Measurement Needed
 

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

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

Thanks Andy...:D

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

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

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

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

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

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

Junk?
 

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

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?