Firehawk's N2 racecar project

[firehawk]

Ok, like nzae86 said in his N2 racer project thread, sometimes you have to go backwards in order to go forward. I've been doing that a lot lately.



The reason for this is that I'm taking my car after easter to a workshop for building the rollcage and the guy recommended that I'd strip the body down to a bare rolling chassis to make more room for him to work. Also, he advised that if I want to use equal length links on the rear axle, now would be a good time to build the housings for them. Firstly - the cage is not yet in place to make things more difficult and secondly, he'd be able to brace the housings directly to the roll cage. For now, I only have one housing done and it's made of cardboard.

Also, through an amazing stroke of luck, I managed to find a pair of 13" Compomotive CX centers in 4x114,3 despite of them having been out of production for years! This means that I can forget hunting for 14" tyres and run 13" Formula 3 Dunlop slicks instead. A friend knows a guy from an F3 team and they regularily sell their slightly used tyres quite cheaply. Along with the centers, I got a pair of 4.5" outer and 3.5" inner rims, with bolts and O-rings for building two wheels. These will combine to a pair of 13x8.5" wheels with a ridiculously negative ET.

Now I'll need to refurb the front wheels because the previous owner had sandblasted them and painted them red. Getting them same kind of finish on the old outer half as on the new ones is not going to be fun, though..