Measurement Needed

[tkpm]

Hi Folks,

Need help from someone who has the nose cone and rear tub fitted, what i need is the overall lenght of the car.

My build is currently 3+ miles from home and i'm going to move it to my garage at home. But i need re-arrange my garage so i can fit the roadster and my day to day work tools in the garage.

Terry

[HandyAndy]

From the tip of the most frontal part of the nose to the rear lower edge( longest length of the car ) of the GRP rear tub is 331cm :)

cheers
andy

[tkpm]

Thanks Andy...:D

[HandyAndy]

and the widest width is 172cm from extreme outer edge of the rear wings :)

My pleasure :cool:

cheers
andy

ps....I cheated....the question had been asked before, a long time ago & i had replied to that thread too so the answer was in my post history :p

[CaptainCrash1971]

HAndy, any idea the height of the engine bay from bottom rail to top of bonnet, need to see if my engine will fit without modification.
Cheers

[HandyAndy]

HAndy, any idea the height of the engine bay from bottom rail to top of bonnet, need to see if my engine will fit without modification.
Cheers

hang on a mo, I,ll just check my past posts as I,m sure I,ve covered this some time ago too ;) :)

cheers
andy

[HandyAndy]

You have the height of the chassis from the bottom edge of the lower rails to the top of the upper rails = 355mm,

the top of the bonnet is 230mm above the upper rails at the scuttle end & if my memory doesn,t fail me 171mm above the upper rails at the nose cone

so you have 585mm from base rail to top of bonnet at scuttle end
&
526mm from the base rail to top of bonnet at the nose cone end .

depends which bonnet you fit, as the new Saturn bonnet gives greater clearance in its larger bonnet bulge.

hope that helps.

cheers
andy

[tkpm]

Thanks for the measurements Andy :)

Have 300mm to spare in lengh and about a 1m in width and still have a decent work area, just need to clear out 14 years worth of junk :rolleyes: from my old business.

Terry

[HandyAndy]

no probs Terry , glad the info helped :cool:

Ahhh I remember the garage clearout :eek:

I,m building my car at my mothers home, as a family of 7 we moved in 40 yrs ago.....i,m sure you can imagine how much junk was in there :eek:

Its a good sized garage, got my Roadster in & still has about 10ft of work space in front of it. Only junk in there now is MYYYYY junk :D

cheers
andy

[CaptainCrash1971]

cheers Andy
knew I could rely on you. Looks like my temporary engine will fit without any alterations at all.
thanks again
Alan/Bob

[HandyAndy]

cheers Andy
knew I could rely on you. Looks like my temporary engine will fit without any alterations at all.
thanks again
Alan/Bob

Sounds good :cool:

Tho may i say, take those measurements with a slight variance being possible due to the thickness of the GRP side panel return edge that sits on the upper chassis rails....tho its only approx 2 - 3 mm ;)

Maybe I need to get out more :p glad the info helped.

cheers
andy

[ayjay]

JUNK? JUNK?

Thats not junk in my garage or yours its stuff waiting the time when I /you get around to using it!!:)

While I'm here whats the total volume of the space taken up by the book spec car ( at an ambient temp of 21C) on a thursday afternoon---please:D

[HandyAndy]

JUNK? JUNK?

Thats not junk in my garage or yours its stuff waiting the time when I /you get around to using it!!

While I'm here whats the total volume of the space taken up by the book spec car ( at an ambient temp of 21C) on a thursday afternoon---please:D

:o I must confess, I,m a bit of a hoarder for things that I think "ah, maybe I,ll use this some day" sort of hoarder ,

Tho yes Ayjay, I do agree with you ...maybe I should have said "spare parts" instead of calling it junk :D

Hang on, I,ll have a go at the volume question , tho can,t remember last time we had 21c temp on a thursday :p

I,ll get my coat .

cheers
andy

[HandyAndy]

While I'm here whats the total volume of the space taken up by the book spec car --please:D

the approx volume of space taken up by a book spec Roadster with GRP bodywork is 3131.26....give or take a bit for not counting in the height of the roll bar :)

I really must get out more :o

cheers
andy

[minicountryman1961]

the approx volume of space taken up by a book spec Roadster with GRP bodywork is 3131.26....give or take a bit for not counting in the height of the roll bar :)

I really must get out more :o

cheers
andy


Did you dunk it in a tank to see how much water it displaced?