Rotorstock III, last weekend, pics

Post by **Ali** » 01 Jun 2006 12:56 pm

Well me and Steve went along to Rotorstock III last weekend as it was at Shakespeare county raceway fairly local to us, was a good couple of days, nice weather (both of us have sunburn now!) so thought i'd share some pictures:

Sid hanging it out in a pretty much standard 1.7 in the dry! He was really impressive all weekend, when it rained he could link the whole course!

something like a 6" exhaust going miles back under the car!

Post by **340cbr** » 01 Jun 2006 02:50 pm

Impressive that 1.7?

What mods do he have?

Low profile tyres?

What was the tires in the back? 155

The diff is welded?

Post by **Ali** » 01 Jun 2006 03:01 pm

The 1.7 has... no air filter, rear half of the exhaust removed, removed the rear seats and rear trim panels, welded diff, Nev's 7x13 minilites on the front and standard rear steels on the back with 175 tyres, not sure of the profile but something pretty small. Lowering blocks and cut front springs and a big rev counter inside. It looked mighty hard work in the dry but was really impressive, could almost link the track in the dry but you could just see it running out of power stopping him from making the last link up.

Post by **SteveP** » 01 Jun 2006 03:44 pm

I've got a few more pics of the 340 that I'll stick up when I get home along with some other pics. The 340 wasn't doing badly atall - infact along with a Sierra they were doing bloody nice jobs of the course for what they were.

Post by **340cbr** » 01 Jun 2006 04:18 pm

Impressive.

Is the same owner as the white 340 that was borken some weeks ago?

Post by **Ali** » 01 Jun 2006 04:36 pm

Nope its a friend of his though, Nev's (the white one) still rebuilding his new one but I think pictures should be up soon.

Post by **340cbr** » 01 Jun 2006 05:13 pm

It would be cool that someone that has already welded the diff of a 300, post some pictures of how to do it.

I want to do it but my mechanics don't know how it is

Post by **Ali** » 01 Jun 2006 05:29 pm

http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/o ... ddiff2.jpg

That shows how to do it well. I think you need to pull the cover plate off the back of the differential and then you should be able to see 4 gears inside. You then need to cut a plate to the right size and weld all the gears together as seen in the photo. Then you need to rotate it 180degrees and do the same on the other side. I'm not sure of how this works on our cars but thats the basic principle, apparently you can do it with the diff still on the car

Post by **SteveP** » 01 Jun 2006 05:30 pm

Here we are... a few of my pics, firstly of the 340!

Rather nice Corolla... I want these rims on a Mk1 300...

Mazda RX3 (I think...)

Evo Drag car - This thing was stupidly quick, don't know how fast it ran the 1/4 though cos the bloody time display was broke!

Monster Turbo

And finally, some 360 Porn...

EDIT: I got bored and did a Photoshop with the rims that Corolla had.

Post by **340cbr** » 02 Jun 2006 12:12 am

Ali wrote:http://i4.photobucket.com/albums/y121/o ... ddiff2.jpg

That shows how to do it well. I think you need to pull the cover plate off the back of the differential and then you should be able to see 4 gears inside. You then need to cut a plate to the right size and weld all the gears together as seen in the photo. Then you need to rotate it 180degrees and do the same on the other side. I'm not sure of how this works on our cars but thats the basic principle, apparently you can do it with the diff still on the car

Do it with the diff in the car would be awesome, cause my mechanic syas that it took some serious time to take it out and then put in bak again.

The opinion of someone who has already made it on a 300 is needed... eheh

Do you know what type of welding is nedded?

I don't understand anything of that, I only know that he has a semi automatic welding machine, whatever that is.

Post by **Ali** » 02 Jun 2006 10:53 am

Apparently Arc welding is better than MIG welding for doing the diff, TIG also works but I doubt your mechanic will have that. Arc is with a stick and you have to feed it in yourself but MIG is semi-automatic in that you squeeze a trigger and it automatically feeds the wire in. MIG should be fine though as long as you turn up the power so that it gets a good penetrating weld.

Post by **340cbr** » 02 Jun 2006 12:20 pm

This is not an high power car... Maybe arround 120bhp in the future, but for now it has 90 or less

I'm gonna speak with him, if it can be done with the diff in the car one of these days i'll do it.

Thanks for the information

Is your car to drift purposes?

Post by **Ali** » 02 Jun 2006 12:38 pm

Its almost there, all it needs is the diff welding and possibly a hydraulic handbrake but I don't really want to drive it on the roads like that so i'm waiting until I have another road car, I have a few other things on the way before then though hopefully

Post by **340cbr** » 02 Jun 2006 01:13 pm

Our is exclusively for fun purpose, it is stopped all the week so... welded diff is the way

Post by **Ali** » 02 Jun 2006 01:15 pm

Ah in that case I wouldn't hang about, get out there and get it welded