New Build thread

[K4KEV]

Ok...not been doing much tinkering lately as I have been having a whale of a time blasting allover the place and really enjoying the roadster, I cannot believe how well it handles 2nd and 3rd gears are absolutely evil, but thanks to my early decision to try and keep a bit more weight at the back end has paid off in terms of traction of which it has heaps but can be easily made to let go when I want it to and not when IT wants too.
The only mod I have done is halorize my headlights with some very bright led rings which were a perfect fit over the glass lens, I have them wired in to be daylight running lights which seems to be the craze at the mo...you will have excuse the fly splats.






Will be taking the car off the road at the end of the month so if the NERDS fancy a get together ...perhaps with mine and Davey Bolams car as well, it might benefit those still or intending to build. I am sure there will be one nice day/weekend left in this month.

ok I will leave you with a puzzle ....the following templates will lead to an addition to my roadster......see if anyone can guess.

[Davidbolam]

Looking good kev. I would be up for a meet (further north this time)

David

[vmax1974]

i would be up for a meet up too would be good to see both cars side by side

the puzzle kev. are you making ear trumpets cause your roadster has damaged your hearing and its the low cost solution to a hearing aid?

[flyerncle]

Rectal funnel ?

[flyerncle]

Cant/wont promise anything but it might be possible to arrange a blat up and down the runway at Eshott/Felton if NERDS are interested.

[K4KEV]

Ok seems enough interest will start a new thread tho.

[K4KEV]

About time I put some effort into my upgrades....those cones things I made from paper were templates for cone things in perforated stainless steel to slip into my current silencer set up which re models it into a laminar flow silencer, what this does is it smooths out the turbulence/spiralling of exhaust gasses and produces a straight flow out of the exhaust, it also increases the scavenging effect because of the increased speed it produces, I have also found it quietens the exhaust note substantially which is a bonus because my car was loud.
If you google laminar flow silencer you will see what I mean.
will be documenting my dash build soon from some gorgeous twill carbon fibre and epoxy.

[SeriesLandy]

I'm looking forward to the dash build. It's something I would like but I've not got round to finding yet.

[K4KEV]

Well here we go then Steve...first of all I sat down and thought What am I going to use.....mdf again....no, too heavy ....Ally... no, too wasteful.... I wanted something easy to work with.....standing in my back garden and looking at my roof (cannot remember why) and the answer was staring me in the face...FACIA BOARD the more I thought about it the more it made sense... hdpe with a return on the bottom that will stregthen that part. Another real bonus ....cost,
£13 for a 2.5m x300mm and leaves me with loads spare to experiment with.
I have also discovered it forms very easily with a heat gun so wheel arches and such will be easy to fabricate and a front splitter (you were right Paul)
Anyway first part I started with was my instrument binnacle, So this is a work in progress ....first pic is where it will be situated ie replacing these gauges.

[flyerncle]

Does her in doors know part of the roof is missing,if you need inspiration contact Kev !

Nice one,I have seen some kit cars fitted with small wing like aerofoils on the nose cone that looked usefull and yes the splitter will help.