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Originally Posted by thamesvan
hi nick, yeah it’s pretty good, for a few repairs to be done but nothing huge, most of what would be rotten is cut out anyway! Yep! Big project! From an empty shell to a race car that is capable hopefully !
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Originally Posted by thamesvan
hi nick, yeah it’s pretty good, for a few repairs to be done but nothing huge, most of what would be rotten is cut out anyway! Yep! Big project! From an empty shell to a race car that is capable hopefully !
Continuing with some front end action I needed to make a bracket to hold the panard rod at the chassis end.
Cardboard to start and transferred to steel. Just waiting on some spacers to arrive and I’ll check the width before fully welding but here’s the progress.
She's coming on Tom. [emoji106]
Cheers Tim W
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Nice work Tom.
A good day at the workshop today.
Spacers arrived in the week so that ment i could check the bracket width, weld it up and add some go faster holes.
I got this tacked on to the chassis and unbolted the axle from the clamps! Checked it’s motion and it all seems good. Bar is nice and level.
Next on to supporting the body / chassis, some quick box cut ans tacked to hole the chassis again and the body propped up on the chassis. I then cut the middle original mount out ans bent up some 1 5/8 cds for a lower sill bar / outrigger.
Good progress, came away happy again so that can’t be bad!
Nice one Tom.
Cheers Tim W
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This week I planned on 2 solid evenings on the car! That came to a vault very quickly as I pulled something in my back on Wednesday night! It didn’t feel great but I’ve had it before and knew to stop.
here’s how far I got! I’ll be back asap!
Nightmare Tom, look after it mate. There's lot's of bad backs on here already we don't need another. [emoji106]
Cheers Tim W
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Ouch, but hardly surprising given some of the contortions shown earlier in this thread! I wish I could do that!
Help wanted. Preferably double jointed midget. Ace welding skills essential. Understanding of under dash wiring, soldering etc a bonus.
Chris
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Haha! Them positions are all good if I do what I’m ment to to do to keep it good but I got lazy and thought I would get away with it, all will be good! More progress soon!
Nursing the bad back today as I had already planned not to go to the swap meet and get a day on the car I thought rather than standing in the cold I would try and keep moving as much as possible and get a bit of time in at the workshop.
I’ve managed to get both sill bars out in to place and also a link from the ladder bar cross member to the sill bar too.
Now time for stretching and and ice blast!
Nothing worse than a bad back, get one of them ten machines it's well worth it, all the same , nice progress :thumbs_up_smiley:
other than the weight, you can never have too much bracing. especially for suspension mounts. nice one :thumbs_up_smiley:
neil.
Nice going Tom, but don't rush that back mate. [emoji106]
Cheers Tim W
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Thanks for the well wishes!
Still making progress here, John also picked up this cool scoop for the bonnet. Funny thing is I was looking at glass scoops previously and this is near on identical but ally!
Some sheet steel is here so soon I can start some repairs to get the body secured along the sills
First is to tackle the steering box as the pitman arm also arrived.
Steering was always going to be the tricky item on this car, with having to run a box to conform to the rules, being cross steer, nose down stance with a race sump It all gets a bit busy. Anyway, a small recess will sort that out, then I can sort the lock stops out if any unwanted contact looks asif it could occur.
I will be doing some quality control tomorrow.
There'll be no issues there John [emoji6]
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Originally Posted by crumble
The next task on the Austin was getting the steering box in.
This was in my opinion going to be the bit of the car that was a little tricky due to the space constraints with a lower front stance.
Many sessions of looking at the steering box position and how it was best suited to get the pitman arm in a good position, I had already worked out that a 2 inch drop would be suitable compared to the arm that came with the vega box.
In the end there was only one way to get a truly accurate position and that was to drop the actual engine in with the winged sump.
Sure enough this showed that the sump was in the way a bit, and some slight alterations to the plans were going to be needed, a few ideas had been thought of including recessing the bracket in to the chassis.
Comparing to other cars, and mainly the old car we used to run for some ideas it appears the pop engine was further past the axle, more set back, meaning the box was way clear of the sump, let alone being a high rise front and no clearance issues.
I had a call from John on Sunday afternoon offering an idea he had thought of. That was to run a new position for the tie rod and run the drag link in to the original tie rod hole. This moving the steering box forward, giving the clearance that was needed and improving the steering ratio.
It was bugging me after we spoke that I grabbed the dog and said to Amy we’re all going out for a drive �� to the workshop we went and I held the box in the position John was mentioning and man oh man it looked like it was going to work.
Long story even longer I got over the workshop on Monday evening mocked it up in place clamped it in, made a dummy drag link to check its height, all good, tacked it in and it seems to be ok!!
Having not really got a lot of experience with steering boxes I didn’t even think of a shorter steering arm.
I’m taking that as a positive that if we had shorter arms to start with it would have plonked in the hole with no lessons learnt.
Every days a school day!
Glad you got it worked out Tom, look forward to seeing it all finished mate.[emoji106]
Cheers Tim W
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A good day working on the Austin, steering rods linked up side to side with the newly drilled steering arms, this should be good now with no obvious concerns!
Next on to a gear box mount.
I haven’t yet properly mounted the engine as I want the front cage work to be holding the motor, so the gear box mount will work as a locator for now aswell.
I wanted to keep it fairly simple, this is what I came up with.