my build thread!
 

hey all!
start as i mean to go on!
got a few "rubbish" pics of my engine uploaded ont photobucket but i thought id start the thread!
picking up my chassis pack this sat from HandyAndy!
well and truly excited and just bought myself front wishbones uppers and lowers! so i should have some chassis picks on the way next week!

http://s1134.photobucket.com/albums/m612/michaelprg/
^^^ watch this space :p

Tschüs!

Welcome to the forum hope all for well with your build. Would it not have been better to do the mod on the sump before you painted it?
Regards
John

Yeah that would have been the idea :) but seen as tho my sump is going to be sat around for a little while I'd rather not have it going rusty :) and thanks for the welcome :)

Michael

Hi Michael,

Flat pack chassis kit & wishbones all in a week......you,ll soon have a rolling chassis sat in your garage :cool:

Best wishes for your build, :cool:

Looking forward to meeting you on saturday, we,ll chat all things Roadster :)

cheers
andy

welcome, everyone here is more than helpful, good luck

wishbones!!
 

Big thanks to gingea1pom for the fast delivery rather chuffed with these!

wheyyy! :p
Cheers HanyAndy!

Ahhh!
 

It seems as tho, gettin a peice of 1220x 2440mm bit of wood to your house is probably the hardest part of the build! was going to start the chassis today aswell!! :eek:

I got bored as the wood is coming tomorrow now!=-) so.... i decided to lay a few of the base rails out and sit in it!! :-p
no broom! noises were made tho :rolleyes:

shall be tacking it all up tomorrow afternoon :)

LOL, we have all done the sit in it before it's even 1/2 way there bit:)
Those wishbones from Ginge are a work of art, that guy sure can weld. Nice bloke too!
You can't go far wrong with Andy's chassis kit, I built mine using one, it was all spot on.
Best of luck with the build, keep the piccies coming:)
Enoch

Great stuff
 

Firstly, I do not believe that I have welcomed you to the forum yet.

Welcome to the forum :)

Looks as if you are nearly all set to start the fun bit of building the chassis.

Know what you mean about transporting large sheets of build materials home, it's a real PITA

Sheets of ply, steel & alloy are not the easiest thing to transport in one piece, I certainly miss my old Transit since I sold it.

Love the picture of you sitting in position .... Bet you did make the brum brum noises, even if it was just in your mind :D

Got to admit it, done the same thing myself at about the same stage .... I guess the little boy within never really goes away .... Errm hang on, when I started my build, I probably was still a wee lad :D :o

Lol :)

Tt

Haha thank you for your welcomes and "lol's" :p im pretty sure there will be plenty!!! more pics of silly nature coming ! :-)
guess i should shed a little light on my build
colour plan i would like which i believe to be a colour by Saturn of yellow green isit ? closest i can describe to be kawasaki green :P
engine: 2.0 pinto running some wild cams haven't decided exactly yet !
lightened bottom end
want it revving quite quick!
and the all important port polish as my father does that for a living.
stainless header "hopfully" fabricated by myself
gearbox: Type 9
and to top it off just to get the imagination going i would quite like to carbon wrap the seat pannel and gear tunnel. i believe I've seen it done on here somewhere :-) looks rather nice especially with that fluro green!!

Sound like a work of art in progress :cool:

I look forward to following your build :)

:D
Great pictures Michael , certainly made me smile on this early monday morning :cool:

Enjoy your build, I look forward to following your build progress, we like piccies :)

cheers
andy

Welcome to the Forum Michael and cool pics, Monday morning we need to smile.

The colour is yellow green RAL 6018 and does look nice especially with black wings.

All the Best with your build......Andrew

yey....welcome bud I'm sure you are just about to enter a hairpin in that brum brum piccy:D seems you like to be different... bring it on dude:cool:

few more cheeky pics!
 

just posting a few cheeky pics as everyone loves piccies!!

heres my table finally!!



haha my milk!!





enjoy many more to come! shall be tacking up the full bottom rails this eve!!!
so excited! :o

Cool
 

Pleased to see that you have your build table sorted.

I also notice that you have the right tools to hand, even down to the essential bottle of milk :)

Mind you, havn't spotted the kettle as yet, don't know about you but anyone on here that knows me, will tell you that I can't function without a cup of tea in my hand :o

Bit of a problem when I am TIG welding though :D

Certainly looks as if you are on a mission, nice one :cool:

HAHA oh dont you worry! I LOVE TEA!! if you have an auto darkening helmet im sure you can duck tape the cup to it and get some clean engine hose and use it as a beer hat type of thing :-P

Ohhh .... Drip fed tea, briliant idea, that could prove to be a real life saver :D :D

rover v8!
 

well well well. :) ive had a change of heart, seen as tho i have half a rover v8 in my garage from my landrover series 3 conversion i thaught id rather have that than a pinto. reasons being lighter sounds better and will go better much better as i belive i still have my agressive cam for it :p will be using the lt77 box from an sd1, does anyone know how these compare to type 9 boxes dimensions wise as they look small enough from last time i saw one! :D

michael

a little progress !!
 

hey all got up fairly early this fine morn!! sun was shining! so decided to srip some of my old fiat :-( sad times but got a bit bored of that so onto the roadster is was!! decided that the rover v8 wasn't a good idea as id have not even a thou of room in my bay!! so vaux v6 it is :P as i can get one quite easily as my old man is building a 3.0 for his omega to replace his 2.5 so im sure i can do a deal ;) anyhoo! picciess!!!

finally some shape!!!







and the all important fosters! don't worry that was taken the other night :-P not been drinking at 10 in the morn!!

"Hic" :D

Looking great Michael , making some nice progress there :cool:

I like the idea of tacking the spare rails to the chassis to try to minimise any movement whilst welding it together :cool:

Have you sat in it again? right arm positioned as if out for a gentle drive with the "air" steering wheel in hand :D.

keep the progress pics coming .

cheers
andy

HA! not yet but don't be let down! ill get one soon once ive tacked the other side rails up :P yeah little trick i learnt making agricultural trailers ;-) but with rsj haha shall be a lil more later hopfully!! gta nip to notts!!

moree picccs!!! :P
 

got even more done this morning!! :-) thank god for Easter holidays! and for a silly treat got some driving pics ;-)

Only need to tack 2 more in and then i believe i'm ready to fully weld before i do the diff cage.. oh wait i think i need to tranny tunnel first! shall do that later

On to the piccies!!





HAHA mind my split in the trousers


now for the drifting ;-)

:D Looking great Michael, I like the "air" steering wheel & "air " gear lever /drifting pic :D

Looks like your chassis is going together nicely, not hanging around either, :cool:

Won,t be long before she,s rolling.

And from the pics it looks like you are having fun & enjoying your build :)

cheers
andy

YEAH!! tis going fantastic! one thing!

does u7 and u8 look roughly how they should be spaced i was looking, and thinking will my engine be on the p**s :confused: ha ha
think i may start welding this evening put plent of cross braces to stop distortion, but i know its going to do it haha :rolleyes:

U7 & U8 look about spot on, to "the eye" it makes you think its wrong, but its to do with the width of the pedal box when using a Type 9 box,

its quite a common mistake when fitting U7 , the brain sort of tells you to fit it in line with BR9, similar to how U8 is positioned directly in line with BR8, the bottom diagram on page 38 gives the spacings for U7 & U8 from the centerline ;)

Also, don,t forget that when your chassis is fully welded you,ll be removing the steel of BR10 which is between U7 & U8 , it,ll all make sense when you come to fit the gearbox :)

Nice work Michael :cool:

cheers
andy

Even More Piccies !
 

:p here i am again wanting to share more piccies!!! fully welding the basic frame as we speak

Well i'm actually allowing it to cool for a bit!

Constant back and forth to corner to corner! but its worth it and im getting fit at the same time :-P

Shall be shooting off back out into the garage after this :-D





And here's an engine start panel I picked up for a 5er!! bargain

fly like a v6!!
 

yooo!
thaught id have some fun this morning and decided to see what the v6 would look like in my bay .....


Well ... :D







Oh and the cylinder heads are the wrong way round! ;-)

slowly!
 

hey all thought id post up some pics!

its been a lil slow lately with getting my gearbox trying get my head round on what to do etc haha! :p

surely its melted my brain







hope to mock my block up so i can decide how the gearbox is going to sit!

Just need some £££ :-) to get the gear remote ect !!!

michael

Even more piccies!!
 

You can never have enough pics eh!!!

spent a fair time grinding welds down and tacking up my rear cage today !

can say im chuffed!

having a whale of a time building can honestly say its one fun challenge!

So if your reading this and thinking of building.... DO IT! ;-)

been ont phone to Andy talking about chassis's and iva related stuff!! getting some insperation/motivation haha
can say that my build should start to accelerate a bit more now! so watch this space!! :-P









more to come soon id guess ;-)

Michael

Your chassis is looking great Michael :cool:

Its really coming to life now, looking more & more like a car now, get your CP plates tacked into position & it,ll be on wheels in next to no time :cool:


Nice work mate......don,t forget CP24 ;) :D

cheers
andy

photo spamming!
 

not ground breaking but nice to look at :) all welds are nearly done!! :D

thank..... ! haha feels as tho ive been welding for agggges!

just a few more things to weld on and plates to put in a wala! i guess it will be nearly rolling :cool:

banter!!
 

:D managed to do a bit of bantering and got myself both front uprights+calipers+disks, propshaft, diff and half shafts and the drum brakes for guess how much!......



£100!!!

Bargain! :eek:

Rather chuffed!

Nice workshop by the way :-)

Thanks :)

I owe that one to me old man :p

He has kindly (without a choice) given half of the garage up for my kit car haha ;)

On the conditions he can drive it too haha :cool:

2 nice photos!
 

How do!

2 nice little photos! decided to take my chassis outside.... because i can really and just wanted to sit in it haha!
here are 2 photos of the chassis and then 2 photos of me and my poor girlfriend having to take a pretend drive!! ;-)




My dog bobby looks intrested!



as you can see from the last one im doing no hands and my girlfriend (sam) is frankly scared haha! :-P holding on for dear life too!

oh simple minds eh! :-D

quick show off!
 

howdy! just updating with some pics as everyone loves pictures!!
got myself a set of escort turbo wheels for 40 spondoolies mind you there getting rare and they have excellent tyres!!!! need a spray obviously as you can see i've been sanding them down ;-) with center caps too!!

painted my wishbones British racing green my fav color!!
and primed the uppers!

modified my old fiat Brava fan too! absolute perfect fit couldn't ask for better to be honest sits nice and flush!

well enough of the story! have a looksie!