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Old 4th July 2013, 12:27 AM
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Sorry to hear that, what about a BMW E3, any of them about cheap?

Unfortunately not any import car here however old it is goes for silly money eg I saw a mk 3 Cortina advertised for over £10,000 yes that is ten thousand .

so I have to just get on the search .
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Old 4th July 2013, 06:39 PM
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Thanks for the reply, I don't have the donor to cut any bulk head from but I will look into the rest of your suggestions when I'm ready to make that part, but when I mocked it up with the steering column in place it all seemed to fit except for the top of the loud pedal being to far over to miss the bonnet, I ground off the pedal pad and welded it back on straight
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Old 9th July 2013, 02:40 PM
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No pictures but I'm slowing finishing off the chassis, loads of final welding and grinding to do. steering column UJ is sorted now and column bearing and plate, pedal box needs a bit more to finish which I shall do tonight when it's cooler.

Then I need to get the drivers floor welded up. Passenger floor needs some welding from underneath to finish. Then it's just the backend to sort out but I think it's just brackets that need fully welding and maybe redo the underside welding on the strut towers as I wasn't happy with them last time.

Think I'm going to go for a fibre glass kit from AGM as I really can't be arsed doing the sides and back in ali I just don't have the space, tools, patience or skills, binning my custom rear end as it's still not finished, nosecone brackets will go, heater matrix and brackets are being deleted, it was leaking, and moving the waterbottle to the front of the car. No more steel to be attached to this car not even going to do the round bits near the seats, just going to leave that to the fibreglass side panels. All Ali tunnel in 0.9mm with foot rest, thin I know but cheap and easy to cut/bend.

Done some measuring and the AGM kit should fit fine, worse case is a bonnet bulge.

Got my paint, paint brushes, seam sealer, brake pipe, clips, unions, still to sort roll bar but think I'll just buy that one off ebay as I give up trying to get a CDS item made for reasonable money, but I will be cross bracing it and doing the supports with CDS.

Looking forward to having a finished chassis all painted and getting on with putting things back on for the final time!
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Old 11th July 2013, 03:52 PM
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Old 11th July 2013, 10:37 PM
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Unfortunately not any import car here however old it is goes for silly money eg I saw a mk 3 Cortina advertised for over £10,000 yes that is ten thousand .

so I have to just get on the search .
Is there any way to smuggle parts into the country as a government that greedy deserves to be ripped off
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Old 12th July 2013, 05:03 AM
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I wish I could smuggle stuff in but also shipping is expensive so I am just gonna have to use what I can find here
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Old 15th July 2013, 09:54 AM
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Bloody hell when will this bit be over, it's killing me! "just a few brackets to weld" my arse!! Even the welder had to have a 10 minute break to cool down yesterday. Neighbours must love me, sat in there gardens listening to me grinding on this baby for over an hour continuously with the garage door open. Sounded like some epic battle between me and some giant steel dragon.



I really don't know how any of us manage to put these chassis together and build these cars it's a herculean task of gargantuan proportions! We should all be supremely proud of ourselves!
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Old 17th September 2013, 05:07 PM
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Car's slowly coming back together. Whilst it's upside down I thought I'd get the brakes done and drill the rivet holes on the underside for the side panels.

Also managed to catch a cold at the weekend hanging around in a wet n windy garage.

I'm enjoying this part now that the welding, grinding and painting is over.

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Old 17th September 2013, 07:52 PM
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Car's slowly coming back together. Whilst it's upside down I thought I'd get the brakes done and drill the rivet holes on the underside for the side panels.

Also managed to catch a cold at the weekend hanging around in a wet n windy garage.

I'm enjoying this part now that the welding, grinding and painting is over.

It is more fun doing these type of bits. I was worried about cutting the Grp but its much nicer to work with than I was expecting.

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Old 17th September 2013, 10:12 PM
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It is more fun doing these type of bits. I was worried about cutting the Grp but its much nicer to work with than I was expecting.

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Same here, took me a week to get on with chopping up the side panels.
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