Chimaera 500 work begins

Chimaera 500 work begins

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v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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v8ndy

Original Poster:

149 posts

238 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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Fresh off the powder coating machinesmile

v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Wednesday 21st July 2010
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Extra reinforcement on the diff mounts, I`m not sure if this was really necessary but i could help
myself biglaugh

dbv8

8,655 posts

219 months

Thursday 22nd July 2010
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I like those diff mounts.
Mine are coming back off along with the diff for a refurb so i may well copy your design.
Did you beef up the rear mount also?

v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Friday 23rd July 2010
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dbv8 said:
I like those diff mounts.
Mine are coming back off along with the diff for a refurb so i may well copy your design.
Did you beef up the rear mount also?
No not yet. As its such a small bracket i was thinking either to copy the design using a
thicker gauge of steel and adding extra pickup points to the diff casing, or a nice alloy billet
item cool

TJC46

2,147 posts

205 months

Monday 26th July 2010
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Great job so far andy, keep it up and keep the pics coming.Is all the extra tubing just bolted on underneath? How much ground clearance will you have?

2 sMoKiN bArReLs

30,230 posts

234 months

Monday 26th July 2010
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thumbup That's gonna be some car!

Conian

8,030 posts

200 months

Monday 26th July 2010
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I love these threads! Keep up the updates!

v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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TJC46 said:
Is all the extra tubing just bolted on underneath? How much ground clearance will you have?
The frame bolts to the underside of the chassis every 300mm where it replace the exhaust mounting plate and also protects the sump, I`ve lost 40mm ground clearance due to the larger sump, and was unable to mount the engine any higher as the supercharger pulley catches the bonnet. The frame also ties the two lower chassis rails together as theres rather a big distance from the front cross tie in section to the rear

I decided to extend the heat sheild foil the length of the tunnel which should help a little to slow the heat soak

Simon says

18,928 posts

220 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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v8ndy said:
TJC46 said:
Is all the extra tubing just bolted on underneath? How much ground clearance will you have?
The frame bolts to the underside of the chassis every 300mm where it replace the exhaust mounting plate and also protects the sump, I`ve lost 40mm ground clearance due to the larger sump, and was unable to mount the engine any higher as the supercharger pulley catches the bonnet. The frame also ties the two lower chassis rails together as theres rather a big distance from the front cross tie in section to the rear

I decided to extend the heat sheild foil the length of the tunnel which should help a little to slow the heat soak
That's proper like thumbup that should help a great deal with heat soak i would imagine yes

neal1980

2,574 posts

238 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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I am loving watching this come together. This is going to be the ultimate Chimaera!

Keep up the great work..and plenty more updates please smile

bounce

markreilly

795 posts

171 months

Wednesday 28th July 2010
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Andy,are you doing anything with the dash ?

v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Sunday 1st August 2010
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Andy,are you doing anything with the dash ?
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No plans to do anything with the dash, except straighten up the steering as the off center position always bugs mebiggrin but i do like your orange supercharger dialsmilesmile

v8ndy

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238 months

Sunday 1st August 2010
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Its to clean!!! and i don`t wana use itlaugh

Conian

8,030 posts

200 months

Sunday 1st August 2010
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Why do you all powder coat your chassiseses (?) white?
for me it'd just get v dirty v quick and i think i'd have gone with black
Bad memories of white motorbike wheels.

v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Sunday 1st August 2010
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Conian said:
Why do you all powder coat your chassiseses (?) white?
for me it'd just get v dirty v quick and i think i'd have gone with black
Bad memories of white motorbike wheels.
Its the orginal colour for car, including grey and silver depending on what tvr had in stockbiggrin I was gonna go with orange but then changed my mind. If it needs a touch up in the future white an easy colour using POR15

TJC46

2,147 posts

205 months

Sunday 1st August 2010
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v8ndy said:
Conian said:
Why do you all powder coat your chassiseses (?) white?
for me it'd just get v dirty v quick and i think i'd have gone with black
Bad memories of white motorbike wheels.
Its the orginal colour for car, including grey and silver depending on what tvr had in stockbiggrin I was gonna go with orange but then changed my mind. If it needs a touch up in the future white an easy colour using POR15

Always had a "thing " for red myself.hehe Must of had too many red fire engines as a toddler hehe

v8ndy

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149 posts

238 months

Sunday 22nd August 2010
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New powerflex bushes with ball joints and bolts the hub flanges are being sorted for five studs

v8ndy

Original Poster:

149 posts

238 months

Sunday 22nd August 2010
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Converted the rear hubs to the T car spec, A tuscan kindly gave up some parts it no longer needed. As they use a larger bearing it should help with the increase in power and larger wheels

Pothole

34,367 posts

281 months

Sunday 22nd August 2010
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TJC46 said:

Always had a "thing " for red myself.hehe
so why'd you go for orange? wink