Can he not send it to premier for an inspection and certificate?
Im looking forward to be able to make some proper updates!
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Can he not send it to premier for an inspection and certificate?
Im looking forward to be able to make some proper updates!
Think you can only extend them for 2 years - When does yours expire ?
It expired in 2008 but has never had fuel it it, doesnt bother me as the car will never be used for competition.
I'm in the same position - my premier bag tank expired years ago - my only problem is rigging up a fuel level sensor ££££
Dave
Tony managed to get some time on the nova
heres a bit of a taster..................... Its only roughly pieced together to show what its going tyo look like, more will become clear soon....
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...d/Image002.jpg
Come on FFS i was like woop woop oh.....looking good from what i can see though but we need more pics please!
Sorry.......
Promise more photo's tomorrow. Off to work in a min : (
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Originally Posted by t45_ste
Dude don't take that the wrong way i meant pics not work (edited to suit)....i am fully aware how long fab work like that takes.
lol I thought you were being a bit cheeky
wow :eek:
you're such a tease!
i was thinking that.Quote:
Originally Posted by The Simps
Although the one picture does look like some nice decent labour is going on.
WTF!? lol
There would be a few more pics but photobucket is ****e!
Sort it out ste!
Looking good, interesting project you have on the go here.
Subscribed :)
I will try again!
As promised i said i would try and post a few more pics of what we have been upto with the car.
Firstly we had to get all the hub carriers mounted on the jig in the correct place, these allow us to build the car up with out the wheels on and hold everything square and solid. These are 6mm lazer cut with a 90deg support bracket. The pcd is 4 x 100 (obviously) these are cut to suit a 17" wheel with a 50 profile tyre.
We had to find all the centrelines of the hubs by building the car up then taking all the measurment from a datum point (a piece of box across the front tie bar mounts).
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d.../rearplate.jpg
You can see in this pic where the centre of the wheels sit in relation to the shell :)
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...heelheight.jpg
And the rear
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...heelheight.jpg
Now everythig is sitting how it should we could make a start on the hub carriers and wishbone's.
Firstly we needed to make the hub carriers. Wev decided to use the standard stub axle to make sourchig bearings and spares easier.
We originally had the bent up from a flat piece of 6mm lazer cut plate, but the press break wasnt doing its job properly and not leaving them square :mad: My mate has ended up tigging them together. Afraid i dont have any progress pics. They arnt quite finished yet. Heres what we have for now:
Side view:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...ieronplate.jpg
Top view, theres still a plate to be welded on the top:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...d/stuaxle2.jpg
The tubes than run acros the top and bottom of the stub axle carrier are CDS, they still have to be welded on the inside of the carriers.
These then have steel slugs with an M12 thread pressed ino each side and pudle welded into the tube, these welds have been polished out cos im a poof.
The slugs were knocked up on this baby:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...e_ed/lathe.jpg
Voila, 8 off m12 slugs, these all had o be an interfearance fit in the tube with a 45 chamfer to get a decent penetration with the weld.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...12mminsert.jpg
Whilst on the lathe i had to make 8 nylon bush's and 16 nylon washers :cry: very time consuming as i aint no machinist im a leccy lol
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d.../nylonbush.jpg
Washers:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d.../16xwasher.jpg
Good work going into this - It'll be very very low...? :)
Christ that will be low!
the rear frame looks trick as funk.
It was then time to make a start on the wishbones.
Started off by cutting 8 lenghts of the same CDS tube that we used on the stub axle carriers. We then profiled one end of each tube. I also parted off 8 32mm pieces of CDS to used for the bush housing.
I then welded the 32mm pieces to the profiled end of the tube:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...ndweldedon.jpg
No bush:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d..._ed/endon2.jpg
Once all 8 were welded up i could press the nylon bushs in using the enerpac. These have to be aight fit as i donnt want the spinning in the housing.
Going in:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...hingbushin.jpg
Finished item:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d..._ed/bushin.jpg
Now i have 8 complete bush housings and all the washers i could start making the bolts that hold the wishbones to the carriers. These all had to be made as sets so once the washers were matched up to the housing they had to stay with bolts. So i marked the washers and bushes to keep them in these sets.
I started off with 32mm high tensile bolts i then turned them down to match the inside dia of the bush and washer. The length of the turned down part is determined by the width of the washer and bush housing. The rest of the bolt was then turned down to acept an m12 thread. I dont have any pics at the min of the bolt un assembled, will get some later. Heres the bolt loosley assembled with the washer and housing into the carrier.
Once tightned up these are the pivot points for the wishbones/carriers:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...d/32mmbolt.jpg
Sexy As Hell!!!
The next part was to weld the x braces into the centre of the wishbones. Im afraid i have no delailed pics of these.
On the opposite side of the wishbone's there will be 4 M12 fine rose joints. In order to mount these rose joints i had to make 8 slugs with an M12 fine thread down the centre.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...fineinsert.jpg
These will be pushed down the CDS tube and puddle welded:
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...sertpartin.jpg
All the rose joints are going to be mounted on on 2 hoops that run in the centre of the car. Wev had 16 tabs cut that we will weld onto the hoops, these will hold the rose joints. More to come wth the hoop's hopefully will get them bent up this weekend.
My mates bent the hoop that runs the length of the car, these pick up at the front on the front wishbone mounts. The hoop is where the tank will sit. Very low and central.
http://i227.photobucket.com/albums/d...te_ed/hoop.jpg
Thats it for now, hopefully will have some updates after the weekend but im off to see oasis so may not get much done :D
Thanks for looking
This car is going to be EPIC!! Can't believe I missed all the updates, superb :)
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Some cracking work and ideas Ste. Awesome :) I'd love to see this in person.
Cheers all for the positive comments :)
alot of good hard work going into this one matey.
Sure to be one to look out for on the track :thumb:
Thanks :thumb:
When you expect this to be on the road then?
God knows.
Theres still quite alot i need to buy, need to raise some extra £.
WoW, top qualty car mate, cant belive i didnt see it sooner..
Ste can we be lovers please - awesome work lol
Excellent updates!
Just a simple question...
Where did the idea come from for the car? Seems to be very well planned out like you have something else you are building it against?
Just kit cars in general. My mate has a bodyshop and has always built custom cars. He's into rods etc.
The wishbones will probably need some fine tuning maybe even re-designing will have to see how they perform. In THEORY they will work...........
You need to meet Tony.Quote:
Originally Posted by Count Vaux Alot
:cool:
Top work on the updates! shows the skills you have what kind of car your going to build! looking forward to the next lot of updates :D
Cant believe ive never seen this before, some truly amazing work there bud, i can barely get my head around it all, makes me feel like im building toys out of lego compared to yours lol. Hats off to you, any updates?
mind blowing..
love this build fellla!
keep up the good work mate