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[lozzzzzz]

I spent far too long working on the car last night, My head finally hit the pillow at 2am, and here I am, writing at 7am but its nearly the weekend. 

I got the roll hoop mounts very nearly done.  I want to keep the normal seat belts for driving on the the road, and fit harnesses for the track (I've found harnesses to be a bit of a pain on the road at junctions if they're tightened up correctly.  I want a roll hoop in the car to supplement the original and give it some real strength if the car was to turn over.  So I'm having a proper CDS tubing one made with a couple of bars going diagonally back to rear chassis. 

But I wasn't clever enough to think fully about this when I was doing the chassis repairs, so I've come up with these to give the cage guy a solid base upon which to mount the hoop.  I can't also mount the seatbelts to these and they will provide a much more substantial anchor for the original hoop (and should strap mount). 




Hopefully those are self explanatory, the extra bit bolted on the side in the photos below is for a bar to go inboard towards the main chassis rail and provide a little more support.


That bar will be joined to here:


More to come

[lozzzzzz]

Got some work done today

First off, I got the existing roll bar ends trimmed and painted



The mounts are all painted up now so I fitted them.


Then set about making the cross bars that I feel will creat the strong mounting point for the addition roll hoop that I'll have a specialist make (with a decent pipe bender and CDS). 






You can see these should form a strong base for the extra roll hoop that'll also be braced to just behind where the rear seats used to be. 


I got all the new bulbs in, and tried some "120% brighter" efforts in the front too, they are brighter, thats for sure, but I'm not too sure if they are over twice as bright!!!  I'm still wondering about putting the HID's in I'm not sure I want to attract the kind of "just how modified is this car then" attention from anyone in authority, and the HID's might do that? 

I'll MOT it with these bright H4's in for now I think, 

Here's the front nearly all back together


Got a second fuel pump in the post, and a load of fitting to get them all in again.  The list grows ever shorter.  The next biggest thing on the list is to make the SS radiator cover and inlet pipework, then its just a series of smaller jobs     CAN'T WAIT!!!!

Oh and the propshaft is being made

More to come

[The Red Baron]

all looking good. 

[omega3000]

Aye cant wait to hear the beast start up ... great work 

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks Guys, I can't wait to have it MOT'd

Got a little done this evening, just cutting and shutting the inlet pipes.  This is a pain in the arse, I'll not be gutting if I don't have to do this technique ever again!

Buts the basic shape is there.  I'll weld these up and smooth out the insides, then weld them into the radiator cover and that'll be another big job off the list. 





More to come

[dbug]

Looking good mate - great thread - keep it coming

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks DBug

I started of with the Sheet of stainless and gradually bend it here and there and cut bits off small slices at a time, and evenually it was biggining to look alright.



Then made some end pieces



Then I set the welder up really badly and encouraged it to take a s**t on the work I was doing


And at the other end too



Then seam welded it all up, off the car and polished it quickly with the wire wheel on the grinder. 




Now I've got to cut two large holes in my lovely new Rad cover.

More to come

[omega3000]

Nice work , i prefer doing fabrication work myself rather than the mechanical's ... keep it coming . Soon you can have a long rest 

[lozzzzzz]

Thanks EMD   I quite like welding just not hte grinding that goes with it. 


Got some more done this morning, and I'm quite pleased with how its looking this time. 

Cut some holes in the new cover and oval'd them a bit, then put the two tubes in place (with all the cut and shut curves cut off). 


Got all the angles right and welding the thing up, I've also found that the old scimitar blower ducting is 83mm and I need 76mm so I've ordered some to fill the gap between the TB and the filter tubes. 





I'm on the exhausts this afternoon, I'm thinking of making an ali cover that rivets on to shield the hot pipes from the spray off the road, and help reduce the corrosion.  (before I can afford the ceramic coating)

More to come

[acope]

Hi as a newbie have been trawling thro` various threads and came across this one....what a fantastic job you have done so far, can`t believe some of the things you`ve done and worked out, fantastic read, be really great to see the finished project, well done Sir,
Wish you lived closer to me.....couple of little jobs to do..

[markrnorton]

Looking good, like the stainless, not easy to weld either.
you're getting closer to completing

[Rods2]

It is all looking good, bet you can't wait to have it finished now you are ticking off the final jobs. 

Stainless radiator cover looks really neat. 

[lozzzzzz]

Thank you so much guys, and thanks a lot for your kind words Acope, Its been a hell of a lot of work!!!  I'm getting more and more excited at the prospect of it being on the road, I can kind of feel my efforts on it gathering momentum and the list grows shorter.  There are just a couple of fairly taxing jobs left: 

Fit the new seats (not too bad really)

and finish the other exhaust cover (see below)

Then its just the little things:  fit the last brake hoses, get the camper and tracking sorted, fill some holes, bleed the brakes and clutch etc etc, I'll be buzzing when I get to those little jobs. 





Got some more done this afternoon, I'm really pleased with how it turned out too.  I spent ages shaping, cutting, trying and redoing all of the previous, to make some covers for the exhausts, as they're not the best quality Stainless, and will have dirt thrown at them from the wheels, so now they are covered with an ali extension of the splash plates. 






I'm a little concerned about how hot it'll get in there, the SS chassis leg shouldn't matter too much as its seems to be be a very poor conductor so shouldn't heat up the surounding area, but the firbreglass might get a bit baked, who knows..... I'll put it on the already long list of rather experimental modifications its had. 

More to come

[lozzzzzz]

I've had lots of very brief sessions in the garage recently, so progress has been a bit slow.  I've been bleeding the brakes like a trooper, and I think nearly all the air is out. 

I've nearly finished the second splash guard (but ran out of cutting discs, and money)

So moved on to the fuel pumps, I've got everything needed in the garage to finish these. 

I made some little brackets to rivet to the fibreglass and mount the pumps on, the pumps are wrapped in two strips of sticky foam to reduce the noise.  The alternative is very costly and these might well have better sound deadening.  I also had to make two more 16mm-10mm reducers on the lathe cos the swirl pot and the inlet to the new pump was 16mm

The pictures explain the rest really. 





I'm really pleased with how it looks, it seems far neater than the original attempt with the two facet pumps and hoses at all sorts of angles (not all the hoses were on in this pic). 


I'll hopefully get some more discs soon (got to spend a little on the car right) and finish the second splash cover. 

More to come

[omega3000]

Nice work again lozzzzzz , your getting closer to the finish line now