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Old 22nd June 2010, 05:15 PM
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Afternoon men,

Not much movement on the roadster, work and all that. Won’t be doing any this weekend as I am currently in Weymouth for two weeks with work. Living the dream!

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Old 22nd June 2010, 06:07 PM
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We've been away to a motorhome show this last weekend so nowt happened at work from Thursday till yesterday. I now have my MT75 hybrid box sorted and have today made the last of the transfer tubes for the inlet manifold. Just need to hire a TIG welder to glue all the bits together. A webshite update is imminent .

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Old 22nd June 2010, 06:20 PM
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> what you all doing ??

Too much work and not enough car build
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Measuerd up the engine bay and engine box. Tried fitting the engine in the bay but as the unit I was using still has the front diff fitted it was never going to sit in place. but the overall length from the gearbox mount to the front pully is ~116cm and that fits ok in the space by my calcs.

Also trial fitted one set of rear bones.

And cleaned up a section of the chassis and sprayed it ready for doing the floor.....

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Old 26th June 2010, 09:33 AM
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Removed the engine from the donor car and did a partial strip down. Need to do a compression check to make sure its all good. Next stage is to wait for my insurance cash to clear should be Thu then can order a gearbox and all the chassis kit so by end of July if all goes well should be rolling chassis with engine fitted heh.
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Old 26th June 2010, 09:54 AM
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Decided I need some seats and runners before fitting the floor,

Read up about the headlamp mounts

Looked at what needs to be done for the bulkhead on the drivers side..

And My build thread shows where I am at on the construction

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Spent a couple of evenings and today on the car. Brake and fuel lines are now run throughout the car and riveted in. Bought an air/hydraulic riveter (one of the cheap ones) and it is a fantastic time and energy saver - makes riveting fun I've also built up one of the rear corners having cleaned and painted everything. Spent this afternoon cutting out the seat back panel - all ready for drilling and riveting now

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Made more space in the garage.
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Old 28th June 2010, 07:49 AM
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> what you all doing ??

Too much work and not enough car build
Same here, may be able to remove one or two from the dole que if my work carries on like this, just picked up a few good contracts so once all the graft is done I should have some ££££ for my build
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