r-unit69

first off this is not my car, its a restoration project for a customer of my dad's. he's loaded and buys whatever cars he wants and my dad works on a lot of the race car stuff. so his newest addition is this 1982 formula atlantic ralt rt-4. dude wants it restored so my dad is basically making me do all the work and chalking it up to him teaching me the ways haha.

anyways heres some pics, from today.
(beware cellphone camera)
shop where we picked the car up from this morning had a shitload of old racecars:



bubble bags to keep the cars pristine. (one contained 1938 somethin w/ a supercharged inline 8 lol)


1960 indy 500 car





the ralt is the yellow thing in the back ^^


now down to our shop.


the mclaren



ok enough other shit onto the project:

up on stands:











so I spent all afternoon taking it apart after my dad had to take off for a test at buttonwillow and when i left it looked like this:





there was no engine in it btw..

thats all for today.. no more progress til thursday when my dad returns.

stay tuned

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freedomgli

Nice! Are you guys handling the mechanical restoration only or do you do cosmetics, too? Most functional race cars are pretty rough around the edges while most museum pieces look great but aren't on the button. Very few race cars are tuned to perfection and look like new. It's amazing what a professional detailer can do in a week's time. What's the plan for this car?

Love the McLaren btw. Is that a M1B? I have some experience with a M6A that belonged to a family friend. I pit crewed for several years when I was younger and with my dad helped tow it up and down the east coast.

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WildCJ5

Way cool! Better keep the location on lock down so the Russian mob doesn't put all of those cars in a container.

r-unit69

i believe we will be doing a full restore, engine and cosmetics though i'm sure we will be sending parts out for paint or whatever. my dad hasnt spilled too many details about it yet, but it will be a few month project having me work on it a few days a week when hes actually in town to show me. i will try and keep this updated with more info/ crappy cell phone pics haha.

and yea the mclaren is gorgeous, i believe its an M1B, i dont know too much about other than its for sale by one of the team owners. he has too many toys he never gets to use, plus hes a little too hefty to fit comfortably haha.

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coupeloop

haha you don't seem too hyped about it, (i was never really in to old racecars myself) cool stuff though regardless. If i were to ever own one i would prob dress up and resemble a bi-plane pilot
how exactly do those bubble things work? do you actually roll your car in/on close it up and then fill it with a compressor?

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r-unit69

haha its not too exciting, car was around before my time lol, but its still cool. and im not exactly sure how the bubble bags work, theyre not in our shop but it looked like they had a zipper and it sounded like it was on, so probably some sort of controlled environment. im sure google will tell u if u really care haha.
edit: just got off the phone with my dad, more progress on thursday.

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nannerpus

Yeah playing with race cars is such a chooore.

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PocketAce

I like how he took a fuzzy picture of a classic Ferrari 312 Formula 1 car and didn't even mention it. Promptly ignored it even. Screw everything else, I would feel honored for being NEAR it.







Kids these days...

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r-unit69

haha hey man i didnt have very long in that shop we just picked up the ralt i had to hop in it and steer it down the hill

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PocketAce

Nice work on the Ralt though. You got that apart rather quickly. Is it getting restored per classic paint job/livery? If yes then do you have any pictures of what it used to look like?

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r-unit69

thanks and it is yet to be determined.. a phone call is to be made about how deep he wants to take the restoration whether we replace a lot of pieces or just make em look shiny and throw it back together. guy has deep pockets so it will probably be lookin pretty in the end

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r-unit69

mmmkay little bit o' updates for ya'll. so apparently this car was driven by michael andretti in 1983. we will be stripping it all down, cleaning it all up, replacing some parts, most of the hardware, rewiring it, etc, etc.

heres some more shaky cameraphone pics from the last 2 days. more progress on monday.

day 2 am.


end of day 2





end of day 3.





and the ever-growing parts shelf/area/mess

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ow3n

greats stuff, enjoy the cool job

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demoniam

wow, that's pretty badass

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$hane

Wow that's awesome. I'd love a chance to get my hands dirty like that this..

Sent from my cool phone

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suzuki_rider_327

The tires on the Ralt look like there going the wrong way... But one seems to be right? Any reason for this? Looks like a cool thing to be working on!

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r-unit69

thanks all, working on the car is almost as fun as browsing CR lol.

and suzuki, as far as i know, no, when we picked up the car it had been in storage for the last 2-3 years so i think the tires were probably just thrown on randomly haha.

cheers,
Ryan

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r-unit69

from today day 4



before pulling the steering rack so we can remember how it goes

end of day 4 almost down to bare tub. no wires

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r-unit69

finally did a little work today: pretty much a bare tub now







oh and what i was doing the 2 days before

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r-unit69

from friday:
gearbox disassembly


when i came out of the shop my car was being swallowed by a truck

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Nice to see a good restoration being done to that car. We have an old March at one of the race shops I work at, and I'm hoping sooner or later that we get to work on it.

As for the Molecule Formula Mazda, that car looks awesome. I remember watching them from our pits in Portland in 2009 and thinking "Damn those guys are insane!" I was working as crew chief for Andrew Caddell in the MX-5 Cup series.

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r-unit69

thanks! not much progress lately i've been working in another shop and dad's been outta town w/ other cars, but I started disassembling some uprights.

saw this out there today. sls amg

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I really need to take a trip out there! I am only a few hours away.

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WonTon

when i move out there can i come make friends with you, help out and learn stuff?!?!?!?

Friday

OMG, why did you have to quote every single picture...

$hane

damn 2010ers

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WonTon

lol, my bad! was a lil excited!


Edit: Fixed, lol....