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Just thought I'd post a few pics of progress so far. Feel free to cmment on anything you think I've missed/got wrong.
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Should've known that was coming. It's actually on two slightly iffy nails banged into the wall. I ran out of bench space and rawl pulgs.
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how did you get the mallet to balance on the chassis like that?
the tube that looks like its at the bottom of the dash could collide wth your knees,should be round as 19mm dia rule aplies there
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Looks like you need to swivel through 90 degrees it so that you don't tip out when sitting in it
The two front rails are going in when the front wishbones/Fu's are in place. Should be able to get a better placement of them that way.
The tube that will be under the dash will be covered in roll cage foam to meet the rules. And it's actually more than half way down my legs,
since the seat'll be against the rear sloping bit. The chassis's +4 in the passenger bit so I wanted little more tubing in that area. Might
have gone a bit OTT, but it can't hurt. I hope.
alright simon, chassis looks great, i wish i could weld like that, when my car is done i will have to come round so you can teach me how to weld,
maybe then i can start manufacturing some of my own stuff
ATB Alex
Blimey, praise indeed!
But I'll see what I can do. It's realy not as hard as it looks. I only got my cheap (read rubbish) welder in
oct/nov time, but I'm happy enought to start building a de-dion kit when it arrives. Once the chassis has a floor and the kit's complete for
the back I'll be making a start on some wide track wishbones to suit my granada rear track width, which is something like 10" wider than
escort, and wider than sierra.
Crack on lad, don't let it go off the boil. If only lager was banned I would have built hundreds of them by now!!
I wonder why you haven't made a Y-tube at the bottom of the engine bay like you have at the top?
Because there'll be a welded 16 swg plate below the two tubes running there. I'm going for a fully welded full in as many places as poss. Probably going to have the engine bay bottom, tunnel floor and boot floor at the back removable.