updates....

well, a LOT of biking on a poxy BMX saw 14miles clocked up, a saw crotch, and some fuel lines... so thats ok..






at the sight of this i felt a little aroused so took some pics of the ol girl!!


knob shot!



cockpit!



throne!




with all the pipework done, it was time.......



loaded up we hit the A1 and the A14 and ended up @ Matts...




i`ll be heading over there later this week for a final spec but basic outlines are

Raychem
launch control
pit lane speed limiter
closed loop lambda
"deutsch" mil spec connectors here-n-there...

Amazing work, very clean !!!!

the wiring has begun!!!



and another purchase!!

i first saw 1 of these in the black clio that occasionally frequents TDF,




and i think i spotted 1 in James clio recently built by the TDF crew...




BOOM!!




wide angle rear veiw mirror!!

i ordered just the mirror off Ebay (ram motorsport iirc) and got a phonecall monday morning....

"sorry mate, the longacre mirror is out of stock, however we have the Joes racing version WITH brackets... i`ll send that instead"....

so i now have some trick brackets which i dont think i can use as my roof bar sits hard against the shell.. i think some dremel action may create clearance if not, i`ll weld some tabs onto the shell and mount it off them, and use the trick little mirror brackets for something else...




got a couple of cool ideas if they become spare but lets see how things pan out...........

Just one word => WAOU !

Matt recently asked for a set of stands to raise his cornerweight pads up off the floor 300/400mm so he can use his 2 post lift to raise/lower the car onto them and work at a nicer height...

a bit like these:

http://www.demon-tweeks.co.uk/oncirrus/system/trans.png

but higher....

so i set about having a play on autocad, he`s just launched a re-vamped website so i thought it`d be nice to incorporate his logo/website in the same font.(he didn`t ask for this but fuck it, they were always gonna be laser cut so might aswell make them trick!!).. bit of a PITA transfering JPEG into DWG format but i got there in the end and fired this over to my local laser profilers:



3 days later and 30 minutes on the press i had the building blocks:



fired up the tig and got them all tacked up:



really pleased with the quality of the cutting:



then came the bit i was dreading....

MIG`ing them up, i make no excuses i fecking hate MIG welding, its dirty, smelly, and i`m no good at it hahahaha
fortunatly luck was on my side and things went ok:



a quick hunt on Ebay sourced some M10 feet and the stands were ready for delivery and powdercoat * :



*- well, not quite finished, i had to holesaw a 35mm hole in the top flange of each stand for the power wire to pass through....


and thats about it, putting the feet inside the corners rather than outside would have been easier, and probably stronger but then they wouldn`t be stackable, and i know workshop space is precious so went this route instead..

should fund a few more trick bits on my loom.......

Very nice job!!
Welcome here!!

apologies for the lack of progress!! but, with the missus due to pop out out first child early november time my time/money/efforts have been concentrated on turning this:



into this:



and working my arse off to afford this!:





anyhow, things seem to have gotten to a point now where other than a couple of items, its now a waiting game and the "boy" front.. so i set about rounding up all the bits needed to get the car driving once Matts done the looms..

so the list:

1-new driveshafts - EASY!



these differ from standard as the have 6 bearings in the outer CV joint rather than the std 3 so should!! be stronger..


2-find paddle clutch + cover - EASY! in a box in the workshop....
3-clutch release bearing - EASY! went and bought a new LUK item...
4-clutch to flywheel bolts - ahhhhh things got tricky, pug no longer sell them so after a frantic search in every box i eventually found them!!




what else....

ahhh yes the wierd L shaped bolts that hold the bearing in the intermediate carrier behind the block and the nuts for them...
these remain AWOL in the workshop so had to buy new ones, and being pug they had minimum quantities so i now have 4 bolts and a bag of 10 M7 nuts.....

but at least i have everything!!!!!

as for progress over at TDF, things have moved on a bit!!



thats the "upper" engine loom but still needs labelling and the autosport connectors thrown on...

i'm shoking i never see a man that is too crazy
your work is beautiful i'm fan
you have gold into your hands

good job

Thank you very much for the kind words...

starting to forget what the ol girl looks like so took these pics today....













as for updates, not much i`m affraid.. treated myself to some of Colins wishbones:







and a lower strut brace:







hopefully they will appear soon and i can get the TRi outer balljoint pins modified to fit the spherical bearings.. (the TRi pins are 16mm and Colin uses a 5/8th (i think) outer ball joint) should be easy lust a little skim off the O/D 0.125mm to be exact lol

well... the jobs continue...

after a LONG wait from alcon regarding the discs i eventually told Matt to tell them to stick `em and hit the AP`s....

AP then sent some discs.. they looked great.. but a bit big.. a tape measure confirmed they were 330mm the thought of 17s on my car actually made a small piece of sick rise up.. so Matt phoned again and today the correct size arrived..

the prototype bell fits the disc spot on and the offsets seem to tally up with a standard disc so thats a good start.. net job is to mock up on my spare strut and get to work on the caliper mount..


AP sexyness-




FIA (feline inspection association) Approval-




more to come this week...

i hope...

nice brake !

Well i have been keeping things progressing...

Ive drawn some adapters and bells up





And the first parts have arrived..



Very very pleased with these!!!!

ok, so been doing a bit of running round today.. bit-n-bobs and hoping the clios suspension will shake the yob out of the missus... no luck on that score, but!!

i got my sweaty hands on the adapters so headed to the social club to see if my measuring worked out...



first hurdle cleared in a "fuck yeah" style....



disc + mock up bell on and things were looking good..







as with 4 pots and these 2 pot calipers, the caliper isn`t on sliders so the disc has to sit bang on in the middle of the caliper........



that`ll do for me!! its a bit tricky to get the camera angle to prove this but after poking a feeler guage in both sides, its all good!!!

courtesy of the west country mafia:



TRi pins still need a little bit of machining but it should/might work!