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probablyleon

posted on 9/1/10 at 01:07 PM Reply With Quote
Fury bodywork removal

Hi, has anyone on here modified their Fury (Spider) so that the bodywork can be quickly and easily removed (and replaced)? I'm considering doing this and would appreciate any advice, warnings etc.

Cheers,

Leon

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Steve Hignett

posted on 9/1/10 at 01:23 PM Reply With Quote
Have a look on here, not sure there are any specific photos of the way that we seperated the scuttle area and the rear tub, but that's what we did...

http://www.comdiddycom.com/fury/






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JekRankin

posted on 9/1/10 at 01:27 PM Reply With Quote
Hi Leon,

I think its not uncommon for the Fury race cars to have removable bodywork.

Here's a photo gallery of a rather lovely Fury showing how it can be done:

link

Jek

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McLannahan

posted on 9/1/10 at 03:09 PM Reply With Quote
Hello again Leon!

As Pants (Steve) said, we did my Fury that way. If you want any photos of anything in particular give me a shout. There's a few on the comdiddycom site but I've not updated it in yonkies...

All the best

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matt_gsxr

posted on 9/1/10 at 05:55 PM Reply With Quote
Another variant on doing removable Fury bodywork here. link. Not me.

It is quite tricky to do.

Matt

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MakeEverything

posted on 9/1/10 at 06:33 PM Reply With Quote
Do a search on this forum. Im sure this is the third time ive seen this topic now, so there must be loads of info already here somewhere.





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Brommers

posted on 13/1/10 at 03:00 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by matt_gsxr
Another variant on doing removable Fury bodywork here. link. Not me.

It is quite tricky to do.

Matt


Hey, fame at last!

Most of the details of how I did it on my Fury racer are here. There's nothing particularly complicated about making the rear tub removable, although I did make life a little more difficult for myself by making the rear tub pivot clamshell-style (like the bonnet) and by using home-made internal sprung catches.

Essentially, the thing to do is:

1. Get the sidepods in place
2. Nail the scuttle down to the front bulkhead
3. Chop the main tub away from the scuttle
4. Find a way of attaching the main tub to the sidepods

Nothing intrisically difficult about it, although it's fiddly to get everything to line up half-decently on a repeatable basis.

HTH

Dan

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probablyleon

posted on 17/1/10 at 06:27 PM Reply With Quote
Thanks

Thanks everybody, all really helpful.

Have any of the cars flagged up here been modified retrospectively or were they built that way?

Leon

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Brommers

posted on 18/1/10 at 01:33 PM Reply With Quote
quote:
Originally posted by probablyleon
Thanks everybody, all really helpful.

Have any of the cars flagged up here been modified retrospectively or were they built that way?

Leon


Mine was built that way, but provided the main tub and sidepods aren't bonded together, so they're easy to remove, it shouldn't be too much trouble to do it retrospectively. You'll have to chop away the main tub from the deck above the fuel tank, however, as that's normally bonded onto the main tub if the main tub isn't removable. Messy, but not hard to do.

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