Re: 504 Adventure - Success!
From: august (august.macbeth@gmail.com)
Date: Wed 07 May 2008 - 22:22:15 EDT
awesome pictures rabin, looks like a blast.
On Wed, May 7, 2008 at 6:49 PM, Rabin Rutten-James <rabin505@sasktel.net>
wrote:
> Well - after a lot of late nights, my 76' 504 successfully made the 1400
> km round trip from Regina SK, to Gimli MB for the race school my wife got me
> for Christmas. It wasn't without some drama, but thanks to Bob Bruce I was
> able to make the needed repairs and finish the school. Car handled really
> well considering the lack of power compared to the other cars on the track,
> and really held it's own in the twisty bits.
>
> During the build up I was able to get a lot of info from the Aussiefrogs
> site on swapping my 505 Turbo front suspension onto the car (Complete with
> brakes). The car runs 3 degrees of negative camber, but with the alignment
> set just right (~2mm of toe in) I had zero inside tire wear and the car
> handles fantastic. I didn't get a chance to swap out any of the rear
> suspension, but it was still very nice to drive on the track. It still
> understeered a little bit, but it doesn't plow excessively at all. The wider
> front stance along with the neg 3 degrees of camber really do make the car
> quite fun to drive - and although it hunts a little on rutted roads - it's
> more than manageable. (HUGE thanks to Thanos as well for all the set up
> info!)
>
> When I arrived at the race school, there was a little snickering (OK a LOT
> of snickering) when I pulled up amongst the newer cars, but once I was on
> track and doing some excercises it surprised a lot of people. The first
> instructor was pleasantly surprised as he drove the car and quickly
> commented on how fun it was to drive. Instructors that went along afterwards
> while I drove had a hoot - often laughing out loud at the way it soaked up
> the bumps! It was particularly fun cuttting this one corner quite tight and
> running the unloaded front left tire over some concrete blocks that normally
> beat other cars up quite well - the 504 just soaked it up and held the line
> beautifully! The euro spec motor with the new Weber really revs nice, and
> while under powered, it had a decent power band and the car was a hoot to
> drive.
>
> The stock 504 LSD also worked excellent with the Redline 75W90NS in it -
> seemed to lock it up really quite nice and I lost no drive at all in the
> corners when the inside tire got light. (Had several people say I was on the
> verge of two wheels on some corners!) I even had the pleasure of having to
> slow down while doing passing manouvers when a late model Nissan Sentra
> couldn't keep up in the twisty bits...
>
> I did have a couple mechanical issues, the most severe being the rad fan
> exploding and taking out my radiator at the end of day one. A quick call to
> Bob Bruce with my desperate pleas for parts was answered with new OEM parts!
> I borrowed a fellow racer's car and bombed into Winnipeg to meet with Bob
> and collect the parts. Had a great chat with Bob (who was great to finally
> meet after all these years on the list) and off I went with my new OEM 505
> radiator (even was in a peugeot box!), fan blade, and hoses to upgrade my
> old 504 set up. Bob even had his friend pull off an expansion tank off one
> of his cars in storage which I needed as well, and I picked that up on the
> way back to the track.
>
> I had it all installed for the morning of day 2 and the car ran great -
> and way cooler than before! The only other issue was sediment from the fuel
> system gunking up my new carb which fouled the primary jet - it idled or it
> ran at WOT... cleaned it up at lunch and it was perfect again for the rest
> of the day and all the way back home.
> Here's the link to some pictures of the event:
> http://forum.ssccracing.org/viewtopic.php?p=31537#31537
>
> Car is looking pretty tattered and rusty - but after this weekend she'll
> be a rolling restoration to get her back into pristine condition.
>
> Rabin
>
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