Wednesday, May 16, 2012

Straightening the Magic Rabbit - part 2


You asked for it, lights back on and "new" bumper!!

New bumper, off of Car 3, has bump absorbing springs in the mount, will compress and take care of the 5 mph crash. Like we would every have one of those. But maybe it would help is someone is braking and sliding into us.

Also fired up Cabby 3 and took it for a spin to test out it's tranny. That tranny will be going into the race car, worked nicely and it's a close ratio tranny. Here are pics of Paul and I top down, joyriding around Redwood Estates!! Rye snapped the second pic for us.



Also got the old tranny out of the race car and here is a pic of the hole (center of the pic) the loose rivet ate in the tranny case and let all the oil out onto the clutch!!



Straightening the Magic Rabbit


So, the 4 ton Porto Power wasn't strong enough, so a trip to Harbor Freight and scored a 10 ton Porto Power (more Power!!!) then things moved like a hot knife through butter!
But then the last 3/4 inch required MORE POWER, so hook up the Infiniti, chain the Rabbit to the concrete step and slam that car a few times....looks good!

check out the pics, first one is using 10Ton Porto power



Left side chained to the concrete step, right side hooked to the Infiniti, HIT IT! Both the Infiniti and my concrete step survived, Magic Rabbit now straight!!!
Now some fine tuning of the tail end, getting ready for new tail light!



















Here is how it looks at 6pm, cocktail time!!