Many questions...

[geeman]

Originally Posted by Josh

Some more questions... I'm going to use 2mm ali sheet for my floor - how would you suggest I mount my seats? Would it be enough to bolt them straight to the ali plate or would I be better off welding some steel support tubes in between the lower rails and transmision tunnel rails? I'll be using seat runners nicked off my 5door metro as it'll almost cirtainly fail its next MOT in a few months beyond economic repair

I think most people including myself will weld 2 strips of some steel(im using 40x3mm), and put the runners on those. I think some people have used some 25mm box instead of strip as well.

[gingea1pom]

Originally Posted by Josh

Some more questions... I'm going to use 2mm ali sheet for my floor - how would you suggest I mount my seats? Would it be enough to bolt them straight to the ali plate or would I be better off welding some steel support tubes in between the lower rails and transmision tunnel rails? I'll be using seat runners nicked off my 5door metro as it'll almost cirtainly fail its next MOT in a few months beyond economic repair

Josh

Josh,

You really don’t want to fix your seats straight to the aluminium they would probably rip out on hard cornering.

Weld some steal strip or box section as Geeman has said, should keep the IVA man happy.

Cheers Ginge

[HandyAndy]

My car has an ali floor, so i,ve welded in some 25mm box tube between the bottom rails/ transmission tunnel,

apart from the strength of the seat anchorage it also raises the seats up to a nice level, i can now see the top of the headlights & front wings , when i,m in spuds car I can only just see over the top of the aero screen

cheers
andy

[SeriesLandy]

Originally Posted by HandyAndy

My car has an ali floor, so i,ve welded in some 25mm box tube between the bottom rails/ transmission tunnel,

apart from the strength of the seat anchorage it also raises the seats up to a nice level, i can now see the top of the headlights & front wings , when i,m in spuds car I can only just see over the top of the aero screen

cheers
andy

What you can see all depends on your height mate . Although your not that short.

[Josh]

Today was the last days building for 4 weeks, back off to Uni tomorrow. Got started on removing the rust from my front uprights via electrolysis and played around with the seat heights with the nose cone in place.

I think I'll weld in some angle strips across the bottom rails with some captive nuts welded to the underside for me to bolt my runners too - I too think that the slighty higher seat position will help with my view out the car!!

Me in my chassis (day dreaming !)



Cheers
Josh

[HandyAndy]

looking great there Josh ,
I,m sure we can all admit to sitting in the chassis & dreaming / longing for the day we get to drive it

May I ask which gearbox you plan to install?

Have fun at uni ( which uni by the way? my lad is at Lancashire Uni.)

cheers
andy

[Josh]

I was going to use the type9 and built the car acordingly, then changed my mind did a straight swap for an MT75 with a guy after a type9 (lucky!) and made the trans tunnel mods accordingly.

I'm at Bath in my second year studying Mechanical Engineering, although will be taking a year out in industry starting June '10 working for Williams F1 - can't wait!!

Cheers
Josh

[HandyAndy]

wow, a fantastic Industry placement & your Roadster build will I,m sure be a great talking point of your time with Williams.

Your chassis is looking great, you,ll soon have it on wheels , then sitting in it saying Brum Brum

My lad is studying to be a teacher......( teaching English & History in Japan )

cheers
andy

[twinturbo]

Originally Posted by HandyAndy

My lad is studying to be a teacher......( teaching English & History in Japan )

cheers
andy

I can 200% say I would not want to be a teacher. I have worked in a school for 12 years and realy can't work out how they cope with some of the crap they have to put up with... But then again, I am just plain poor at teaching people stuff.. Give me a computer network issue and I am quite happy though

TT

[twinturbo]

Originally Posted by Josh

year out in industry starting June '10 working for Williams F1 - can't wait!!

Cheers
Josh

Remember, your earnings do not have to have a ££££ value. 30 minuets with your chassis in the care of one of the chassis dynamics boys could be worth a shed load..

Just don't push ya luck

Should be a briliant placement

TT