Hi Rosco,
As everyone here, I'm highly impressed by your build. I just love the pedal box, and I'm longing to see your roll bar.

I'd like to know what CAD software to you use, please?

Exactly !;)

Cheers for the comments guys!

I use solid works, get on with it ok!

If you have a spare five minutes can you draw up a rocker arm to use on the front to make inboard suspension ?

It would be an interesting exercise.:cool:

Haha yeah, when my cars finished :D

Good progress the last few weeks, pedal box and pedals are getting finish welded and then off for powder coat

Front hoop in position, roof bar in plastic



Side mounts



Door bar mocked up

Exhaust altered and posted back to my mate to tig weld



Door and roof bars fitted, notching the door bars what a bit tricky to get them both the same!

Rear diagonal redone in 45mm cds

Bit of an update, didn't have much to do last week, I went stonleigh and brought all my lights,

Made these threaded slugs



Drilled and fitted here



Rear spoiler held in position

More slugs made



Stays made





All done

I no some people won't like it, but I got the spoiler for nothing, it's only for a mess about, that's why I've done it to bolt on and off easily

Today's job was to start making a bead roller like below



Bits required

Machining the blocks to house the bearings on my dad's home built cnc



Last up my dads started on my dash buttons, we're having a go using an ARDUINO, it's a programable chip with ins and out, they can be used with switches, sensors, relays just have a look on ebay to see what's available, the boards are about £8 and everything else like switches are pence, it's programmed from a PC through USB, so things like indicator flashing can be programmed, if it works out ok it will all be soldered and put in a little project box

Steady progress this week I think

Horns mounted



Headlight mounts made





I stripped the whole chassis down so I could lift it outside, I needed to cut the front shock mounts off as I had got them in the wrong place, to far back by about 10mm

My garage from outside while it's empty



Headlights on

Lower engine mounts tacked on



Next up I made some threaded bosses for my wing mirrors

Also made myself a list, my main aim is to get the chassis ready for powder coating

Looking fantastic as normal.

Add the vin number to pre powder coat.
With your digi dash. How will you mount the speedo pickup?
Earth points. I used rivnuts but others have welded bolts onto the chassis.

Cheers, some good points there,

Do I have to apply for a vin number?

I will check with the dash specs,

Also I will get some bolts welded on

Thanks for the input

Cheers, my dad's made good progress on the dash circuit, if you click the picture below its a video







There's still a bit to do but I think he's sorted the hardest bits of code

Also I've sorted my steering shaft out with some thick walled tube, I heated it up to get the shaft in, just needs tiging around the ends and possibly a few pins

You now need to apply directly to the dvla Swansea
There is a handy letter at the bottom of this post

Also someone mentioned roll pinning the steering extension. I did that and welded the pin so it will never come out. The inspector didn't look at but they are all different. 10mins work or £90 retest fee and the effort getting there.........I know which I went for.

cheers for that, letters in the post as you cant apply via email,

and yes i will pin it then thanks

Got my stearing wheel last week, but needed a boss to mount it so turned one up on my lathe and milled the hex in on my dads cnc, also needed to drill the wheel so marked it on his cnc so I new it was right, real happy with this as it not like you can buy them off the shelf



I copied the tapered hexigan from the standard sierra wheel





A stainless cover tube to hide the column, still not 100 percent how I'm finishing this bit yet

Then looked at the wiring loom and got it plugged in and the ignition on ready for a start up when I get my fuel tank

This is going to be a "mint" build I see. Nice skills, I need a lathe!:rolleyes:

Haha thanks, everybody needs a lathe, I don't no how I ever managed before :D

Went off up to Race Technology today to pick up my Dash2, really nice chap who owns it and he couldn't be more helpful,







To say I love it would be an understatement, even before I've wired it up, I've always wanted a digi dash on one of my cars, so hopefully I might make a start on wiring it up at the weekend.

Here's a pic of them lit up for those that are interested

I've got the same dash and made the mistake of putting the wheel speed pickup on the prop.
I ended up putting it on the rear upright as it spins (on my car) 3.92 times slower than the prop shaft.

If you program them well they are an awesome dash.

Not much to get on with this week as I'm waiting on my prop shaft, but some switches turned up from china so decided to make a prototype panel, it's no way near the finished design and the large outer plate sort of represents the dash, I've recessed the switches as they would have stuck out a bit to far otherwise I think

The fished housing will be out of aluminium or plastic I think

Also got my bead roller finished and did a test panel

Some nice tinwork there mate, that bead roller looks like the mutts wossnames!

Hi
Do you have plans for the bead roller or did you just wing it.
Thanks
Steve

yeah just winged it, it works well but theres a few things i would change it doing a mk2

Prop shaft turned up from dunning and fairbank on Friday so lots of jobs to be done





So got the prop bolted in and mounted my rear view mirror

Gear linkage mocked up





Mounts for bel crank



Plate for centre bearing sorted and mounts for gear lever done

Not overly happy about the handbrake lever position but it's not in the way when sat in the seat and it's the best position for the cable

Front cross brace done



Water pipe mounts, will have rubber grommets in

My dad cut me a bigger gear out of mdf on his cnc as a test, as the normal 140mm that people use was way to small, the motor needed to much grinding out
We went for 160mm and the motor only needed a little bit out in a few places, I'm really happy as the motor doesn't sit through the bottom of the car

I will get a steel gear laser cut out now, we powered it up on the mdf and it worked a treat

Also got the handbrake mounted

Got a couple of prop catchers done tonight, these two will be welded on, I'm going to make a front one that bolts on else I will never get the prop in and out









The tube was a bit of rear hub tube I had left over and it's a perfect fit in between the tunnel

Quick update, just tacking the last few bits onto the chassis, my vin number came today, just need to make a plate and sort some earth points then ready for powder coat

Passenger bulkhead bead rolled and fitted





Gear lever taking shape



The black smudge is where I'm going to weld my vin number