of other things going on but you know us by now!

Thanks

Dave & John

 

[dmallett]

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ph-gay x

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

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Your missus' must have the paitence of a fooking stalker!!!

 

[Djw John]

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Excite!!

Both of our partners are very understanding of our mental health issues!

 

[Nafoff]

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f*cking brilliant that, i have been looking at transporters / trailers to transport the track car...i think i am doing it all wrong....
john, what happened with the wheels in the end mate?

 

[Djw John]

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They never found the 4th one despite telling me they did, got the money back from them after several weeks of complaining, sorry I thought I'd told you. Managed to pick up another one so at least I have a set.

 

[Nafoff]

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They never found the 4th one despite telling me they did, got the money back from them after several weeks of complaining, sorry I thought I'd told you. Managed to pick up another one so at least I have a set.

FFS, f*cking useless cnuts, sorry it went that way mate but glad you got the money back. you get money for the lost items too? (hope so)
I ordered a new set of car mats 3 weeks ago, guess what? they have vanished thanks to yodel.... still trying to chase that...i f*cking give up

 

[Djw John]

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Not your fault mate, got £30 back in total iirc.

Couriers are a pain in the arse when it goes wrong.

 

[Nafoff]

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Not your fault mate, got £30 back in total iirc.
Couriers are a pain in the arse when it goes wrong.

i know it wasn't my fault, but i have been on the other end plenty of times so feel your pain,
£30 isn't too bad, glad you got it kind of sorted.

 

[.GAZ.]

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YAAASSSSSS!!!!

 

[Gaz85]

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This will be epic boys!!

 

[yeecup]

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This is going to be good.

 

[Adam.]

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Just to add we left Edinburgh just after 6am ;-).

 

[Djw John]

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Yup, alarm set for 5am, that was hard going, tired now.

 

[Djw John]

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Also forgot to say Adam enjoyed his day trucking and becoming a man

 

[rdoxenham]

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Will be watching this... I would have loved to have bought this shell/cage, was just too far for me to collect. Good luck with it!

 

[Cupman29]

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Good to see this shell going to a good home!

Look forward to seeing the progress.

 

[Djw John]

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We had a spare hour and half this morning (well not really spare, we did this instead of s**t we should be doing) and took some of the body panels, axle and more assorted random bits down. So we decided to see just how much work we'd need to make our stuff fit. So the front end is just kinda balanced on, the sideskirts clipped but not bolted, the rear bumper loosely bolted on and the spoiler actually fitted. But not wired! Everything will be coming off again anyway.

Our temporary home

We're sure it wont be a surprise to any of you to see that we're ph1'ing it

And I've broken a toe already. No pics unless you like horrible looking feet.

 

[Djw John]

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Not been able to do anything else to it today but our list has gone from big to huge!

 

[dmallett]

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i retract my original comment

 

[Djw John]

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Damn right you do, we're very disappointed that you thought we would even consider running it as a 182!

 

[Russ_16v]

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Looking good lads!

 

[Djw John]

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It will do Russ. We knew the panels were a different colour but doesn't look as off in real life as it does in these photos.

 

[The Fatty]

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Quality use of the forklift! Random question here, with a stripped shell like that, how much effort is it to lift up 1 end?

 

[JezzaMac]

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Subscribing to this!

 

[koi]

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Comes with mismatched panels from the factory anyway

 

[Djw John]

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Quality use of the forklift! Random question here, with a stripped shell like that, how much effort is it to lift up 1 end?

How do you mean? 1 person a few inches or more than that?

 

[Djw John]

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Time for the shittest update ever on any project thread on the whole of the internetz.

So far this week we've had 1 free evening, which was last night and we had to swap front and rear shocks off Daves iceberg as he had sold the cups and eibachs. I got a flyer from work and nipped down to the garage tonight before it got too dark. Only aim was to get the car off the pallet and up onto the stands, it was a bit of a faff but obviously not bad at all. Also gave the garage a bit of a sweep out. Next thing on the shopping list has to be some floodlights so that we can open up more time to work on it, already its far too dark.

Promise thats the worst update that will happen in this thread!

 

[.GAZ.]

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This. Will. Be. EPIC.

 

[Djw John]

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Damn straight!

 

[Chip-mk1]

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Looks a decent shell that, what engine spec are you planning?

 

[Djw John]

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Pretty basic to start with, this year will just be a case of getting it built back up and working, neither of us see much point in spending money we don't have. It's something we can gradually upgrade along with other components as and when finances allow.

 

[Chip-mk1]

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Engine is a good thing to be the LAST on the list IMHO.

No point wearing out your new sexy forged engine while having no fun due to rubbish suspension. Far more fun thrashing the hell out of a stnadard engine in a decent chassis!

 

[Stu.]

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You didnt tell me about a forged engine john got it running yet?

 

[Djw John]

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Our thoughts exactly. Brakes and suspension first.

 

[Cub.]

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Subscribed. This is going to be awesome, I have the warm feeling of 'awesomeness' about it already, and yet it's merely only a shell at the moment. (Albeit looks a very nice and tidy shell).

 

[Djw John]

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Well, had a very car day today, up at the crack of around 7 and only just in the door this minute. Unfortunately Djw Dave couldn't get the day off work at such short notice so I took my actual wife with me.

Started with a couple of trains and despite living 10 miles from it I went over the Forth Bridge for the first time in my life!

And stayed on it until we got to Inverness where we had a bit of lunch and then picked up this

As you can see, thanks to a weird combination of man maths and partners that seem to have the patience of someone stalking a coma victim we've bought another ph1. Well, we needed a wiper linkage and an interior mirror so it seemed the right thing to do.

Couple of pics halfway home

And finally got home

We're pretty sure you can all work out the next bit of the plan......

DaveJohn

 

[Chip-mk1]

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Black ph1 is what the coolest of kids drive

 

[Christopher.]

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Great work guys. Subscribed

 

[The Chubby Pirate]

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Are you f**king kidding me?