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@@HuntTam yeah, just an easy way to set droop without changing the shaft itself. Ideally you would just have the right length shaft.

@@swiftdb4our sports racer shocks (Not Penskes, but old Multimatics that are built nearly identically) have them too, but we believe we are droop limited in the rear so just removed them. Haven’t tested at an event yet. Coming from full size cars, I’ve never heard of intentionally droop limiting the rear shocks. Is your reason for needing them due to mechanical interference or for setup?

@@HuntTam these are the fronts and the car runs a zero droop setup in the front. Rear has about an inch of droop

Just a saying 😉

Have updated the title to 1954

Thanks for your valuable insight

There is a sharp angle on the shaft, if I push the seal over it unprotected then the seal gets damaged.

Thanks for the reply, I'm debating on sending my 8300s out or just front the tools and such for many more years of DIY rebuilds. What is the approx cost for all the tooling?@@swiftdb4

@@hamburgerman187 not much, it's about the same cost to get someone to rebuild them versus buying all the stuff and doing it yourself. Obviously it gets much cheaper the second time. Also comes in handy if you want to check or change the nitrogen pressure.

Nice, feel free to make contact if you get stuck on anything, I've now talked to people with DB4s from all around the world that have come across my videos 😅

Very cool, it's in hibernation at the moment while I build a couple of motors for it. Whoever did the shocks on it before it came over had a good idea, also some interesting geometry tweaks. I've tried taking it in a few directions but always end up similar to what Grant brought it into NZ with. In saying that the settings etc worked a lot better once I replaced the tub. I believe the story was that it had a big crash prior to coming to NZ and the tub it had was more of a placeholder being an early one.

Thanks for the comment. Yes it's my fathers, the plan was just to dust it off for a weekend and see what it had. Its turned into quite extensive work following this video as there were quite a few problems that stopped me getting 100% from it, for this reason a second time out may be in order once I conclude the work.

@@swiftdb4 Good effort anyway. And yeah I've never heard tyre squeal from a F5000 before but it looks promising here

When C And C autos in Adelaide bought the car it was pretty ordinary looking in sor t of as developed condition. They wanted to tidy it up and get it looking good prior to running it. Keith Poole was to drive it and on the first trial he said it was horrible. Completely undrivable and said it had tried to kill him. So one of them ( I think it was Craig ). Rang Jamie and was going off his nut saying what an evil thing it was and so on. Jamie asked him what they'd done in since they acquired the car. He said th they'd really done nothing. Upon more questioning about their exact moves with the car he said that they'd just tidied it up and mentioned that they had taken all the suspension off and had it all chromed. When Jamie questioned him he said of course we did the wheel alignment when we put it all back together. So Jamie got on a plane to Adelaide. Sure enough they had done the wheel alignment. They had just forgotten to check that the car was actually in the middle of those nicely aligned wheels ! After Jamie correcting it the car showed really well. Keith Poole was a very competent driver. Things went badly for C & C autos and so the car fell into disuse. Along with the OR1 it was damaged in a fire at C & C. The business collapsed under a bit of a cloud as I remember it and I think one of the partners actually did a bit of time in the old grey bar hotel. Both Gardos cars were acquired by Barry Singleton and that's when Barry Lock's involvement began. Repairing the cars initially and later converting to ground effects. Car didn't run with ground effects beforehand the cut off date for historic F5000 so can't do so now unless the rules have changed. The other thing about the car is that it can run with either Chev or Repco power having used both way back then. Maybe that's not an issue any more either ? Kevin Bartlett told me " Don't get involved with the Repco engine..it'll break your heart ". I'd spend too much money on the engine by that time but I understand none of it was showing when your father got the car. Are you running Chev or Repco ?

Driven at AIR by Keith Poole.

yeah, what could have been, still a huge success of a weekend where all the work put in paid off

Around 11:30 and 3pm

234ish around 1 and the straights. Aiming for 240 tomorrow with some changes

Ended up at 242

Sure was

Its a lot better in the corners and brakes, a little bit slower on the straights though

@@swiftdb4 Very impressive. Guessing you need a dyno and lots of money to fix the speed issue?

It's making peak horsepower, the slight slower straight line is just a result of carrying a lot more aero at top speed than the F3 cars

@@swiftdb4 A couple laps behind you would be quite a lesson.

Thanks, camera is GoPro 10. When I race this weekend I am going to try GoPro 11 mini

Yes, driving Saturday and Sunday

@@swiftdb4 Ok get some wins 👍

@@f5kJosh 3 wins from 3 starts :)

@@swiftdb4 I saw you fly down the straight amazing racing keep it up! 👏

I was there for the weekend