My Lada 2107 Racecar Project

2 things you NEED to do:

1. Get a hammer and sickle badge in place of the lada one at the front.
2. Keep the fantastic horizontial speedo.

Carry on.
 
Yeah that speedo is absolute classic :) The funny thing is, that if you want it to light up, you have to switch on an aditional switch, its not lighting up with the headlights :)
 
is the red on completely finished? (if that's even possible)
 
Nah, Iv got serious plans with it, but no money for that. But everything was perfect in the red, so the technic goes into the "roundface", witch is road legal, so finaly I can have fun whenever I want :) That was a big problem with the red, you always needed to tow it to an event, and I could only use it there.
 
So it starts again :)

Firstly, I stripped the car, and welded some wheels under it, so I can move it around:
http://img145.imageshack.**/img145/7003/s73f0438.jpg


Started to cut out the rusty parts:
http://img13.imageshack.**/img13/7139/s73f0440.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.**/img145/2199/s73f0441.jpg

Then I removed this:
http://img18.imageshack.**/img18/4839/s73f0437.jpg

From here:
http://img682.imageshack.**/img682/9422/s73f0443.jpg

The new RCI racing fuelcell will be mounted here, lower than the factory fueltank, and the battery as well. It will get a strong frame, a light, but very strong bottom plate, to protect, and very very thin aluminium, or plastic cover all around.

Also sorted our the front suspension, I'l update later on that.

Cheers
 
So it starts again :)

Firstly, I stripped the car, and welded some wheels under it, so I can move it around:
http://img145.imageshack.**/img145/7003/s73f0438.jpg


Started to cut out the rusty parts:
http://img13.imageshack.**/img13/7139/s73f0440.jpg
http://img145.imageshack.**/img145/2199/s73f0441.jpg

Then I removed this:
http://img18.imageshack.**/img18/4839/s73f0437.jpg

From here:
http://img682.imageshack.**/img682/9422/s73f0443.jpg

The new RCI racing fuelcell will be mounted here, lower than the factory fueltank, and the battery as well. It will get a strong frame, a light, but very strong bottom plate, to protect, and very very thin aluminium, or plastic cover all around.

Also sorted out the front suspension, I'l update later on that.

Cheers
 
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lol @ the wheels, mine came with wheels from the factory, very usefull on a car :D

and at the last pic i see you bought and installed some lightness as well? :p

nice work as always. when do you expect it to drive again?
 
Maybe summer? I dont know really. Im quite broke at the moment and there are lots of things to buy :( And I want to make the cage as well, so. We'll see. Thats why I bought the other car. And thats street legal, so I allready had tons of fun with it in the snow.

And no, thats not a plastic bonnet, its just the garages roof, its not covered yet :)
 
Little update ;)

So we are having a fantastic winter this year, with lots of snow! Finaly, I have a car, and snow as well :)

The car has survived quite well. It already done around 300ish km-s in snow, and its doing good so far. Although the clutch must be repaired, it's slipping in third :( If the car isnt sideways, its slipping, fix= the car must be always sideways :)

Untill yesterday it didnt had any battle scars, but we found a very fast road to practise on, witch was downhill, and covered with ice of course :) My friend managed to touch the barrier a bit, but nothing serious.

Also, two pics, nothing extra, as the camera died when we finally started to make photos... :)

http://img21.imageshack.**/img21/4382/8001j.jpg
http://img51.imageshack.**/img51/7580/8002.jpg

Lets hope it will snow again, and that the clutch will be fixed by than :)
Cheers!
 
:) I want one!

Good luck with that clutch!
 
Thanks guys! I't looks like its going to snow on the next week, so I really need to do the clutch :?
 
Started to build a rotisserie. I should have made one earlier, but oh well...:
From this:
http://img29.imageshack.**/img29/1516/s73f0436.jpg

To this:
http://img402.imageshack.**/img402/4839/s73f0437.jpg

I need to finish it up, but I dont have to much mood for working in 30cm snow :)

Also bought my self a pair of these:
http://img341.imageshack.**/img341/959/s73f0435.jpg

And I love 'em!
 
Started to build a rotisserie. I should have made one earlier, but oh well...:
From this:
http://img29.imageshack.**/img29/1516/s73f0436.jpg

To this:
http://img402.imageshack.**/img402/4839/s73f0437.jpg

I need to finish it up, but I dont have to much mood for working in 30cm snow :)

Also bought my self a pair of these:
http://img341.imageshack.**/img341/959/s73f0435.jpg

And I love 'em!
 
After watching the old video, I digged up my videos of the car, just to watch them again, to be honest, I really miss driving this thing And because I found all of my footage, I can show you what a "good" (lets say better..) ignition timing results in. In this video, you can cleary hear, that after reducing the advance ignition in the upper rpm's, it gave me plenty (~500-600rpm) of extra rpm, and horsepower as well.

Here is the video:

http://www.streetfire.net/video/ignition-timing-change_742052.htm

Btw, my ignition isn't ECU controlled :) Its quite simply modded, the distributor has a spring/weight mechanism inside, witch gives more advance ignition when you press down the throttle. We limited this mechanism's movement, so now we could give the car much bigger advance at lower rpm's, giving more torque, and still not to much advance in the upper rpm's, giving more rpm, and power of course.

Pics:
The "piece":
http://img260.imageshack.**/img260/9052/gyujt.jpg

In place:
http://img146.imageshack.**/img146/4890/gyujt2.jpg

Explained:
http://img217.imageshack.**/img217/3944/gyujt3.jpg

The piece (red) put's pretension the mechanism (blue), so it can open as much, thus giving less advance ignition. Some people change the spring (yellow), but this is much easier, not to much of experimenting is needed, and you have the stock ignition "map". Changing the spring gives a totaly different ignition "map" (or charasteristic, call it as you want), that can be a PITA to sort out.

It's real "garage tuning" :D I am planing to use ford EDIS ignition with a programable ECU, but not nowadays. Untill that, this is just perfect.

Just thought this might be interresting :)

Extra little onboard at the end, just cos I miss driving :)
Cheers!
 
I guess i shouldn't be surprised, but you're a damn good driver! :shock:
 
Haha, no not really :) But thanks anyways :cool:
 
Nice!
But, don't you mean 535i?
 
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