Looking great bud! Biggest regret for me was not framing the front!
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Looking great bud! Biggest regret for me was not framing the front!
love the space frame, was good meeting up with you yesterday and having a look at it, Cheers for that rear axle :thumb:
No worrys pal nice to meet ya's
Love that front end
Ha'way the north east lads! :cool:
You've been busy since I called this morning, keep up the good work;)
Funk me that looks amazing. Love the frame. Bay looks great like that in bare metal with nice tidy welding.
Shame. Looks amazing.
Been busy on the car again last week and this .
Most of the fabrication is about done . Time to mock the engine and pipe work up.
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Hope these will act as bumper support and intercooler mounts
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Battery box
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Big grin when i tryed the front on . Looks mad
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Looks epic, only one question how will the engine be mounted as it looks like there no metal where the standard mounts go.
Nick
Need to mock the motor up or the old xe in place to know were they go pal . Tommorows job
the spaceframe looks nice!
Looks great with the front end fitted.
You need to buy yourself a load of fibreglass and skin that whole front end[emoji6]
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Kicking my self about all the front ends i could of had in the past and let them slip lol would kill for one now .
Shows how hot them manifolds get when its melting the grill hahaha
Ps think nud has spoke to you about the injectors .
Il be after a set once i get my head around the motor / setup .
Price sounds great:thumb:
Front end looks great
Got the xe engine in that im using for mockup but ran out of mig wire gutted . Also had to order some gearbox mount spacers as i never used them last time but motor needs to go across about 15 mm to passangers side.
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Tip it forwards to get extra lowness!
It also levels out your driveshafts
I've added a fair bit of lean to my engine, just lowered the front mounts by 35mm
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That's not the final mounting method btw
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Nono what I mean is raise the engine up & tip it forwards so you can get the body lower!
Heard alot about leaning motors forward when i was working for a rally shop years ago . What are the gains just been to get the bits today to build my mounts in the morning . Im using the aftermarket bushed mounts but in a diffrent way to how they are ment to be used . Pics to follow
No gain on a drag car with sensible ride height. Tipping it forward lifts the diff up so straightens the shaft angle. That's the only advantage i can think of on a racer but far from ideal without modifying other parts.
Yes a relatively large amount of work with mounts & exhaust, but it means the biggest limiting factor of ride height: driveshafts, is overcome.
Whats an exhaust ? Lol
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All works spot on . Ignore long bolts and stuff they are just for mocking up . Got all new cap head bolts for every thing so will all loog same.
Also just to help anyone else out in the future the drivers side engine mount bush normaly uses an m10 bolt throught it which is renound for the bolt head touching the chassis leg and vibtrating through the whole car . People usualy drill a hole in the leg or dent it to solve the problem . However if you use an m12 tap you can thread it all the way through and just use an m12 bolt (much more heavy duty) from the out side no need for the nut easyer to remove and no longer touches the leg . :thumb: as you can see mine has a piece off 12mm thread bar all the way through at the min
That front end is so much better. Got a clever way to mount the wings also?
Thats the job for in the morning pal . Those hex female thread things on the sides are m10 so idea is to use some sort of 10-12mm stainless bar threaded at one end with locnut for adjustment then . Other end drill 2 holes for R clips one inside the wing and the other outside . Bar will pass through the wing and bumper . In theory
Should work nicely my bumpers are on m10 rod with R clips and don't go anywhere
Stainless rod threaded wrapped in cable heat shrink
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R clips are to big but you get the idea im going to use small ones from an rc car or somthing.
Nice way to have done it. Love the engine mounts too.
Looking good mate
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Finaly its in paint
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Getting close to having the motor built now .
Whats known about the motor :
Done 0 miles since it was built 5 years ago.
Wossner pistons
Wossner rods
All arp bottom end bolts
Solid lifters
Xe cam
1mm oversize valves
Double valve springs
Cometic multi layer gasket
Arp head stud conversion
Eco tech rubber sump gasket with baffle tray thing in.
Tubular stainless exhaust manifold
T3/t4 ar60 turbo
.this is what i have upto now the motor is going for a fresh build gaskets and seals ect and a check over basicaly just with it been stood .
Im going to be looking for around 550hp using omex 600 for managment .
And 875cc injectors
Any help on anything else i will need to acheive this figure would be great .