This Sunday (6th) show and tell...

[Munkvy]

As a result of my learnings at Targa I thought this Sunday I would bring the remains of the RS out for people to look at/discuss. Primarily to let others learn from my mistakes and see what impact a reasonable crash has on a car, cage, seats, harnesses etc.

The idea being I have learnt a lot from building the car up from a road car into a reasonably successful rally car and then writing it off. So I want to see what I can do to help people out who are keen on doing some motorsport, or just want to have a good nosey at what happens when it all goes wrong!

Car will be available to crawl over, get pics of and generally be an excuse to talk about racing cars this Sunday at Steves place from 12 - 3pm. If you don't know the address PM me and I will let you know.

This is also a chance to say thanks to all the guys from CS who over the last couple of years have helped me out with the car too. I couldn't have done it without your support!

Any questions fire away here or PM me.

Thanks

Vivian

[Shale]

Wish I could make it down for a nosey...think most of the AKL crew would, for many a reason. Kinda easy to forget how dangerous motorsport is (when you're a newf@g like me, hurr).

Wicked gesture. Looking forward to hearing about it post-meet ;D

[Bazza-NZ]

Ill be there to catch up with you guys to hear your targa story and provide some helping hands if required

and to fearwell that beloved RS

[spark_38]

I'll come for a proper look too. I had a brief catchup with Steve last night - he was still quite sore... hopefully you guys would have fully recovered by then.

We'll be sure to take plenty of high-res shots, so Viv/Steve can do a proper write-up.

[nztintin]

Really wish i could come and have a look, especially keen as i'm in the middle of building a cage etc

any chance you'll do a bit of a write up and take some pics for those of us who can't make it in the flesh? real keen to know how your seats, harness and cage held up.

[Munkvy]

Hey, yes the plan is lots of pics as we pull it apart and lots of discussion around the cage.

What I can tell you so far is the cage did a REALLY good job, I don't have Sainz bars and the car landed on the right front A pillar while rolling and put a bit of dent in there and that was it. So the cage really did a good job of stopping my head from getting squashed.

Seats, not so much. Mine twisted on impact (thats how I hurt my back), not sure if it was the rail, the seat or if one of the mounts got damaged as I haven't pulled anything out of the car yet to find out.

Harnesses I have yet to look at but I expect they will be stretched at least a bit as we had a pretty hard stop! But no issues with them that I am aware of. Again, I will put up more detail after this weekend.

Vivian

[Joker]

can we commsion mr Aspros for an artists impression?

I have sent an 'announcement' to all WGTN area members too btw (check your profile if you did not get this)

http://www.clubsub.org.nz/forum/index.php?action=profile;area=groupmembership

so you might see a few new faces hopefully

teach a few boyracerers the benefits of why we do what we do in 'controlled' circumstances (shit that sounds a little too preachy)

[Munkvy]

 JoKer said:

can we commsion mr Aspros for an artists impression?

Not sure I can afford a Mr Aspros impression, I imagine he is charging a premium on them these days!

[caspros]

For you Viv, I will happily come to the party ;D

But only if you say "Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls"

[grego0o]

 caspros said:

For you Viv, I will happily come to the party ;D

But only if you say "Jack, I want you to draw me like one of your French girls"

Lolol

[spark_38]

Here's a couple of pics for those that couldn't make it today:

[Munkvy]

Good timing, I was just going to update this too!

Who is that ugly bald fella that seems to end up in the way of the camera?

Anyway, my photos mainly are of the cage as I know a few people were interested in how the survived:

Thats the right rear back leg of the cage, its actually punched a hole in the wheel arch! So the cage held together really really well, but was pushed back from the hit above the drivers head I guess.

Not so pleasant was the damage to the non-FIA seat I was running, it moved around on its mounts and also tore in several places from the belts holding against it (belts were installed correctly, seat wasn't upto the task by the looks):

I will be running FIA seats in the next car, at least that way I know they have been crash tested to make sure the design is strong!

[Shale]

Hory shet. I had absolutely no IDEA it was that munted from the initial photos! But all good, it will buff out 8)

Thank f*ck for cages.

[Kiwi_Fozze]

wow.

[Munkvy]

And a couple of pics of the area thats behind the codrivers seat. This is the floor from above and below. Not sure what hit here, but it sure was trying to make its way into the car!

[Joker]

 Munkvy said:

This is the floor from above and below. Not sure what hit here, but it sure was trying to make its way into the car!

it was this thing!