BigT105e

Discuss away if you feel like it.

This bad boy was offered up to me during a conversation about a month ago. I decided to go and have a squiz, thinking it will be a basket case but that I might be able to salvage a few bits off it for my other project. It turned out to be nearly rust free, missing engine and box and only needing rear doors and a bonnet. Everything else was there and boxed up. Apparently she has escort front struts, and was set up for a rotary in the engine bay, trans tunnel hadn't been done tho. She got loaded onto my dolly for its maiden voyage home. 

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Shit pic, but proves it works...

As you can see in the pic I couldn't quite figure out how I was going to tie down the vehicles. To get the van home I just let the tyres down some and put the tiedown under the frame and over the tyre and cranked it down. Since that trip I garnered some useful insight on how to possibly tie vehicles down.  I welded angle front and rear and proceeded to drill 40 14mm holes, 10 aside front and rear. These were to accommodate eye bolts that the tiedown can hook up to. To hold the tyre in place I made a chain tyre bucket to sit on top of the tyre.....i will post a pic to explain. I also had made some rails that sat in the holes and ran beside the wheels to help to stop the vehicle sliding sideways on trailer...I fucked it up and they didn't work, but just pulling wheels down with chain buckets means vehicle can't really move anyway. The weekend just been I took my van to work to do work on it and it worked well, bloody handy so don't want to sell now but probably will coz need cash for van.

Sheet of perspecs, put against block, mark hole locations with red sharpie, put opposing face against box and mark in blue/black sharpie-job done.

No pics(coz cabbage), but got rear subframe under the car on the weekend, looks like I will fab up some trailing arms in tube which will angle ever so slightly further inwards and pick up on the standard Anglia rear spring forward anchor points, which is nice, it's all not that much wider either which is surprising, I'm thinking I might just split car down the middle and put a 4 inch strip all the way thru, which will allow me to fit betterer and means I don't have to box out all the guards, which I don't mind the look of, but would prefer not to.  Have a nice day, Chur

Got motivated tonight and went out to garage, Sat engine and trans in rough position and placed guard back on to see where shit will end up and if it is a feasable(spelling?)concept. My biggest worry was where the axles would be in relation to the centre of the wheel arch, as you can see it's only slightly offset from the centre line. I also wanted to see how long the trans was going to stick out the back, which it doesn't, will be well forward of the rear panel. Next will be to bring the rear subframe and suspension in and sit in the engine/boxes place and work out how far the hubs will hang out, and this will allow me to work out how far to box/flare guard. *** insert cheesy grin here ***

There's one of these gyro whatchamacallits at in the driveway at Nicks Scrap Metal yard in masterton here, seen when driving past yesterday, looks pretty complete, Google the number and someone grab it, there's also some random old-school cars out the back, Citroen, victors, various bits and Bob's, was an auto AW11 too.....

Bro re the bellhousing adapter, get yourself a bit of perspecs and a red and blue or black sharpie, put perspecs against back of block, draw an outline in one colour, marking all holes etc, then put the opposite side against the bellhousing you want to use and do the same in the other colour, transfer to ally/steel and cut out desired shape and thickness, bolt up and work out shaft lengths etc, theres various ways to do plate, milled from thick ally is best, other ways incl cutting 2 plates out of steel and gusset together, I'm a tard at explaining shit,  its clear in my noggin lolz

2 minutes ago, Dolan said:

This looks amazing!

Cheers bro, last day at work tomorrow, have the old disco at work ready to tow the dolly home, will have to take a pic of it on there, will look the ducks nuts behind that. Looking forward to dailying the 8 again, won't look forward to the gas bill tho, but fuckit, the noise is WORTH IT

1 hour ago, jakesae101 said:

how much are you looking for?

Will keep you posted, I will get Wof'd and Rego'd first, maybe put some chequer plate on open section's of deck, and then will list on here first. I did some research when I started the build, and there was a few on the tard for sale, they all looked fugly as shite, even the one that had no Wof or Reg and rusted to buggery went for $2k, the other two went for $4 k and $4.5k, the latter had the pivoting deck on it, would be looking somewhere in that $2-4K bracket once done. Hopefully list in the next couple of weeks.

24 minutes ago, Bling said:

What is the load rating on the jetski rims / tyres? 

450kg each, plenty for just the front of a small-average car, was built for a small Stripped out Lazer

17 hours ago, nickrock said:

I also have one that has no real reason for me having it 

Its got 16 inch wheels  I towed a 3t ford truck with it no probe once I figured that I only tie down around the wheels so it wouldn't push my truck through the corners 

Thinking of hacking off the hub and stubs and using the floating hubs of the light trucks with the small dual wheels ( heavier load capacity with more stability and flats tire don't put you instantly on the side of the road

Yep had thought about duals too, but was gonna leave me with too little room between the guards, might chuck them on the old garden trailer tho, make the most of those tip trips...... rip off bastards, that's another yarn for another day tho, smokos over lol

13 hours ago, 8ball said:

We've stopped using the dollys over here.

The cops have declared that the vehicle being towed (on the dolly) is still technically on the road as 2 wheels are on it.

Therefore the towed vehicle must be registered and road legal.

So if you use it for a race car etc they pull you over and defect the race car and fine you for unregistered vehicle.

Bastards.

They were  very handy trailer for people with no room etc.

Thats when i bought my banana back.

Bastards....that'll probably happen here soon

4 hours ago, ajg193 said:

Really stupid question, but how does one go around a corner when a car is on one of these if there is no pivoting on the dolly?

 

Does it just rely on you having the steering on the car unlocked, and having the front wheels not clamped rigidly to the dolly?

Tows like a .... dolly trailer, funnily enuf, you keep cars steering unlocked and clamp front wheels down tight to trailer, pivoting would be betterer but couldn't be fucked, just don't turn too tight or tow a truck with it

3 hours ago, tortron said:

Keen on one of these/an a-frame for my minor cos towing it is faster than driving

Lol, she's for sahlee bro, winkwink

So I lied, I do know why.  I had done a welding job on a mates sisters Corolla wagon and as payment received an old Lazer sedan. I thought I would use said Lazer as a track hack until me old Anglia was up and running. The problem was at the time I only had a single garage with a skinny drive I could park mine and the wife's cars one behind the other. This meant nil room for a transportation device of standard car trailer dimensions, so I thought, why not a dolly I could stand up against a wall. Research was undertaken and the frame was welded up....then I changed jobs and moved to a much betterer home. Lazer was sold and the Anglia project was concentrated on, and the new job didn't leave much time for anything else but pottered away on it, but as I finish up with this job in 2 days the rush has been on to finish it.  As I wasn't going to put the Anglia on this dolly, but on a proper trailer, I decided to carry on with the dolly and get Wof and Reg and flick off for Anglia funds. I wanted to make it as low as possible with low guards, so went with JetSki trailer wheels and tyres, 8x8.5, nice and fat. The guards available for JetSki trailers were fugly, so racked the old pea in the noggin and stuck one of the wheels on top of a 200L oil drum at work, and Lo it had virtually the right radius. I liked the idea of the guard going past the 90 degree level front and rear, to get that custom look. I think they turned out quite cool. The fiddliest bit of the build would have been running the cables in the frame and connecting up 11 lights without having a rats nest, but I managed to get it all clean and tidy and hidden away. In the next day or two I will replace the 3 missing wheel nuts I managed to push into the matrix, stick 2 reflectors on, get rego'd and Wof'd and put up for sale. Can't wait to start my car trailer.

pics in a mo, once I remember how to use host sight again....damn peabrain

No shit people... I've finally started the project proper now, an hour after work on Wednesday and an couple of hours on Saturday after work got a bit done, engine box and front suspension and subframe all out. Next is to get the rear suspension and subframe out, and make up the suspension/subframes pickup points jigs, then the fun begins.

Set of cusco adjusties, with adjustable top hats, will be rebuilt, useable as they are but will need to sort spring rates and damping now engine to go in back, so may aswell spend the coin and get right and refurb. An even hundie...cheap-just how I like it.

Donor car, radiator bent but engine fine, almost every panel bent and tailgate window smashed, not pretty, won't be able to sell much in the way of panels, oh well, full running gear for 5 hundie.... can't really complain. Will be able to fully get into the project in the next few weeks, yippee.

Right...HAI, Ive been away for a while, but Ive managed to sort some shit out for my nuts project.

Due to moving and being down a shared driveway has ment no internet at home

In the last year or so I had a plan to stick to, and havent realy deviated from what I want to do, I still want to fit the EJ20T in the rear of the ANGRIA, I was going to go with the whole Escort front end install, even scored a whole unit for cheap, but have decided to go another way. I scored an EJ20T for free, needed rebuild but was good for mocking up. Then I got meself a new job-workshop manager, and the last 9-10 months have been 60hr weeks and any spare time spent with the kidlets.

But fortunes have changed slightly in the last month, and have freed up time and money, therefore I brought myself a complete, de-rego'd WRX wagon with panel damage from Turners damaged car auctions $500, a set of Adjusty coilovers fo r$100, a twin plate clutch and lightened flywheel $200, and a whole bunch of steel $250

I have decided to (at work) remove box and engine from wagon, flip over and remove steering, suspension etc, make up a jig to pickup all the sterring and suspension mounting points, then build a chassis around this, incorporating the subaru engine and box in the back in a custom crossmember/suspension setup, and plonk the body on top. Im thinking full fibreglass flip front front end widebody panels, and the same for the rear panels, each rear guard will have the intercooler or oil coller in the front openings, perspecs windows with clear vents to feed air to engine, aswell as a low/wide scoop on roof doing the same. Want to run 15" wheels as any bigger would look funny on such a small car, will upgrade to subi STI 4 pots which im told will fit 15" wheels.

I will load some pics shortly.

ALSO....Just typical, I have got all the stuff I need to get hard into the project, which all turned up at the end of JAN, and am SO excited to finaly really get into it, But...I had shoulder surgery the 1st week of FEB and wont be able to actually do any spannering for about 4-6 months, which F**KIN SUCKS. So I can just sit here on my couch while on ACC and work out a step by step plan.

Hopefully update again soonCHUR