
Ex-Rally Car
#361
Posted 17 March 2011 - 10:37 PM
#362
Posted 17 March 2011 - 10:42 PM
And yeah, i know he had trouble, but im not convinced, there would be plenty of places who would still pass it im sure.
will be fibreglass in mine, not loads of rivets either, too heavy otherwise

#363
Posted 17 March 2011 - 11:02 PM
#364
Posted 17 March 2011 - 11:07 PM
Anyway, i need to MOT it soon anyway, ill probably MOT it before i start all the work on the shell in earenest so i dont have to worry if times running out towards the deadline i decide.
just need to decide the deadline and order in which to do stuff

#365
Posted 20 March 2011 - 06:20 PM
nows the race to get it ready for riv run
just a few "before" pictures now



as you can see...up in the air at the moment, seems very narrow aswell...so lets see how it pans out

and heres the resting place, being central theres not a whole heap of space all round the car tho. Should be able to work in there tho.
back end will be getting Mk2 lights too.
already started though! the exhaust is off...ohh progress is fast!
tomorrow, pending what time i get back from work i want the subframe off, tank out and start prepping for tubbing and boot floor removal
#366
Posted 21 March 2011 - 08:03 PM
yeah, decided to do a re-think...wont be on the road till at least the end of may now

Not a huge change in the plans, just going to get on and make the arms right away. its not going to be a quick process because its gona take alot of measuring. If i can pinch a friends copy of CATIA ill cad up the arms, will be easier to make up if i can be exact.
but for tonight! i got the subframe out, fuel tank out, tail lights out, boot off, bumper off then got distracted talking to some guys from the mini club, simply wanted to pull the arches off and mark up for the tubbage!

#367
Posted 21 March 2011 - 11:38 PM

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#368
Posted 22 March 2011 - 10:53 PM
Not had anything done today, and doubt anything will happen till at least friday as works manic, off to wales with the newly built rally car for testing tomorrow.
pretty much agreed to buy a 2nd hand fg boot floor...even if i dont buy it he said i can use it to mark out the floor for chopping...need some slitting disks!
#369
Posted 26 March 2011 - 07:19 PM
Simply removed the rear windows and arches for todays work.
This morning I marked on the rear 1/4s where to cut for the tubbing. Turned out like this...

if you havent already noticed the previous owner has a huge fettish for filler and absolutly pasted it on...

think i might have to replace at least this side! theres slight distortion on the panel but not so much to warrent that much filler.
lucky the O/s isnt as bad but ill take more of it off to check if the pannels wavy or not...i hope not though

got a bit happy with the nice pack of cutting disks i got, 10 pack of 1mm disks sub £3...so i did this


and got a 2nd hand boot floor...

needs painting

tomorrow ill tidy up the edges of the boot floor and tidy to rest of the boot...decide what else ill be doing in there
#370
Posted 26 March 2011 - 07:24 PM
I bet you'll end up replacing both rear 1/4s, better leave some metal there or you could end up with alignment problems!!
#371
Posted 26 March 2011 - 07:30 PM
Not overly fussed about having to replace the N/s there is a few ripples in it to be fair which is a bit nasty. and under the side window was a blob of rust which, grinded back still didnt look very clean so if that pannels replaced i wont have to worry about making that look neat... would be nice to avoid replacing the o/s though
#372
Posted 27 March 2011 - 12:00 AM
as id love to have a little look at this car
#373
Posted 27 March 2011 - 01:59 AM
going to throw a few more fibreglass bits at it aswell i think...depends, next deadline im thinking will be avon park in july...but as always be nice to have ot on the road before that!
#374
Posted 09 April 2011 - 08:23 PM

so when i got home i chatted with some of the guys from the club again...meaning i just end up with more ideas...but more about that later haha
today, didnt get alot done, just tidying up the boot floor for now.
Iv also chopped off the rear valance...if it goes back on, it will be fibreglass now anyway
when it goes back together im going to be welding another bar to thecage to use as a harness bar,
Im also considering cutting out the rear firewall and remaking it from allooominininininum.... its a bit of a step of decision to make tho, cant as easy weld it back than i could to remove it.
so, considering an ally bulkhead, ally fuel tank, ally boot floor, ally diffuser

and after that, i sat down for over an hour taking lots n lots of measurments, sketched out the rear end and now have hopefully enough to start CADing the tubular rear arms.
Just gotta tidy up my sketch sheet and transfer that into preliminary sketches before transfering it to the computer... then its a case of paying up and having the stub pins/shock mounts made up... eeps
#375
Posted 18 April 2011 - 04:53 PM

but was realllly daunting doing the 1st cut... but then i realised i couldnt possibly make it worse than it was


drilled out the spot welds on the top edge only punching through in 1 spot
just need to find the rest of the spot welds, alot of them are covered by sh*t and filler/paint.

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