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20.01.2022 Another year, and we're still not where we should be (and a lot of others are...). Best of luck to my mates and their crews, just remember that you won't win this race in the first section - there AND back is the first challenge, then you will be in the running. Take care out there and have a great time. With any luck (and a lot of work) we will be there with you all next year in the Prolite. Hanging out to climb back behind the wheel of a buggy in a racesuit and let fly, but for now it remains a dream for the future

19.01.2022 3 times in a week! Gotta be a record..... I'm suffering from motivation at present, quite a good feeling and achieving a bit too. Today was (shock, horror....) cleanup day for the shed - first time it's been swept since I've been using it so there was a bit of that lovely, fine red pindan dust to remove. Once that was done, I set about removing the panels and floor plate after discovering that the pedals don't mount to the floor plate but to a false floor that I now have to m...ake up, along with a front 'firewall'. I have the measurements for those now, just got to find a supplier of suitable materials. Next, I thought I would put a seat into the frame and work out roughly where it needs to be and how much room it will leave for things like the gear shift (and how much, if any head room I will have). Seat wouldn't sit flat in the frame due to extraneous mounts for the old shifter and an interesting setup for what I gather was the original steering brake. Thes mounts (and a few others I have deemed surplus to requirement) have been removed with a certain amount of prejudice. Reading the CAMS manual (general regs for offroad), even though I have the logbook for this frame, I have the opportunity to change some of the tubes to make it a current spec frame. This includes changing out the dash spreader bar, increasing the size of the compulsory chassis crossmembers, adding a centre chassis member, modifying the main hoop bracing and increasing the size of the Nerf bars. Easiest to do before everything is remounted in the cockpit. After playing with the 44.45mm chrome moly tubing on the Prolite build, 38mm seems so small! (And some of this frame is only 32mm, hence the required upgrade of tubes mentioned above.) So, at this moment I have a very naked frame with arms, hubs and brakes fitted but not much else. A bit more touchup with a grinder, then it should be all forward from here! Loving having the time to play, hope there is more around the corner. Gonna try for another few hours a week for the next couple of weeks at least and see if I can get it on its feet and rolling. See more

09.01.2022 A lot of the followers here may have thought I'd fallen off my perch, but they would be wrong! Been a bit busy between work and trying to stay ahead of gremlins who keep breaking my everyday transport. Nevertheless, I have some advancement to announce - unfortunately not on the big Prolite, but on a buggy at least. Today I have managed to finish up shimming the link pins, mounting caliper mounts, and assembling hubs and brakes on the front end of the little single-seat Firefo...x. IF I had wheel nuts, I would have also thrown a set of wheels on the front just for a bit of fun...... but it seems I forgot to buy them! There are other parts on the way for the rear suspension so I can put that together (pivot bolts), but I am still in need of a suitable pair of coilovers for the rear (who'd have thought 14" travel would be too long!) and I need to get the 2.5 x 10" FOA coilovers for the front end assembled at least before I can get it rolling. Little by little it's getting there, but after attending the Gas Dash as a spectator I need to get back on track ASAP. More soon, and hopefully some good news on the Prolite is just around the corner! See more

06.01.2022 It's late in the week to be getting a start again, but having both a late start AND parts arrive today I did get a bit done. Besides a bit of measuring, I got to bolt a set of wheels on to have a look..... I think 33's on 15x8 beadlocks might just be a little over the top for a car this size. Might be looking at 16x4 wheels and 7.50R16's to fit inside the nerf bars and suit the rest of the car. What's your thoughts?

06.01.2022 Crikey, time gets away! But there has been a bit of work done on the little car since my last post here - false floor fitted in the pedalbox area, floorplate and panels refitted and the whole project moved from Learmonth to Perth (due to posting). A few small problems have also been unearthed - like not being able to use 2.5" coilovers on the front (clearance to shock towers) and an interference between the right side front combo and the lower arm as it droops . Looks like ...I'll need 2 x 2" shocks on each side, and maybe grind some relief into the steering arm on the combo. Good news though - I have today ordered the engine adapter kit, confirming that the car will be powered by a K24 Honda. Next up is to pick up the engine so that I can go and visit the clever fabricators at SS Racetech and arrange their participation in getting this build to a full rolling state with drivetrain mounted. On the 'big' car build, not much has physically occurred but little bits are happening in the background - I really need some time back in Darwin to get to grips with that one . More again soon, maybe even some photographic evidence!

03.01.2022 I know it's a bit late to make the grid for Finke this year..... but the (almost) impossible has happened and I have another advancement on the Firefox! With the arrival yesterday of the new rear arm pivot bolts and a bit of 'spare' time this afternoon, I have managed to fit the rear arms to the frame (still have the spring plate mounts to drill into the arms - that's another story...) and assemble the rear microstub hubs, rotors, adapters and 4-piston calipers. It's slowly (...actually quite rapidly at the moment) starting to look like a racecar again! Another good bit of news is that the transmission I have had sitting in the car to use as a dummy to set up mounts, etc is actually my 'full house' box, not the dirty old 1800 box I thought it was. This means that the box I stripped down to teach myself the intricacies of VW Kombi transmissions about 12 years ago (which now has a lot of rusty bits) is the basically stock 1800 and my good box is complete and still assembled with oil still protecting its contents - even if it still has a broken 1st/2nd, a much easier repair now. Front shocks just need oil, springs and mounting bolts to finish off the front end once the wheel nuts arrive. Rear is a bit more work, but I can now move on to installing the electric power steering system and sorting how the column will run. Still toying with options for the power plant - I have an adapter for VQ25DD, but worried there will not be enough room in the frame for it. More soon! See more