The ability to just draw things on a computer, email them to a laser cutting mob, and pick them up days later amazes me. So I had a mate do some on CAD and we made them a bit smaller. We started with a McDonald Bros cro mo 4 link, but as it is drag racing based, I found the chassis and diff brackets were longer than I would like/need and spaced the upper and lower trailing arms too far apart. So then we had to sort the equal length 4 link and shock towers. The kit I am running is similar to the one below but has a 2 piece floating brake disk as opposed to the one piece. Bit of a weight penalty but I am currently chasing an ali diff carrier (paging Momus ) which should largely negate that. It is both camber and toe adjustable (changeable shim plates) and should be bullet proof. I got a Race Products floater kit and adapted a hilux diff for it. The rear end was where the main fabrication was. Popular choice for hydrid projects and SAE racecars. Sheds a bit of weight, removes a power sapping pump, and allows the weight to be placed lower down.

I have sourced an MR2 spyder electric hydraulic power steer pump with built in reservoir which I plan to use to run the powered rack. We reused the front mount bolts as they line up quite well, and at the rear had a CNC machined stud with spacer machined up that goes right through the chassis rail and is welded top and bottom, with the right spacer on it and a threaded stud so it bolts straight up. I stripped out the old one and pinned the new one in place. With the subframe, I am not the first person to do this graft so I wasn't in completely new territory. I want this to be decent and am not even a fabricators anus. Much respect to those on these forums that do the whole build. Couple of passionate young fellas with more than a few clues. This is where I started to use the services of a local race fabrication company called Racing Dynamics. Then it was time to get the FC front subrame in. Way more than the evo.must be a bit loud eh? Then the unenviable task of stripping out the sound deadener by hand with dry ice.man these things have a ***** load of it. Start with one very straight relatively rust free series 3 shell. Hoping for sub 1000kg, and 400hp ish at the wheels. So essentially, it should finish up as a series 3 shell, full moffat group c body kit, 13B REW engine running a single, FC front subframe graft to get rid of the reciprocating ball steering and update the front suspension, full equal length and adjustable 4 link rear with turrets fabricated into the shell and coilovers mounted over the diff and an adjustable watts linkage. Not sure how it will go on the lumps and bumps of tarmac rally though.some seem to make em work. But finally decided it might have been an engineering challenge too far, and encouraged by the times the Impropved Production racers do with live axles, and the fact that the old V8 supercars and nascars make em work ok, I went down that path. Possibly an MX5 or other japper subframe and cut and shut. (No offense to FC owners.) But being an older guy, I remember the moffat cars well, and thought a flared and winged moffat car with some modern tech thrown at it would be a good thing.at worst it would be a laugh and paint some lines.Īs live axles were very foreign to me (Evo/STI background) I looked into doing an IRS conversion into a Gen 1. The smart choice in the rotary offering (pre 1985) would have been an FC with the independent rear, abs?, etc etc, but I just couldn't get excited about building one. Started out my racing in the suburban backstreets in an RX3 coupe back in the day (wish i had kept it) so had a soft spot for a rotor. The easy (but expensive) option would be to get an old expensive VW (Porsche) and campaign that, as the rear drive rear engine is as close as you could get to AWD and a great advantage when it inevitably gets wet, but cost and the want to beat said person in expensive VW was a motivating factor to try something else. After having a crack at tarmac rally here in Australia in an Evo VI TME I was ready for a change and I decided I couldn't afford a lambo or a 35GTR to play with the big boys, so the obvious choice was to join the has beens in classic. Below is a condensed version of the build thread I have going on an australian forum. Have been talking to Elliot from Turblown recently about turbo selection (more later) and have enjoyed reading all the info in the single turbo section so I thought I would share what I was working on.

Mr2 spyder hardtop moun