Fred W B's latest activity

At some places I want to do an overlap joint so am experimenting with some makeshift tooling to make a panel thickness joggle.

In other news, I had previously bought bolts with suitable grip lengths to suit the suspension attachments. These needed to have the...

I made these which work very well for me. I prefer the bottom of the chassis at just above knee height, makes working on anything above...

In some places I am riveting 19 x 19 extruded angle to the chassis to give me a flange to secure to. I figured out a cheat to be able to...

Once I had finished cleaning out all the internal threads I could make a start on the aluminium panelling. Although this is a space...

And finally the roll bar structure. I bolted in the support for the driver head rest just because it could finally be a part that stays...

Various body mounting and other subframes

A view of the engine bay showing various brackets for such as handbrake cables, fuel tank and lines, brake lines etc . The small...

Took some record pictures of the complete chassis. Not shown are 2 diagonal bars that bolt into the front of the side sill structures

Very exciting weekend for me! Got the chassis and subframes back from paint and I am very happy with it. The colour is Basalt grey RAL...

The garage looks so empty with the chassis gone. I disassembled the build table the chassis has stood on for so long and used some of...

Brian has managed to invert the pics for me. Thanks for that. Neil, the parts are painted immediately, I just happened to be nearby at...

Trying again. Detail of a blasted section

I'm trying to post pictures directly from my phone for the first time and I don't know why the pics are showing upside down

Quite a significant milestone for me now. I have stripped the car again and fully welded all the various brackets added during the dummy...