Chris Allen’s Chevron

Specifications
Engine: Toyota 1.6 ltr…Front mounted
Length: 3100mm
Width: 1700mm
Height: 1000mm
Wheelbase: 2220mm
Track: 1380mm
Brakes: Disc Front/Rear
Seating: 2
Kerb Weight: 650kg

Builder: Chris Allen
Year Started: 1991
Year Finished: 1992
Type: Kit
Profile Date: November ‘07

 

 

Chris works for Transfield Services as a Telecom technician. After flying control line model aircraft for several years he decided it was time to do something that he had in mind to do for several years.

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The first step was to join the Chevron Car Club. The second step was to purchase a Chevron Mk II kit, Viva front and rear suspension, a 4AGE motor with a T50 gearbox. The third step was to get it road registered and to teach the family how to drive it at the Chevron Club Taupo Christmas meeting.

In 1995 the diff. was changed from Viva to Nissan viscous independent which involved fabricating cradle and suspension arms. In 2005 the car was taken off the road and a full roll cage was fitted. Front suspension was changed; MX5 front hubs with RX7 discs and calipers were fitted along with lots of rose joints. Twelve at the front and twenty at the rear. New fabricated front lower arms but he kept the Viva upper. (Well he had to keep something)

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Dash came from a Toyota Corolla mainly because it cost nothing and plugged into the existing loom.

The car is now regularly raced in the Inter-Marque series and will always be a work in progress, which is when it is not being driven hard by each member of the family..