[Land-speed] In the beginning

[Mike Lackey]

The car is an '86 Toyota Corolla RWD hatchback (aka AE86 which is the chassic
code Toyota gives it).

I'm planning an engine swap to go after an open record
with an I size engine.  So, I'm not planning on huge MPH numbers, but I figure
this is a good way to get started.

I'll have to remember that about the
firewall.

Thanks

----- Original Message ----
From: Ed Weldon
<23.weldon at comcast.net>
To: Mike Lackey <mike_lackey at yahoo.com>;
land-speed at autox.team.net
Sent: Sunday, October 14, 2007 10:28:31 AM
Subject:
Re: [Land-speed] In the beginning

Mike--
Are you ready to tell us what body
and what displacement class you're
planning for?
IMHO your biggest
"engineering" problems in GC are going to involve the roll
cage and possibly
mounting a flywheel shield if you're running a stick
shift.  You may want to
cast about for ideas on how best to accomplish an
SCTA "to the book" roll
cage.  This stuff involves heavy metal work and
welding.  With some good
planning you may be able to get away with using
your first cut without having
to redo it.  Also pay careful attention to
safe seat design and placement
relative to the driver controls.
Oh yeah, all that stuff you remove around the
firewall will leave holes that
will have to be perfectly sealed.  And if it's
a relatively late model be
careful about damaging the serial number
identifications.  You never know
what surprises may be waiting down the road
courtesy of our legislatures and
the hysteria over environmental issues.
Ed
Weldon

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Mike Lackey"
<mike_lackey at yahoo.com>
To: <land-speed at autox.team.net>
Sent: Sunday, October
14, 2007 9:40 AM
Subject: [Land-speed] In the beginning
> For several years
now I've had some ideas on a car to build and bring to
> Bonneville.  I want
to race a small displacement /GC class and recently, I
> bought the car I plan
on racing.  It's going to be a lot of work, but at
least
> I've finally gotten
started and it's no longer just in my head.
> I have a ton
> of questions, but
I'll just start with a few for now.  First of all, is
there
> anything I
should be documenting before I tear things apart on the car?
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