Assembling a Monocoque

fine to hear you're still in the game of those lovely GT40.

sorry to hear about that engine of your other 40...hope its ok now.
 

Rune

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The engine was rebuild by a local mecanic that normally works and tune V8 so the engine came back better then new.

I have done the work with the pedal arrangement, it is now completed and as far as I can see not to bad. But it was lots of work to make it from scratch.
On top of the pedals I put anti skid material , a 3M product used outside on helicopters
 

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Dear Rune

nice work on the pedals.

A comment to the antiskid. Makes sense to me on brake and clutch pedal, on the accelerator i would like to have a more sliding contact patch in order to get a smoother sliding action.

just my personal preference
TOM
 

Rune

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Tom. Thanks for Reminding me , I was not thinking this way, I was blind on that the pedals should look good. It will be removed with help of a heatgun tomorrow :).
Rune
 

Rune

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Here we are again working steady . Started with the electrical, bought a complete set of looms for the mono no instruction drawings inside hmm I found one drawing on the forum + some pictures but with looms with color and drawing with numbers I struggle I worked some weeks with a lucas color scheme , but I had to ask out in the world for help, and got a very nice person that wanted to help me . He new a lot about the electrical in these cars , and now it is almost complete just as the original cars was . Even the stoplight override is active. What a good forum with people that want to help .
After painting the chassis I have started to put things together. I made the fuel cap assembly and are no starting to put it in the machines to complete the final work with them.
 

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Hi Bune!

Thanks for sharing your progress.
It would be great to see some global pix of the mono.

I would also be curious (even if I know this is not your business) to learn what ever hapenned to the chassis built by Goran.

Thanks a lot

Olivier.
 

Rune

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Olivier This is a chassis I build at Gorans factory Goran have sold almost all his mono chassis now .
I had the Norwegian authorities visiting my garage due to my request to get allowance to build and register my gt 40 . They had no negative comments at all regarding my project.
I will come with more pictures .
Rune
 

Rune

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I have spent many hrs on ebay and other places to look for a fuelvalve, but with some good pictures I vent out in my garage and spent some hrs there and here are the result. Still some minor to do before put in car.
 

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Jim Rosenthal

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I found an original one in England and bought it. They are very hard to find. I think you made a very good decision. It looks great.

Did you make the pedal box frame casting? It is very nice, looks exactly like original.

The first time I saw the exploded view of the pedal box in the original GT40 drawing that I have, I almost quit the entire project right then.
 

Rune

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Jimbo, the pedal box is from a original mould like everything else to this car. Otherwise it is impossible to rebuild within a lifetime :)
Rune
 
Hi Rune,

Nice to see You have some progress :) Good work.
I hope we see soon, when next time collecting car from Goran.

I noticed You wrote few days ago "Goran have sold almost all his mono chassis now".
We bought 6 years ago 2 spaceframes, 1 mono (still waiting) and plan was to buy one mono more; I understud that one was the last one. Did Goran more mono`s or are there cancelled deals leaving monos free for re-sell?
 
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