thetankwad
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| posted on 18/4/13 at 12:10 PM |
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More progress last night. Welded in the top bar to hold the uprights in place.
Using the magnetic angles I aligned up a bar to see where the other side of the upper wishbone mounts would join the seat backs. Here is another clear
difference from the Haynes and the Chapman versions...
I knew some angle work would be needed, but I hadn't banked on the cross bar being so far out. Some creative thinking was needed...
Better! A direct strut welded in that I can butt against on my wishbone mounts.
Bang on target now....
...and repeated on the other side. It always bugs me that the chassis looks so quint in the pics. Its honestly degree perfect in real life....
--Lets get down to Business!--
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thetankwad
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| posted on 22/4/13 at 08:44 PM |
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So a wee cheeky effort tonight. First off, I had a wee play with my new tool...
which has improved the accuracy of my angle cutting no end!
Without boring you all with loads of pictures, I got the rear cage finalised:
...but without a diff to trial in there it may be a bit slow progress with the diff mounts. The suspension mounts will be different though...
got my upper and lower bars for wishbone mounts made, so I can weld up my wishbone mounts. I only made a quick start to this tonight:
4mm plate mild steel. Got the bends in, will need to do the cutting and drilling later. to be honest, i'll probably make them all up with bends
first then look onto drilling to make sure the geometry matches...
--Lets get down to Business!--
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thetankwad
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| posted on 31/7/13 at 06:56 AM |
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No real progress on this lately, apart from recycling the steel bar used to tamp down the concrete base from my newly build garage:
into this:
which makes shuffling the frame around to get things in and out a whole lot easier.
Retaining tabs with room for movement...
--Lets get down to Business!--
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