OPTaiva Posted October 30, 2016 Share Posted October 30, 2016 Looking mighty fine John! As you said... "No updates only means rust is setting in !" -Olli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 Looking mighty fine John! As you said... "No updates only means rust is setting in !" -Olli Olli Not to far off the mark, but I.m afraid its rust setting in on me, I had a major fall doing some cleaning up after some renovations at home and almost sliced open my jugular while causing a back injury. I am on the mend and will be back on the tools as soon as possible. Cheers John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
disepyon Posted November 4, 2016 Share Posted November 4, 2016 Glad your ok John. That had to be a scary and painful experience. Hope to see you back to work on the car. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted November 4, 2016 Author Share Posted November 4, 2016 Glad your ok John. That had to be a scary and painful experience. Hope to see you back to work on the car. Thanks Buddy Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OPTaiva Posted November 5, 2016 Share Posted November 5, 2016 Olli Not to far off the mark, but I.m afraid its rust setting in on me, I had a major fall doing some cleaning up after some renovations at home and almost sliced open my jugular while causing a back injury. I am on the mend and will be back on the tools as soon as possible. Cheers John Really horrible to hear about your accident John! I did wonder if something had happened as your update schedule has been so frequent. I really hope that you are on the road to healing and you take it easy... Hopefully your back will heal and you can get "back on the horse" quickly. Have a nice weekend and take care! -Olli Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Will let the pics do the talking back from illness and on the tools again Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Nelsonian Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Glad to see your back at it! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ironhead Posted February 19, 2019 Share Posted February 19, 2019 Fantastic work on a very ambitious project! Glad you are back in shape to continue. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Many thanks Nelsonian and Ironhead Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 19, 2019 Author Share Posted February 19, 2019 Front rail fabrication Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Leon Posted February 20, 2019 Share Posted February 20, 2019 Nice to see you back at it again! I highly recommend making a closing plate for that notched frame-rail. Otherwise, that structure and material is doing next to nothing for you. Here's a detailed engineering drawing: Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 20, 2019 Author Share Posted February 20, 2019 38 minutes ago, Leon said: Nice to see you back at it again! I highly recommend making a closing plate for that notched frame-rail. Otherwise, that structure and material is doing next to nothing for you. Here's a detailed engineering drawing: Thought about that Leon but it is heavily reinforced internally Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rturbo 930 Posted February 21, 2019 Share Posted February 21, 2019 Is there a reason you didn't relocate the sway bar to behind the diff? Or would that be a big hassle in Aus? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 21, 2019 Author Share Posted February 21, 2019 (edited) No room as Im running a Ford FPV M86 LSD EA3F00DD-20B5-4706-8A10-C5EC78BAC130.tiff 16E45660-D7A1-44FB-ADB2-60110DA8F1AE.tiff 174A2042-A310-401C-8279-E3CBF97D88E1.tiff Edited February 21, 2019 by Sirpent Mistake Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Trial refit of the ladder chassis to check rail positioning. The combination of the rails and ladder will reinforce the entire rear bracing using original bolt points Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted February 23, 2019 Author Share Posted February 23, 2019 Last photos for the day Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted March 2, 2019 Author Share Posted March 2, 2019 Another day of fabrication removing the remaining tunnel section and fabricating a new cross support. After centering all up I realized that the entire sections are not symmetrical and are off some 15mm to the passenger side, meaning the drivers foot well and gearshift position are 15mm more to the left. All good, I’m having new custom pans cut, bent and pressed which should be ready this week. Happy to report, no exploding cutting discs and flying metal this week. Cheers John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted March 3, 2019 Author Share Posted March 3, 2019 Well that’s it for the weekend Ran out of gas as I was finishing off the gussets in the rail floor pan cross member Managed to weld in the ladder chassis pick up bolts, close the ends after reducing the deck height by 5mm and welding one gusset in All in all, extremely happy with the progress Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted March 9, 2019 Author Share Posted March 9, 2019 Well that’s the second rail in and blended front and rear into the body along with the (What I’m calling) tunnel horse shoe with ladder chassis bolt points Now for the pans which are almost ready to pick up along with some additional weld clean ups cheers John Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sirpent Posted March 10, 2019 Author Share Posted March 10, 2019 Time on the rotisserie today making a new lock mechanism cars upright now ready the pans Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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