Exciting Times!

Picked up the powder coated bits and bobs they look ace! Had a play and put the bushes in the wishbones, we put the rubber bits in first then used a vice to press the metal center crush tubes in.

Bought the ball joints etc from eBay £60 for the lot so not too bad. Had a trial fit of everything and all looks good just need to shorten the extensions for the steering as they're a bit too long.

Chassis Rear Complete & Starter Fitted

Finally got round to making the rear end tubes.It was a bit of a pain bending the tubes in the right place but got there in the end. Chassis is almost complete just a few more brackets for seats, radiator...etc then its off to the powder coaters.

Nice and level.

 Fitted the starter after hacking a big lump off the engine as the gearbox wanted the starter at the opposite side to what the engine did.

All checked and working perfect!

Also made some horn brackets at the front.

And got hold of these from an R6 will need to make an inlet manifold.

Prop Shaft

Prop shaft cut to length and welded up. Going to paint it later rather than get it powdered to protect the joints.

Gearbox mounts, the original big rubber mount was knackered so this is what we've done.

Also noticed we had put the diff mounting plates on the wrong edge of the tube luckily before we had cut and welded the prop! So we cut and welded it in the correct place.

  

Progress

We really should of had this beast from the start things would of been a bit easier.

Finally got the tube for the wishbones! We're still waiting to get the upper threaded tubes front and back so we cracked on with the lower wishbones.

We started off trying to make the books jig but decided it was over complicated. We made our own again sort of.

The fronts were quite straight forward just made sure the bush spacing was correct and the length from the top plate to the bush tubes was same as the book.

Te rear ones were same really apart from the center bar had a hellish angle but a bit of grinding sorted that out.

Had time to get the steering column made too. We used the sierra connector bits a piece of hex bar and a piece of thick walled tube to join it all up. Works really well and misses the front upright by about 1-2cm also tried the engine mount on and it clears that by miles.

This is the bar i mentioned in an earlier post that we removed to allow our gear stick to fit nicely. Need to make a new piece a bit further up to connect the tunnel for a bit of support.

Bit of an update

Engine mounts done fully welded ready for powder coating.

Found a quick shift kit on a website for £170!!! it looked simple enough so we made our own for pretty much nowt and it works great. Made two brackets to hold the support bar with a joint for the top of the shifter and used the original selector arm part at the bottom. We had to cut the bar out of the chassis in the end when we made the gearbox mounts because it got in the way (pics to follow)

Bought a new master cylinder as the one from the sierra was no good. This one is from a Mk1 fiesta which never had a servo on in the first place so should hopefully feel a bit nicer when braking.

   

Made a push rod using a bolt and a clevis pin.

New tool had a quick go on the engine to tart it up a bit and it works quite well for £25 anyway.