jcarpenter

Looking forward to some picys, glad you have your project home safe.

Marc sierra

iTrader: (1)

Very nice to see you finally have it back! I’m really looking forward to the updates and pictures!

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ossie cossie

OMG i have missed a lot while i was away from the thread. At last you can now finish the car, Toby.

Caddyshack

My friend from Retrofication is coming over and we are going to do a list of things for the dry build and then put them in order. Quite looking forward to it…just need to get my 7.5t horse lorry finished which will take about 3 more weeks then it’s full steam ahead.

stu21t

Good, i missed this car.

ajamesc

Hosebox is a very bad swear word to anyone who works on trucks lol

Caddyshack

yes, I can imagine. Mine is a 7.5 iveco. I have found a little chassis outrigger rust in 2 places but I think these are known for it. I can drop the rear suspension so it sits on the deck so I would fit in at VW car shows though.
it’s got a shower, toilet, kitchen, sleeps 4, diesel heater and I have fitted a split charge with Ł1000 leisure battery setup with all the monitors, elec hook up and a slide out generator so will add a solar panel and I am ready for when the zombie apocalypse happens.

bluntys1rsturbo

great to hear you've got this back mate, one of the forum members you mention is now one of my closest friends a top lad

can't wait to see this progress id love to see it in the flesh one day

Caddyshack

Top lad indeed. Welcome to come
and have a good nose, prob best when it’s running again.

ossie cossie

check this engine gearbox combo.

Caddyshack

A few quid in that picture!!!

amazing how far forward the engine is of the drive shafts

Jay,

iTrader: (4)

Toby so glad it's back buddy look forward to see the progress

Caddyshack

thanks Jay, I have got a few jobs left on the horse lorry and then I can clear down some room to get started and see what’s what.

bluntys1rsturbo

apologies for only just replying to this.
Its a deal fella

Caddyshack

I have been working hard on the car, I will do some update pics soon. It is currently upside down on the spit / rotisserie as I am filling up holes and removing underseal at the moment.

Caddyshack

Test fitting the T16 rally wing to the Carbon Kevlar rear boot lid.

The bootlid is sitting too high due to it touching the spit.


The ends where they meet the body will need some work.


the rear arch took a bit of a bump whilst it was away so I have started to sort that out, the inner wing was rumpled up as there was an ally filler plate originally. I am cutting in new metal.

Caddyshack

Here you can see the rumpled up inner wing. I didn’t want the hole left between the new turret and the inner wing so sorting that at same time. The dampers also hit the turrets in 2 places so needed cutting out. I am a mortgage broker and not a welder but at least I am doing it which is gonna get it done.

Filled the holes and you can see where I had to box in the turrets. Welding not finished yet.

lots to finish still and it will eventually be filled etc before paint.

ajamesc

Nice to see your moving on with it. Will be an awesome bit of kit when done

Caddyshack

The strut remote reservoirs were hitting the inside of the tower so you can see why I boxed them at each end. The adjuster knob on the other side hit too, see below.

That bump stop has also gone now and all under seal now stripped out, all the seams are being stitch welded now.

Caddyshack

thanks. Stuart Day just popped in and we had a good poke round, he has given me a lot of tips and shown me some bits I hadn’t considered.

Caddyshack

I know these are out of order, sorry. Here I am competing the welds where the new struts were put in. Everything will be bare metalled where needed as it will be white now, like the t16 rally cars.

Here I have cut out the turret and folding the new metal going in.

Caddyshack

The exhaust will need to go up through the floor, over the cradle and back down through, I have cut off the inlet to the rear silencer here and just tacked it as I need to get the angles right. It will need purging and tig, I think.

you can also see where I have started to re-profile the chassis around the turret, I have re-made the return lip but it’s not on in this pic.

you can see where I have started to stitch weld the rear panel too from inside (it has penetrated though). The spot welds had popped off where the rear is on the spit. I have re-spot welded them now.

Caddyshack

The whole underside of the car is being stripped and will be sealed with epoxy before it is later painted white body colour.

Caddyshack

There are lots of holes in the shell where rear seat belts or speakers would have been, I am playing over these. New plasma will help. All the little screw holes are getting migged and then dressed.

Caddyshack

Stripping all the under seal, will tidy all this up to make it factory straight again.

I have started to cut a recess in the old metal that was added in the 90’s as the supra diff hits the cross member with the cradle in there. The cross member no longer does anything but I will leave it for some strength.

Caddyshack

Had a bit of a seat / cage interface issue. The bar would not let the seat go all the way back and the big brace was too close to my head for comfort so I have cut out the bar behind the seat and that brace too. I will add back a brace tight to the hoop and then add in a harness bar at the correct height for the fia allowed safety angle of 15 degrees max.


This bar stops the seat coming back about 4 inches so I could not straighten my legs in the car. I will probably put in a moving tilton pedal box.

Caddyshack

The plate that connects the cage to the door pillar needs to move too as it covers the hinge that holds the window in, I think I can cut it off and move it.

Caddyshack

3d printed notch shape with a toilet roll for extra cad…this will be the replacement brace which is away from where a head could hit.

and , cross bar has been cut out. This will need to be tidied and welds to fill any grinding scars before linishing back / dressing

Caddyshack

I have carbon fibre panels going in where the rear 1/4s etc were..sort of where the rear doors would be on a 4 door.

Caddyshack

Bit of an issue on the diff in the cradle.

The adapter hits the tube so the diff doesn’t fit straight.

Caddyshack

Bits of the cage gone now. Some more will be going back in.

Caddyshack

Diff fits the cradle now that I have notched it with 3mm plate to re-enforce it. You can see the cross member notch to allow the diff to fit as it was hitting the boot floor, 2mm steel will go back in to close the notch, I am not too worried as the cage above ties it all together.

Caddyshack

Mocked up the front end and had a small issue getting the bonnet to close.

I have chopped off the new top mounts and re-welded them under the strut top.

Making up a ring that will add strength to the top mount.

The top mounts that came from Anembo, they really helped me as I needed them for mock up and ordered one day, arrived the next with enough bolts for my bearings too,

Welded in the strength plate on top. I have welded from underneath as well so I am confident these won’t come off.

Caddyshack

Stripped nearly 2 kilos of under seal from this one front wheel arch.

Found some old patches under the under seal which need doing properly so these will come out tomorrow.

Caddyshack

All of these seams will be cleaned out of sealer, stitch welded and then sealed ready for the body shop.

Caddyshack

If you look at where the new metal meets the old (highlighted) I will need to consider how to finish these. Either with a plate or a seam seal…suspect it needs a plate welding over. I will back fill any cavities with a rust proofer….like a pump in wax as there are quite a lot of bare metal panels on the reverse that you cannot get to.


The exhaust will need to come back out of the boot between the cradle and where I have highlighted. The boot floor will be boxed in over the exhaust, I assume I will need to cut vents in the underside to let the heat out where I box in over the axle.

ajamesc

I get on well with stu he has helped me out a lot recently raiding his parts cave lol. First alternator drop bracket as I needed two in the end. Heater matrix then heater motor few other bits as well. He really dose have everything.

Caddyshack

yes, he has a few bits I will need for mine and was really interested to help. He is mates with a really good friend of mine.

ajamesc

All be worth it in the end. You just have to plod on with it. Main thing is its out that clowns hands and home so you can crack on. Looking forward to seeing it develop