quote:Originally posted by joneh
Looking great, and I must say you appear to have a lovely clear workshop to work in too!
Keep the pictures coming!
Thank you, its just my at home "almost" two car garage but I do like to keep it tidy, makes it easier and more fun to work in.
I will make this whole rear section of the tunnel removable so access to the propshaft and handbrake is easy. I have already tried and the propshaft
is removable downwards, the only fiddly parts is the screws for the prop shaft catch rings but I can live with that. Ahead of the handbrake I will
make a shallow storage bin for phone and keys etc.
Passenger footwell panel tacked in place.
At the moment I'm busy working on the heating element, I'm using a small Golf Mk1 heater to get some warm air to the feet at least. No
good pictures of that yet but I am trying to make it quite a slim package.
Well its been awhile since I updated this....cant say if alot of new stuff has happened tho, but!
I have made all the plywood templates for the body and built an english wheel and this summer I started creating scrap metal !
Occationally I even turn out useable parts !
Making the body about 30-40 mm wider at the cockpit to get some elbow room as I am making the sides higher than a stock seven.
The butt!
and the front, this is pretty much as far as I have come, hope to finish the nose before newyears.
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Building: enthusiasm for getting my car back on the road!
posted on 1/9/22 at 11:05 AM
It's great to see that you're pressing on with the car and it looks very good
I did something very similar to your first drive. I drove my partially completed car, with no legal right to be on the road, up and down our road -
one of my neighbours wasn't very impressed
However it was a major milestone in the project and, looking back, I wouldn't change what I did
Justin
Who is this super hero? Sarge? ...No.
Rosemary, the telephone operator? ...No.
Penry, the mild-mannered janitor? ...Could be!
Nah dont get discouraged. I have never built anything like this before so if I can do it surely you can too.
Here is one of the latest pictures of it. I have added the rear view mirrors after this and I am now hoping to add the headlights and front indicators
in the coming week and that would pretty much be all the "must haves" for the swedish registration done. I hope to have it road legal before
july if all the inspections goes well. The rolling chassis inspection was completed late 2020, left to do is the complete build inspection by the
Swedish self builders association, noise test and then its due for a normal registration inspection.
Still cold as heck but at least its driving. Still not road legal but we are close to the start of test number 2 below.
Here in Sweden we have to pass the following tests:
1. Build inspection, done when you have rolling chassis with steering and brakes. (Car builders association)
2. Complete car inspection (Car builders association)
3. Noise test, I think its 85dB at a full acceleration in second gear 50 km/h both ways.
4. Registration check by an accredited station that also does the regular MOT test. This is when you get the licence plates once passed.
Back in the end of May the build finally got roadlegal and I could start using it. June weather was awsome but almost too dry for our farmers and
nature and then July was very windy and lately we've had alot of rain like most of Europe.
Despite the weather I have driven about 1900 km's (1200 miles) so far and worked out some bugs and found things that needs to be fixed.
The left front wingstay sheared off around the 1000 km mark where the tube transitions to the flat bar, so both sides was reinforced. I will remove
the flat bar entirely as soon as I get some tube bending done.
The headlight brackets cracked, they will need some redesign but they are welded up and ok for now.
The newly overhauled Sierra diff started leaking that will need to get fixed during winter.
I have also added a windscreen, it was way too annoying to even drive. Over 50 km/h you needed goggles and over 70 you really wanted a helmet and that
reduced the joy of driving too much. With the windscreen I can cruise at 90 km/h with only a ear bud in my left ear to remove a bit of vind noise.
Hopefully we will get some more nice days during august and september.
