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What colours the cage gonna be, matching the wheels or just black?
Popped over to see Mike (not the grinder wheeling car breaker Mike) at lunch time to progress with the cage fitment.
He specalises in entire chassis builts for sillhouette racers and hot rods, only a young chap/one man band but extremely talented. Makes a lot of lovely exhaust manifold systems for all types of race engines.
Small workshop but exquisite workmanship:
Anyway, pretty bits aside: The skeleton of the cage is all in spotted in place, the rear 'caged' bolt in unit has also been welded in to the reinforcement points with the front section desgined off it. The caged unit is designed to clear the internal headlining/plastics etc, so as a result does sit a little further away from the bare shell than Mike would have preferred.
Sections such as the door X beams will have box sections in either horizontal angle, and stiffening gussets are going to be run down the A pillars.
Sorted out the dash bar for the mk1 dash fitment.
Due to be collected on Thursday (ish), but I'm not 100% if I can collect due to work comittments.
Once the engine is back in etc Mike will also be building the car a new exhaust system.
He specalises in entire chassis builts for sillhouette racers and hot rods, only a young chap/one man band but extremely talented. Makes a lot of lovely exhaust manifold systems for all types of race engines.
Small workshop but exquisite workmanship:
Anyway, pretty bits aside: The skeleton of the cage is all in spotted in place, the rear 'caged' bolt in unit has also been welded in to the reinforcement points with the front section desgined off it. The caged unit is designed to clear the internal headlining/plastics etc, so as a result does sit a little further away from the bare shell than Mike would have preferred.
Sections such as the door X beams will have box sections in either horizontal angle, and stiffening gussets are going to be run down the A pillars.
Sorted out the dash bar for the mk1 dash fitment.
Due to be collected on Thursday (ish), but I'm not 100% if I can collect due to work comittments.
Once the engine is back in etc Mike will also be building the car a new exhaust system.
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182cup & 172 racecar
On the move at last,good stuff.
182cup & 172 racecar
Oh yes.
Evo 5 RS
good to see the ball rolling, or the shell if you wanna be smart about it. Looks great!
TrackCar & F30 330d
Are you going to be having gussets on the cage?
Looks lovely upto now
Looks lovely upto now
Nafoff
ClioSport Club Member
the cage looks awesome, as for the dash fitment also, i haven't addressed that yet...lol
i also just spoke to tony regarding the rear window....lol (said you called earlier)
i also just spoke to tony regarding the rear window....lol (said you called earlier)
Yah, going to speak to him again on Thursday. You shouldn't have a problem with your cage/dash as it drops short of the dash?
Nafoff
ClioSport Club Member
thursday? he won't find out til next week...lol
yer but i still have to attach the dash to the car...lol
Sorry, I'm ordering my windows etc on Thursday.
While I was over there today I also measured up the radiator:
The plastic outer fittings prevent it from dropping down onto the subframe, but to give you some idea it measure 3-4 inches shorter in height and is nice and wide. I'm going to replace the plastic housings on either end with a nice slime-line alloy enclosure.
Master cylinder and brakes lines 2nd test fit; plonked the fluid reservoir on top to check clearances.
While I was over there today I also measured up the radiator:
The plastic outer fittings prevent it from dropping down onto the subframe, but to give you some idea it measure 3-4 inches shorter in height and is nice and wide. I'm going to replace the plastic housings on either end with a nice slime-line alloy enclosure.
Master cylinder and brakes lines 2nd test fit; plonked the fluid reservoir on top to check clearances.
TrackCar & F30 330d
Tom, on the master cylinder is it the two openings closest to the servo that go to the front two wheels?
TrackCar & F30 330d
Oh i see, thanks for that info.
I'm one fixing short which is a right pain, its the slightly bigger bit that i'm short
Oh and get a bucket and sponge on that shell, its filthy!!!
Yah, they are m10 & m12 IIRC. I've used an adaptor piece (blue) to move between m12 & NPT for the main olive fitting.
2010 transit. Ford original.
2010 transit. Ford original.
182cup & 172 racecar
Why one so big?
Bigger is better? :rasp:
182cup & 172 racecar
Don't even go there.
Golf GTD Mk7
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182cup & 172 racecar
But we raced at Silverstone with the fan back in the pits as it fell off !,never looked like over heating,don't forget we are not driving through town at 3mph sat in traffic.
182cup & 172 racecar
More fabrication?
Golf GTD Mk7
lol
True, but the fans more of a "while stood still" thing no? Air forcing through the rad is sufficient during driving? Do they let you do cool down laps in race series?
True, but the fans more of a "while stood still" thing no? Air forcing through the rad is sufficient during driving? Do they let you do cool down laps in race series?
Evo 5 RS
fan should never kick in on track tbh
TrackCar & F30 330d
But it sure will when you come in for the pit stop/driver change?
172 Race Car
Engine got to be off
Golf GTD Mk7
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