Top fabrication work! (thats about the 10th time ive said that in this thread lol )
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Top fabrication work! (thats about the 10th time ive said that in this thread lol )
James - I love the fact that you're actually thinking about what you want from the car, and not just buying bits off the shelf and bolting bits on (like I did).
Everything you've done so far has been completely custom to sort your needs, and hopefully others have also recognised this, from the cage fitting, to the shell prep in general, the front turrets, rear turrets, rack position, everything has been well thought out.
Well done mate, keep at it - and the quality of photos in this thread has also improved lots since your saloon thread.
Keep it up pal.
Olly
Thanks Olly really appreciate your praise (I have been trying with the photo's lol)
All the alterations i've made have been don for a reason and as you say i have tried to think about them instead of just diving in and funking it up.....
Thanks Phil it was good to meet you too :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by Phil GTE
Evening everyone! Not had the much time on the car since Wednesday night due to many a thing including parts collection, socialising, having more light fitted in the garage and having to complete a load of ****ty MOT related jobs on my daily (which wasn't what i really wanted to do) and work on sat morning :mad:
Anyway i finally got on with the Nova at about 3pm today and started to address the cage fitment inside the cars cabin concentrating on the rear turret mounting points.
Here is the offending daily pi$$ing thing lol
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts001.jpg
And here are the spreader plates for the 4 feet of the cage
There are x2 of these for the front feet
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts008.jpg
And x2 of these for the rears - i started off with some measurements 140mmx120mm that i turned into a cut up piece of metal
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts006.jpg
I then profiled it to the shape of the floor
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts007.jpg
Moving swiftly on i started 'looking' at the cage to rear turret mounting point issue as below
basically the cage meets the turret in a really awkward place with only a few mm of clearance
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts003.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts004.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts002.jpg
In the end i started like this
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts009.jpg
then this
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts010.jpg
that lead to this
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts011.jpg
so it went from this
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts012.jpg
to this
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts014.jpg
Off topic, empty your pm box fella.
And one for the other side of the car - the N/S (so now i have to inners)
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts016.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts017.jpg
I then made up some thing for the out side of the cage mount
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts020.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts024.jpg
And beefed the design it up a little before i welded it in
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts025.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts026.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts028.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts029.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts030.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts031.jpg
http://i248.photobucket.com/albums/g...emounts032.jpg
This is all i had time for unfortunately - the other side is all ready to be welded in. There will be a hole through the mount for a bolt the same as the front turrets.
:thumb:
Have done matey :thumb:Quote:
Originally Posted by John H
Good work as expected from you!
Looks good matey, top way to get around the issue