Popular Post Testament Posted October 1, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 1, 2017 much work over the weekend mott came round on saturday and helped a bunch finishing welding up all the exhaust stuff that I had fitted up and tacked togethe,r while i worked on the thesis for my turd polishing doctorate. not only had the good old boys bo and luke of north taranaki been trying to emulate randy campbells greatest ever stunt and bashed the crap out of the fuel tank, it had some epic corrosion paint coating chemistry going on which took several hours of wire wheeling to remove and find out what specification colander i have. Im guessing the combination of the rustpaint protective coating and the holes being on the top of the tank meant no one ever noticed previously. anyway got all the paint and rust and shite off, cleaned and treated the rust. will have to cut and weld and patch in the top and the one pit hole in the bottom and some of the dents will get sorted with the fitting on the sump. also made up a frame and and brackets to mount the tank and got all that done. will get onto fitting the sump and repairing the tank next. PS thanks again jack ma, can vouch that these all in one drillytappy things with impact driver hex drive are astonishingly better that what i expected actually work awesome 20 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 2, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 2, 2017 thems some holes in my tinfoil hat Ah well, at least its clean inside 11 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 3, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 3, 2017 figuring out shopping list of what else i need to complete fuel and oil system plumbing. just like work, everything has different thread and fitting size so you have to step through each connection one by one and think which adaptor, which hose end etc. is needed, plus measure and check threads because you cannot believe anyone or anything until proven right. e.g. a 3/8 -18tpi NPT male fitting goes about 5 turns into a 9/16 -18tpi female thread because of the taper but its wrong. would seal with loctite 567 and ptfe tape if you had to but trying to do a better job on this occasion. up next.....giant flaming hole in wallet 21 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 8, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 8, 2017 mounted up fuel pumps. enough pump for 1000hp on e85 . Current motor/turbo etc won't make that much but decided to put the extra pump in now. more of everyone's favourite CAD design program tacked on patch and sump fitted up, bracket for fuel filters welded on then ran out of argon so stopped and watched the last couple of hours of Bathurst 17 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 9, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 9, 2017 do something every day if possible today, parachute mount 15 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 24, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2017 no updates for a while but plenty of work going on welded swaybar mount in fully and finished welding fuel tank frame fully built a sheetmetal folder, something id been thinking about doing for a while started making up some of the new sheetmetal to fill in the giant holes in the back of the car then realised i needed to know there the top of diff etc would end up to know how high the piece infront of the shock mount needed to be so better get onto the diff mounts. being triangulated 4 link the uppers are pretty tricky, exacerbated by the fact that diffs are almost inevitably asymmetrical so no part of any of the brackets is the same left to right etc. had to make up a bunch of bushes for the rod ends to set the width of the mounts. much mess and nearenoughommerty on shonky old american lathe more precision cad work twelve hours to make upper mounts over 2-3 days, less than one hour to fit laser cut kitset lower mounts shock mounts tacked on and test fit of wheels, all seems to clear so far 11pm - time to test fit to car fuck. solid race swaybar is in the way. 11:15pm - no spiders to be taken to prison for rogering, bugger the neighbors this time, out with angle grinder all the way hard up into the c notch 11:30pm fuck yeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeee ground clearance present, wheels turn and dont rub. all that measuring and trigonometry magic did actually work. so much work still to do but gotta take the feelsgoodman.jpg for the moment 33 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 24, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 24, 2017 next installment.... probably cutting out the driveshaft tunnel 20 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 26, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 26, 2017 put shocks and original lower arms in so i could position things to figure out length of upper links. cant test with the original uppers because changing from the clevis type attachment with bush in the diff to a rod end. found diff flange hitting floor so cut out that bit of the tunnel sketched things up to avoid fuckups since the 4130 tube is not for the wasting, and need to ensure rod ends have 1.5 diameters of thread engagement. This means even with things being adjustable you still only have about +/-8mm which isnt a huge amount when split between needing some part of that to square the rear axle, some amount to set the pinion angle and some amount to set the fore/aft position of the wheels in the wheel tub. 13 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted October 29, 2017 Author Popular Post Share Posted October 29, 2017 much jiggery and pokery and measuring all of the things with the axle at different heights to check and recheck what length to make the arms to have enough adjustment as mentioned previously and not have the axle hitting c notch before bottoming out on bumpstops. which i ensmallend as I could tell that was going to happen anyway...... then in a burst of motivation following sunday night tacos i threw the front suspension back in to get it on the ground. so on bumps rolls easy and nothing rubbing or touching. will put some blocks under it tomorrow to set it at ride height to sort pinion angle stuff and maybe drop the motor and gearbag in to measure for driveshaft 41 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted January 8, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 8, 2018 I think when you dig a hole this deep it might technically become a tunnel? 25 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted January 29, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 29, 2018 old shifter hole closed, and deceptively tricky lump to clear powerglide shifter linkage and hole for shifter cable more cardboard technology and rear floor area sorted more or less will get 2 flat covers for accessing the fuel system and suspension areas next onto stitching frankentubs back together. horrible job prepping all the edges in this ruthless heat grinding dust and old seam sealer and underbody bog junk of foulness everywhere but got it done then lined up the old outer tubs 40mm higher up and began patching in the gaps 19 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Popular Post Testament Posted January 31, 2018 Author Popular Post Share Posted January 31, 2018 modulistic terror a foul sadistic feast there's only one way out of here going piece by piece to the laundry that is might be able to do some washing soon 17 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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