Dry Lakes Racers Australia

Yea were still working on the team name, but Terror certainly has popped up a few times. Having the day off today, but worked a full shift yesterday, might do a bit more on Saturday and then that"s it for a few more weeks. The basic outline of the cage is in and the seat has been positioned. St...

Also got a bit of work done on the heads last night
Cheers Ill be there for that beer Chris, Gaz you gonna be there too?

Well, still carrying on with the roof chop, just about sick of it now.We started the cage today, feel free to put your 2 bobs worth in. You can see the large plates we are bolting directly to the chassis. we decided just to cut holes through the floor and well make some cover plates later to fill in...

This is our motor as of right now. Its been in my grandfathers old HG Holden, had a brief stint in an altered drag car and i thought it best to pull it apart and give it a good go over before its committed to the Hudson. Its just your run of the mill small block chev. So far all is looking good and ...

And we had a couple blow-ins as well today so we kept them out of the beer fridge and put them to work filling in all the holes in the firewall. Cheers Adam and Clive.

lot of time goes into these, glad im not building a show car. Everyone always goes on about how thick the steel is in old cars. Well it is in some places but when they press these curved bits out the get as thin as 0.6 on parts.

Cheers Gaz, Its been one of those things ive wanted to do for years and im excited i found some suckers to help me get there. Belly tank is the ultimate dream. Anyways the chop progressed a bit more today. i honestly thought the back was going to be the hardest but it appears joining the roof back t...

And we'll see were we end up tomorrow.
cheers time for a beer

Well convinced the guys we can do this (none of us have any experience before) and with more confidence on my face than i really have, i started to chop up a perfectly good terraplane body. We spent about 8 hrs on it today and its going well. pictures tell 1000 words 20160723_100012.jpeg 20160723_10...

Yea that was Steve, he drpoped by showed us what his Torrana was made of and donated a front sway bar to the hudson. Look forward to seeing the bike.

Cheers

After reading the http://www.landracing.com forum for half the day im just gonna go with max 3" chop and dont lean the windscreen back at all. No arguments then. I found my exact same question a couple times and couldnt really see any evidence otherwise.

Gus, your next lesson with salt lake racing is scrutineers have all interest in safety and compliance. They will pass your car as good to run on safety but will leave class compliance to the competitors own interpretation of the rulebook. Chris, thanks mate, that does lay it out quite simply. If we...

As quoted in the rules for altered, does this mean even though we are in classic and permitted a 3" beauty chop in Classic altered we can take it down even further leaving just 6"? 5.D.2.a Altered Coupe - page 56 Pre-1949 bodies may be chopped. The chop shall be equal front to rear and sha...

Chris, Dave Thanks for the pointers. Ive only managed to find these but in my opinion a bit too wide for the front, I would be looking at a 7 inch wide rim probably, would rather a max of 6". 195/50R15 w rated @270kph167mph Potenza Adrenalin RE003 bridgestone or Nitto NT555. Anyone else know of...