The Brumbyrunner Project

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Sun May 31, 2009 10:06 pm

You can get a vid after we compile all the footage from the race win and post it up with another funky backing track

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Sun May 31, 2009 10:31 pm

Have to welcome yet another sponser! My good mate and closet Subaru fan, Dale from Arid Airconditioning will have his signage to put on the car in Alice before scruiteeneering.

Dane: I spoke to the chief scruiteeneer and he assured me that my harness's will be fine. So, false alarm and $350 better off.

Wilbur: You've definately got the job. Might take you a bit longer if we get the camera running full time.

This is the Stauf clamp I used for the canister mount.

Post by **Captain Obvious** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 5:46 am

very simple and practical way to mount the canister!! and its good to see Wilbur is still alive and hasn't been eaten by Wild pigs yet!!

bryan

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Mon Jun 01, 2009 6:05 pm

Captain Obvious wrote:its good to see Wilbur is still alive and hasn't been eaten by Wild pigs yet!!
bryan

I think you will probably find its the other way around.

I just found that bug in the GPS speedo code. Its amazing how much of my time has been wasted by one "=" that should have been an "=="

So apart from picking up some cushy seat covers for the hard back seats in the ute (i thought cattle farmers were supposed to be tough?) I am all ready to get on a plane wednesday morning. Well except for all the work I havn't got finnished for the boss yet...

Can't wait. See you guys soon

Wilbur · Post by **Wilbur** » Sat Jun 06, 2009 2:35 pm

All is going well at Finke 2009. Prologued 5th in class and the car is going well.

daza · Post by **daza** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 12:02 pm

Woo Hoo!
Good work Guys!
Daza

Subaman · Post by **Subaman** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 2:47 pm

Wahoo, congratulations to Stuart and Jim, 4th in class and 33rd overall, not sure if theses results are official yet though.

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Outback bloke · Post by **Outback bloke** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 4:51 pm

We have stacks of good photos of the weekend. Not much credit left on the internet so I will post them up when we get home.

Damage for the weekend included a bent radius rod, a broken engine cross member, a holed fuel tank, a minor bingle with a buggy and a snapped cv shaft.

They both did extremely well on times when it was running unbroken. A bit more refinement and a couple of mods and next year they will be very competitive.

Before the breakage on the way down they were within spitting distance of passing the car that eventually came second in class. They were catching it and getting ready to over take when they hit a massive washout and broke the engine cross member and bent the radius rod.

stamp_licker · Post by **stamp_licker** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 6:30 pm

Well done.A great result.

muttnAlice · Post by **muttnAlice** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 7:40 pm

top stuff stuart, great result mate.
i have a good vid to send to you as well. enjoy the presentation night.
A photo of the beast is in the "Finke scrutineering photos" will be there until next year.

Matt · Post by **Matt** » Mon Jun 08, 2009 9:18 pm

Well done mate!

Post by **Captain Obvious** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 5:51 am

Well done to stuart and jim for bringing it home in the position even with the breakdowns! congrats !!!!! Next year it will be even better!!

bryan and bec

Checkers · Post by **Checkers** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 9:21 am

brumbyrunner wrote:Time for an update and a few pics.
The front struts are in and working great. Still got a lot of testing & tuning to do but initial impressions are hampered by the now inferior rear suspension. Can't wait to get the coilovers back under the rear end and see how it handles the rough stuff. I've ended up running all the available caster that we built into the adjustable strut tops because the handling improves enormously.

One of the new front struts.

Making it fit

Great job on the Brumby, do you mind if I ask what struts these are and what lower control arm setup etc you are running ?

Willie · Post by **Willie** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:25 am

Wow!

Good work, guys.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Tue Jun 09, 2009 11:51 pm

Thanks for the support guys. We're all done for another year and on our way home.

My thanks to the guys who supported us and gave their own time and money to get all the way to Alice Springs for the toughest off-road race in the southern hemisphere. I'm very happy to have made it "there and back" and might have had a different story to tell had I not bent the front drivers side radius rod early on day 1. We slammed into a gully too hard after a sharp left turn into the morning sun made it a bit hard to see through the dust as we were chasing young Clayton in his Triton. We actually passed him shortly after when he was forced to retire with a broken valve but had to nurse the car all the way down to Finke so we could fix it. The extended length, double thickness radius rod was bent almost in half and the lower control arm was twisted about 90 deg. The engine cross member was cracked in a dozen places and we were very lucky to have made it into Finke without it breaking clean in half.
We had a much better run on day 2, overtaking 3 or 4 cars before snapping a front driveshaft 40km before the finish line and giving up one position in the process. The Brumby is a very different proposition when rear wheel drive only and suffers from massive amounts of rear wheelspin in every gear.
After destroying 2 tyres in testing before the event we were relieved to have a puncture free run from the MTRs while many other competitors wern't so lucky.
Now I'm looking forward to seeing the in-car footage and the official DVD.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 12:21 am

Checkers wrote:Great job on the Brumby, do you mind if I ask what struts these are and what lower control arm setup etc you are running ?

It's all custom. The struts have the earlier 25mm wide upright mounts, 10" stroke and billet alloy tops. The lower control arms and radius rod have been lengthened about 80mm and heavily reinforced (and as we just found out, it's not strong enough).

dibs · Post by **dibs** » Wed Jun 10, 2009 6:34 pm

top effort boys, all of the team

cant wait to see the videio even if i gota buy it lol

a bit of topic hows the jackets going m8 getting cool down here

dibs

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:38 am

dibs: I'll have to get your new jacket sorted out so I can send it to you.

In the meantime here are some pics from Finke.

brumbyrunner · Post by **brumbyrunner** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 7:58 am

vincentvega · Post by **vincentvega** » Tue Jun 16, 2009 9:06 am

awesome pictures mate. I am going to buy a few off moving pictures once they get their act together and put them online..

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