Jimmymac & Alistair's Monocoque Cars

[René]

re: Jimmymac & Alistair's Cars

Interesting stuff indeed and very complex...
besides the zinc layer which will also be less due to welding and grinding at some places I guess? what do you do about that... zinc spray and then also a complete chassis paint?

 

[JimmyMac]

re: Jimmymac & Alistair's Cars

Rene,
We are still considering electrophoretic coatings but this involves drilling drain holes in the chassis' :sad:

My original Konis and suspension parts were fitted to my chassis by Scott and Alistair this afternoon.

 

[Victors]

re: Jimmymac & Alistair's Cars

Wow!
Keep going, James!

 

[René]

re: Jimmymac & Alistair's Cars

hm, indeed...just saw a video about that process...
if you have to drill holes maybe it needs not to many, depends how they dip the car I guess? maybe you can come to a great solution, such nice car with such lot details and work needs to be conserved well but also be driven.

 

[JimmyMac]

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More suspension progress

 

[JimmyMac]

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This week's work down on the farm.
Fitting the inner flitch panels to Alistair's rear cradle prior to dropping on the shell for bonding to an exact fit. The inner vent ducts are also being modified to fit our new brake coolers.
A photo of the rear end of my chassis showing the scallops for wider shock springs and one detailing the front complete.

 

[Jim Cowden]

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Looks like you are making hast slowly James.

I always enjoy the detail you put in.
As always excellent.

Jim

 

[JimmyMac]

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Jim
Thanks mate.
Life gets in the way when you least expect it but I'm getting on with the car again.

 

[Richard]

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James you continue to inspire us. I would like to be the first to place an order for a set of your Weber castings. The thought of using a real set of Weber's to make an EFI system goes against my better judgment.

A friend and I are thinking of making an EFI system that would include traction control and possibly ABS. We think it would be helpful to be able to control the ever increasing HP of these cars or ever the mere 450HP I have in my car. It sounds crazy but it starting to look like I'm the only one out there with less than 500HP. I for one can use all the help I can get.

Great work and please keep me posted on your progress with the Weber's.

 

[Victors]

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Hi James,

Nice to see you back here and, as always, amazed with your work and attention to detail

Take care!

JP

 

[Jim Rosenthal]

re: Jimmymac & Alistair's Cars

Handsomely done. I would be interested in the SW outers for modern fuel pumps, I think it is a great idea.

Glad to see you poke your head up; Groundhog Day was a while back, you know......glad your cars are coming along. Do you think you might get a drive this summer or fall? I hope so.

I need to get mine out of the garage; time for its fettling at the shop. Other cars keep getting in ahead of it.

 

[Richard]

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Yes thanks much I got them, they're perfect. Keep me posted on the Weber's.

 

[JimmyMac]

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Great Richard
Glad you guys liked them.

 

[JimmyMac]

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Not long now for us.
Alistair's car is on the ground for the first time after trial fitting everything.

 

re: Jimmymac & Alistair's Cars

Awesome.

 

[JimmyMac]

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Cheers Brian,
I showed my wife the pictures and she is beginning to believe that we have a couple of cars on the go and not a shed load of bits.
Never seen our Alistair so happy.:happy:

 

[Victors]

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Beautiful, James. You are almost there!

It was great to meet you both yesterday, and see you are in good shape... really enjoyed it.

And I hope I can get now some support for you to take a few days off and come to visit!

All the best, my friend

 

[Phil]

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James:
Very nice job as usual, do I see a 3.20 final drive on that gearbox ?, in 5th thats gotta put you at around 2.4 final drive ....that car will have some long legs.
Cheers
Phil

 

[JimmyMac]

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Phil,
Correct - that is Alistair's racing box.
We also have a few more ZF0/1/2s with Pantera style ratios and spare CWPs and gears which we had custom made a while ago.
The project has taken such a long time that we kept buying bits when they came available but Alistair had decided on day one that he wanted this one to try out his "long legs"
The tri-lobal drive shafts and donuts will be going onto this box pretty soon.
I'm fitting a ZF1 in my car.

 

[Juan Jose Rocha L - P GTX]

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My mate Ali and I had a chat with Ray Webber over lunch today and decided that we should post some details of the work done over the past months with our Mirage monocoques.
We will open this up with some shots of the recent craftmanship done by Ray Webber and Steve Hill at Mirage Automotive.
The cars will be full MKI monocoques with steel roof skins and FIA approved bladder tanks.
They have been built to original general arrangements and CAD surveys of original cars. I have a complete set of original parts for replicating and we will furnish these chassis' over the next months as accurate as we can.

I want to introduce you to all our piece without ever having seen a plane, only seeing photos, a lot of excitement involved.

http://www.gt40s.com/forum/groups/studying-monocoque.html