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(30/07/19)
Got some garage time this afternoon.
Got some primer on the front cowl ready for top coat. There was a load of screw holes and chips in the area from the fitting of the LPG kit that I removed.
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Was thinking about spraying some gloss then realised the compressor is in the garage under the bench. Don't want the overspray re-circulating to the air fed mask! Payed a visit to the local aquarium suppliers for some 35mm hose and re-located the inlet filter to the outside of the garage back wall...ahhh fresh air http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/tup.gif
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(03/08/19)
After a little 'Breaking Bad' moment.
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We ended up with some shiny black stuff on the cowl.
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All masking and protective film removed, just a little feathering in required when the paint is hard.
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Will run a bead of black silicone round the edge of the ally sheet to finish off the edge.
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(10/08/19)
All stuff bolted back onto the firewall.
Question 1..do I leave the ally sheet as it is or put all my performance stickers I've accumulated all over it?
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Question 2... the brake peddle is to high and to far away from the gas peddle. This at the moment means I have to left foot brake as the right foot hits the steering column when moved to apply the brakes. Any thoughts on how to solve? I'm looking at trying to make a proper 32 Ford style assembly that pushes down through the kick panel under the steering column. This will depend on the cross members under the floor.
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(18/08/19)
Made a cardboard template for the new brake pedal
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After a few measurements got it cut down to the correct size.
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This is the original pedal with the offset to the left.
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Once I had the template cut I found out the angled crossmember was in the way http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...icon_angry.gif
This caused a total re-think.
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Plan B will be to use the original pivot, remove the existing pedal and fabricate a new pedal offset to the right to get it on the right hand side of the column.
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(23/08/19)
Day off today. In the garage at 9.00am http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...es/mrgreen.gif
Welded up some old fixing holes on the inside of the chassis. Ground flat and sprayed primer then gloss black.
Then... cleaned up a bit and pushed the car out so I had some room to manoeuvre.
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Engine hoist out and away we go.
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The engine went in easily (new it was going to well). Then stopped solid with the last half inch to go to get the engine mount holes lined up.
The old C6 mounts were in the way. Had to go and get one of these....my new favourite toy.
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Two minutes later these were on the floor
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Still solid???
The transmission scatter shield was hitting the chassis. Had to cut a small chunk out of the shield. Looks like its lost its SFI rating, oops.
New motor in and bolted up. Just got to make a transmission mount now as its held in with a ratchet strap.
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Ground clearance is 3 3/8" on the engine and transmission.
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(27/08/19)
Dug out the new starter motor, went to bolt in and true to form the JW bellhousing requires the starter to be bolted from the starter side. The MSD starter wants one bolt from the front and one from the back. Had to drill the thread out of the top started mount hole. Mounted up again and due to chassis design (read, chassis rails getting in the way) had to find a short 9/16" spanner as a socket wont fit in there or a normal length spanner.
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The alternator bracket also doesn't fit now I've swapped over to an electric water pump. All the mounts for use with an electric pump place the alternator low on the engine right where the chassis rail and steering rack happen to be. So I'm now playing around with the old mount and some studding to see if I can get a high mounting point.
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Spent Monday getting the car back up in the air so I can sort out the trans mount. The jack ramps came in invaluable again.
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After some alignment issues caused by the valley wall gasket/spacers I finally got the base of the tunnel ram back on.
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While I had free access took the opportunity to fit the plug for the nitrous solenoids.
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Induction back onhttp://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif Starting to look like a car again! Still loads to do though.
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The GM T400 trans is a foot shorter than the Ford C6 that came out so will need to sort a new prop shaft at some point. I have a box of bits just need some one to weld them up and balance them.
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(23/09/19)
Only a little done over the last few weeks. Have got the engine wiring finished, all sensors, switches etc connected.
Just need to get a new alternator mount sorted. All the e-bay kits for a 460 Ford with electric water pump are low mount on the RHS.
Typically this is right where the chassis rail is so I need to have a high mount. The bracket I've already got is no good as the holes needed to mount in front of the electric pump don't line up with any existing and there's not enough material to drill any more. Looks like I need to get one laser cut to fit from 10mm ally.
The distributor is finally in. The Ford has a hex drive shaft from the dissy to the oil pump. This was dropped into place but because of the angle falls to the left.
The dissy wont fit over the shaft unless its almost vertical so had to place a large blob of moly grease to the LHS of the shaft to hold it in the middle then drop the dissy on. Result! Just don't want to have to remove it again. Went in with 14 degrees BTC.
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Spent a little time on the new seats as well. I've take off the corner at the top and bottom of the side panel. The shape was originally cut for ease of finding a U section edge to give me a friendly radius, but when you sat in it there was two very sharp corners just where you didn't want them. I'm now looking to split some 8/10mm copper heating pipe and fix that to follow the curves.
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(10/10/19)
Manage to split the 8mm pipe OK to fit over the sharp edge on the sides of the seat but now the pipe is split it buckled on the bends and twisted and the split kept closing up. I'm normally a patient fella but the seat almost got thrown across the garage a couple of times! Then I cut one part to short! Gave up, I don't have the metalwork skills to sort the bends out, I tried but started to damage the ally panels.
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Went and found the rubber edging strip and used that instead!
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Although not what I has first thought I'm happy with the finished article. Now for the other one!
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(27/10/19)
Grabbed an hour in the garage on Saturday and ended up with this. It's a Competition Engineering kit.
Had to find a smaller diameter main tube that fitted in the existing hole in the back of the car.
Just got to paint it up and find some 1/2" pins to secure it to the chassis.
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(25/11/19)
Ended up modifying the parachute mount as it stuck out to far. It now sits much closer to the body
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2 x 5/8" bolts to hold in in place. Its mounted firmly to the chassis so shouldn't just pull off when used.
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Then turned to the headers. Had sudden inspiration and remembered a pair I'd purchased years ago from E-bay.
Ended up not being able to use them. Although right for the engine they were for a 5 window which has shorter doors than the 3 window.
Thought I could cut of the flange and first couple of inches of pipe and weld on my headers.
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Compared flanges and the new headers are far bigger so that plan went out the window. Any one want to buy a pair of lake style headers for a big block Ford? http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif
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Had a look at the construction of the new headers and had a thought. I cut the locating weld on the pipe side and chopped the tubes clean off the flange.
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Now all I have to do is grind out the 8 holes and re fit the tubes at the correct angle!
If I bolt up the flange to the head to keep it flat I can then mock up the header position with the side pipe fitted and get all the angles right.
Do a locating weld on the outside of the tubes then rempove them do a continuous weld round the inside surface and grind all flat.
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Onward and upwards!
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(27/11/19)
Carbide burrs arrived today. Hope to be grinding at the weekend. Just got to get back to the flange (love that word http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif)
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(12/12/19)
Many thanks to my American friend for sorting out a small but vital part I didn't realise I needed.
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Installed.
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Now I can fit the 90 degree oil filter adaptor.
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This allows me to fit a full size oil filter pointing forward rather than the short one used before as the distance between the block and chassis rail is very tight. Another box off the shelf http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/tup.gif
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(16/12/19)
Got the side pipes and headers mocked up for placement Saturday, looks just how I wanted. One step forward http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif
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Then two steps back http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...icon_angry.gif Spot the problem!
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Looks like I'm going to have to cut out the front pipe, mount up the rest then manufacture a new pipe with some extra bends.
Thought I'd get away without any extra work....shoulda known!
Due to the curved nature of the chassis rails and door bottom the door scrapes on top of the side pipe so all will have to mount lower.
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Gave up at that point and went and had a cuppa tea http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif
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(31/12/19)
Got some half days in the garage over the hols. Log burner fired up favourite film on the TV, whats not to love http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif
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Fabricated new transmission mount (on bench).
Painted up and fitted. Trans is now self supporting all ratchet straps removed.
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Checked angles at trans. 3.1 degrees, almost perfect.
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Angle at pinion is 1.5 degrees down. Looks like I need to lengthen the lower bars on the 4 link to increase the angle to 3 degrees. Then in theory as power is applied the trans rotates up and the angle moves towards 0 degrees.
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Its great how a company sells you all the stuff needed for the job. Then when you try and fit it, it doesn't fit!
The screw thread fouls the trans scatter shield strap. Fitted ball and socket to outside and cut of thread shorter now have 2mm clearance.
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The cable holder bracket also wont fit as the other strap is in the way.
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Looks like I can use part of the cable clamp and fit to the outside of the shield strap using some 20mm spacers.
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(13/01/20)
I have been having a real issue trying to get the header/ exhaust angles and alignment right.
Not done much for the last two weekends.
The side pipe needs to follow the chassis rail so is to close at the header end. This means loads more work than I ever thought playing around with the header pipes.To move things on I'm going to re-fit the old headers and exhaust even though this will not be great for performance.
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(22/01/20)
Just dropped off the U/J's, end plates and sliding yoke at Bailey Morris for them to turn into a prop shaft.
Should be ready next week, welded up, balanced and painted.
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(07/02/20)
Well after a bit to to and fro with the prop shaft here it is
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Just got to see if it fits now!
I'd ordered up a black silicon bottom rad hose and look what arrived, right shape wrong colour.
Looks a bit out of place.
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Have to return for a refund and order another. Another week gone! The correct colour arrived this time. Looks better.
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While I was waiting I had a look at the bear claw latches. These have been on the list of todos for a while.
The original builder or some other owner had fitted them in upside down so you have to lift the door handle to get in.
Everyone naturally pushes down on the lever so its got a bit sloppy over the years.
The catches have had mis matching panels, one ally, one stainless riveted over them.
I drilled these off and look what I found...
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They have been well butchered the welding also leaves a lot to be desired looks like a seagull had a dump!
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I've got a piece of 2mm steel plate to make new panels for ether side. These hopefully will be welded in properly and smoothed into the door, not just covered over.
On to the alternator bracket.
I decided that I could use the existing bracket as a template for the new one.
Spoke to Paul at Wheng parts who was really helpful, but unfortunately as is the way these days to have something custom made in the UK just works out expensive. Taking into account time on CAD, the alloy needed, machining, postage and VAT it would have come out at £130.00!!!
The original cost £45 shipped from Australia. Again the Chinese have a lot to answer for...
Found the ally plate I need at the Aluminium Warehouse which just happens to be 10 minutes down the road.
£18.00 for the plate, just got to get it to the right shape now http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/ima...n_bigsmile.gif
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(07/02/20)
The rear of the chassis was built by Hausers back in the late 90's if my paper work is to be believed. They seem to have done a good job.
There is a safety loop just back from the trans end and the shaft goes through a protection built into the chassis.
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New prop in place.
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I did have some Moroso ally caps for the rear U/J but they turned out to be too small so using U bolts for the moment.
Working out the pinion angle, looks like I have 0.8 degrees between the shaft and the pinion at present.
My book says can be up to 7 degrees for 800 - 1000hp.
Now I can move the lower 4 bar links down and the axle will rotate to the correct position.
The mounting pads for the wheelie bars will then be in the correct place! Almost like I planned it http://www.torquedup.co.uk/forum/images/smilies/tup.gif
