Hi Folks,
First time post in GRM. Some of you may be familiar with Kevin Gale's "1990 Troyer Hillclimber" thread. Well..... Lets just say that was a bad influence. I bought my first mod in 2019, and now, after an unfortunate ending with a tree, I am now building my 2nd. This one I bought earlier this August. It's going to be a dual purpose Hill Climb and road course modified, so I need to make a bunch of changes to make it handle turning both directions.
I drove from New Hampshire to Pennsylvania to pick this up. It was easily the farthest single-day Facebook Marketplace snatch I’ve done, but it was worth it.
So I brought it to my local makerspace and got to it. First order of business was to put in caster-pedestals. Not something I’ve ever seen on a race car, but it sure made it easier to work on. No more sitting stationary on jackstands. I can disassemble this baby and wheel it around anywhere.
Then I started the suspension geometry install. Took quite a while to figure out how to jig everything up so it would be square and level. Getting the LCA pins to drop into place without binding was a real trick.
Since brought the car home. Now it’s time to send the rear end out and build the motor. I'll probably have a few posts on just the motor build.
-Ian
Awesome. I'm looking forward to reading about this build. I used to actually promote annual events at Evergreen in Pennsylvania - although we didn't run modifieds there. Have fun with this!
What a beast. Can't wait to hear about what that's like to drive!
Ian_Cook said:
Lets just say that was a bad influence.
I think you'll fit in well here. Awesome project, can't wait to see more.
And sorry about the tree incident, though it sounds like you made it out okay.
i totally mis-read that you drove *it* from NH to PA and i was like berkeley yeah you did! in for updates!
Sweet!
Hello from Somersworth, NH.
In reply to Colin Wood :
I wasn't right to begin with, so making it out okay was never an option. I am, however, uninjured. There are better videos on my channel than this, so do snoop around:
Looking forward to this. Kevin's thread was the thing that first drew my to this site.
That was a hard crash, glad you are alright!
So, does the l/r balance work out? Kind of curious how much work it takes to make them not behave differently left to right.
In reply to Apexcarver :
The difference isn't as bad as you might think. As long as you get the cross-weight equal and all the suspension geometry symmetric, it still will have similar L/R balance, just different absolute grip. I think my last car was 52%-53% left side, so naturally I could corner harder to the left.
If I really wanted to get down to 50/50, I can mill a new motor plate to offset the engine to the right by about an inch. That would also allow me to carve some more room out of the transmission tunnel so I can scooch my seat over. I can also offset the rear end with different length axle tubes. But there are bigger fish to fry in this build, so unless I need to change the rear axle width, I'm probably going to leave everything as-is. For now.
