tomgregory2000
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:11 PM |
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Front indicators, opinion please
Am i right in thinking that if my indicators stick out as far as they do in the picture nothing gets checked for radius in the suspension area or have
i got it all wrong?
 
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many thanks
Tommy
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:16 PM |
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depends I supose on the shape of the cone, would have thought it's ok
saying that, some of the indicators edges look quite sharp
[Edited on 27/10/08 by Mr Whippy]
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:25 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
saying that, some of the indicators edges look quite sharp
[Edited on 27/10/08 by Mr Whippy]
the indicators are rather rounded, the picture aint the best(camera phone) and the big bit with the sharp edge is quite soft rubber so shouldnt be a
problem i hope
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Mr Whippy
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:28 PM |
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ok looks fine
sightly concerened with how high the front wings are mounted going by that bracket their outside the picture! 
 
Fame is when your old car is plastered all over the internet
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Johneturbo
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:28 PM |
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Question is, would that sustain an impact?
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:35 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Mr Whippy
ok looks fine
sightly concerened with how high the front wings are mounted going by that bracket their outside the picture!
well i wanted to make it easy to get the wheel off
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tomgregory2000
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 04:37 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Johneturbo
Question is, would that sustain an impact?
if i link the 2 together inside the nose cone will that class it a sturucal? im not to clued up on this stuff
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oliwb
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 05:44 PM |
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Why not just file down the sharp edges anyway? Any inspector in the country is probably going to check anyway! I think you only really get away with
it is if you had welded tubes on to the chassis that covered the area...There is a photo of someone who did this on the site somewhere.....Oli.
If your not living life on the edge you're taking up too much room!
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wicket
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 05:49 PM |
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IMHO that's not structurally strong enough to exempt the area behind from testing.
It's not that difficult to make the suspension area's etc SVA compliant
[Edited on 27/10/08 by wicket]
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 06:15 PM |
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I am doing similar and hope to be sva'd about January (ish). Here are some photo's so far.
on the car
 
nearside indicator extension bar
full width frontal
 
nose cone full width
front quarter view
 
nose cone side
rear internal view
 
nose cone rear
rear internal view side detail
 
nose cone rear side detail
I have mounted it through the sides on rubber grommets to protect the fibre glass and bolted it to the top lip of the nose intake hole. The cut outs
just inside of the nose are there for 2 reasons, first so that I can get the electrics in and out, but also so that should I ever hit something that
hard then the bar should fold/deform just inside of the noise thereby reducing the amount of damage done to the nose cone. All I have left to do on
it is glue the conduit in place on the nose cone roof and then make the grille and fit it. Then the nose can be refitted to the car, IF I can prise it
out of the arm chair.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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Steve Lovelock
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 06:18 PM |
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At SVA this year they didn't check behind my indicators as your original question asked. I covered the sharp edges etc anyway so I don't
think it would have mattered either way.
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Confused but excited.
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 07:50 PM |
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Jolly GG
That's a novel approach.
I don't think cardboard and bubble wrap has been tried before.
Let us know how you get on.
[Edited on 27/10/08 by Confused but excited.]
Tell them about the bent treacle edges!
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jollygreengiant
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| posted on 27/10/08 at 10:43 PM |
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quote:
Originally posted by Confused but excited.
Jolly GG
That's a novel approach.
I don't think cardboard and bubble wrap has been tried before.
Let us know how you get on.
[Edited on 27/10/08 by Confused but excited.]
Ah, the card board and bubble wrap is to go with my chipboard fuel tank.
Beware of the Goldfish in the tulip mines. The ONLY defence against them is smoking peanut butter sandwiches.
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