Unfortunately i was unable to get "The Pearl" finished in time and the shear costs involved with towing and getting that car up and running is far too much for me atm. Currently i am broker than Tree, and that has meant i will be bringing my daily driver instead.
 
I have a lot of things still yet to do and like most the car is not 100% where it could be (stock brakes for instance...), but i am looking forward to the first outing for my Car Dirk.
 
Unfortunately there were no Z214 Hankooks in Australia (or RS3's for that matter) So i purchased some A050's instead.
 
Some pictures:- 
 




 
95% sure i will see you all there, good luck to anyone who still has work to do!
 
 

PFC nice.

Right, we're starting to look good now. I need to rebuild one of the calipers. It's completely seized. Have the seal kit, just waiting for the driveway space to jack it up and do it.
Then all I need is to do a service and I should be good to go!
 
Planning a trip like this is harder than I expected... Having never driven interstate before...
 
ALSO, if ANYONE has a stock battery clamp for an SW20, I desperately need one for this event. current clamp is literally a bar of steel and a roll of electrical tape, and if there's any scrutineering, it won't pass. I'll be happy to pay for it in site in person :)
Slight problem there...
Other than that, I think I'm pretty set!

No one is broker than me I'm still on AO48s :'( even Dirk looks better than mine lol
Randomity thats great news man. Quickest way I can think off is to take a strip of metal and take it to ur fav mech tomorrow to make one for ya!
I'm booked in to stay another day and I'll be doing Marulan as well, who else is coming? :)

I'll be heading down from Sydney on Monday morning for the day if anyone wants to make it a convoy.
Looking forward to it!

Don't have a favourite mech, unfortunately... Most of the work done to my car was by me, and the only other person to work on it is still on holidays...
An update on the brakes situation. I rebuilt the offending caliper (passenger-rear), and now there's no rub and the wheel goes sweet... NOW the drivers-side rear is pretty much locked. I'm totally stumped, and unless someone knows exactly what's happened and how to fix it within the next 2 days, I'm gonna have to pull out.
 
Having tested it last Saturday, it was jacked up and started in gear. Both wheels spun (keeping in mind I'm still running the stock Gen 2 open dif), but you could hear the rub from the passenger side, and a seized caliper was deduced from there.
Once the caliper was rebuild, the same test was conducted, and now the passenger-side spins awesome and drivers wasn't moving at all...
 
If anyone has ideas, let me know. This is literally the only thing stopping me from going now.

Go to the local Bursons/Repco and the like and purchase the little block attachment for pushing "internal handbrake" brake calipers back. Then take the car for a drive again and hope for the best. Sometimes the handbrake mechanism sticks.
 
The tool is not expensive and looks like this:-
 

 
This one is a far better tool but costs 4 times as much as the inexpensive universal block:-
 

Oh and Tree, if you're able to do Marulan i am intact the more broke individual :(
 
Will be interesting to see how the Beams go against each other, but i believe you will have the advantage on that one.
 
 

One of those could be good. If it's just winding the piston back in, that may make a difference, although I fail to see how, considering it was just fine until I rebuilt the other caliper. It's literally untouched, and now isn't working properly...
As for actually winding the piston back in? I didn't bother with any special tools and just used some multigrips. They did the job just fine, albeit with a little scoring around the edge of the piston.

This is for the rear only, and you are not going to push them in if you are using multi grips as they get wound in, hence this tool.
 
Did you lubricate the sliding pins on your calipers like Steve said a few pages back? that does make a difference. Also if you bled the brakes the caliper may have gunk in it also. More likely to be a sliding issue though.