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Hi John,
Yeah, I don't have any plans to unclench my locked jaw for a little while yet.
At the beginning of the year, I thought I could see this little beauty running before '24. There have been some delays stemming from the reconfiguration to the small flywheel & bellhousing, so that's not about to happen. Nevertheless, I thought I'd just keep pushing, and that way, . . . hopefully in the spring!!!
One thing to keep in mind is that with every tiny change, I'm getting one step closer to the exact car I've been dreaming about for a couple of decades.
Lockjaw.
Yeah, I don't have any plans to unclench my locked jaw for a little while yet.
At the beginning of the year, I thought I could see this little beauty running before '24. There have been some delays stemming from the reconfiguration to the small flywheel & bellhousing, so that's not about to happen. Nevertheless, I thought I'd just keep pushing, and that way, . . . hopefully in the spring!!!
One thing to keep in mind is that with every tiny change, I'm getting one step closer to the exact car I've been dreaming about for a couple of decades.
Lockjaw.
GAjon said:
Nice one! With regard to aches and pains from welding , I’ve, at long last, made myself a chassis “Rotatarator”.
It’s actually more for the spraying of the chassis, but it gives great access to get them awkward places.
Nice Rotatarator. How's that frame coming along? Reminds me of my own home brewed rotisserie. It’s actually more for the spraying of the chassis, but it gives great access to get them awkward places.
Ha ha! My original plan was to utilise my engine lift for the chassis stand, but didn’t have the room.
This chassis frame is sound, just a tidy up and weight reduction.
The car was one of the two that raced in the Scandinavian GT series, so had a lot of stuff on there that we don’t need, air jacks, ballast brackets etc, all heavy duty that we need removing.
Pretty much taking it back to how it was in 89.
This chassis frame is sound, just a tidy up and weight reduction.
The car was one of the two that raced in the Scandinavian GT series, so had a lot of stuff on there that we don’t need, air jacks, ballast brackets etc, all heavy duty that we need removing.
Pretty much taking it back to how it was in 89.
GAjon said:
. . . just a tidy up and weight reduction. . . .
This can only mean one thing!When is its first race?
And also, since you haven't mentioned your own M in a while, I'm guessing that you're not spending any time driving it or working on it. Is it back in one piece?
Is the plan for you to drive the Tuscan, while Chris is racing the GEM? Is it just to greedily accumulate as many racing TVRs as possible? I think we (here) are all that way inclined, regardless of our success in that arena.
The M is tucked away for winter, and to be honest we didn’t use it as much as we should have this year.
The Gem is ready to race, although it could do with an engine refresh, we’ve put quite a few hours on it in the last 6 seasons.
All time and resources are being directed at this Tuscan challenge rebuild though.
It landed with us by chance/luck . It was being converted into a road going car, but we will be reverting it back into a dedicated race car.
It’s Christopher’s project really , but I’m sure I’ll get to race it at some point.
Any way, let’s get your M on the road /track and an article for Sprint magazine!
The Gem is ready to race, although it could do with an engine refresh, we’ve put quite a few hours on it in the last 6 seasons.
All time and resources are being directed at this Tuscan challenge rebuild though.
It landed with us by chance/luck . It was being converted into a road going car, but we will be reverting it back into a dedicated race car.
It’s Christopher’s project really , but I’m sure I’ll get to race it at some point.
Any way, let’s get your M on the road /track and an article for Sprint magazine!
GAjon said:
The M is tucked away for winter, and to be honest we didn’t use it as much as we should have this year.
The Gem is ready to race, although it could do with an engine refresh, we’ve put quite a few hours on it in the last 6 seasons.
All time and resources are being directed at this Tuscan challenge rebuild though.
It landed with us by chance/luck . It was being converted into a road going car, but we will be reverting it back into a dedicated race car.
It’s Christopher’s project really , but I’m sure I’ll get to race it at some point.
Any way, let’s get your M on the road /track and an article for Sprint magazine!
Sounds good. The Gem is ready to race, although it could do with an engine refresh, we’ve put quite a few hours on it in the last 6 seasons.
All time and resources are being directed at this Tuscan challenge rebuild though.
It landed with us by chance/luck . It was being converted into a road going car, but we will be reverting it back into a dedicated race car.
It’s Christopher’s project really , but I’m sure I’ll get to race it at some point.
Any way, let’s get your M on the road /track and an article for Sprint magazine!
This illustrates the driveshaft angle I was concerned with. Now that everything's squared up and bolted down, it doesn't look as bad but I'll throw the image into AutoCAD later, and measure it. Considering that I'd have to move the differential and have new axles made, again, it's probably going to be this way for a while.
After a lot of therapy, the body and the chassis are ready to be reunited
One that captures a pretty detail.
Thank you Louis Santaniello!
0.5 degrees to 2.0 degrees, according to MW.
https://www.markwilliams.com/driveshafttech.html
Guess I'll find out if it introduces undesirable levels of vibration.
https://www.markwilliams.com/driveshafttech.html
Guess I'll find out if it introduces undesirable levels of vibration.
PH is not allowing me to upload photos any longer. Too large. I'm grateful for all of the photos that I was able to share here with you via thumbsnap, despite them by far exceeding the upload limits,
Kind of a shame, because it would have been a point of pride for me to chronicle the complete path to roadworthiness and beyond here.
Nevertheless, I've been paralleling this thread on another site, for the past few weeks, so if you want to continue to follow the build, I'll continue to post updates there.
Thanks for all of the encouragement and guidance over the years. Thanks also for the sense of community I found here.
B
Kind of a shame, because it would have been a point of pride for me to chronicle the complete path to roadworthiness and beyond here.
Nevertheless, I've been paralleling this thread on another site, for the past few weeks, so if you want to continue to follow the build, I'll continue to post updates there.
Thanks for all of the encouragement and guidance over the years. Thanks also for the sense of community I found here.
B
GAjon said:
Nice one! With regard to aches and pains from welding , I’ve, at long last, made myself a chassis “Rotatarator”.
It’s actually more for the spraying of the chassis, but it gives great access to get them awkward places.
Mr Jon, I was going to ask you how the hell you manage to bleed that wall rad, but I see now that it's not plumbed in. So, was it an early abandoned attempt at underfloor heating? It’s actually more for the spraying of the chassis, but it gives great access to get them awkward places.
It’s a home made, and very efficient, air dryer.
The air comes off the compressor, into the top left loop, the air condensates in the pipe work as it travels through.
Each loop has a bottom bleed off.
The air is dry before it gets to the wall filter regulator set.
I might redeploy it as underfloor heating at a later date!
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