Unclejake Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 Thanks Orally - I am drilling holes in her this weekend so perhaps I am taking your advice Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orally Posted May 31, 2007 Share Posted May 31, 2007 she is mean, bro. dont get yourself hurt Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dilusion Posted June 7, 2007 Share Posted June 7, 2007 Hey UJ the new pictures are looking bloody mean! Bet you can't wait to get her back out racing again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 One or two cool things have happened in the shed over the last few weeks. Very happy! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikuni Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Cool, likes like its coming together well.. and with nice shiny light parts I see you unbolted the cage from the rare guards etc. Does it come apart at the top or is it a welded unit that needs to come out in 1 piece? Is it chromoly or steel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 The existing cage is steel. The main hoop and rear stays are one piece - only to two front stays come off. I can get it in and out of the car if there are no seats in the way. A chromemolly cage is in the planning stages but the car will probably go back together with the steel cage first. There are O/S Nationals to think off! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikuni Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Good man. I was pricing up half cages. A dude in Te Awamutu thinks he can get a half cage with side intrusion bars for around $700 and chromoly for additional $200, possibly a little more. He said the price goes up alot to get the full cage in with A piller to floor/guard but I was quite impressed with that pricing. He also showed me a section of chromoly and the same length of steel. Chromoly isn't super light, but we all know how much steel weighs. Looked like it would be deffinately worth it. He can do it in 2mm rather than 3mm also, which needs to be checked and complied by an engineer to ensure its strong enough or something. Oh and the other thing is that apparantly because chromoly is so brittle it can weaken after afew years of use so needs to be replaced.. ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I don't know about them getting brittle with just age. It is a bit out of my field of expertise. A full cage in Chrome Molly will be between $2,500 - $3,500 (homologated) from someone down here and would be 3 - 5kgs lighter if I recall properly. It will have to wait as I would rather have new wheels Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mikuni Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 Thats so pricy aye. I can't see how a road legal half cage can be around $1000 but just to do that extra bit down the a piller to firewall etc ups the price to around $3000.. just doesn't make sense. Fair enough though if you already have a homologated steel cage in there its not really worth spending those thousands just for that weight just yet. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 I got a mate who swears he can hook me up with some guy in Welly who will do a $400 half cage or $500ish cromoly half. As per the rule he could be all shit as I havnt tried following it any more. If you guys want numbers I can try help. Gaz Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
orally Posted July 11, 2007 Share Posted July 11, 2007 One or two cool things have happened in the shed over the last few weeks.Very happy! so,she was in your hands once again,i see mean pics there. nice. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gaz Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Oh shit. The lap timer. Will PM Seedy Al now and get it tonight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Toucan Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Top work UJ, cant wait to have a look and see it on a track Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUL8R Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Sorry to be a bit o/t here but theres this guy on trademe (well think its an actual business, I've forgotten the name of the place) that makes kitset ones, all you need to do it weld them in , does 1/2 cages & full cages for alot of cars.. http://www.trademe.co.nz/Members/Listin ... ber=956037 Oh yea, Cortina is looking lovely, just out of interist how much weight have you saved, have you been weighing it before & after? Or even just the likes of the metal scraps that you've cut out... Cheers,Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Oh shit. The lap timer. Will PM Seedy Al now and get it tonight. No rush dude. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 Oh yea, Cortina is looking lovely, just out of interist how much weight have you saved, have you been weighing it before & after? Or even just the likes of the metal scraps that you've cut out... Cheers,Chris Chur boe. If I can manage to find some light wheels I think I will loose 58.5kgs. That will finiosh the car at just over 780kgs dripping wet - still too heavy to be really competitive but an improvement. To get the car lighter again I will need to relax a bit on the presentation (read remove bog) which I am not prepared to do as I am so vain. Yes - I weigh everything. I am 100% obsessed/anorexic/retarded/have no life etc. Some things just aren't worth spending the time on - but I do them anyway and some things will probably break - so when they do I will drill less holes in the new one. Rocket Surgery FTW Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CUL8R Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 You skinned the bonnet and boot ? Oh yea, do you also have polycarbonate windows (lexan) around it, they save alot of weight and are super strong (can bounce sledge hammers off them) From memory arent you allowed to replace the guards & bonnets with F/glass items so long as the weigh a certain amount? 780kgs is a pretty good effort, you just use a hole saw for most of those holes you've drilled? & A Drill bit for the smaller ones (hinges etc etc) Ooo And finally what type of seat you using, Kirkey's are alloy, damn strong and lightweight (pretty damn comfy too) Cheers,Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted July 12, 2007 Share Posted July 12, 2007 You skinned the bonnet and boot ? Oh yea, do you also have polycarbonate windows (lexan) around it, they save alot of weight and are super strong (can bounce sledge hammers off them) From memory arent you allowed to replace the guards & bonnets with F/glass items so long as the weigh a certain amount? 780kgs is a pretty good effort, you just use a hole saw for most of those holes you've drilled? & A Drill bit for the smaller ones (hinges etc etc) Ooo And finally what type of seat you using, Kirkey's are alloy, damn strong and lightweight (pretty damn comfy too) Cheers,Chris Bonnet and boot = fibreglass. They are light and don't have to be the same weight as the originals. Guards can be made from fibreglass but do have to be the same weight as originals. The guard rule is to make replacement guards more available. Glazing = cheap acrylic that scratches when you look at it hard. It is a lot lighter than glass and also easier to drill/screw/rivit etc. Seat = Racetech 4000. Got too scared to use a Kirky. Even though they are legal etc. I can't imagine an alloy shell being quite as safe as a fibreglass one. Probably wrong but that is the way it went. Broken spine = FTL Hole saw is for everything and everything is for the holesaw. Got new bumpers coming too.... but that can be another project update Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Goat Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 I still cant get over the awesomeness of that oil pressure light. Car Looks so cool. Why did you change the exhaust tunnel? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Unclejake Posted August 6, 2007 Share Posted August 6, 2007 Well - a new bonnet and boot lid arrived last week. I already have fibreglass ones but I wanted the extra light fibreglass ones. They arrived and the box felt heavy. I put the new ones on the scales and they are heavier than the ones I already had! Shit. Anyway - the crowd that made them has done some calculations and the new ones have been sent back and they will replace them for what I originally wanted. I probably need to wait another 2 weeks or so but there is plenty of other things left to do - such as welding in the new exhaust tunnel. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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