Sunday 22 September 2013

Project Update - Sep-13

Hello again, welcome back.

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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