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COROLA
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Re: Lord of the Ringies! Fellowship of the Spirit!	Wed, 25 August 2004 13:38

Ahh yes, the saga, it is a timeless family favourite! COROLA signing in here to add his little bit. The spirit, or the SCHPIWIT as Shadow or Scriber sometimes refer to it as, has provided great entertainment, joy, tears, pain and excitment to us four quite silly drivers. I must say, the spirit is the kind of car you own so you can do things to it, that you'd never DARE do to your daily driver, or your pride and joy. Its the kind of vehicle that will go through a 4 foot ditch, and survive. That car has seen greater pain in the last year of its ownership with us, that it would have in its whole 20 year career. Yes, that car rolled off the production line at about the same time us four gentlemen did. So what has the spirit acheived? As HyDrA has stated, it has new and improved internals. 4K block, 3k carbie, 3k fuel pump, improved dizzy, etc, all that kind of running apparatus. The spirit also has: TWO strut tower braces. (these are 1 inch tubing flattend and drilled at both ends, forced between the strut bolts) Two black 6inch racing stripes. A T-18 dash cluster with tacho (6000redline) speedo, fuel, temp, volts and oil presure gauges (gotta get a pressure sender yet!) REPLACED front struts, calipers and rotors. REPLACED rear shockies. Seat covers, carpet removed, windows sealed, sound system removed and most importantly, ONE PASSENGER JESUS BAR (handles in the roof) this bar quite useful when the spirits in it's element... being thrown to full lock in the opposite direction as it slides sideways through mud, puddles, rocks and the occasional piece of scenery. The spirit has had many trips to its old hunting ground of kypo (kuitpo) forrest, and most importantly, the creek road. A road that runs between to ridges, collecting all the water from the surrounding pine trees. This road remains mud for a LOT of the winter. meaning traction is pretty hit and miss. Perfect constant inertia drift i think is the term. Throwing it in, and deliberately over-correcting to initiate oversteer before semi catching it again, to then repeat. MUCHLY fun. As long as u dont push the tire off the rim. That happend once. Or as long as u dont get it bogged. That happened once, risked happening twice. Or as long as u dont dislodge the battery. That happend LOTS, and still does!!!! but as the rains have sorta, subdued, so has the mud, and infact, the road we once loved, is F**KED. Potholes, ruts, ditches, dead kangaroos. its not nice. so we kinda, have lost the love. Thats where crawford came in. One night, a trip was planned, on positive word from Shadow of the rally roads through the forrest, we decided to test it out. Heading up spirit and XF falcon ute in check (Shadows vehicle, quite rugged) we found the dirt fun plenteful and exciting. Not of the same type of kypo, but deffinatly a challenge. after a thermos of coffee, a few fotos, and shadow backing his ute up onto a bloody big rock. We left, promising to return. However. From that time onwards, ther spirit was falling apart. Needed by HyDrA to get to work each day took it's toll on the old girl, the brakes hardly worked, the suspension was SHOT and the exhaust fell off. (well, not fell off, there was only a bit of 2.5 inch pipe, but it came loose) some serious work needed to be done. hence, new parts being installed. it was much better. This 'damaged' phase went on for quite some time, so we were ITCHING to get back to the dirt. finally, it was repaied, and we've been going back to the forrest(s) every weekend since. Now, i dont think there's anything i've forgotten. But if you read all that, u must be as mad as the four of us are. Whats a good car memory of my life so far? Watching the spirit, SIX lights blazing, at 400m flying sideways over a crest before sharply schapping down through the mud towards me, Revs well above 5000, in the bitter cold night and misting rain, on a certain un-named road in the middle of no-where. Ahh, the mud. [Report message to a moderator]

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