The Bomber

[frayz]

Dude,

She's letting me build a road going WRC car with less than 3 months to go.
If that's not an indication that she's 100% the right girl, I don't know what is!

[mneame]

frayz said:

Door now in battleship grey epoxy. Bloody love the flat grey colour

Get a few tins of stealth grey from work and have it all re-done.

[frayz]

Beautiful S12b design gearbox cradle.





Tub work started today too.

Look away if you're squeamish



Check out the beautiful S14 shell behind

[frayz]

Lightweight WRC cradle mate.

Now with added ventilation. #BecauseWRC

[frayz]

Today's sillyness.

Here you can see just how much material gets removed to build WRC front tubs and turrets. The offside shows just how little of the OEM piece is retained.
New pieces placed in that accept the WRC oil cooler setup. Surface rust comes as standard.

[frayz]

Dave cracked on with the start of the tubs and turrets today. So pleased with how it's progressing.

[frayz]

First tub and turret complete in steel.

[frayz]

Almost wearing a pair of turrets now. Front panel has also left the building.

[frayz]

Tubs & turrets in.



Dave... Step away from the bloody grinder!!









This is how yesterday's antics finished. You really start to get an idea of just how much is cut out of the rear tubs on a WRC car. The arch wells are huge. Rear flare is still in rough unfinished state and the bumper is a rough GRP mockup.

Parts laid up to get an idea of the arch line.

[frayz]

The NSR tub and turret taking shape today.
Here you really start to see how much wider the WRC flares are than the OEM body. You can also see just how much the wheel wells now intrude into the rear door apertures. The arches are absolutely enormous.

Even tacked in it looks pretty damn cool, can't wait to see it smoothed, epoxy coated and painted.

Scary bit first though!!















More coming soon.

[frayz]

Last pics for this week. NSR tub almost done.
Great to see the car taking shape. Daves doing an amazing job.

[frayz]

Most of the NSR tub is now complete on its basic layout. Looks superb and I'm really pleased with Daves work.

[frayz]

More forming of the rear door jam and its return. Here you can see how much of the rear wheel well comes into the door aperture again. Also how much the jam has come out to meet the wider track.
Also more fettling of the rear qtr panel. The rear qtrs aren't far away from going on now.
All of this will then get its final fit and finish along with panel gaps to be set before she goes for paint.











Rear quarters with more finishing.

[frayz]

NSR inner and outer tub/turret complete.
She's all ready for the qtr panel to go on this week. These are going to look beautiful once painted.

[frayz]

Lookout for the latest copy of Banzai magazine.
Hits the shelves on Thursday 20th August.
Feature & photos credited to Steve Hall Photography.

[Scousefella]

Will grab a copy Frayz, should be interesting reading.

[frayz]

Cheers dude. Although it's not like you haven't seen it all before. Lol

Well today she finally got a rear qtr panel stitched on. Looks so much better to start looking a bit more like a car again.
The panels are bang on the OEM panel gaps which unfortunately shows up how poor the bumper fits. This will be adjusted so it's perfect, rally boys don't care for panel gaps. But we do and it will be perfect.
Hopefully we can find a genuine ex works bumper and it should fit perfectly.

[frayz]

So today, the other rear qtr fell off.

[frayz]

Well I've been pretty busy lately as I tied the knot with my lovely lady last week.


Meanwhile the other love of my life has been resting up. She's looking brutal even with nothing attached to her.

[Scousefella]

Congrats to you both - all the best for the future.