Stots Build Thread

[TheArf]

Not knocking it mate looks sound I haven't even thought about steering wheel yet

Arfon

[Stot]

Mounted up my diff tonight. When I built the chassis I positioned the diff plates by bolting them to the diff, clamping them up in position and then tacking the plates down. Now that I have solid bushes with no play and...



...the holes are of course slightly out.

Nothing a rotary burr cant sort.

[Stot]

Very solid in there now.






I need to adjust my nose bracket now too, again because there is no play and I made the nose bracket when there was play, the holes don't line up.

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Stot

[Stot]

Altered my nose bracket to fit, it just needed to be about 4-5mm shorter.





Proper sized bolts and some spray paint will finish it off.

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Stot

[twinturbo]

Moving on quickly!

Good work.

TT

[Stot]

Cheers TT. Got to try and do 'something' every day.

I made up some brackets to hold my handbrake cables in place. I wanted to bolt them directly to the diff bolt which is 12mm and although the original MX5 brackets could just handle a 12mm hole, they twisted to buggery when I tried to drill them.

Cut these out on the CNC Mill.



I annealed the center section using sharpie marks as indicators. The threaded rod and vice are acting as a heat sinks so the ring parts don't anneal.



The tab at the end will bend round and conform to the nut/bolt head when fitted so that needs annealing too.



Then I bent it in half round a form then put the threaded rod thorough it and tightened 2 sockets on it to pinch it into shape.

[Stot]

And this is what I ended up with.



I had to open them up and re-pinch them to get them on the cables.



And then bolted them to the underside of the diff bushes.



Jobs a good un.

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Stot

[K4KEV]

Luv it bud.....you think exactly along the lines that I do and it is refreshing for me to see it somewhere else being done.

[Stot]

Thanks Kev. Its good to find alternative solutions so I can use my toys.

Speaking of which. I adapted my handbrake caliper mounts, rather than cuting and welding them I drilled a new hole and re profiled the stops.



When mounted up they give me plenty of clearance from the seat back.




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Stot

[Stot]

I bought this this week for my post IVA build. £15. Who can guess why?



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Stot