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Guest alfaGTA

Not sarcasm-just a query. The IVA inspector will want to make sure your harness supports are strong enough to hold your carcass inside the car if it comes to a sudden halt.

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looking really good. Not sure of your plans for the fuel tank but when i made mine i put in 2 baffles to stop the fuel sloshing about. The RH ones never bothered but i figured might as well.

 

While i think about it something else you may want to add before your final paint etc is a towing bracket. I wish i had put one on my car before powder coating but too late now.

 

It could simply be a threaded tube welded to the chassis at the front, like on modern cars where you screw in the towing eye like one of these http://www.elise-shop.com/images/large/AFFTEC_LRG.jpg. could even do a rear one. Other wise it is probably a pain to be towed without.

 

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I always thought you could just whip a strap around a front wishbone!

 

As it's painted, once the body work is on I can just nitromorse some paint off, weld on a bracket, then re paint that area. I like the look of those strap type ones so may incorporate one later on.

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yeah not so much of a prob if its paint. can't touch my powder coat now :(

 

you can just tow off the wishbones but depends how much you are happy to risk the paint on the wishbone and on my car i think my number plate may just catch if i put a strap to both, which could cause a problem and would prob pull it off. might not be an issue on your car

 

Just a thought ;)

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a few years ago i towed Minty's 2B a couple of times with my 2B, tied a rope to the o/s wish bone on his car then the spare wheel suport bar on mine,no problem

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Mounts were primed and painted the other day so tonight I re-fitted the dummy engine and started a mock up super charger inlet plenum.

 

It uses half of the standard puma inlet with the threads drilled out and captive nuts inside the planum.

 

Bare in mind, this is a mockup to see how it fits so it is rough.

 

The finished item will be aluminium and have short trumpets on the inlets.

 

 

 

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  • 3 months later...

Not been on it for ages or when I have I've not took pics.

Recently I've modified the steering column lower bearing to take a proper ball bearing as the standard Ford plastic one is causing no end of issues for IVA for lots of people.

This was a simple enough job

 

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I've decided against the Ford 1.7 engine that was in there as there was too many issues converting it to a reliable RWD engine.

Instead, I'm probably going down the MX5 engine and gearbox route.

Started making the mounts for the radiator. It's a rad from a 1.2 Clio.

 

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Not finished it yet as I wasn't happy with the welding quality on the thin steel tubes for the mounts so I'm scrapping them and starting over.

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Finally got round to re-starting work on the car after moving house and re-setting up my garage.

Made new rear wishbones and top camber adjusters then used my new compressor box to make a mini spray booth.

They were then fitted with the bushes and stored away.

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Started stripping down the MX5 engine and cleaning and painting the parts.

Started with the cam cover

VHT wrinkle finish. Baked at 95C for an hour.

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Ordered the bolts for the suspension so mocked up the rear wishbones and fitted my camber guage to see how it adjusts. quite happy with it.

 

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cool. thanks for posting these really enjoying seeing it come together.

 

out of interest does anyone know if you could replace the bushes on the rear outer ends of the wishbones with rose joints to be able to adjust in all directions?

 

wrinkle paint looks awesome. how did you bake it? have you got a kiln or in an old oven? or something

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