Hello from Austria!

[boehmi]

Hello Viva-fans!

I'm from Austria and working on one (or two) Vauxhall Viva HB.
Some friends of mine and me are bulding a racecar for our 3rd participation a 24 hour rallyecross race in June.
In the last 2 years we were driving Citroen BX (because of it being absolute *Bleep*).
The meaning of the race is building a racecar "as cheap as possible" and "as old as possible" that will last 24 hours and 1200 km on a rallyecross-track.

We got one car with a fairly good shell (1966 HBD) and one (196x SL90) with disk brakes and now we are bulding one racecar out of this two. Both cars are in a shape that's not suitable for road-use without putting a couple of 1000€ in it, so we are not going to destroy any heritage. Instead we are using those 2 cadavers for building one fine racecar for the 24 hour race and following trackdays.

Excuse my English as I'm no native speaker, but i hope it's readable enough

Greetings from the alps, Martin

[dann01]

Hi Martin and welcome

Wish you every success with the building of your race car project. I have often dreamed of doing the same with a less than road worthy Viva, if only to satisfy my own lust to build something different. Some pictures of your progress and the cars would be greatly appreciated. We like pics here

Your English reads fine.

Dan

[boehmi]

Thank you for your wishes!

Here are two pictures of our cars.
The blue one has the "good" shell which we will use for the 24 hour race


The "white" one is better than it seems at the first look, the outer body panels are quite solid, so we will use it for repair-panels after the race (might be necessary after 24 hours of rallyecross)


Progress at the moment is grinding off 8mm of filler and making a basic repair of the left frontwing.
The project was on hold over the winter, because i had to move my workshop to a shed with no heating and half a meter of snow in front of the doors. On the coming weekend we will continue our work!


I will keep you updated (or even start a new thread) when there's some progress!

Greetings, Martin

[bedfordbad]

Welcome martin, sounds like a great project!! Do you intend to use the standard running gear? Or do the rules allow engine change ect....
Good luck with it and do keep us informed!!
Steve

[boehmi]

I'm not changing the running gear for the race in June.
It would be allowed, but we're sticking with standard yet.
The race is not about being the fastest but getting straight 1200 km in 24 hours.

It's a fun race and there's nothing to win, everything is allowed with the car if it's safe.

After the 24 hour race there might be an engine swap to C20XE, but that's too much work for now.
Just getting it ready with the SL90 engine, so we don't need a stronger rear axle.

We will fit 13" rims and wider tires with wheel pattern adapters to VW wheels.
Also we are building a roll cage (without homologation).

[Fred Dukes]

Wow - exciting stuff - Viva wheels 4" PCD - VW wheels 100mm PCD ?? what out for stud straining

[boehmi]

Wow - exciting stuff - Viva wheels 4" PCD - VW wheels 100mm PCD ?? what out for stud straining

I know, that's why we're manufacturing adapters.
Mounting the adapter with 4" PCD and original studs and nuts.
Rotated 45 degrees there are holes for VW wheelbolts in 100mm PCD.
Just like these


I got some nice 13" Rostyle with 4" PCD on my MG Midget, but i don't want to use them for rallyecross
Need them on the roadster too.

[Fred Dukes]

Thats good -some people dont realise that there is a slight difference between the two and stress the studs.

[boehmi]

Started a new thread in the modification-area for the updates on the build:

viewtopic.php?f=22&t=26005