Looking forward to Updates on this one because i love the colour ;)
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Looking forward to Updates on this one because i love the colour ;)
sorry for the long wait guys, was firstly waiting for payday to come so i could buy my sills and then we were seriously debating the idea of putting a saab turbo in purely because if i have a let, i want it running phase 3 and i know that saab turbo's are good for 400bhp with just a simple remap so buying one of those for £200 would be more favourable then spending silly amounts on getting a let to phase 3!!
very nearly went down that route as Steve was pretty certain that he could of wide arched it and re-done the chassis leg so it would have been strong enough however, i decided yesterday that if the chassis leg was cut and it still couldnt be done then all the work done on the shell already would have been wasted. the option to build the chassis leg back up would be there with steve's fabrication skills but it obviously wouldnt be as strong as before it was messed about with so am sticking to the let idea and the expense of phase 3 lol
anyways, heres the latest pics, we now have 2 new sills on board :) got to have this shell rolling and moveable by 23rd april so next couple of weeks are going to be crazy as got the petrol tank to wash and paint, rear axle to build back up and then get on with seam sealer, stonechip and painting the underneath as well as cutting the spare wheel well out, laying the fuel lines (to save doing it when its on the floor) and welding up any last little bits!
heres my sills that i bought off ebay for £13.95 each
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1392.jpg
and the lovely mess before they went on
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1393.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1394.jpg
and on she goes
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1396.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1395.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1397.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1399.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1401.jpg
some awkward bits that steve did for me
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1406.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1407.jpg
and the other side sill
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1413.jpg
http://i830.photobucket.com/albums/z...s/IMAG1416.jpg
and this is pretty much the underneath finished now, well in terms of the floorplan and sills anyway, its all primered and plan is to have it painted once the stonechip is on :)
cracking on today again hopefully with the petrol tank and rear axle!
Good work Claire.
suprised your going for a LET. the price is stupid compared to a Saab. and a Saab would "turn more heads" i suspect.
keep up the good work :)
no reason the chassis leg couldn't be built stronger than before, just because it's been relocated doesn't make it useless, the opposite in fact. Simps chassis has nothing standard left to it and that's calculated to flex 4mm under a purely theoretical full cornering and braking situation (i.e double the amount of available grip)
Chances are it would end up being the strongest part of the chassis, and with Ste's fab skills there is no such thing as impossible, long as you can weld you can make anything with enough thought and time imo.
The strength thing isnt so much the issue mate the problem is that we want this suttle looking and built on a budgetQuote:
Originally Posted by MK999
so after doing my research and abit of measuring to get the clearance need for the block and the strength back in would mean either i would be seriously restricting the turning circle and wheel shock clearance ect or it would need to be wide arched and wide tracked which we dont want to do
i could go about it in the way in which sloth described in and old thread and cut the leg open down the seem and plate it back up at half its thickness but at the power levels were talking that just isnt going to be enough not to mention what would happen if there was an impact and this car will at some point have our 4 year old son in it and claire driving!
the other way would be to go with a similar front engd design to my 4x4 but were not prepared to do that level of work or modification to this one
another thing to consider aswell is the hight the saab lump depending on the model used can be upto 5 inches taller from sump to rocker than a let and again we want standard looks not standard looks and an almighty bonnet bulge
all this aside it may still hapen though lol
Fair enough, just the way it was put previously obviously those issues are quite easy to overcome, if the aim is to have a saab lump, if that's not the main aim then fair play, but I would say cost wise it would probably work out cheaper to do masses of modification and save over a grand on the engine by the sounds of it!
the other thing to remember aswell is the longer i spend fabing this the longer it will be before i get back on with the 4x4 aswell
Where is the project thread for the daily then Ste and hows it running now:d
nice work there !!!!
Never mind the purple one get the red one flatted and polished lol but tbh they both look good in the flesh