10-May-2019

The last few days have been spent disassembling the front chassis sub frame and cutting out a couple of rusty and damaged sections. Replacement sections were then tacked into place before sub frame was removed and they were fully welded. Once the sub frame was refitted a bracket for the heater fan was made a tacked into place. This will be fully welded once I’m certain it’s in the correct place. Still need to sort steering column and until body and bonnet is fitted I won’t be sure that nothing hits.

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9-May-2019

New stainless steel jacking points installed. Took a couple of hours to drill holes as I forgot how awkward it can be to drill stainless steel.

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8-May-2019

Made a new rod for the hand brake along with a bracket to mount the bias strap to the axle. The original bracket is in the wrong place as the car has had the back plates and drums swapped to larger versions so the linkage is in a slightly different place.

The car did also come with the original drums and back plates but they were in a far worst condition so decided to keep the larger ones.

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7-May-2019

Exhaust installation completed after mounts were bolted to car and 8mm stainless rod has been bent  and welded to system for the mounting brackets. Once Fibre glass body is fitted to car i just need to finalise the tail pipe position.

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6-May-2019

The exhaust mounts that I have decided to use finally arrived. Spent a couple of hours using a lathe to make fixings to hold them in place. It involved taking a bolt and then machining it to remove the threaded section before drilling the centre out and tapping it to  8mm. Will hopefully fit to car tomorrow.

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