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Well another short stint at home but managed a few days in the garage. I made the frame for mounting the rear clam but ran out of time I have made the parrot beaks but will have to wait to get these all together Next time homeOn the positive side made the gear change mechanism for the gearbox...

Well far too long from any progress but house renovations now completed spent the last few days making fuel filler caps as couldn’t bring myself to part with the amount of money they cost for the two of them. So bought some aluminium billet off cuts and a few days on the lathe and cutting and...

Hi I am up in Nairn

Hi sorry for the delay in reply but busy with house extension at the moment when not working so car is taking a back seat for a while but on the up side the car has a new home as knoking the old garage down for the extension. The headers I made myself from 316 tube and bends. As for painting the...

I am very pleases with the Xmas present of the 8 stack throttle bodies I also received the dash board just before Xmas so will be concentrating on getting that positioned to allow for final position of steering wheel. and then the gear shifter

Drive shafts now fitted and also been working on the door hinges

These are a couple of seat shells I have made from a simple mould

Some pics of me making up the exhaust headers

The engine is now in for the first time and a pic of the gearbox mounts

This is panelling in the engine bulkhead

Hi Though I had better do an update This is from July 2017 and I got the chassis rolling and trying the body work on.

Hi I haven’t posted for quite a while not because I haven’t been working on my car it’s because I wanted a build thread so I am going to start posting my progress again but would appreciate if anyone wants to post negative statements about vendors of parts please could they start their own...

HI I had an enquiry from a member regarding my build table but I couldn't figure out how to attach pictures to the forum email so I have put some drawings I created of my build table here they may be of some use to others. Sandy

I have also been collecting the drive line I now have a 302 engine with the bottom end rebuilt I'm not sure if i want to go 8 stack yet but going for injection set up with no distributor so no need to worry about clearance for that. I have also manged to get an Audi 01E gearbox and have received...

Hi thought I would post some updates time has flown past the last 3 months with little time in the garage but managed a few hours. Collected the body work from Margate that was a 11&1/2 hour drive each way. Made up the 2 rear uprights. Mocked up the front and rear suspension with hubs and...

Hi Nick please see attached pic of front suspension sorry it's taken so long

Got a delivery on Monday the suspension parts arrived. So have been busy painting these and mocking up the parts to check the fit also the steering rack and the steering column are fitted also peddle box position has been determined. The front and rear uprights never came so will have to chase...

My second post now brings my build up to date I started in April and that is six months gone already. The chassis is almost completed just the front roll bar to sort out when the body work is here. Also still to fit brackets for anti roll bars and I am sure there will be a few more. I am...

Hi Here we go last project finished and ready to start a new build. started with a wooden crate of parts and a level and square base to assemble the chassis on. Then sitting on trolley to provide a good working height and fitting the various parts lots of checking of dimensions but have to...

Thanks for the welcome I have been organising my pics so far and will spend some time tonight putting together a build thread. Sandy