Another Wreck, another Race Car.....

[roccodingo]

Your wee lathe cracks me up Pete, glad it does the job though !!

Got a new machine coming in from UK now

http://www.budgetmachinery.co.uk/new..._sn50x1500.jpg

Hopefully here before June.

[Peter Jones]

Wow, that's a monster, I bet I could throw mangled chunks of metal much further with something like that.

[Valver.]

Talking of monsters; this car is certainly going to be one. You're doing an exquisite job, Pete, and it's always good checking in for updates! Can't wait to see the first run on the track

[Peter Jones]

I trial fitted the rear beam today.

The prothane bushes are a bit under size so I had to pack them outwards a bit.







Still need to remove the powder coating from behind the axle flanges.

Got into cleaning up the fuel tank and sorting out how to bolt up the strut tops too.

There's a lot of figuring out to do around the front suspension as I'm going to run MK2 uprights and need to check all the geomery.

I might build one side stock and one side modified and compare all the scub radius, ackerman, castor angles etc.

[fthaimike]

Nice updates Peter, looks great.

[GoLfMan]

nice one Pete!

[thestu]

Looking good pete! Will have to come and check it out soon!

"The Stu likes this"

[Peter Jones]

Pulling a lot of stuff out of boxes that I haven't seen for a couple of years.

I got the strut tops in today.
I used 8mm spacer to get them up above the pressings in the sheet metal.







These things aren't simple to put in. It took hours of measurements to figure these out.

Here I'm making sure they're parallel to each other. Getting them square to the car involved a lot of geometry.

I think I've got it to the point where the alignment is settable.



I drilled the 19mm MK2 balljoints to fit in the stock MK1 arm.



Brand new Meyle arms with prothane bushes, 19mm ball joint extender.



Underside of strut mount showing reinforcing plate.



Drilled the scuttle for the centre mounted single wiper storm kit. Need to sort out a supporting bracket for the motor end.

[fthaimike]

Nice updates Peter, love the way you got around not cutting the lip of the top of the front towers (something for me to think about in the future).

I am in conversation with a Kamei Mk1 Rally Car just being finished if your interested, I will hopefully get something together over on CGTI soon about it.

[Driven Threads]

Looking awesome Pete.

The GC camber mounts look the business!

[velly_16v_cab]

awesome so far Pete

[Peter Jones]

More awesome to come

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[Dub Toffee]

Balls to the wall, Epic build finally at the stage your at now its not to painful to start looking forward to videos, and seeing this thing in action, and hearing it start for the first time! You do a good job of drip feeding us info and photos

[Peter Jones]

Finished off the wiper mod.

I rotated the motor around further to tuck it up under the valance more.

Made a couple of stays out of 3mm aluminum.





With the wiper sorted I was able to mount up the reservoirs.



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Installed some lightweight racing headlights.

I saw these in the Pegasus catalogue and had to have them. 7" round dummy headlights.



Used an old headlight base to get the spacing from.



Made up some brackets.



Having a hand punch makes jobs like this a lot quicker and easier than trying to drill something curved that can't be clamped.



Brackets pop riveted to the headlight.



And screwed into place. All the holes lined up perfectly with the factory holes. I use stainless self tappers to hold it in.



Surround on to check fit.

[GoLfMan]

thats so dam cool! Looking great!