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Well, 2nd event was a 5.2km hillclimb which went really well - 49 corners and lots of fun! Even a small moment or two..... It was great to dice with another RX leone that is local. A 2dr coupe with a blueprinted and worked EJ25. He beat me by less than 1/2 a sec - gutted Next was another 10km rallys...

Every man needs toys...
My toy is a car...
a TOY RX Leone in fact....

I have just read your thread... I'm all too jealous that you have either the time or the money to delve into this kind of work. Congratulations on the successes so far. One thing that particularly stands out to me is your recent problems of rear alignment. The measurements were exactly the same as ...

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hurunui

-84 MY Leone

-86 L Leone (dead parts car)

Hurunui aye - not far from my old stomping ground in Kerikeri. Welcome aboard the board!!

We found a few issues to sort through. - Biggest issue was low boost, approx 7psi which ment low power and 4th gear had virtually no acceleration. It seems like it is running at waste gate pre load preasure only so I need to investigate the boost control solanoid etc - managed to half tear off my f...

Excelent! Sounds like you had fun. You might find that the stock gearbox mounts are not stiff enough to prevent movement. A few people have made up custom mounts to completely replace the stock ones. You could try to get a pic of Gareths version. Tell me more about "Gareths version" and how to get ...

Well she survived her first weekend completing all the runs. It was a neat road, 7.7km of forestry gravel roads with some tricky corners and good climbs. We had a recce and three timed runs which is the usual format. I was really carefull the first run and did it in 6min 31s as the brakes were still...

Ahh well, feel for you mate - Motorsport is a hard mistress, even more so for endurance events. From what I have seen buggered shocks is one of the more common failures in these sorts of events, they just get hammered with no chance to cool down. I am sure you will already be thinking what to do to ...

once you have removed the retaining ring on the back the whole lot should come out ok using a rubber hammer, once you have the stub axle out you will probably need to get the bearings pressed off and the new ones pressed on - cheap and easy to get an eng shop to do this.
Does this anwser your Q?

to replace the wheel bearing it is heaps easier to remove the whole arm and grip the hub in a vice with the inside retaining ring pointing up. First clean up the greasy mess, I use a wire brush and brakeclean. Then as Xtreame RX sugests use a cold chisel to bend out the tab holding the ring in place...

Wheel alignment done, washers welded and should be all good to go this weekend

Thanks A, "Fiddle" brakes are more for 4WD trialing etc, where very tight turning/improved traction/power delivery control etc is required, probably not a bad thing for a motokana type event but not really usefull at higher speeds. Progress - of sorts.... After a manic weekend of changing rear arms ...

James Christchurch -1988 XT6 -1992 SVX -1990 Brumby Wow - some cool cars here man, I have only seen one XT6 in the flesh before, very rare car. The brumby is always a great choice and an SVX to boot. Interesting to note they are all ages close to the end of their production runs so should be goodin...

DP - I am not sure what you mean by fiddle brakes, i do have a brake balance bar which alters the front to rear bias by varying the preasure on the two MC's. This is all most rally guys use that I know of. Thanks for the hint on the rear subframe mounting, I will have a play tonight and try to get t...

Rear end is WAY out, I have 10mm toe out on RHS and 4mm on LHS, I also have 4deg pos camber on RHS and 1deg postive on LHS. The alignment guy recons the hubs are bent so I stripped the arms out last night and am going to the work workshop today to press off the Crossbred kit and old leone backing pl...

Thanks guys, I just need to sus out this rear suspension alignment issue and things should be all go. I am dropping the car down to the guru this avo so hopefully he can tell me what needs replacing/fixing/pulling/bending/modifying etc to get it right. I dont have a youtube account or broadband so v...

just a side note - sometimes the clips bit that holds the cable in the back of the dash get loose with age so the cable falls off the back of the dash, just check the speedo cable is not just loose.

Well its in one piece now.... other than the underbody guarding which will go on after the wheel alignment. http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/ToyRX/Rally%20Car%20Build/completecar.jpg http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y165/ToyRX/Rally%20Car%20Build/front.jpg This is the completed interior.. http:...

It's really coming together now. Bad luck about the subframe though. It looks a million bucks. I am as confused as sh!t - I pulled the subframe out of the new car and also out of the old crashed shell so i could compare the two. There are some subtle differances between the two, one has a three bol...

Wow some awesome progress there! Where'd you get that strut tower brace? I'm guessing it is off some other car and modified slightly to fit the L series? I would strongly advise you to upgrade that radiator header tank to an early WRX one made out of metal, you wouldn't want one of those brittle pl...