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 lol  nice
  its nice up the top of the Lickeys you can see clear across birmingham to barr beacon  way north,  i believe  cadburys gave the lickeys to the people of birmingham  although its not in birmingham its in worcestershire  strange old world, anyway time to tunnel my way out to my car and see if i
can get to the workshop 

Andy

Ah ya pretty close then !!

Nice to see another local rotor head on here


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i can see the Licky hills out of my windows  its where the Victorians flocked to on trams for their holidays lol
my workshop is in Alvechurch  definitely in Worcestershire   

perfect thank you for that Jamie
          will be more than close enough for me   most of the time 3 wheels are likely to be in the air careering around my track,
snowing like the clappers here in south birmingham too    not sure i will be able to get to workshop today if this continues, its at times like this i start to think i should be working on one of my 4wd projects lol

Oh no now ya done it!

You mentioned Birmingham.

Jon (boosted) already calls me "peeky blinders" even tho I have to keep reminding him I live in stourport not brum lol


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another 200 yards and i would be across the border in worcestershire      im right on the edge   and the snow is getting heavy now   

perfect thank you for that Jamie
          will be more than close enough for me   most of the time 3 wheels are likely to be in the air careering around my track,
snowing like the clappers here in south birmingham too    not sure i will be able to get to workshop today if this continues, its at times like this i start to think i should be working on one of my 4wd projects lol   

Difficult for me to measure my 8 as my drive is gravel. But I still have my 3D cad models of all my subframe suspension pick up points from ground level if that helps ?


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hi   yes please  any point on the suspension that i can identify to the ground would be useful

thanks Andy

hello  boys
             i had a bit of an enforced break  the workshop floor was needed for a real job and i was evicted while it was going on lol
still ive got my space back now  and pressing on, im setting up ride heights and need a couple of measurements off a standard RX8 sitting on level ground,  first one is the gap under the front subframe to the ground at the front edge by the steering rack ,  and the second is at the rear to some fixed point on the subframe so i can mimic it  ,  or  the diff input flange to the ground although thats a long way under to reach i guess

anyone ?

thanks andy

so i mounted the 3 pedals   plenty of room even for my size 13's   

made a bit of an error there but  the man who dident make a mistake never made anything i seem to remember being told  lol

started folding up the pedal box   seemed to be going good for a while   

ok so whats all this about  ?  ive got the brake pedal assembly out and there is a cable fitted to the top with a proper nipple but the steel cable only goes down and round the pivot of the pedal   whats it for den ?

thank you for that   they would be ok for the fronts   would like wider for the rear    im on the trail of some 

You tank the hole fuel pot out so internal reg and filter remain..that can be seperated to allow suction on bottom tank by lengthing with piece of alloy or suchlike. Electrical wires lenthen and pipe to outlet .
Tricky bit is cutting whole and welding on studs and making a gasket. Holes can be drilled for said studs on outside rim of fuel pot.

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so you drilled new holes in the top flange of the pump and bolted it to tank ?  thats what i was wondering about or whether i had to use the screw down collar which would mean i had to make  up a new screw thread to weld onto tank 

Yes you can it unclips and you can extend the pick up. Theres a syphon part you can junk. I did similiar in my alloy tank in my westfield.

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did you use an RX8 pump in an alloy tank ?   if so how did you hold it in ?

Yes you can it unclips and you can extend the pick up. Theres a syphon part you can junk. I did similiar in my alloy tank in my westfield.

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i will remove the pump from the tank and have a looksy,    might have to make a tool to undo that big ring thought  it seemed very tight