STAGE 1: HIT THE WALL







STAGE 2: THROW AWAY WRINKLED SHELL AND BUY A JDM SHELL



HAVE IT SEAMWELDED CHEAPLY






STAGE 3: INTERIOR GUTTING







REAR VIEW



























ANOTHER INSTALLMENT



















a:

broken bell housing


at least the gear are intact


taken cared of
























































had to crank the handbrake, my front brakes were too worn out already


after the longest time. we were able to bring the hatch to the local track and gave it a good 15 lap race(3.2km/lap)

my white hatch at the back of the grid, didnt make it to qualifying





first turn:



catching up w an old school porsche











lapping a toyota starlet, hmmmm my headlights work

 

Oh youre on H-T too, but damn I must say it is really clean, though i wonder does it handle just as well as before the crash?

 

it handle almost the same, it feels heavier on the rebuild due to the rollcage

as of now it's not properly balanced

total weight w driver 2489lbs

corner weights:
FL - 850
FR - 728
RL - 471
RR - 441

 

looks great! where was the race in the P.I.?

 

those picture were taken at Subic International Raceway

2005 Season will start on march

 

Anyone else notice the old school finned Mugen wheels on the trailer? Maybe they are common as dirt in the Philippines to simply put them on old trailers but I have only seen a small number of those wheels since they came out new. I liked them then too, especially with the covers for function over fashion.

Nice effort on the car, especially with not quite ideal facilities for racecar building.

 

Came out pretty well. Turned a bad situation around nicely.

Just out of curiosity how come you didn't remove the rear suspension/brakes, steering rack, rear engine mount etc.... When you were painting the interior, engine bay etc...?

 

Good story. What's the racing scene like in the Philippines? I assume that the race in the photos is a sort of catch-all class where any safe closed-wheel car can compete?

 

Nice job & good work

 

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little bangin of the gators gettin the inside front off the ground.

nate

 

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Yeah, I saw that too....made me laugh, as I have a set of those in the garage that I'm restoring now. Maybe I should just put them on a trailer instead, using old 1G CRX axles.

 

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got too excited to get the painting done and pure lazyness

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there are a couple of series going on here:
Blaze super saloon
SVI Challenge Cup
Miata Cup
Sportsman Cup
Run What You Brung

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thanks

 

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Fair enough.

 

One hell of a crash

great come back, How long did it take you?

 

how bad did you get hurt in that crash?

 

Great Job! I went to Subic for the F3 race in June and it was a beautiful track. Blue ocean surrounding the track, Beautiful palm trees and mountains at every corner...Something you would see in a video game or something.

I miss Philippines already.

 

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that's nice, they're tearing up the old race track to make way for a new hiway, word is that they're relocating (still inside Subic), you were there last june, i smashed my car the month after, on the last turn

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a sore neck that lasted for week
half inch would on my knee
3 chipped teeth
a bitten tongue
and a bruised ego

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it took 3 months to get the car back on the road and approximately US$2,200

 

3 months! thats a pretty good turn around time! good job. just wondering, the JDM shell is RHD and your finished car is LHD? did you save your old firewall and transfer it over?

 

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LHD, yup, saved my old firewall and transfered it over

next step, mount it on a chassis liner, i dont really know if the shell is aligned to spec

saving up on my next engine management

LSD

lots of tuning (current power: 154.9 whp)

and hopefully lots of track by februaru next year

 

Cool... That's very rare and nice, to see some action on the other side of the pacific.

They do lappping events at that track too. Or others?

Next time i'm visiting PH (my wife is from there, Batangas) i'm gonna try to get some seat time. Race-track, Gymkhana, anything will do... And of course a "few" San Miguels and some polutan at the end of the day is allways awesome...

 

NICE

 

Man ! These filipinos are skilled craftsmen/women ! I wonder how it would be if they had their car brand ( except jeepneys)

 

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hey that's nice, just send me a message if you're heading over.

i can hook you up, with guys who do ralllycross and autocross, we run around quite a short track 3.2km (SIR) at least with times ranging from 1:26 - 1:40 and a shorter layout on the same track 0:56 - 1:09

if you ever visit the San Miuel is on me

there is also racetrack in Batangas (Batangas Racing Circuit) just a couple of hundred meters longer than Subic, for next year's season both tracks will be used for the series, not like the past years, they had separate ways

 

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hey that's nice, just send me a message if you're heading over.

i can hook you up, with guys who do ralllycross and autocross, we run around quite a short track 3.2km (SIR) at least with times ranging from 1:26 - 1:40 and a shorter layout on the same track 0:56 - 1:09

if you ever visit the San Miuel is on me

there is also racetrack in Batangas (Batangas Racing Circuit) just a couple of hundred meters longer than Subic, for next year's season both tracks will be used for the series, not like the past years, they had separate ways

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Cool, we'll try to hookup for sure. We may go in 2005 around X-mas time or a little later.

Our usual local track is only 1.6km, lap times around 1:00-1:05... There are other much bigger tracks of course (Tremblant, Mosport, Shannonville) but this one is easily accessible.

 

present soon to be demolished circuit (Subic International Raceway)