How much money to run 10s in a street car?now with part2, The evolution to turbo

[richie]

came from Jegs, I got some in stock if you need it, and the 3/8th size for -6


cheers Richie

[Trond Dahl]

I like your wheels next to the car:-)
Are you running those?

[richie]

I like your wheels next to the car:-)
Are you running those?

Yes, my one real extravagance on the whole build Just had to do it when they came up for sale



cheers Richie

[oilyT]

came from Jegs, I got some in stock if you need it, and the 3/8th size for -6


cheers Richie

Cool,  could you pm me a price on the 1/2 in tubing .

Cheer's Barry

[richie]

Bit more progress, all the strength is back in the front area, still waiting on the windscreen washer bottle area repair panel to arrive but have done all the other pieces under and around it so should be simple enough when it arrives, had to let in some metal on front edge of inner wing near bumper mounts then could "persuade"  the front apron to fit as best I could get it.
Bonnet[ from rob at East coast manx ] and wings line up pretty good with no real messing

Last thing was to mount the Lucas indicators where I wanted them


cheers Richie

[leec]

Hi Richie,
Did you get the bits you needed for the chassis?
Lee

[richie]

Hi Richie,
Did you get the bits you needed for the chassis?
Lee

Supposedly in post so hopefully yes, thanks for your help

[TomJ]

Bit more progress, all the strength is back in the front area, still waiting on the windscreen washer bottle area repair panel to arrive but have done all the other pieces under and around it so should be simple enough when it arrives, had to let in some metal on front edge of inner wing near bumper mounts then could "persuade"  the front apron to fit as best I could get it.
Bonnet[ from rob at East coast manx ] and wings line up pretty good with no real messing

Last thing was to mount the Lucas indicators where I wanted them


cheers Richie

Looking good Richie!

There's my front number plate, I was wondering where I left that

Cheers

Tom

[karl h]

decided on a colour yet?

[richie]

decided on a colour yet?

I am staying with stock Lotus white, going to leave the chrome on as well, more of a subtle street racer than cal looker and think the stock colour works well


cheers Richie

[jamiep_jamiep]

Looking great!

[richie]

Thanks to kind generosity of Baz I got a bearing carrier & spacer in the mail so fitted that up and pan now rolls, just need one small IRS brake line connector to arrive and I can bleed brakes and pan is ready to go back under car

[karl h]

nice! i´d love to be this far with the pan. repairing a framehead is a royal PITA

[richie]

nice! i´d love to be this far with the pan. repairing a framehead is a royal PITA

And I would love for the body to be painted like yours is, we could make one good one out of 2 rusty ones at the moment

[baz]

Looking good Ritchie,  gotta love og burners when they lose the shine.

[WhiteTrash]

Looks great 

You got to love a complete rolling pan.

I'll bring the Puma pan up and we can have a pan race 

[Andy Sykes]

good work cant wait to see it out 

[Shane Noone]

Good Progress Richie  quick question, are the front shocks Competition Engineering 90/10s ?   and are these available for link pin front ends to directly bolt on without mods / welding brackets etc?

Look forward to seeing you guys and the cars at UK Drag Day in May.

Shane.

[leec]

We must be due an update by now 

[richie]

Good Progress Richie  quick question, are the front shocks Competition Engineering 90/10s ?   and are these available for link pin front ends to directly bolt on without mods / welding brackets etc?

Look forward to seeing you guys and the cars at UK Drag Day in May.

Shane.

Hi Shane

yes they are, they were left over from the nitrous cab and seemed silly to not use them    I don't think they make them anymore for ball joint or link pin front ends, I haven't seen them for sale for along long time, sorry cant help anymore than that


cheers Richie

[richie]

We must be due an update by now 

To be honest there hasn't been much to update up till now, been wearing my fingers away sanding and filling the shell for what seems like months!!!, but today made the next step forward by getting the shell in undercoat, will need to be a little lower to put topcoat on though, was a real bitch to do the roof up that high, but it is so easy to do underneath and inside like that[ got to say thanks to Gavin Jones for the loan of the rotisserie, was perfect timing him going on holiday   thanks mate   ]

cheers Richie

[karl h]

looks cool! the race is on who is on the pan first

[leec]

Great progress. Looks like Gavin may offer you a job

[Lids]

All that work to only realise you still need to weld up the trim holes, must be gutted!

Looking good, wish I had the time to work on mine.

[Dead Dog]

Big chunk of progress 

[richie]

Looking good, wish I had the motivation to get off my lazy ass and work on mine instead of just talking about it.

 

[richie]

looks cool! the race is on who is on the pan first

I think it should be who drives it 1st, I will have it on the pan next week so it can go off for the cage work but I am happy either way, 2 cars are getting saved

[Lids]

Looking good, wish I had the motivation to get off my lazy ass and work on mine instead of just talking about it.

 

[richie]

Underneath is done, painted the bonnet while I was doing it, happy enough with how its coming out

[Neil Davies]

Impressive work Richie! I'm looking at the modifications to the shell and I can spot the Zbar mounting place on the bodymount panel is gone, which I presume is for easier access to the starter motor, clutch arm etc., but I'm also wondering about the pieces of rear crossmember missing where the heater pipes would go through. Is this for clearance for the cage to tie in to the torsion housing, or some other reason?