Bling

Good turn out for sure, Prince Charles popping past was my second favourite bit. But it wasn't close to first, burger FTW

Not all of us drive around above the clouds m9

Yeah not that Ken if it's going to be pissing down /worse, stupid weather!

Will be in the shitty daily as per usual. Car wouldn't start to go for a WOF, then when it would they were booked, ran out of time / motivations. Edit - I didn't think the check forecast, looks like a shit storm will be hitting

We get it m9, you're old. /Still have all my C64 junk in the wardrobe, tape, 5 1/4" discs, probably no suitable screen.

Ah fair enough. On the plus side people are giving away / biffing IDE stuff.

Won't any IDE drive work? Just won't recogonise the whole space. Been a long time since I've even seen IDE stuff.

Hooked Sega (not genuine unit) up to a TV yesterday, Micro Machines FTW. Not a PC, but same sort of era. All the original sega units I have seem to connect via the aerial which is a bit more of a ballache to setup.

Going with the setup you linked, with the perch and quite short spring. Hopefully it doesn't come to that, but figures I come up with suggest the car minus diff will be pretty light in the rear. So as you say, my options will be pretty limited. Can't actually source springs any lower rate for the rear of the car, rock hard place etc. Granted its a totally different chassis / vehicle usage, what spring rates are you running in the rear? Pretty sure yes, specifically designed to give much better performance on the road. Figured I was on the right track dropping the spring rate as low as I could. But that might not even be low enough. With them being progressive I was hoping that they'd droop a bit more before the spring rate bumps up on the rest of the travel. Fronts are easy enough as keeper springs can be made to fit no worries. I can see both sides of the coin, fitting stupidly high spring rates + keepers is a shit solution. But fitting much more suitable spring rates for the job + keepers to get 10mm more droop as per cert requirement doesn't seem too bad. I've spent the coin to get what I think will be suitable spring rates, coupled with custom valved to the spring rate shocks, I can't do much more really. Will dummy it up next week hopefully and see how it sits.

Springs are F-6KG/R-4.7KG, fronts are easy with keeper springs if required, rears not so much. Rears i'm going with OEM setup so I don't need to worry about shifting the car weight to the factory shock location. What that does mean however is that the rear springs are factory(ish) diameter, so doubt keeper springs will exist. I think the spring rates should be suitable for a road car. At a kerb weight of around 950kg, my downfall is the lack of weight in the rear of the car to create the droop. Will of course discuss all of this with my certifier when he inspects my parts soon, but always good to do homework now and come up with solutions. In theory I need 190kg in each rear corner to net 40mm droop. I the front I need 240kg in each corner. Tallied up I get 860kg, I imagine any extra weight I can actually use will be in the front, with the diff and wheels bringing in the rest of the total. Brain is melting at this point. Maybe a towbar made from girders is the solution.

Yeah will be running adjustable coil overs. Was speaking to someone running higher spring rates and keeper springs is what they had to go with. Different chassis though so I guess i'll just have to put them in and see.

Yeah that would be correct. In my case the bumpstops are within the coils, so not much lever ratio going on, unless I am misunderstanding it.

So that is 40mm minimum from bumpstop if said bumpstop can not be part of the compression? Have been doing some maths with my springs and in theory i'm in for a fun time come cert time. Not even running silly (IMO) spring rates, shits going to be tight like a tiger. I better put my thinking cap on, good to know what numbers i'm working too though thanks.

For sure, ken to see more deets. Was sharning to your bro today on a job funnily enough. Also ken for a burger. Rolla came off hold this week too, might need to get myself a WOF

Shout him a rusted door and some sheetmetal to practice on. Cut some holes in it and cut some panels to be welded in. That way when he gets to the actual car, he has it dialed in. Same theory for everyone really, you don't start on the actual job. 2c

We use Konnect at work so getting bolts isn't an issue, thanks for the offer though @RUNAMUCK. I'll probably find a bunch I need first and throw them in with a work order. Failing that i'll just grab a Champion bolt pack while out and about, cheap enough.

Yeah pinch with the bolt sitting in a slot. Probably not much price difference but just wanted to make sure I was on right track and that the bolt wouldn't be something even stronger given location. Not worried about overkill on bits like that.

What type of bolts would you use on critical car parts? High tensile 8.8 suitable? Any particular coating to avoid / go for? One example is steering connection to rack, thread has seen much better days.

Yeah i'd say the 7 days you mention is if straight recoating. If you scuff it the 7 days doesn't matter.

Epoxy primer should be legit, mine has sat for months and still looks good as new. Pretty sure it seals really well and is hardy enough to protect surfaces till you're ready for top coats. Just might want to give it a light scuff up for the liner to key into. Unless it's being left outside in the weather anyway.

Grab new muffler from Autobend, zap it on and good to go.

Where is the testing to show that under the noise test, all of those cars exceed 90dB? Has someone tested them to show that as you imply, they are all louder than 90dB under test conditions? If they all exceed, then sweet loop hole, if they don't, then it's irrelephant really.

Yeah wheel guard area against engine bay initially. Has previously had a brake leak by the looks so stripping everything out that is loose / peeling off and plan to epoxy the bare metal and deaden over the top of the whole lot.

Brush on sound deadener over the top of just epoxy primer, should be legit going by the suitable substrate list. Yeah / nah? cheers

Didn't do much over winter as I can't finish rust work till it's warm enough to park it outside all day to dry. So just a quick update, will try get the next one out a bit quicker. Have been pulling the front end apart to send parts away to be worked on. So figured i'd replace all consumables while I was in there. Out came the steering rack, which had about 5mm of grime on it, along with crossmember. Whipped both those out and left the engine in the bay supported on blocks. Excuse the blur. Rack and cross-member are now clean as a whistle. Replaced the tie rod ends and boots on the rack. Pulled the suspension out, chopped it and sent it off to Barry @ MRP to work his magic. Brakes also came off for a "service". Wasn't till I took the wheels off I realised this car came with the big brake option, 200mm of stopping power. Winding down the windows would likely slow the car faster. The old: New 276mm vs old 200mm, with Wilwood calipers to match (too lazy to find that photo): Bits from RockAuto, three orders so far, filling my cart as I work through the car. Anything consumable is being replaced to save it failing later on. To a point anyway, not made of money. So that's it for now, aiming to have it on the road by the end of summer, pending rust work progress. All of the above bits will hopefully provide some motivation to keep working on it in the meantime. Choice.