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Well,
its pretty much the end of the race season & most of our customers
have faired well, in the Central Muscle Car Series Australian Paul Stubber
who’s 69 Camaro we maintain between rounds has won Group 1, Paul
Sinclairs Commodore came 3rd in Group 1 & Mandy Sinclair came 3rd
in Group 2.
In
the GT1 series John Rae came 3rd overall due to having to miss a whole
race meeting through business commitments.
In Pre-65 Jeff Warn’s EH Holden won overall, Justin Butcher is currently
leading the Northern Musclecar Series in his green Dick Johnson clone
Falcon so hopefully he can carry that through.
We
just have a GT1 support race on May 8th at the WRC promotional day at
Hampton downs & the Hamilton 400 to do with Nick Ross.
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 Other
work going on in the shop has included Gary & Tina Walkers 69 Mustang,
all the panelwork was completed before we got our hands on it, we will be
remounting a V8 quad-cam boss Falcon engine & 6-speed, RH drive conversion,
mounting a pedalbox with a new firewall, mounting & plumbing a new power
steer rack & improving the front suspension geometry. There is potentially
more to be done but as usual we will keep in constant contact with Gary
& Tina & proceed as they wish. |
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| Dave
Bests wheels for his 65 Corvette have finally arrived as pictured so now
we can continue with rear driveshafts & finishing the front suspension
work required to get the car rolling. Once again there is plenty more to
do but we will progress as Dave wishes. |
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| Andrew
Turners Nautech Commodore that races in both the CMC & Northern Musclecar
series has just been fitted with a custom 9in rear-end with Endevour floating
hubs, adjustable watts linkage & trailing arms, good brakes etc etc. |
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Butchers Falcon has been in for some more brake upgrades as the new Hampton
Downs circuit is proving to be quite challenging on brakes. |
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Paul Stubber Aussy built 69 Camaro received a major brake upgrade including
billet mono-block Endless front calipers & rotors & Wilwood rears
with Endless pads all round, this made a huge difference to the braking
capacity of the car & thus his lap times. There were also a few anomalies
with the Camaro’s rollcage as far as Motorsport NZ were concerned so
a fair portion of the rear structure had to be cut out, redesigned &
refabricated to comply. |
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Rae’s Corvette has had a new adjustable rear roll-bar designed &
fabricated. John carry’s out the rest of the between-race maintenance
adequately himself so the balance of his work this last 3 months has just
been track-side engineering. This has also been our role with Nick Ross’s
NZV8 tourer this last season & we have made steady improvements in car
speed over the season. It remains to be seen what the NZV8 governing body
will do to try & improve the Commodores lack of pace compared to the
Falcons. I believe the engines are comparable now, there just needs to be
the correct front & rear geometry changes carried out. |
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| Mandy
Sinclair’s Commodore Musclecar has been in the shop periodically to
get rid of a few oiling system issues & Mike Hunter’s Historic
Formula Ford was bought in for some front & rear suspension work that
would enable the use of more rod-ends instead of balljoints & the ability
to easily adjust front & rear bumpsteer & allow easier serviceability.
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