CAT rebuild
 

I still have my old CAT, was my first real competition grade car, thought it was about time it got some love and a rebuild/update, would like to do a few meetings at our indoor track just to see how she stands up against the current crop.

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psnx2vvkwk.jpg

Ha ha....fancy seeing you on here Damon :thumbsup: Spotted Adrian on here too. Pity you didn't have this ready for the Vintage Nats next weekend but I'm sure there will be more vintage racing soon.

John VB

haha
I've been in contact with Adrian, looking at doing some cougar stuff possibly with him.

Yes it is a pity, I have my XX-CR as well.......

:thumbsup: damon that'll look mint with some carbon goodies on it :D
Should have some more goodies for my cougar on Monday nearly ready to post up some pictures

Oooooo and a new set of varishocks

http://www.racing-cars.com/sp/catego...Absorbers.html

Nice!

I think I have settled on doing what I would call a 'hotrod' build for this, keep it looking virtually stock but replacing a lot of the original parts with new reproductions with minor improvements, for instance I am going to cnc up new gearbox alloy plates, also tossing up the idea of substituting the stock plastic gearbox cases with molded carbon versions.

Stripped the old girl down tonight.
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...pslxuxp0dz.jpg
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...pss1clefee.jpg

Bosscat slipper and layshaft/pulleys, also the rear diff appears to be a 1 piece alloy unit
http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psz5gtjcdj.jpg

That's an old wasp racing alloy rear diff, I have a matching front to that diff very nice :thumbsup:

Lol no messing around aye damon:thumbsup:

We were quite lucky back in the day Justin our local importer brought in a lot of option parts for us to spend money on :thumbsup:

Just looking it seems front diff is alloy as well, so I have a matching set.:woot:

I was clueless when I bought this when I was maybe 14-15yrs old, so end of the 80's I guess, lucky I kept it!

I was drawing up a bunch of vintage stuff for john and it got me all motivated

Or demotivated as the case maybe lol

Here's the one I bought the other week from a guy in France
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psvncrmnut.png
And the rear I missed out on
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...pssf0ssmvv.png

Managed to get a new pulley for my alloy front box though
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psx93ncjhr.png

Pretty!

I think I will take a pattern off the front towers while I have it apart and cnc up some delrin ones and keep the originals in a box for safe keeping

Ooooo delrin nice would love a set of those

You might just get lucky ;)

Didn't take long for the vintage bug to catch aye damon:thumbsup:

Nope :thumbsup:

I might have a fiddle with machining some raceable arms as well

Drawing up some carbon and alloy parts

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psb4jwenle.jpg

Now your just teasing us :D

And if someone starts to tease, he must be ready to please. So when can we expect our free CF and delrin parts? :D

Now someone is being cheeky!
I might cut out some carbon late this week or early next will see, have to order some more delrin too as I'm basically out, tossing up whether to do black or white delrin bits, or maybe both

That sounds good to me too :thumbsup: And they always look better in white ;)

Well they won't be freeeeeeee but making 1 or 5 isn't much different for me

Got my JC racing wheels today all black dish and all black 5 spoke :thumbsup:ordered white and yellow 5 spoke because it said black was out of stock but flicked john an email and he sorted it out.

Just waiting on a couple of bits to turn up now then I start my own thread instead of hijacking yours Damon :woot:

haha all good, I'm sure I will post liberally in your thread......:lol:

I was going to go with white wheels but the more I think about it black will be better, will go with my standard black with a dash of green paint jobs

Jc wheels are the best I run them on my Procat
http://i1345.photobucket.com/albums/...psejwk7h74.jpg

Nice, was just reading your build thread.......

I had to re install photobucket last year and have lost a few pics which is annoying. And gainsy managed to lose lukes Procat thread the other week that was really crammed with great info.

I spied the front towers in the pic of your car and was investigating what they were, looks like something I can do pretty easily.....

There Team Tanaplan toweres to be honest I'm not sure if there the same length as standed as there for a camber adjustment kit.
I'll try and get some pics and measurements tonight for you. They should be easy to copy as there square

I found 17 pages of that thread that are cached in google by mistake just now, saved them too

Ah? That means nothing to me lol. And there was about 39 pages in total I think.

Is there no older forum backup somewhere, that the thread can be retrieved from?

It means I have 17 of the 39 pages saved with photos that I can share, heaps of interesting pics and info in just those 17 pages too

Some more drawing (cut simulation of)

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...psxhpgndwn.jpg

I am going to borrow Luke's idea for protecting the undertray/belt

http://img.photobucket.com/albums/v6...ps1a0mogrt.jpg

Also list of parts to make when my delrin sheet gets here.

T079 - in various versions to allow R.C. & camber changes (so carbon T154 to suit too)
A215
T077
T111/112 (hopefully I can machine the pocket for the ball well enough will see)
T109/110
T054 - again various versions to allow R.C. & camber changes
T160
T078
T156 - will do stock height and one similar to the tanaplan ones to allow longer shocks on the front

I will keep these parts looking as close to stock as possible, but obviously won't have all the nicely rounded corners as the stock molded parts

Also keeping my eye out for some alloy stock of sufficient dimensions to machine up some T055