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Feel your pain with not having somewhere to work on your car. Glad you sorted it as I know how much hassle it can be.The brake bells look good and keen to see what you do with the fuel set-up. Good update mate.
UPDATE:
This week should visually see some big steps. At the end of the week the window fitter is coming so there is a push to get things ready for that. I am going to hang the doors tomorrow probably but last night I fitted the superseal connectors to my new Ricky Evans heated windscreen, that...
This was made by someone who was contracting at RS Fabrications. The guy was called Michael Moyers. He now runs Alpha Performance Fabrications, you could speak to him and see... but I can tell you it was by no means cheap at all...
Nice design, really neat.
Mine has a bit of flex currently so it may be something I address in phase 2, but I really need to get the car built and usable first.
It is indeed filtered where they split (for ease of service) and uses a standard filter size from a Hyundai Getz I think it is.
I haven't tested (or have the ability to test) the venturi effect but simple physics suggests to me that it should be relative in this case I would have thought
Thank you for the kind words mate, good of you to say. Yeah I think I was probably wrong from the outset on the hinges but hadn't really become apparent until now when I am needing to hang them. Oh well, taking it as a learning... Glad I am on the right approach now.
Glad we had the same idea...
Yeah a bit cheesed I handed over the money as I say...
So I think the JCWeldfab name went with Jon (who was 1 director), and has left. I believe JCWeldfab as a building/location is still present now as Alpha Performance Fabrications being run by Michael (who was the other director). Not sure...
UPDATE:
I have not enjoyed this week... It has pretty much been a battle on most parts, its really frustrating and it seems like you are either redoing jobs you think you have already sorted or you are going backwards.
Lets start with the
TRACK RODS.
The new items came from RPD, great.... I...
@robzracing @pule333 how did you mount your doors?
After a stud breaking off the weld there is growing concern that welding studs to the hinge won’t be good enough.
UPDATE:
I started the day with prepping the subframe, steering rack and track rods to go back together - the track rods have now turned up but I am going to wait to pick up the tool before I refit.
I then moved on to refitting the top of the airbox. I thought this may be the best time to do it...
So it turns out the other button is on the steering wheel. I did not know this, I thought they didn't do anything as they had no labels. I spoke to the original builder today and it turns out the labels were on his steering wheel hence no sign of what the buttons did when I mounted them up...
I wasn’t aware the dash had a 4th button. The loom was purchased from someone running an identical set-up (so they only used the 3). What does the 4th do?
UPDATE:
Something that I guess did go well today was pretty much finishing off the dash. You saw me start it in one of the previous updates but today I managed to tie it up (barring painting the mount). First up I wanted to fit the column mount spacers as this could effect the line of vision to...
UPDATE:
and more 1 step forward 1 step back....
Today I ordered the heated windscreen from Ricky Evans. I then booked for all the windows to be fitted by Ultimate windscreens. Because I was doing this I wanted to get the doors hung on the vehicle to make it all easier. I had already made up the...
Yeah there is some concern that there is still a lot to do before mapping, and even if booking mapping is a good idea before I have run the car up to temp. I have basically given myself till 2 weeks before mapping and if nothing is checking, mapping won't happen and will be cancelled.
Thank...
UPDATE:
After the frustration of the brake pads this was far more frustrating. It turned out that the track rods needed replacing. The rack was already on the subframe and the subframe was already on the car, thats not too much of a worry as I had the facility to borrow the right tools for the...
UPDATE:
With the aforementioned push to get the doors hung I want to tie up the dash area as this will be a bit harder with full doors/windows in. My thought here was to create a bracket attached to a backing plate mounted on the steering column mount bolts. The backing plate in carbon would...
UPDATE:
This week was very much about going backwards..... (hopefully to go forwards)
I needed to complete more smaller jobs tying up little bits across the car. First up was the brakes, the callipers were all bolted back up but I set about cleaning the calliper springs and retaining clips and...
oh, it is a while back in the thread... see below (from a long time back)
Found some really interesting comments as I quickly scanned back through too.
I could possibly save time with a PMS, but it won't be routed as I want. I am looking for a centre exit out of the back as I have the fully chopped bumper and flat floor. In future I may or may not look at a diffuser so this application will suit. I will obviously post back how the RR day goes...
UPDATE:
Putting some pretty hard dates in place to push this build through now. As mentioned above I do not want to keep moving the car around all over the place so I am looking at sending it to a couple places in order.
At the middle/end of February the car will be going off to JC Weldfab for...
That could be an option yeah, I would have moved from just down the road, doh... but that would still be a good place to come.
Lets pencil it in and review nearer the time
NEXT?
Doors/windows
Well I really need to sort the doors. I was struggling with mounting the little link bar between the handle and the mechanism previously (ANY ADVICE WELCOME) so I need to sort this as once done I can hang the doors, then it will be ready for the windows.
Engine
At this...