...and more "Speaking of Reliance"...

I now have a harness installed and a button clutch installed courtesy of Reliance. All second hand bits (thanks to Buzz for harness and Jon for clutch) but very much in keeping with the nature of the car/build. The RX7 is looking and feeling more like a race car all the time. I'll try to take some photos on the weekend - hillclimb on Sunday as long as it doesn't pour with rain (which is forecast)...

Speaking of Reliance Rotary...

...a couple of mentions of Reliance Rotary and a Reliance built car (Steve Crowe is the man responsible for getting me addicted to hillclimbing) on the Mazda Motorsport website.

Amazing what you find when you do a bit of trawling.

I'll finish off with a picture of another Reliance prepared car - Barry Faux's Series 1 RX7, one of my favorites.

New Reliance Rotary website launched

I've been working on this project for a little while. Last year my wife started navigating for Jon Waterhouse in local rallies. Jon owns & runs the local (Canberra, Australia) rotary and motorsport specialist workshop Reliance Automotive Services (also known as Reliance Rotary). Had nothing to do with the fact I'd just started racing an RX7 but I certainly didn't complain.

Anyway Jon has done a fair bit of work on my car and in return I decided to take on revamping his website - a bit of a hard task in that Jon is a workaholic and would rather get you racing than sit down to plan out a website. I've managed to get a quick placeholder page up and I'm in the process of fleshing it out into a full site.

The revamped website is at http://www.reliancerotary.com.au/. Watch this space as I'm well into Phase 2.

I so want some old skool JDM rims

Would love a set of Hayashi streets for the RX7 - teamed with Datsun ZG flares. Loving this 240Z (S30):



But this is still my favorite Z - dunno why, but just love the rat look.



Only rims I have for the RX7 at the moment are all more modern in style (availability & price) - have some 14x6 Triumph Stag mags that fit so may clean them up and paint them matt black. But I'm keeping an eye out for old skool JDM goodness, even in pairs.

Mazda Motorsport doing well at Targa

Well, Mazda Motorsport are doing exceptionally well at Targa Tasmania - fantastic to see a RWD rotary serving it up to the turbo 4WDs. Not that I have any interest in rotaries or anything. Go Glenney & Webb as well as Reeves & Smyth (owning a Mazda 3 SP23 have some affinity for the 3 MPS).

Some good merchandise in the Mazda Aus shop. Want some of these stickers for my car:



NFI in Mazda etc. Just a fan and race a Mazda, own 2 Mazdas and have a wife who is a navigator in a RX7 S4 Turbo dirt rally car run by the owner of a local rotary specialist (who is servicing at Targa Tas hence the interest) - so you could say I like them.

Local Triumph Club

Thought I'd throw up a link to the website I did for my local (Canberra, Australia) Triumph Club - the Triumph Car Club of the ACT. I unfortunately don't get to many meetings because of the kids, but they're a good bunch and I highly recommend that if you live in Canberra or the surrounds and you have a Triumph Car you get along to a meeting - every Third Monday of the Month (Except December), at 7.30 pm Canberra Deakin Football Club, Grose Street, Deakin.

What is Team Aardvark?

I hillclimb a Series 1 RX7 with the local club (http://www.sdmahillclimb.com/) - too much fun.

So why Team Aardvark? Kids names start with T and A, was trying to come up with a racing logo (for car and shirts) that incorporated their names. Have always joked with the kids about aardvarks (eg: if they ask where I've been I say I've been walking the aardvark) - dunno why aardvarks (guess because it's just a funny sounding name) but it's become a running joke. So Team Aardvark sprung to mind. Always had a soft spot for skull and cross bones (I'm just a bogan at heart) and quite like a lot of the japanese drift logos so sat down and sketched the logo one day. Played with it a fair bit and have a few combinations. I have one version that is on the car now.



And I've made a stencil - tested it on the workshop door