This topic has been reported for inappropriate content

This topic contains 2,648 replies, has 43 voices, and was last updated by Profile photo of  Anonymous 5 years, 1 month ago.

Viewing 20 posts - 521 through 540 (of 2,649 total)
  • Author
    Posts
  • #8935
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    Well I said it would fit but it wouldn’t be “pretty” and I was right…. 

    Because race car, looks good enough to me!  Btw just out of interest you can get the earlier cluster converted over to talk to the later ECU, that’s what in mine.  But for yours I reckon what you have gone with will be sweet.

    I reckon a black surround would actually make it look quite neat..

     

    #8936
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    Well I said it would fit but it wouldn’t be “pretty” and I was right….

    Because race car, looks good enough to me! Btw just out of interest you can get the earlier cluster converted over to talk to the later ECU, that’s what in mine. But for yours I reckon what you have gone with will be sweet. I reckon a black surround would actually make it look quite neat..

    E38 cars make life really difficult Gary, a bunch of the configurations options are in the Dash like for if it’s 2wd, AWD, Has ABS or ABS/TRAC and so on so didn’t have a choice…

    Considering the end use of the car I can live with it as is..  :XD:

    #8937
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    I think it looks fine, seriously, its a race car not a show car.

    #8938
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    Yeah agreed 100%!

    If nothing else the dash isn’t going to fall out, top mount is 6061T6 bottom brackets are 5083 HiTensile

    #8940
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    well i imagine it will take a beating

    #8941
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    well i imagine it will take a beating

    That was my thinking as well, our track is fairly smooth but a few of the others are a bit more “offroad”..

    #8942
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    do you have any video of similar with that the type of event you have built it for, because to be honest I am not familar with that kind of motorsport?

    • This reply was modified 9 years, 2 months ago by Profile photo of VRSenator065 VRSenator065.
    #8943
    Profile photo of Kroozer
    Kroozer
    Participant
    Member since: February 19, 2015
    Posts: 336
    Supporter

    do you have any video of familar with that the type of event you have built it for, because to be honest I am not familar with that kind of motorsport?

    x2

    #8944
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0
    #8950
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    Cheers, thats awesome.  Sort of like hill climbs like Colingrove but on dirt (and without hills ha ha)  looks like so much fun.  Your car will be perfect for it, love it  :good:

    #8951
    Profile photo of Chris (agentcrm)
    Chris (agentcrm)
    Participant
    Member since: March 2, 2015
    Posts: 82
    Supporter

    Ah, Club sprints.

    Gary, both WACC and SDCC do them here. :)

    #8952
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    Lets go and check a meeting out Chris :)  Not sure the Senators suited to them though…

    #8954
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    Yep damn good fun, I have a full set of wheels for road events as well and will do Track days as they come up so bit of an all rounder, may not be the quickest thing around but it’ll scare the crap out of me and get the adrenaline pumping!

    #8971
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    No doubt, looks  a bloody hoot, doing it in a car you have built from the ground up must be the icing on the cake.  Just don’t bloody bin it!!!

    #8974
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    No doubt, looks a bloody hoot, doing it in a car you have built from the ground up must be the icing on the cake. Just don’t bloody bin it!!!

    I’ll try my hardest not to but “shit happens” I’m quite sure I’ll run out of talent at some point hence picking something with cheap panels!

    —————–

    Today End!

    Some things are just not meant to be…. scored a NoS bootlid garnish to replace my broken one, had to paint it as it was Red, 3 failed attempts with the Paint crazing each time I managed to sort out a solution, bolt the thing on and of course it cracks a corner off… ARGGHH this has to be THE most Brittle plastic known to man… it Left a Black corner where the captive stud is that holds the taillights in (both were MIA on my original) So I painted it to match, not perfect but not as noticeable.. Rear Loom is just about ready to be spliced into the Lexcen Loom.

    #8983
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    Today End!

    Bit of a mixed bag… Sorted out the Brake Pedal wiring using the existing VR switch and a couple of relays to handle the Cruise Control Signals, Chopped up the Window looms and installed my new switches… that’s where it turned to crap, I assumed the “smarts” were out at the Motors but the VR being mainly analogue has it built into the switches so no go…

    Back pedal time and rewire the Stock switches and find somewhere for them to live.. Made a start laying out Modules and possible mountings for them then had a dig around to see if I could find my old VZ remotes that go with the BCM I’m using, sometime later I found them where I’d carefully put them.. DOH, big surprise after sitting 5 years they both still work!

    #8984
    Profile photo of VRSenator065
    VRSenator065
    Participant
    • Adelaide SA
    • VR Senator LSx454 1960 Kombi (project) 1921 Nash Hot Rod (future project)

    • View build HERE
    Member since: February 17, 2015
    Posts: 5 777
    Supporter

    I can tell your hearts not in this phase, really isn’t a lot to get enthusiastic about with wiring though imho.  Edging closer though mate…

    #8985
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    I can tell your hearts not in this phase, really isn’t a lot to get enthusiastic about with wiring though imho. Edging closer though mate…

    LOL guilty as charged… I much prefer to “make” things and not just connect wire a to pin 32….

    It’s a bit of a challenge blending the Old/New tech to get as much working as I can and yeah almost there, once I nail down the Wiring I can refit the Cage and Interior and Corner weight it so I can calculate the correct spring rates and get that sorted.

    Then it’s just a matter of linking the ECU and BCM dump a known good configuration into it and fire it up..

    #8986
    Profile photo of vs manta 218
    vs manta 218
    Participant
    Member since: March 2, 2015
    Posts: 796
    Supporter

    Build is coming along really well

     

     

    I read back there you don’t have indicators ??

     

     

    Not sure what you have done/changed and played with for that regarding  the hazard light switch but I know with the a/c , hazard and rear demister switches near the middle/top air vents the hazards plug is same as one of the others 2 and if this is reversed the indicators will not work

     

     

    I have been stung with this and was the reason my indicators didnt work once before

     

    took me a while to finger it out

    #8987
    Profile photo of
    Anonymous Member since: January 1, 1970
    Posts: 0

    Using a full VZ Main body loom in this, been stung before with forgetting to plug the Hazard switch in and was the first thing I checked  :XD:

    Will double check it tomorrow to make sure there wasn’t a second plug the same but think VZ only has the one that fits, thanks for the heads up.

Viewing 20 posts - 521 through 540 (of 2,649 total)

You must be logged in to reply to this topic.