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Anyone care to comment on what would be a suitable design clearance between chassis and road at full suspension bump travel for a car to be used on road and track. For example, if a car had 100 mm of ground clearance, and a suspension travel of 60 mm in bump from ride height, the chassis...

Hi Russell. I am very sorry to hear of your family's loss. Manifolds look great, I am very interested in this as I plan to (eventually) do exactly the same. If you are prepared to let me have the DXF files / drawing of the flanges and your build notes this would be much appreciated. My E mail...

Looking really good Russell!

Nice to see some good progress Russell, happy new year to you too. Cheers Fred W B

Hi Randy My favourite tool for body filler removal over large areas is shown below. As you have learnt, the guide coat paint clogs the paper, the dry wipe black powder emlimates this problem. You can try applying a blast of air from an air nozzle to the paper, it can "flick" the worst of the...

Some of that stuff is just odd...? And filler to trim wishbone and chassis welds?

Hi Randy. I like Terry's suggestion of working with a 3 mm plate in the gaps. I'm worried you are going to battle to get an even consistent gap between the panels where you are mudding the joints closed and then re cutting them. Also concerned that the reworked edges will be susceptible to...

I'm with everyone, Jacques just proved the old saying about a fool and his mouth.. Cheers Fred W B

I've read that putting cable ties around the boots (in the bottom of the "V"s) can help the durabilty, but have no personal experience yet. Cheers Fred W B

I agree re doable in a double, I'm doing a full scratch build in one. Welcome Eric, nice looking bike. Cheers Fred W B

No comments on the race in Brazil? <?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p> I enjoyed it, but was Nelson Piquet drunk? His podium interviews were embarrassing. <o:p></o:p> Cheers <o:p></o:p> Fred<o:p></o:p> <o:p> </o:p>

I had a similar problem with mine (not near as fancy as yours), the machinist had to make a fixture which he tackwelded to the upright and could then grip in the chuck. It looks like you have a nice shoulder on the one end that he can use as a starting point to locate the fixture so you should...

Nice to see some progress. You bold using the power tools on the soft foam/filler surface. if you lean on a power tool for just too long it puts a flatspot or divot in that has to be fixed later. I did all my shaping by hand, using a long board and various shaped sanding blocks. Use a...

Hopefully this has not been posted before? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9JU86OBAbbo&feature=player_embedded Cheers Fred W B

Thanks for the comments Guys Front uprights - Although I did spend some time messing about with the detail in the interest of just getting on with it I am going to, at least initially, use standard (non optimal) Cortina uprights, with adaptors to the rod ends. Eventually I might make some...

Blue - With a rear ride height of 125 mm It looks like I will get just on 10 deg drive shaft angle. Mic - Thanks again for your offer of help, certainly I will send you the some detail of my suspension layout. As you can see I am not attempting to make a correct looking rear suspension, I...

For various reasons I have not reported any significant progress on my project this year yet, but I'm hoping that will change now that I am over the hurdle of the rear uprights. This turned out to be a very long story which needed facilities that I do not have in my garage and took a lot of...

Only thing that has has happened on the body recently is that I have made a stand to support the tail when off the car. The lower piece to shaped to fit the tail and is padded with a strip of closed cell foam. I fitted castors so I can move it around easily

1969 9 hour on 08th November. The Grey Mirage Ford (left front in above picture) was driven by Mike Hailwood and Peter Gethin. Car lost time with electrical problems (water ingress due to thunder storms) and then retired with clutch problems with 2 hours to go. The GT 40 (No 8) was driven by...

Seems like good news, Kyalami just bought by Porsche SA (represented by Toby Venter). Word is they want to keep it as a race track. Press releases below Cheers Fred W B Kyalami update: Toby tells his story KYALAMI IS SAVED! F1 driver Alain Prost at the South African GP at...