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Names kinda ring a bell mate I'm sure if I saw them Id recognise them. Especially if they did a dissertation on FS. Take it there mates of yours? Aweful with names me! Haha
Thanks Andrew, yes mate I'm still up for Tuesday I'm looking forward to it. I'll be there nice and early I may have a problem on the Wednesday now as I'm suppose to be out driving and testing the Formula Student car just may mean ill have to come down afterwards mate
The quality of his TIG welding is pornographic!! So much nicer than MIG and doesnt splatter everywhere either!! Nothing worse than having a lovely white powder coated cage with splatter all over it and the car for that matter
Prepping the surfaces for welding and removing the brackets from the rear bench etc
Bolted in, splayed and tacked in place.
Cage was then removed and the towers and plates TIG welded in place
cheeky peek through the window
Mmmmmmmmm
:hearteyes::tongueout::yum:
colour scheme is a bit crazy tbh at minute Id planned on having white and blue feature parts on the inside, so white cage, white feature stitching on my black leather seats with blue sabelt harnesses, blue sabelt wheel.
and having parts on the outside in red, so RARB red, FARB in red, and...
Soooo onto my favourite update to this car for a while! Certainly an exciting one for me anyway! So sick of working on shitty Ginetta track cars its nice to finally see my own little tarck toy coming together!
First mock up of the Safety Devices half cage....
Im dying too buddy! But i just cant without refreshing anything first haha its a curse! Im slowly stockpiling parts lol to hopefully do first! Refresh TRE, track rods, ball joints, dampers, springs, refurb my hubs, bearings the full works mate! Id like to refurb my rear beam as well before I fit...
I want to replace all my copper battery leads as I hate green corroded copper! makes small babies cry!! When I relocate the batter inside Ill be doing that I think
Has any body replaced the alternator cable before when replacing for a new one? My cable is pretty cruddy but at a quick glance this cable seems to go back into the loom? Just Ive seen people having troubles with alternators not charging properly because of rusty leads so want to fix this before...
Yeah Id like to get the CMComposite ducts they incredible the cup replica style ones! Mmmmmm!! haha
Recent bay pic not much changed really, although my ECU mount has suddenly developed a vibration, its done pretty dam well though, Ive had my solid mounts on for a while now and my bracket still...
You still got the original fog surrounds in on yours? Thats kinda why mine are still in just because think looks a bit unfinished when the lights are just pulled out?
Not going fast enough yet for brake cooling haha
I don't have any pics of them funnily enough 🙈 but yeah i trimmed the end of the splitter of as we all know the Fabia ones are too long but then re-glued the end back on but obviously just the end to tidy it up a little.
Found this hidden away behind my glove box never knew I had a glove-box cooler?? Anybody want it? haha is it a standard item cant say Ive heard of anyone having one? Never looked tbh haha so it could be haha
Selection of nuts and washers (stainless of course) to tidy the bay up, they were a...
Yeah exactly ruing my thread!! Nothing worse than having photos missing!!
Charges you?? FFS! who recommended me PB again? Dammit!! 🙈
Think ive fixed it, changed an album title and it s**t itself
Oh my fuuuuuucking days what is going on with my pics screw you photo bucket!!!! My pics early on in the thread are starting to vanish now too FFS arrrrrrrrrggghhh 😢
Any ideas why this has suddenly started happening after uploading s**t loads of new photos? Driving me mad! Got a patchy...
Sabelt RS Wheel fitted, something to bear in mind when ordering a wheel boss is whether you are keeping your SAS (Steering angle sensor) and the self canceling indicators, as the boss I ordered the first time around didn't have these, that was a Sabelt one, ordered it as ithought id keep things...
Think the tops are 16mm and are a weird thread size quite surprised the Billies don't come with new ones that's a bit pikey lol surprised they even use the same pitch nut