Rotang!

Jamie R · August 25, 2025, 07:42:42 PM

Another great day

More photos of chunks of steel im afraid. Largely all held together with rope and wood

Firstly i love my new tube notcher, so accurate and quick too. Not bad for "Clarke of China"

First base rails going in. Yes i know its ROPT510 but its easier to form with my tube bender.

Bear with.... The long rails are the same width apart within a gnats ding dong of the original chassis rails. The car is going to be low so jacking points originally under the car now come through the sill and front wing, which are positioned under the foot plates of the roll cage when that goes in.

The strange kick up of the rails has purpose. The highest point near the bulkhead is the same height of the original chassis rail and then it goes down 5 degrees till the underside is the same as the original chassis rail for the anti roll bar mounts.
I need to get a bit creative for the front crossmember mounts, but shouldn't be too difficult.

All will be tied back to the inner wings and bulkhead. The floor will be steel too so its not a spaceframe chassis but does utilise the materials

More design tomorrow and get the anti roll bar mounts made before my hols

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Jamie R · August 27, 2025, 10:24:45 PM

So previous owner applied some dodgy welding on the back axle, thankfully on brackets i didnt need so off they come.
Removed the pigs head from the axle to find a 3J driveline plated LSD diff and 3.54 cwp, look very new too. Saved be a few £££ as i wanted to buy that spec. Cut the rear cover off for an atlas axle mod to run watts linkage

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Jamie R · August 30, 2025, 06:43:49 PM

A bit of rotary action. Dummy engine chucked in after i made crossmember brackets.

Its getting there

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Jamie R · August 31, 2025, 03:41:51 PM

Can anyone help me please?

I can guess the bottom hole is oil cooler and the big hole in the middle is for coolant. Anyone know what the other 4 holes are for?

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clive · August 31, 2025, 06:53:46 PM

If its treaded then its a main oil cooler line/

Casey · September 17, 2025, 07:24:57 PM

Wow, some great progress there Jamie, you have been busy

If you still need an answer on those mystery holes, let me know and I'll take a look (but away until Friday).

Without taking a look, I would guess most would be for the the oil filter mounting?

Jamie R · September 17, 2025, 07:39:04 PM

I think i sussed it, most of them will get plugged up as im running a remote filter mount on the wing somewhere and an external line loop from the original filter housing to the front plate.
I may be running solid dowels and the oil can no longer run down to the front plate. So its an external line.

More toys arrived today

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clive · September 19, 2025, 08:40:19 AM

Really no need for solid dowels.

Decided on an ECU just ?

If your going to get Pip to tune it, Link is his preferred weapon.

Jamie R · September 22, 2025, 04:38:27 PM

Yup already got link, and been up to pips, so hes primed ready

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Jamie R · September 28, 2025, 08:06:18 PM

More tubes going in and the start of the inner wings

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Jamie R · September 28, 2025, 08:08:58 PM

Drivers footwell looks poorly and the transition from bulkhead to floor doesnt meet the new chassis rails do needs remaking anyway

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Jamie R · September 28, 2025, 08:10:39 PM

More wings

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Jamie R · September 28, 2025, 08:13:38 PM

Upper portion going in with some bead rolling and some more anti roll bar reinforcement

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Jamie R · September 28, 2025, 08:15:33 PM

Just replacing the lower half of the strut tower that was rotten.
Now it's get to do it all over again on the nearside

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Jamie R · September 28, 2025, 08:21:18 PM

But not before i set the axle up, ring welded on to accept the atlas axle finned rear cover.
Stock English axles have a welded plate on the back and the diff comes out the front.
The alloy cover allows inspection of the diff without pulling half shafts out. Has a provision for watts linkage too.
Set the axle tubes with around half a degree of negative camber with some heating up and tweaking because previously they had positive camber.
Also welded on new bosses for filling and draining oil

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