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Ha! You win!!! very good. Great minds bro!

I'm betting you are going to cut out the section of rack post where the key needs to go and replace it with a piece of pipe so you can put your key through the middle of the post. Also I think its mighty clever to say you have any idea and that we should guess and then wait while all the good ideas flow in for you to choose from

Does it have a prop yet? Jokes... any progress?

Bike parts in the kitchen sink Good man

Picked up Ladaspeeds german MIFA last night. Couldn't help myself but get dressed up for a ride to the bike shop in town Its mildly terrifying to ride, mainly because the handlebars are so far behind the axle line and the brakes are nearly non existent. Was excellent fun though. I found one of the crank nuts had wound most of the way off when I got home though, will get some loctite to sort that bugger out. In other news I have bought these for my Turbo and am going to get a sealed cartridge bottom bracket for it as the old one sounds very dry and grindy. Managed to justify the new cranks to myself by saying that the old cranks can go on the tandem to replace the crazy 3 bolt one which has a bent chainring

^ I have that issue. Is a very good guide!

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I didn't realise that either! Good to know though since we seem to be slowly getting a fleet of FXGT's

Fuckit. Just wrote an update then hit the wrong button and deleted it Photos will do I think I might have to cut out more around this bit to make room for the wheel to go up into the guard. I cut up an old chair that had been living outside Got a bit more to do to finish it. Its far from perfect but I'm pretty happy with it considering the entire plan just kept evolving as I went. Itldo

Yeah thats what I've changed. I've tried to make it follow a simmilar angle to the tank

Taking off those enormous indicators and tail light has totally transformed the bike already haha. The amount of weight in the tail light assemble is phenomenal! Followed up my minor unbolting session with some creative lubrication And then ripped into the CAD (Cardboard Aided Design) Have altered the CAD design since that photo. More to come when Maru-so returns with his power drill.

I'll be moving back to new plymouth in November

Digging the sweet sweet rake Looks like Ladaspeeds gazelle. Sippin on gin and juice

Need to flip the bars so you can race the licra boys with pete

Have just adjusted the angle of the bars, they now point forward rather than down. Way more comfy and looks heaps better too. Stumbled across something on trademe last night that I just couldn't resist HAqyT7POUUU LUVIT

For some anglia specific info, this is the thread I had been getting my info from. http://retrorides.proboards.com/index.c ... read=37095 The cut and welded arms wouldn't get a cert here though I don't think. For the steering arms if you wanted to shorten them you could maybe get some laser cut and/or machined (I could help you out with drawings for that)

epic awesomeness. Might have to go and scavange a bunch of general shit to bolt to my anglia

Dave's burnout to the death was pretty epic

Could you clamp a few pieces of round plate together like that onto a pipe flange and stub, then turn it in the lathe?

Can't remember how well commented it is, its on my other computer but I'll send it to you some time. no sharing though! (intellectual property and all)

Matlab is all I know! I started modelling it like that cos I did an FEA course at uni and we learnt how to do simple beam and bar element models using matlab. I wondered if I could use bar elements and clever boundary conditions to model the movement and hey presto it worked. Was easy for doing a bump travel analysis, but then I decided to extend it to model how the chassis would roll about its roll center, taking into account the fact that the roll center moves. This is where it gets complicated, it initiates with a bar element model and calculates the static roll center, then uses that to generate a beam element model (you can add rotational boundary conditions to a beam element but not a bar) of the chassis only, rotates it around the roll center, uses the new outputs of the beam model as the inputs for the bar model, calculates where the roll center is now, and starts the process again. The program is almost 1000 lines long The above post most likely makes no sense to the general population/engineers are superior beings. Yeah didtching the struts and going for double wishbone. A v8 would be very fun, I actually have the beginnings of a chassis model for a trans-am spec anglia on my computer since I have a spare shell and all but nah not going to bother with that now. The aim for this car is handling over power, having a big heavy v8 balanced over the front of my 700kg anglia would not be very helpful for that. I'm looking forward to seeing what I can wring out of my supercharged zetec though. Felixx, the struts are already in the parts for sale section!

Update time cos I'm sick of studying and am running out of things to procrastinate with. A few months ago I snuck the little orange beasty into dads mustang shed so I can use the air tools and the 3 phase mig we now have. And then decided that before I get too carried away with things, I should see if the doors actually fit after my panel repairs... they don't This is the first time the car has had a door on it since I bought it There is no panel gap at either end, I went through my stack of doors and found the one that is in the best nick that fits nicest so I will work around that one. I think the car must have had a nudge in the side somewhere at some stage, the outer sill has a gentle curve in it so it doesn't line up with the lower edge of any of the doors, and the hinges in the a-pillar have moved back slightly which is why the door doesn't line up properly at the back. It doesn't line up properly at the front cos I didn't think too much about it when I was doing the front guard patch. So i've cut the front guard patch off again but I cut away more of the lower guard this time cos it had a rough previous owner patch in it, and sure enough found another rust hole where the a-pillar meets the lower sill. Easy fix but I don't have photos. I might buy a new outer sill for it to try and straighten it out, and maybe a guard patch panel too. (all available from the uk) The panel gaps on the hood suck. Would it be better to try and pull the whole inner wing across on a chassis machine or cut and extend the hood to meet it? (don't worry about the top-mount moving and fucking with the geometry because I'm going double wishbone and won't be using it) I've also spent quite a bit of time writing a matlab program to help design the front suspension Its a work in progress and i think it still has a few bugs as some of the outputs still don't look quite right, but its getting there. And I have also made a start on modelling some of the bits I have already to design the rest around The floorpan model is reasonably accurate, at least within angle grinder tolerances Its lacking a bit of detail around the back and the strut tops but alot of that will be cut out so it doesn't matter anyway discuss viewtopic.php?f=18&t=20751&hilit=anglia4%27s+anglia+zetec

The gentleman in the short grey beard at smash palace last night also seemed to know his shit.

Nah the bike carbs won't work with that supercharger like I thought they would. I'm going to run fuel injection now.

Its a cnc cutting process that uses spark erosion from a piece of thin wire to cut through steel. Its incredibly accurate and you don't get a draught on the cut like with laser or water cutting. They use it at MCK metals in new plymouth to cut the dies for their aluminium extrusions. This little anglia is getting me all inspired to get back into working on mine... I'll park next to yours at 4&r in a couple of years would look pretty sick, one rotary anglia and on the other side a supercharged 4cyl incase you were interested viewtopic.php?f=17&t=20750