Speedway...
Posted: Mon Jan 27, 2014 2:45 am
So, a couple of years ago I used to race at speedways, dirt track ones, and my whole family still races. Both my mother and step father race in a division called Fender Benders, both with old Falcons fitted with roll cages, where the rules allow drivers to smash into other racers in order to win. My sister drives a Lancer in the Junior Sedan division and her boyfriend has two cars - and old Falcon for Fender Benders and a Honda CRX for the Open 4 Cylinder class.
On the weekend I was lapscoring for Gilgandra Speedway and was thinking how an FTO would go on the track... They're not all that dear to buy, and it isn't too much to strip and put a rollcage in. It wouldn't matter if I got an auto or manual cause I have a spare manual gearbox with a fucked 4th gear, not a problem seeing as you never go past 3rd. I could sell all the parts out of the car and make most of my money back from buying it, and keep stuff for my road car.
I don't think it'd matter too much if it was a GPX or GR, although more power is great, the only thing is what class to put it in. I'd have to research the exact rules and either put it in a bigger class with a heap of old Commodores and Falcons, or find out what other cars the 1.8 4 cylinder engine went in and drop one of those in and put it in a 4 cylinder division.
Just wanted to hear what toughts you guys had on this... If I saved up over the next few years and did it all it'd almost certainly be the only FTO in speedway in Australia I believe.
Whilst I'm here I most well put some photos up of my old racecar, a late 80's model Ford Laser. Only had a 1.3 engine, but still managed to keep up with and occasionally beat 1.6 EFI twin cams as well, so it did well. It also never died, I run races without the fans turned on and it still ran fine. It didn't run so fine after I smashed it into a wall one night head on, screwing up the rollcage, pushing the engine backwards to the firewall and giving myself a good lot of black bruises too.
On the weekend I was lapscoring for Gilgandra Speedway and was thinking how an FTO would go on the track... They're not all that dear to buy, and it isn't too much to strip and put a rollcage in. It wouldn't matter if I got an auto or manual cause I have a spare manual gearbox with a fucked 4th gear, not a problem seeing as you never go past 3rd. I could sell all the parts out of the car and make most of my money back from buying it, and keep stuff for my road car.
I don't think it'd matter too much if it was a GPX or GR, although more power is great, the only thing is what class to put it in. I'd have to research the exact rules and either put it in a bigger class with a heap of old Commodores and Falcons, or find out what other cars the 1.8 4 cylinder engine went in and drop one of those in and put it in a 4 cylinder division.
Just wanted to hear what toughts you guys had on this... If I saved up over the next few years and did it all it'd almost certainly be the only FTO in speedway in Australia I believe.
Whilst I'm here I most well put some photos up of my old racecar, a late 80's model Ford Laser. Only had a 1.3 engine, but still managed to keep up with and occasionally beat 1.6 EFI twin cams as well, so it did well. It also never died, I run races without the fans turned on and it still ran fine. It didn't run so fine after I smashed it into a wall one night head on, screwing up the rollcage, pushing the engine backwards to the firewall and giving myself a good lot of black bruises too.