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