Bringing the cars, people and stories of South Australia's motorsport scene to the world!
Created by Hayden McMahon & Dylan Sainsbury, The Pit Walk shines a light on the weekend warriors. Normal people, with normal jobs, who build extraordinary cars in their downtime. With a focus on grip based motorsport, most of our videos centre around circuit racing, time attack, hillclimb and track day builds. We dig into the cars, modifications and stories, while allowing the vehicle owner to tell the tale themselves.
Being racers ourselves, we knew there were some fantastic stories, amazing cars and interesting characters hiding in the pits of our local tracks. We created The Pit Walk to give a platform to these amateur racers who may never have got one otherwise. We are proud to show the world what South Australian grassroots motorsport is all about!
Headline: MOFF BUYS BROCK COMMODORE. RACES IT IN EUROPE. AND WINS! Gee, I wonder why ruling class global elitists decimated Australia's successful WORLD CLASS EXPORT AUTOMOTIVE INDUSTRY? Embarassment & jealousy had nothing to do with it?
He shouldn’t do the rb25 swap. Honestly as time goes on, I prefer these keeping closer to factory, but with the odd tasteful mod. Engine swap is a no no for me as that takes out the defining feature of the ZR
I've engine-swapped rare cars before and part of me definitely does regret it. It's tricky, but it's 100% up to the owner. RBs are still pretty accessible and affordable here. Should he regret it, there's nothing stopping the owner taking it back to an RB20 down the line if required.
It was a while ago, so unfortunately I can't actually remember! The basic design work (I think) was done in blender, then I searched around for CFD (Computational Fluid Dynamics) programs. From memory, it was a charged CFD program (I wanna say $30 a month or so?) but I haven't done any of that stuff for around 5 years.
Cheers! Currently it’s out of action with rod knock. I’ve got a young family now and fixing it isn’t a huge priority, but we do have some unfinished business with this car!
Beautiful Version R / S Replica, missing the wheels and sideskirts but that'd be a difficult task since this one's a 2+0, this is in such astonishing condition, congratulations to the owner!
100% agree. On this course I believe our chassis would be 2-3 seconds faster with AWD. Being quite heavy and RWD loses us a lot of time both at the start, and leaving the low speed “bus stop” chicane. It’s something we’ve thought about at length, with the easiest solution being the driveline of a late model, 8 speed SRT8 jeep. Just not something we’ve committed to as of yet
@@b3stfilms241 it’s definitely got all the top end that it needs, and runs similar power as the fastest cars at the event. The extra traction would make a huge difference in acceleration and change the car completely. It’s actually 5.7 based, with forged internals, the pro charger, etc, etc.
100% agree! The Ford 6 is just as capable as any other engine for a track car. It’s great to see them starting to show up more at drift comps and track days.
@@ThePitWalk i still drive a au its 2000 futura with xr6 body kit apart from the headlights they still standard lowerd on 17s and sport exhaust my daily
I got these tyres second hand and they were already a bit old, but I found them to be ok. I’ve used Nangkang NS2Rs and the Kendas were similar. Decent, cheap semis but would probably be out performed by a really top quality road tyre.
Probably one of the small crowd who had an 86 previously and now have a Challenger SRT 6 Speed. Car is such a riot and crowd pleaser. Fits in wherever you go, everyone likes it. (except mustang owners... lol)
I hope you keep doing what you are doing with the content you are making. It'll take a bit to get a following but keep going like this soon enough your name will get out more.
Thankyou mate, very much appreciated! We have plans to film a few more over the next couple weeks. Hoping to capture some really unique cars and stories! :)
@@rythascorpadorp2802 it’s a whole lotta fun to film and it’s been great to meet such awesome people in the process. When I started it was just a DSLR & a tripod, and with a half decent mic it’s enough to get the job done. My photographer mate Dylan got involved and things scaled up real quick on the technology front. It makes a huge difference to the polish level and I’m very grateful he’s brought his skills and kick ass equipment on board :)
Being from a car with the same engine, the bell housing bolts straight up. The tail shaft needed to be shortened, the tunnel massaged, the steering column rerouted around the starter motor and the ECU tuned. That’s about it really :)
@@segwaysegway2869 we didn’t have any major issues with the stock ecu, the tuner sorted it all out for us. In the end we moved to a standalone aftermarket ECU (Link G4) when we supercharged it.
Awesome build mate. I’ve also done similar in Australia with being manual originally. Now is lsx turbo , th400 and 4 linked 300c #LLOOSE . Hats off to you mate these cars are hard to build 💪🏽
@@ThePitWalk wow you shaved alot of weight love the build mine weighed in at 4700lbs with me in it and half a tank of gas but it's a full weight street car