hi all, well its 5 weeks til the 'chopped' show here in australia and i want to run my roadster in the dirt drags so after a few years in the build its time to have a red hot crack, the plan is to have a drivable frame with the body on, there's Alot to do and i may have unreal goals but ya got to try, so today with the help of fellow kardinal gareth we bare metaled the frame so i can box it this week, boxing plates are all made up and ready to go, the motor (39 merc) is going to be the biggest task,its being hot tanked and crack tested at the moment, still to finish the port work then back to the shop before coming home for my first ground up engine build here's a few pic to show where i'm at, i'll try to up date every few days, wish me luck.rob Uploaded with ImageShack.us Uploaded with ImageShack.us
yup, i should add that i've taken this month off work, i'm full time plenty of jobs to go around tho guys....
Good luck Rob! You should have enough help from the guys in your club, but if you need extra let me know, mine aint gonna make it, so i have some time.........unless Gareth comes and helps me
nyloc nuts might be a good go, as usually every first drive has something fall off. Plus that dirt track isn't 'smooth' either. Will miss the debut but I reckon you can make it easy, your just going to have to make sure you have 4 things on the go at once so you don't get held up. I always find when it comes to making a deadline that its a glitch with the supply of something that throws a spanner in the works, so my suggestion would be try and get everything you think you need this week and draw up on a piece of A1 paper a big arsed list and stick it up in the garage, just helps to jog your memory on whats next. course you can do it, will wait for the updates. good luck.
mmm, if your free one night come round and show me what to do regarding the diff stuff,or i can pop over, i really just need to pull the pinion out of the old centre and mark it up, free beers............
Sure thing. Let me know what nights you are there and I will pop around! Do you have a small jack to get into the diff centre, thats what it takes to get em out. I am heading down to Norms soon to get my Rad re-cored......need me to hook anything up for you?
wednesday would be good if your free, got a jack and a heat gun so it should be good, not sure what i'm doing rad wise, apart from being R.A.D.
today i dropped the wishbone off to get the tappers recut, painted the inside of the rails and the backs of the boxing plates, started to do some test tig welding and ran out of gas after 5 min. thems the brakes.... boxing plates Uploaded with ImageShack.us
Randy Ass Demon! I'll give you a call, Wed it is. I like ham and mushroom pizza.......just so you know
let me know if your motor dosen't make it,i've got a good running 99t,twin carbs etc sitting on the shed floor doing nothing at the moment,your for the weekend if you need it. thommo.
well its coming along, boxing plates are tacked in, motor has been crack tested and passed, humanfly and kardinal gareth came round tonight for some quickchange pinion sorting and a bit of playing on the tig, hoping to finish the porting work on the block so i can get it to the machinist this week, still waiting on the piston and rods tho.... action shot............ Uploaded with ImageShack.us
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