What's more racecarey than a racing seat and a rollcage?
Nothing.
That's why our peugeot is totally like a race car now, instead of just a car that we're going to race.
It has no brakes though at the moment. We don't need that crap. What do brakes do other than slow you down? Nothing. This is a frigg'n race car after all.
Today we were hugely productive. 3 of us drove the car "for real" for the first time, each of us having an opportunity to run it through some gears, toss it around some turns and stand on the brakes. After doing some silly baloney ( professional driver on a closed course):
we pulled the car into the garage and found that the motor was heating things up a bit.
No big deal though - for all we know the cooling system has been filled with earl grey while sitting for the past couple years. We'll figure that out, I'm sure. Driving the car we found that the brakes are terrible, the handling is soft but predictable, the steering wheel is made of 20 grit sand paper, and the car is frigg'n awesome.
We got ready to start pulling the gizzards out:
And then didn't stop till she was completely bare.
A lovely rust color. Things are coming along! Removing the sound deadening involved a very cool high-tech mothod involving smashing the shit out of it with a hammer until it cracked and "flaked" off. It was surprisingly effective!
Next up: rollcage.
EDIT: Oh yeah; totally forgot to include a before photo:
We picked up the car today. We are the champions of the world.
It was like 14 degrees out, and we had a bit of difficulty getting the car starting:
That's right. There are 3 sets of jumper cables going onto that battery. One from the Nissan pickup, one from the 505, and one from a battery booster. We're lucky we didn't melt a hole to the center of the earth.
SIde note; Ramana is tall.
Anyway, we finally got the car on the trailer to bring it back to DSG for storage.
The car has some totally kick ass details. Check it out:
Last weekend we spent 400 bucks on this beautiful, running Peugeot 504 with a V6 engine swap already done. We are pumped. Tomorrow we are going to pick it up.
