My progress
The sun is shining & my workshop has at last been warm enough for me to be out there working on my build.
Over the last few weeks, I have managed to get some serious time in on my build. Engine & box all given a good clean, light overhaul & a nice lick of paint .... Now put to one side, under cover all ready for the grand fitting party. Completed & painted the new engine mounts .... Not as good as Ginge's but will do the job nicely. Overhauled my ebay steering rack, fitted new gaitors & a nice lick of paint .... Sorely tempted to buy a new one but would have been a bit daft to replace a still good, serviceable rack. Overhauled my push in driveshafts. Good clean up, repack the CV joints with grease, fitted new CV boots & a good lick of paint. Reluctantly I gave in to temptation and decided to try some of those new fangled stretchy, stretchy boots. I was half expecting them to be as useless as the glue together wonder boots. For once I had a nice surprise, they are the Ronseal of CV boots & does what it says on the tin :D Took next to no time to fit them .... Well pleased. The 4 boots & the plastic fitting cone cost me £27.30 delivered A fraction of the time & cost of fitting original Ford CV boot kits ;) I have fitted the Golf GTI radiator that I got from the breakers .... Big thanks to Gus for some inspiration at a time I had some brain freeze :o Once I knew the Rad was fine I ordered a new one, this has arrived & is now fitted. Had a quick trip to the breakers to find a suitable electric fan .... Found the ideal fan on a Citroen Xsara, only a very tiny mod to make on the fixing poits & now fits like a glove. Result at the breakers .... Cooling fan & a pair of seat runners, £5 Bargain My Two pack Epoxy arrived this morning so it will be all go on the wishbones & uprights next week. Weighed in another load of scrap & collected another sheet of alloy ( Hopefuly the last ) Fook me, that has gone up some !!?? 8" X 4" sheet of 1.2mm half hard £47.50 Keep looking at the things on my to do list . Pedal box " Don't fancy doing that at the moment " ( It'll go tits up if not in the mood ) Side panels " Don't fancy doing them at the moment " ( It'll go tits up if not in the mood ) Diff, all cleaned up ages ago but still not painted !!?? So chaps, I have been having a real crack at the build & have enjoyed every moment . In true me style .... The things done have taken ages to do but I am at least thankfull that I have the energy to do them. Also in true me style .... I go to bed with the next day all worked out .... Once in the workshop, I do something completely different :D Well that's it for now folks. |
Nice one Ronnie :cool:
You,ll soon be driving the Roadster ( erm testing it ) on that "private" lane of yours ;) Its great to hear that you are making great progress......if you feel the need to do even more ......i,ll supply B&B and you can come and do mine :D lets have some piccies please :cool: cheers andy |
Cheers Andy
I'll get some photos up once I have the chassis rolling again, that'll be in the not too distant future ;) As usual .... I have turned the workshop into a pig sty once more :o The pictures will look well cool, outside in the sunshine :D Forgot to mention .... I also altered the steering column support so as I dont have to take a big notch out of the scuttle :eek: |
Ronnie,
Some real progress there. May I ask what car your seat runners are from and is the fan a push or pull (does it fit to the front or back of the Rad)? Pictures, pictures, pictures. Cheers Ginge |
The cooling fan was a front mounted unit & pushes the airflow into the rad .... All sits under the nosecone a real treat.
It was mouted to the original car via 4 strong wire/round bar arms .... Near as dam it, the same spacing as my new rad. Sliced a few mm off & welded 4 flat tabs on them this allowed fitment to the mounting points on the new rad ;) The seat runners were found on a Renault Scenic .... Middle rear seat ( The small one ) only abot 400mm wide. There are clips on the front hinges to allow easy seat removal ..... The tricky bit is getting to the runner fixings. I prised the uphostery clips out & removed the lower seat squabs, access to the 6 allen bolts was then simple. Just as well my local breaker is not too fussed about collateral dammage cos it fubared the seats :D The only downside is, you'll need to find Two cars though as there is only One in each car .... Although to be honest, I didn't look at the runners of the other seats in the car, they too may be suitable !! ;) I'll take some pictures of the cooling fan & seat runners tomorrow mate :) |
Glad ya build is going well for ya.
Surprising how a bit of sun puts a whole different aspect on things. It's 7:30 here the sun is shining, and I'm up a ready to go. In the winter I could barly drag my sorry ar*e out of bed before 9:00:eek: |
Couldn't agree with you more David :)
Been up at 6 am most days & dagging to get out there :D Hopefully this weather will last a few days longer so as I can hang all the wishbones & uprights on the washing line Much nicer to work al fresco :cool: Sun is beating down again today, got a couple of quick bits of welding to do .... I'll not be in any rush to don a boiler suit though .... T shirt for me today :D |
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Yeah.... Whilst standing at saturn last week I was burning, as was the wife. Kids had Factor 8000000 on... So why am I building an opentop sports car??? TT |
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