Now the holiday and wedding festivities are all over,time to crack on and build some more car!
After the joy of the engine start and first drive, I soon realised that I would have to have a smaller steering wheel. This proved quite difficult actually, as trying to get a boss, quick release and wheel in the correct size to match all the components proved tricky! After several attempts and returns, I eventually found the right items. 280mm steering wheel is laughably small, but means I don't have to amputate any legs, and the quick release is great for getting in and out
Next up I decided to finish off the suspension settings/torque, so went round and torqued up all the bolts, and roughly did the camber/ toe in settings, at least the wheels now point straight-ish.
This led to me offering up the rear wings, only to find the ride height was massively too high - I had to drop it by a good 4" so that the wheel sits nicely within the wing. I decided to have the wing at the height of the lowest the car could be, so that I can always raise it if needed. As a bonus, the top of the wing is roughly right with the rear tub, so all good.
(Resting on a block of wood on the tire)
Then, had to get both back wheels off to tighten the rear suspension bolts and re-do the rear upright lower bolts - wasn't happy with the cut-off 1/2" unf bolts so replaced them with newer ones and spaced them out with washers to get the required 3mm clearance:
(Much better, old ones I had cut a bit too short)
Then I fitted the front cycle wing brackets, bending them around the tire using 10mm packing strips as a guide
Finally, I could the offer all 4 wings up to see what it looked like!
Pretty good I should think!
I'm now musing about how to fit the front wings, Dave has some good inspiration on his blog. Plus I still need to fix this clutch. Ah well, progress being made again is something to be pleased about.
Short video here: HERE
Thanks,
Steve
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