22 replies to this topic

[Zook]

So I'm going to have a crack at this. It won't be as popular as Heaths hatch but as much as I love Toranas I also love RX7s so bare with me. End state will be Group C RX7.

[skap]

You been drinking cnut? 

[Zook]

Always. Put your project up wanker.

[Zook]

I know it's a Torana forum but it's also quite boring for heaps of reasons that I don't have time to go into. I just want to build a car that you might be interested in as they competed with the Toranas of the day. Oops, silly me, I meant the the Group C days.

Edited by Zook, 10 January 2022 - 07:39 PM.

[skap]

Always. Put your project up wanker.

 

Already have a build thread mate.  Try the search button

[Ice]

Already have a build thread mate.  Try the search button

He wants to see a classic not plastic you gronk 

[skap]

He wants to see a classic not plastic you gronk 

 

Care to define Classic Gene?  In the glorious state of QLD, a vehicle is classed as historic/classic after 30 years of age. 

 

i.e. the VN is a classic.

 

Where is your build thread Gino?  

 

Ohhhhh, that's right, you cried to Neil to remove it due to some non favourable comments about your tunnel.  

[Ice]

VN Classic lay of the pipe you stupid qldlander 

[Statler]

So I'm going to have a crack at this. It won't be as popular as Heaths hatch but as much as I love Toranas I also love RX7s so bare with me. End state will be Group C RX7.

Put it into the Members projects thread, 

Hopefully the court jesters wont follow  

[skap]

Great build thread though.  'bout as many pics as Gene posted in his.

 

lol

[Zook]

Put it into the Members projects thread, 
Hopefully the court jesters wont follow  

Good point but I'm not sure I can do that since, as Borat says, I'm retired.

[Zook]

Starting with this.

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[Ice]

Zoom Zoom 

Nice rig 

[Zook]

Thanks Gene. Went brap brap for a little while too before I buzzed it too hard and blew a water seal. I have a new extended port 13B that will take care of motivation duties now.

[I'm a Red Motor fiend]

For a boring forum, you sure do come back a lot.

[S pack]

Glorified 2 stroke without all the smoke.

[axistr]

I'm on your side Zook, Had a RX7 series 2. Loved it. I am related to Greg Hansford and owned it during his time racing with Alan Moffat. It had the rear whale tail and Simmons wheels just like his race car, a real stand out car in the day. That little car impressed me but went through more fuel than my 327 powered SBC Sandman, but did regular showed an extra 4,000 rpm on the tacko over the chevy engine. The tacko needle went all the way around to the stopper peg even when the Mrs used to drive it, couldn't kill it.

 

Unfortunately it was stolen and recovered three times. I got pissed of with it and needed the money anyway to build our new house. Two years after selling it I found out who was stealing the car ????, it ended up being my apprentice mechanic. The little prick help me replace the locks and repair the steering column each time the car was recovered, and did it with a straight face. I felt like a real idiot when I found out. I was showing him how the thieving bustards had used a screwdriver to snap the locks and how they got around the alarm. I sacked him not long after the last time it was stolen. I had discovered parts going missing around the workshop. We caught him steeling a Holley carby and give him his marching orders. I am so glad I didn't catch him knocking off the RX7 at the time or I probably would have done time behind bars. 

 

Anyway that's my RX7 experience Zook.  

[hanra]

Care to define Classic Gene?  In the glorious state of QLD, a vehicle is classed as historic/classic after 30 years of age. 

 

i.e. the VN is a classic.

 

Where is your build thread Gino?  

 

Ohhhhh, that's right, you cried to Neil to remove it due to some non favourable comments about your tunnel.  

 

 

Now this is a classic VN. Awesome project! 

 

[Rockoz]

Saw them race at Bathurst. By the end of the weekend everyone hated them, the backfires every gearchange were a pita

 

I hated them by Friday morning actually.

Most of them were camped up in behind the pits.

I camped there from 81 to 84.

Being woken in the morning at around 6am by screaching brapping and popping wasnt much fun.

The second worse experience I had up there after the rotaries was my tent being flattened by the Channel 7 chopper.

Thankfully the TAFE boys even managed to help out a camper in between fixing cars.

 

Zook.

 

Love or them or hate them, they were an integral part of Group C.

Sound aside, they were pretty good cars, and managed to throw the cat amongst the pigeons.

 

Look forward to seeing your build.

 

Cheers

 

Rob

[Heath]

The sound is the best part!

 

Unless you're actually using them as a road car for extended distances... they are a bit of an acquired taste if you're on the highway in a Bridgy powered car for example.

[IanC]

My mates Chook Cooker leaving the pub.  https://1drv.ms/v/s!...K6biCLlzsAQ5Udw

[Shiney005]

Saw them race at Bathurst. By the end of the weekend everyone hated them, the backfires every gearchange were a pita

It would happen six times while accelerating too, even though they were only homologated with five gears.

 

With all of the attention the rotary Commodore got on social media, the coppers pulled him over and stickered it.

Edited by Shiney005, 12 January 2022 - 09:53 AM.