transmission tunnel is gone

in the pic is the culprit that does all my cutting




now all i got to do is make a new one

 

I stay at home struggling to get that f##king window out , whilst you're having party time with grinder again

 

ha ha you not got it out yet i told youa hammer would be quicker

 

Its out now


Are rear screens laminated ? ? ? It won't smash

 

no its toughened they are very tough

 

i like the cutting and building better than the thrashing only just tho

 

Wicked car

 

Hi Andy long time no speak
What you cutting her up for again ? different gearbox going in?

 

yes mate i will be fitting a skyline r33 gearbox in the near future so it makes sense to make sure the transmission tunnel is big enough

 

Nice whats involved in the conversion? is that the box which is changable from rwd to 4wd?

 

should be you just presure the box and it gose to 4x4 am going to go this root too

 

yes dave it is & so is the r32 box the gearbox needs to be stripped totally so the bell housing can be cut off & milled to make sure it is flat then either weld on a billet adaptor to take a 2wd cossy bellhousing or just weld the bell housing direct to the box then you got to machine the main shaft down so it fits in the cossy spigot bearing in the crank ,also you need to modify the front & rear props to suit ,fit a centre push clutch fit all the hydraulic gubbins that controls it & get a hydraulic controller from martin hadland so you can adjust how much power you want to go to the front wheels . ill do it one day but i want to get it on the road for a year & enjoy

 

O no you have cut it up again but if i no you it will be back in by the weekend

 

Not if i get my welder back

 

With all the grinding is there not mutch MK2 left i think.

You develop a whole new car this way.

 

thats the plan ian,as long as i feel better still feel like crap at the moment

oi dont be mean do not forget i havent done your cradle yet

no mate there is not much of the original car left but at least it should not rust

 

dude seriously step away from the grinder

hahaha Good work but actually how much of the car have you replace hahah

 

as said above mate all the floor, chassis ,inner flitches were sierra but now its nearly all hand made except the inner flitches

 

Christ !!!! I leave you alone for 2 weeks and you turn the car over and start cutting it up

I take it you were practicing getting the car out the garage as it will be too wide to get it out the door.

 

ha ha not quiet just humoring richie he thaught it would look good


i have been cutting again & chopped the dash out








im going to cut the front strut tops off tomorrow

 

I only left him 10 minutes We disscussed it and he had it cut out by the time I'd driven home







Grinder =

 

Andy there aint gonna be much car left at this rate

 

ha ha wait ten minutes & it gets worse just got to upload pics

 

Oops


I'm innocent in all this

 

right i cocked up today as i forgot to get the steel for the trans tunnel so i got my trusty old grinder out again & cut the front strut tops out




then me & richie looked at the old brace to the strut tops that were on the old cage& decided the easiest way to cut them off was to cut the side of the inner flitch off



here is one of the old braces

it used to go to the cage that ran down the out side of the A pillar but now it just stops

the old bit cut out


i also got my drive shaft spacers today as well




there will be more cutting tomorrow

 

 

i bet they dont weigh much surely alluminium would have been a lot nicer on the diff bearings if you really have to do that, or even to the unsprung weight if they are going outboard Andy ?

 

i never thaught about aluminium they are only a temporary measure until i can afford new wheels to fill the new arches out ,they are going inside the rear hub carriers i made which are quiet light compared to the original swinging arms so over all should not be to bad

ps they weigh 3.2lbs each

 

i just weighed the bearing assembly that bolts to the spacer & they weigh 3.4lbs each

 

I do hope your grinder gose BANG so you will stop cutting it up and have to start bilding it back up

PS very nice work andy

 

Nice progress mate.I havent had my lap top for a week so i havent been on the net.You are going to town on your car arnt you.

 

this car will be nothink sort of awsome when finished, roll on central day next year,it will be the car with the most people round

 

if im going to do it i might as well do every thing i can think of to make it future proof so i do not need to get the grinder out next year which should make coley happy

i really hope so graham ,it usually pulls some pretty good crowds which ever show i go to but im hoping for more next year

its all right ian there is not much left to cut out now ,i think
glad you like it though .

 

been busy in the garage again & guess what .........i found more rot starting to look like a swiss cheese again .i guess i will be busy with the welder again ,but i did get one of the top mounts welded back in
i will get some pics up later there not pretty.

 

Great work Andy.

 

More rot


More grinding

 

thanks paul do you reckon you could make me some stickers for the car mampe style please

 

I'm going to confinscate the grinder if you carry on cutting bits off

Where was the rot can't be much left of the original shell.

 

i will put the pics up you still on holiday paul

 

i started by welding one of the top mounts on

then i started to strip all the inner bulk head back to bare metal which started to reveal yet more rust so i cut it all out


i also cut the last of the roll cage out of the A pillar

tomorrow i will start to weld it all back up again