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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 7012. Before painting the main chassis and rear section weighed about 119 kg (260 pounds), the zinc rich primer and polyurethane top coat added about 2 kg (4.5...

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 the material to make a pair of chassis trestles

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 that stage. The small parts are being done first

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 build. Once that was done I cut bits of threaded rod to plug all the inserts and weld nuts on the chassis and delivered it to a blasting and painting facility.

Hi There, great choice of car. I have been down a similar road, if you have not yet seen it your might find some of my experience a help, see thread below https://www.gt40s.com/threads/canamsa-sa-stratch-build.19604/ I also offer this advice to anyone doing a scratch build: Starting out...

Lovely result, very well done! I also loved the JPS scheme when I was a kid

You only looking for a tiny bit. I would put a block on a convenient surface and put a long lever under the collector and try bend the assembly up a slight amount. The headers might move fairly easily, particularly if you do it while they are good and hot after a run

Thanks for the kind comments Guys

I have now 99 percent completed the dry build, the wiring is mostly laid in and the dash mocked up (real one still to be cut in one piece ). I splashed out on a set of Stack gauges. Last week I had all 4 wheels on for the first time ever and I weighed the car as it stands now (excluding chassis...

Looking great Chuck.

Very good point Ian, that had not occurred to me.

I’m at the stage of roughing in a wiring harness. All toggle switches on dash and separate tell-tale lights. I have a 3 position switch (off/on/on) I want to use for the dip and bright headlights. I want to keep each circuit simple. So do I: From the 3 way switch position one, wire to a relay...

I got one of these which interrupts the whole car earth and kills the motor. https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/cartek-gt-solid-state-battery-isolator-kit-ck-bg-06 https://www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk/p/cartek-gt-solid-state-battery-isolator-kit-ck-bg-06

Hi Marcus, pleasure and glad to help, hope it works out for you. If you PM me your email I can send you the whole document for your interest. It contains references to what parts they recommended in period – 1987!

i happen to have a copy of the so called KCC build manual. It mentions a 228 mm VW kombi clutch and pressure plate

I saved the below for a GT40 from a post on here years ago Cheers Wheelbase 95in. 2413mm Track Front 55in. 1397mm Rear 55in. 1397mm Overall Dimensions Length 168in. 4265mm Width 70in 1778mm Height 40.5in 1028.7mm Miscellaneous Heights Base of Windscreen 28.25in 717mm Top of...

I made these. Had to turn down the ally casting on the rack to give a round profile to sit in the one block. I made the height so that a spacer is needed underneath so i can adjust for bump steer if necessary

Hi there You say "steering rack needed to be raised ". If you have changed the vertical position height of the rack away from that intended by the suspension design you may get severe bump steer. Apologies if you have considered this