Tuscan Progress

[shapeshifter]

Went to Blackpool yesterday for a progress meeting on my car, seems to be moving along nicely, all the detachable chassis components acid stripped, chassis going in Monday, new body shell, rear wing, roof, diffuser and splitter ready, discussed and agreed colour scheme, discussed and agreed new front lighting layout (I think the Tuscan is a good looking car apart from the front lights, need upgrading), discussed and kinda agreed on new air intake system (protruding bonnet system to be replaced), discussed and agreed power steering system. Got issues with some of the existing rose joints being worn, asked him to replace them all, he then told me the cost, hastily changed my view into "save what you can". Still can't decide on whether to ditch the 4.5 road Cerb engine for a full race AJP! might run the 4.5 road Cerb next season until she blows and then replace.

Edited by shapeshifter on Saturday 1st December 12:31

[Graham]

Sounds good, what kind of pas are you going for in the end

G

[tuscrv8]

ANY PICS

[shapeshifter]

Graham said:

Sounds good, what kind of pas are you going for in the end

G

Corsa, apparently when the car was built way back in 1996 it had pas on it (not Corsa pas mind), disappeared over the years though.

[shapeshifter]

tuscrv8 said:

ANY PICS

Just a heap of bits at the moment, will post pics when it starts going back together.

[teamHOLDENracing]

Michael - I used the Aurora PRM8T rose joints on the Sagaris - at £29.50 each plus the VAT they aren't exactly cheap, but they are a lot less than the Goldline bearings John will have scared you with. Tim has been runnning with an even cheaper Aurora bearing for the last 2 years without issues and the PRM8T has a higher rating than those. I got them from Autosport Bearings & Components Limited - 01932 225777

Cheers

Andy

[shapeshifter]

teamHOLDENracing said:

Michael - I used the Aurora PRM8T rose joints on the Sagaris - at £29.50 each plus the VAT they aren't exactly cheap, but they are a lot less than the Goldline bearings John will have scared you with. Tim has been runnning with an even cheaper Aurora bearing for the last 2 years without issues and the PRM8T has a higher rating than those. I got them from Autosport Bearings & Components Limited - 01932 225777

Cheers

Andy

Thanks Andy, that sounds a little more like it.

[fredtonge]

hi, the hard top that you need is retrowheels hard top as fitted to car 58 as this has all the work done to allow for the steel hoop on top of the roll cage, contact jr and he will talk to darren also andy holden does a nice line in carbon splitters
ft

[shapeshifter]

fredtonge said:

hi, the hard top that you need is retrowheels hard top as fitted to car 58 as this has all the work done to allow for the steel hoop on top of the roll cage, contact jr and he will talk to darren also andy holden does a nice line in carbon splitters
ft

Thanks, but already got all thoes bits.