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« Reply #525 on: April 02, 2008, 08:43:30 PM » |
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Did I write that?! Shame on me. PERspective.
Spent the afternoon at Lunatic's workshop today, measuring things, trying ideas & generally buggering about. We decided the ride height was still too high, so we had to raise the front spring mount in order to lower the body. Easiest way was to attack my new 500 quid chassis with a grinder & cut out the front cross member, (having first braced the rails with a length of old angle iron). The cut section was then raised by an inch & a half & tacked back in. We'll add triangular gussets either side of it once we know it's in the right place.
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« Reply #526 on: April 02, 2008, 08:45:55 PM » |
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« Reply #527 on: April 02, 2008, 08:47:35 PM » |
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Yes, we know the axle's in back to front here but the ride height's the same which is all we were worried about.
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« Reply #528 on: April 02, 2008, 08:50:57 PM » |
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The masking tape under the centre of the chassis is the finished height of the sills. About 6 inches off the road, which is what we were after. Mind you, it'll be less with two people & a V8 motor in it. Hope we've got it right!
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« Reply #529 on: April 02, 2008, 08:51:47 PM » |
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The rad shell will be a couple of inches higher than this but you get the general idea.
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« Reply #530 on: April 02, 2008, 09:26:47 PM » |
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Nice!
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« Reply #531 on: April 02, 2008, 09:32:30 PM » |
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« Reply #532 on: April 02, 2008, 09:45:02 PM » |
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like the stance |
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« Reply #533 on: April 02, 2008, 09:54:56 PM » |
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Loony's or the car's?  I'm hoping I can liberate the Austin Chummy seat frames I sold to Loony last year. You can see one in red oxide inside the Pop bodyshell in that pic. They'll make cool bomber style seats. The top of the chassis rails will be the floor level of the cab. The prop shaft tunnel should end up about 5 inches tall between the seats. There's actually a lot more room in the cab than we first thought. |
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« Reply #534 on: April 02, 2008, 11:02:19 PM » |
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U mean u can turn your Head both ways |
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« Reply #535 on: April 02, 2008, 11:07:51 PM » |
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Yup. Should even be able to turn the steering wheel without opening the window first!
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« Reply #536 on: April 02, 2008, 11:18:33 PM » |
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« Reply #537 on: April 03, 2008, 06:38:56 PM » |
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Another quick measure up today & we reckon the top of the carbs should be just about level with the bottom of the windscreen, so maybe just poking through the bonnet. If that's the case I might swap the twin SUs for a 4 barrel Holley & do the job properly with 4 velocity stacks up in front of the screen.
I've had a week off work &, as usual, achieved bugger all. I've got an hour's commute between home & Marcus' workshop, (only takes 45 minutes when I'm going to work at 5 in the morning). By the time I've done a few odds & ends at home & got organised enough to get going, it's lunchtime before I get there. Had to nip over to Valley Gas for some more box section today to make an extra cross member behind the cab & some gussets for the front cross member. That was another couple of hours gone.
Some more measuring & we able to add the first mounting tabs to the back axle. These will take the rose jointed bottom rods of the 4 bar linkage. They'll run parallel to the ground & connect to the chassis at the bottom of the rear kick up. Ideally the propshaft should run up to the axle by between 2 & 4 degrees for unhindered suspension movement, hence the magnetic angle finder on the diff.
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« Reply #538 on: April 04, 2008, 09:20:54 PM » |
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Called in at Loony's workshop again this afternoon. Another day of running to & fro, so not much time, but enough to cut out some gussets to strengthen the reworked front cross member. Then Loony glued 'em in place.
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« Reply #539 on: April 07, 2008, 05:54:30 PM » |
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And a fine job they n you did it looks well m8 but better get a move on or they will change the laws again to stop rods being on their pristine roads
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