markg
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- Jun 2, 2014
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Finally going to bite the bullet and upload my build thread online, I haven't used forums in years as I developed a unhealthy habit of daily posting onto both the ae111 forum when I had one and browsing through the pages of pistonheads for hours on head, so went cold turkey around 5 or 6 years ago.
Over the last 14 months or so however I have abandoned by Toyota roots and crossed over to the dark side purchasing a little 1.3lr automatic EK2.
No beast I'll admit, but the chassis was clean and straight and at the time seemed like a good place to start building a rally car from. (In hindsight its not, get yourself an EK4 or EK9 if you are doing it) You will end up upgrading every single part, costing yourself more money over time. We'll not get into that now though.
The reason I haven't registered on here before now is I was faced with a dilemma something similar to the catch 22 concept. I had no time to be posting or researching online because I was to busy working, and when I wasn't working I was to busy in the shed building the car, and the car was taking ages to build because I was only working at it every second weekend, and when I did I probably wasn't as productive as I could have been had I asked the advise of someone who has already experienced the issues I was having.
Thus the inevitable day was always due to arrive when I was eventually going to draw a blank and need to ask advise and opinions of others, and where possible provide others with my thoughts and opinions on issues you may be having. (I'm an engineer not a mechanic though =( )
Due to work commitments, life in general and a want to prevent a relapse into my previous car forum addition, I am going to limit myself to logging in twice per week for now, the car is around 80 ish % complete at the moment and am hoping to have it completed by mid to late summer at the latest.
Now I'll just shut up and upload some pictures,
Any questions or comment are welcome, but it may be a few days before I reply.
Cheers,
Mark
Over the last 14 months or so however I have abandoned by Toyota roots and crossed over to the dark side purchasing a little 1.3lr automatic EK2.
No beast I'll admit, but the chassis was clean and straight and at the time seemed like a good place to start building a rally car from. (In hindsight its not, get yourself an EK4 or EK9 if you are doing it) You will end up upgrading every single part, costing yourself more money over time. We'll not get into that now though.
The reason I haven't registered on here before now is I was faced with a dilemma something similar to the catch 22 concept. I had no time to be posting or researching online because I was to busy working, and when I wasn't working I was to busy in the shed building the car, and the car was taking ages to build because I was only working at it every second weekend, and when I did I probably wasn't as productive as I could have been had I asked the advise of someone who has already experienced the issues I was having.
Thus the inevitable day was always due to arrive when I was eventually going to draw a blank and need to ask advise and opinions of others, and where possible provide others with my thoughts and opinions on issues you may be having. (I'm an engineer not a mechanic though =( )
Due to work commitments, life in general and a want to prevent a relapse into my previous car forum addition, I am going to limit myself to logging in twice per week for now, the car is around 80 ish % complete at the moment and am hoping to have it completed by mid to late summer at the latest.
Now I'll just shut up and upload some pictures,
Any questions or comment are welcome, but it may be a few days before I reply.
Cheers,
Mark