Badger's Build Thread

[Rosco]

Lol the only drawing i didnt do for you! Haha, how about getting the two bends bent a little closer to 90? Or dropping the height a bit?

Yeah those clamps are pretty neat, people use them on hoses to

[Badger]

Yeah, ruddy typical. A good example of my actions going faster than my brain As I said, rather embarrassing! Unfortunately I see no way of salvaging the roll bar, will just have to bite the bullet and order another one.

[Badger]

Been a couple of weeks since I've updated this, so here goes:

I've mostly been doing the donkey work on the exhaust, it's nearly finished though. I'd have had it finished on Saturday, but ran out of gas... typical!

Kit of parts


Right hand done...



Left hand ALMOST done!

[Badger]

I've also had a pinking at a couple of little bits - the brake light switch and the cover for the front of the footwells.

This kind of shows my solution - I've made up a bracket out of 16swg onto which a microswitch is bolted - or at the moment held in with a couple of nails as I have no bolts of the right size! The bracket bolts into the pedal box, so it's adjustable with the pedal. I've welded a plate onto a nut which threads onto the pedal push rod (again allowing some adjustment) and is held in place with a locknut. Seems to work well enough for now but I've got some misgivings about the plate on the pushrod - may try to sandwich it between locknuts or even put some loctite on it to be sure.



Finally I've cut the top panels into shape, will rivet and bond them into place next weekend. The aluminium front of the scuttle will bolt down onto the top of these, probable via rivnuts.



And finally my new rollbar compared to the existing one... whoops...

[Rosco]

cant you just get that hoop bent a bit more?

[Badger]

It may be possible, but at best the edges of the tubes would be smack on the edges of the chassis. I'd like to avoid throwing good money after bad on this one, plus on the styling side I prefer having the angled sides.
I'll bung it on Ebay at some point to try to recoup some of the money in it.

[Badger]

So it's been a while again since an update; I've been busy but it's all been little bits really. This is the summary:

Got the inlet manifolds made up (I used Alu-Weld to join the tubes to the plates since my TIG welder couldn't put enough heat into it), modified the throttle bodies to accept bosch style injectors, made up some spacers and then assembled it all on top of the engine. An easy summary but there was a fair bit of detailed work involved! Also got the throttle cable set up sorted for now - I expect I'll have to tweak it a bit in the future (especially if I make some cam covers), but for now it proves that the throttle pedal has sufficient travel and both sets of bodies open equally.