I had a think about this at the weekend. I want to solid mount the nose as its solid mounted in the MX5. I was going to do a bracket like Phil has drawn in the past that welds into where the CP10s would be on the Sierra build.

While I was thinking about that I realised that I actually had a pair of CP10s I wont be using so thought I would come up with something using them.





I think it should work well, and it can be unbolted for diff access.

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Stot

You don't have your own CNC milling machine and the software to run it to hand by chance???

Thats why I made this post... :p

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Stot

Well guessed Phil:D

Just for you guys, heres how to do the rest of it without a CNC machine. :rolleyes:

I superglued the photopolymer versions onto some discs of MDF the right size and cut round them then wrapped some electrical tape around to give a clean edge.



Put them in some molding forms and poured silicone onto them, left it to cure and demolded.

Perfect copies, a lot less finishing needed on casts from these molds as they are flat, my CNC one had a slight dome to it.

The larger one is for my wheel centre caps.

Heres the first casts out of the molds.



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Stot

Heres a wheel centre fitted. Spray it wheel silver again, jobs a good un.



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Stot

Here my first attempt at colour infill. I filled with coloured gelcoat up the edges.



Its really thick so hasn't really settled in the recesses. I'm going to try and overfill and sand down on the next ones.

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Stot

Hi All,

I got some real car stuff done today. I wanted to mount the diff and get the engine in. I did OK.

I got the engine in and in position with the sump ~40mm below the bottom rail. It may be a little lower but thats OK. I can always shim it up under the rubbers If I have any problems and I plan to shorten the sump at some point.




Saying that with the bonnet in position I couldnt have got it any higher anyway!



Where it is positioned it is not fouling the steering column either.

Diff went in easy enough.



I will be putting 2 holes where the yellow circles are to bolt the nose hanger I made in.



I could weld it but the diff is hard enough to get in and out of the cage as it is so being able to unbolt it will be great.