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Looks a little non-straight due to the "panoramic" shot but fitted the fake sill ribs....to go with the fake access panel (which would have been actually real if I hadn't decided to move my senders somewhere else)!

Lets see. Radius arms were 25.4mm OD with 1.63mm wall. Think rear top arms are the same. Front arms and rear reversed A-arms 22.22mm OD with 2.64mm wall Bush sections were cut from 28.58mm OD again with 2.64mm wall. All obviously CDS.

The main one is that there is very little strength in the A pillar and the car itself being very low any impact into a high vehicle (or unfortunately with the rise of Crossovers, SUV's etc "average" cars) could see an impact to the front of the car causing the other car to ride up, over and then...

Many years ago part way through my build a similar discussion came up. So I sat in the car and had a wiggle about to see what could happen. I'm a smidge under average height at 5'8" and it was immediately obvious that I could hit my head on the roll cage even when fully strapped in on the...

One more update. The nylon sliders were a bit awkward to do. Drilling ~4.5mm into a 6mm piece of nylon and then tapping it. Slightly annoyingly however I appear to have utterly misplaced the gear lever so we'll just have to imagine it until it turns up...

Bloody google Photos (not to mention the inability to edit old posts!) A repeat of some of those photos that are now missing because Google has done something in the background and broken the URL... From #417 From #418

Front suspension (roughly) assembled. At ride height can adjust by about +/-0.5°the caster and adjust camber between -2.2° and +0.3° Probably start with about -0.25° or so. I've got to measure it more accurately but roughly 1° of additional camber per 1"/25mm of suspension travel.

Just realised I don't think I mentioned I fitted the radiator... Currently part "plumbed" as I didn't like my original plan and now need more "bends". Plan was to use two 45 degree bends but it was too "tight" and was nearer needing probably two 50 degree bends. The long and short being that...

As briefly mentioned in the last couple of posts I've finally got to the stage of sticking panels on. This is something I'd largely avoided because of the difficulty of making holes etc after the fact. I stuck down the RHS front sill top some time ago but only recently got round to the LHS. A...

So, IMO and without wanting to derail Nicks thread, No. I'm not fitting a SBF to mine but the Rover V8 was one I looked at and dismissed early on. Firstly it's really under powered. As @IanAnderson says, £10k for ~250hp. There are plenty of other (massively) cheaper engines that will give...

Thanks for the kind words, a few more updates to go...This one is a bit of a random "lots of bits" update. Lots are at very different times so things will jump forwards and backwards in how complete the car is! Firstly, steering again. As I'd gone for the Agila column I needed a U-joint for it...

Oh there is a very simple solution to that. I won't fit them. There will be no windows anyway so just open the door by the inside latch which I haven't fitted yet but will poke up through the top.

Cooling system... Pipes wrangled past the steering rack. Then out through a removable panel.

Doors! So, a bit of 3D printing and I came up with this wondrous test piece This let me line up and fit the lock... and then a nice neat stainless plate to both tidy things up and load-spread into the fibreglass of the door. In hindsight I should have got two different but opposite...

Oh my. Not updated in a year. Still slowly plodding on. First of all, fuel system. Decided to use change-over valves and two pumps at the same time rather than a single pump per side. Setup filter and one-way valves on a plate to fit either side of the car. On the left have a change over...

To be utterly honest having angle in the half-shafts is not the end of the world. They're designed to do 120k+ at the normal angles, so what if they're reduced to a 10th of that by running them at extreme angles...at the kind of typical usage our cars will see that's 5-6 years use! Plus in the...

The 930 has the advantage that the shafts exit above the centre line of the engine. The 01E/01X shafts exit below and that limits how low you can fit the engine. The 01E is a reasonable compromise if you're not running big power (rated for 450Nm) but it comes at the expense of that fitment...

Wider than the SGT/GTD/Lee Dawson dash. Probably the same as Tornado. It's more that the column location differs that is an issue.

Beware if building the GT Forte that the dashboards supplied by them are different to others. The GT Forte dash is wider and the steering column is in a (slightly) different location. Enough so that if you say bought a Southern GT dash it wouldn't fit properly. If you have bought a chassis...

40mm 1.5mm tube here https://www.aluminiumwarehouse.co.uk/40-mm-x-40-mm-x-1-5-mm-erw-square-tube Alternatively 2mm available here https://www.themetalstore.co.uk/products/3-metre-lengths-box-section-2mm