been custom fabricated to suit the engine bay. The push to make
things serviceable saw the front lobbed off and replaced with a tube
structure off which to hang the large intercooler and radiator. With
such a substantial cooler up front, there just wasn’t room for an
oil cooler. Tim’s solution was to rear-mount it and use a large Spal
fan controlled by the Link ECU. Drawing air through a pair of side-
window NACA ducts, the system is proving to work extremely well
and is becoming a popular choice for burnout machines.
Having the car serviceable was the number-one goal, so all
fluid lines have been bulkheaded at the firewall. The motorsport-
specced wiring loom — again built by Tim, with the help of mate
Connor — is also bulkheaded for easy engine removal. It’s proper
race car thinking in action; it’s practicality over visual perfection —
not that it looks bad at all; it’s just not polished like the RX-2 was. If
you ask Tim, he’d have it no other way now, and that includes the
polarizing exterior looks, which were never intended to be this way.
During the eight-month thrash to complete the build, the final
coats of Holden Maloo Blue, which can be seen laid in the interior,The rear tubs
are built to take
a tyre blow out
on the burnout
pad, a 26x9.5
drag slick,
and allow the
regular 15x11-
inch steelies to
sit DEEP in the
guards