My chassis build

[HandyAndy]

your chassis is looking really nice, thats alot you,ve achieved in a week
well done Murtaza

andy

[Blade]

Well done Murtaza, Chassis is looking spot on, Keep up the good work

[Tilly819]

Looks great, very inpressed, keep up the good work

[flyerncle]

AshG .
I should have been politically correct and put "technician" (owner of NVQ)but I served an apprenticeship and you know where I am comming from !

(it was more like a sentence)

[HandyAndy]

Originally Posted by flyerncle

AshG .
I should have been politically correct and put "technician" (owner of NVQ)but I served an apprenticeship and you know where I am comming from !

or is it "you be the technician & i,ll be the oily rag"

andy

[flyerncle]

It's your fantasy,be the oily rag. I am a mechanic not a "technician " !!!!!

Not a number either !!!!!!!!

[geeman]

well ive been busy for the past 8 days and only just got back to working on it today. id call today about day 5 of the build, but i havnt spent more than a few hours today. I managed to tack in a few of the sb's at the back apart from sb5 and 6 as they are a pain to cut. I put in 2 diagonals d6 and d5, and the remaining tr's at the top front that support the suspension brackets. I also made a start on the rear suspension area doing the top and bottom frames.

[james83mills]

Originally Posted by geeman

Lol, yeah, i knew it would be a tight fit, but i guess ill have to live with it.

The rage 3 compound mitre saw is literally saving me hours though as i had to cut br8 and br9 with a hacksaw as they have 70 somthing angle on it which the rage3 wont do and it took me ages and was painful so id rather stick to using the rage 3. It should make the building of the front bits ff1-ff4 a breeze and i hope to finsih that today as well. However one downside o the saw is the ammount of metal swarf and in my size build area i keep on having to vaccuum to stop stepping of leaning on it. I even have a pair of tweezers for removing metal splinters as my hands re full of em'.

you can cut the 76 degree angle using the rage you just have to make a jig for it

[mr henderson]

Originally Posted by james83mills

you can cut the 76 degree angle using the rage you just have to make a jig for it

The easy way to cut these angles (with any power saw) is to cut a piece of wood to a known angle of say 40 degrees, then clamp that, and the piece of steel you want to cut, into the saw and set it at (in this case) 36 degrees.

[geeman]

I havnt posted on here for a few days, but have been busy building for some of them. I have now completed the transmission tunnel and almost done the steering wheel supports. I couldnt finish the rear section as i havent yet bended the 19mm tube at the back. I have also made all my suspension/shock brackets and many of the chassis plates, although if i were to do this again i almost certainly woould buy the chassis plates from 3ge as it would save alot of time and hassle. I hope to start to get the suspension brackets on either tomorrow or on thursday, but id say im making good progress. My evo rage 3 blade is wearing out quickly and im now using the angle grinder much much more to cut metal, which is a shame.






The biggest development for em however is getting a ford sierra!! After much hunting i found one about a 40 min drive away which was taxed and mot'd till august. Its a 1.8 cvh unfourtunately with a type 9, although i thought it would have an mt75 before i bought it!!
Its a 1992 h reg and done only 80k, whcih matches the past mot certificates(was worried it may have done 180 or 280k!!) HOwever im getting wuite alot of smoke when i rev it up fully, otherwise it seems fine. Its a good car, shame im taking it apart really. Oh yeah, paid £220 for it, but the person drove it here for me so saved me a 1 hour 20 min drive and petrol and insurance costs!!