I will measure the old pin and let you know. (Real money or mm?)
Been a busy couple of days, between and after work, down the garage and in the house, I have been tweaking the headers and finished and trial fitted the "buck?" for the tank. I had already set up one side of the headers, so with the wood I had left for doing the tank, I drilled it to fit the flanges and bolded the part finished one and the flange for the other each side of it.
I cut down the other pipes and fitted them into the flange and tacked them in place, I used the wood to line them both up. The only problem I had was that one side was lower than the other, I tried twisting the whole 4 pipes together but couldn’t, so cut the straps and did them one at a time until both side matched, then I tacked the pipes back together on the ends. Now when the sit on the floor upside down there is no rock.
The Cunning Coupe
The Cunning Coupe
The Cunning Coupe
Last night after work using a steamer to bend some hardboard over the tank frame and tacked it in place, I had a few problems with the main one that I should had used thicker wood, as it kept on splitting. Anyway, I managed to finish it and took it down the garage this morning to try it in the frame. I put a couple of straps around the bottom frame and sat it on top. I am very pleased with the way it looks and sits. It will have just a rounded front, but the back will be like a funnel, tapering down with the fuel feed at the end like the original on Crescent Coupe.
We will use the buck to bend the alloy around, so I have wrapped it in gaffer tape to help make it smoother (Hides the nail heads).
The Cunning Coupe
The Cunning Coupe
The Cunning Coupe
Next week I am taking the headers up my friends where I will be brazing the tubes into the flanges. This is what the company who I bought the headers recommend, it helps stop them cracking at the flange. I can’t weld the silencers on until I trial fit the headers, then I can tack them in place and then fully weld them.
