MAX170

Ready for the 4 and Rotary Nationals.  

Tight fit

The whole engine bay has been super hard to work with from the first time we started modifying parts… Nick has been working away at the rust work, mainly around the headlight area. The van has been put on hold breifly while we get Max, the 180sx and also Battle cars ready for the 4 [...]

Van powersteering part 1

Have spent a bit of time sorting out the steering setup on the Van. The first step was getting the steering box mounted, which Nick made up a bracket for and welded it on. Next I ran the lines from the rack up into the passengers side next to where the pump mounted up, which [...]

The start of a tidy Max

We havent had the time to start ripping into Max like we hoped, any spare time we have had has been spent on getting the van sorted. However while Me and Nick have been working on the van Theresa has started tidying up the inside of Max170. The door cards were cut out around the [...]

Subframe Strenghtening cont.

Today Nick continued with the strenghtening of the chassis rails, now 90% of the rear chassis work is done.  Next step is to prep it all up and paint it, then he will move onto mounting the front steering box. Then we dummy fitted everything up just to double check that it was all going [...]

Van rear subframe strenghtening

We have re-visted the van over the new year holiday period. When Nick had last worked on it he had just finished making the mounts for the subframe. Next he added some braces to strengthen the pickup points for the subframe and also the chassis rail. Once all the braces are done then I can [...]