Final Ride

Went to Cam's dad's funeral on Sunday with 950+ others after his tragic accident last week. He was rolled away in this model T Ford flat deck pickup. Such a sad day. Make the most of life and the people you love because you just never know which day will be your last.

Dusk Drift Debut

Joel - Drift Motorsport Day Meremere

Joel S15 - Locked Diff + Bride

Joel and I have been assembling the best parts of two spare R200 open diffs to create one good locked diff for the drift session Joel is doing this Sat. This is the technique I used to weld the open centre for maximum strength.

But, when we installed the diff into the car, it would not drive forward or reverse and it sounded like some gears were slipping. I'm thinking the backlash between the pinion and ring gear is not correct allowing it to slip under load, and the shims supplied have the wrong tolerance. Basically buying a diff in parts equals a headache when parts are not kept in order when stripping it down. ADL are take a look at it on Monday and hopefully it's just a matter of selecting the right shims, and we're good to go.





 Joel also  picked up this tidy Zeta III with Bride sliding rails from a Toyota MRS which were able to be modify to fit the S15 with a bend here and new hole there.

Motat

MOTAT was free this month so we took our 6 month old daughter to check out the fighter planes in the recently completed hanger. Her response was unexpected...absolutely amazed with the planes! As soon as we entered the hanger, eyes and mouth open, flapping her arms with excitement. Good fun to watch someone see something for the first time ever. Imagine having brand new eyes.