Building, racing, crashing race cars with the 750 Motor Club
Well, and it was all going so swimmingly. So much so that I finished off putting the roundel on the front.
After that it was really only arranging to point the wheels in the right direction. In order to do that I installed fake Tim, a collection of bags of sand, in the driver’s seat and set about starting the setup, which was going to take rather a while on this completely unaligned chassis.
Having done the rear ARB, or at least one of them, it was time to get back to the front of the car. In particular to attend to the ARB at that end of the car.
Onwards and upwards. I tried to get stuck into the car again over the weekend, in particular I was aiming to get the ARBs finished off and all connected up.
Sorry for the absence, I’ve been away feeling sorry for myself as I’ve had human ‘flu, at least that’s what I think it was. No wonder it’s killed so many people if it makes you feel that grotty. Excuse me while I go and make myself another “paracetamol-based cold remedy”, as they are coyly described on the NHS website.
Yesterday, Colin said I’d not updated this blog for “years”. This is a slight exageration as it’s nearly been three weeks. However, it is too long. There’s been lots of other things on, you see. Just to make you realise how hard we pseudo academics work I was even at a conference for all of last weekend so I didn’t get any time at all to go in the garage then. Continue reading “Emerging, blinking, into the light”
Two quick things about dampers.
As the super-duper dampers supposedly being built by my friend Dave have never appeared, as it was becoming increasingly apparently that there’s no point relying on something made out of vapour and wishes I finally decided to go elsewhere.
It’d be nice to be able to move the car around in a while, so having put the rear suspension together I set about the front suspension.
Yet another odd weekend; one step forward, two steps back, two steps forward. Whatever, I haven’t accomplished what I set out to do. Ho hum.
Everything was all going so well too. I assembled the left rear suspension, using all those bearings I made a while ago, and assembled the upright using the nice shiny new driveshaft. Continue reading “Txing”
I ordered a set of taps from RDG Tools and tapped one of the brake mounting blocks to M10x1.5 for the mounting bolts through the calipers. The end result is shown in the photo here. I’ll make some spacers of the proper size, and get the correct length bolts, rather than using stacks of washers. However, it seems to fit fine which is good.
I’ve finally managed to get the roll cage tubing, as seen in the picture. Astonshingly, it’s taken me about three months to get this. I went to the suppliers that Jeremy recommended, Tube Engineers of Market Rasen in Lincolnshire, as that seemed sensible. Since then I’ve had a long stream of excuses and woffle including “he’s in France”, “we’re setting the machines up for 38mm next week”, “oh, I’d forgotten about you”, “I’ve lost your email” and “we’re notching the tubing”. The last is special because I didn’t ask them to do this. In fact, a selection of the tubes arrived notched in a useless manner (how could they know what angle I needed them notched at?), what’s more, the front hoop (the only difficult bit because that’s the only bent tube) arrived a different length from what my drawing and my email specified.
However, I’ve been waiting so long I decided to just work around the problem which I think I can. I certainly shan’t be putting any business their way in the future though.