Seeing as the battery won't fit above the gearbox mount anymore... Quite pleased with how that came out...
Gearbox Mount
Putting the Brakes On
Plugged the floor pan. Didn't do some of the bits nearest the passenger side sill because it's got to come off. Made these out of some 3mm plate V-grooved the butt weld joint and welded in Due to an opportunity there's been a change in plans, so I needed to make this: Drill this bit... Continue Reading →
Satchell Strut Tower Reinforcement
Welded in, primer's still wet... Did a load of stitch welding to the Peugeot Sport build manual spec too. So remaining jobs in the engine bay are: 1. Make some reinforcement gussets for the rear engine mount (these are now templated just need to cut them out of some 3mm plate). 2. Drop the engine... Continue Reading →
Plugging Away
So after hand making them last time with aviation shears, as I have the floor pan in both this and Maxi to do I bought a load of blanking discs. I looked at getting them laser cut (astronomically expensive) so went for stamp cut ones in 25mm, 32mm and 40mm sizes. So worked out what... Continue Reading →
Pivot Point
Still plugging away on the bodywork to get the engine bay finished. Yesterday a parcel arrived that I'd been waiting on to finish a job: 8mm O.D. brass tube which was then chopped down to create this bush bearing Which allows the handbrake and hydraulic ram for the handbrake cylinder to be connected. Much better... Continue Reading →
Moving Forwards
Bit of garage time this weekend so put the big hole in the passenger side inner wing right. Part of the 3mm plate bracket for the gearbox mount has a 90 degree bend and ties into the engine bay side of the inner wheel arch. From factory the two were pressed together closing a 1.6mm... Continue Reading →
Updates
Didn't seem to get a lot of garage time this weekend. Still did get some work done - managed to get the other Satchell wishbone mount reinforcement welded into the drivers footwell. I did some tidying up as when I modded the bulkhead for the PAS pedal box, I ended up using some nutserts for... Continue Reading →
Handbrake Mount
So when I had the white 16v Rallye caged and the same tunnel reinforcement plate removed, the MOT station failed the car because the mounting for the handbrake was then too flimsy afterwards. To remedy that I welded a plate on around the handbrake mounting points which kept the testers happy, but was no good... Continue Reading →
Bit of a push
Started on the passenger side... needs some work due to some poor quality previous work. Not long after this started chopping bits out: Not going to post a lot of pics of the work, because to be fair, most of that is not very exciting. So here's something a bit different. This is the standard... Continue Reading →
Bracing
It's only taken a year since I went down to see Colin Satchell in Cornwall to get around to fitting some of his fine craftsmanship to the car... Strut tower sides needed a little arc of relief near the tops to get the down tubes in the right place as the photo below shows they... Continue Reading →
Something More Creative
April. That was when I started work on the drivers side inner wing. For a variety of reasons it's taken all this time to finish it. There was a lot of rot that was hidden from view, but the good news is it's all sorted now. During this time I've had chance to think on... Continue Reading →
New Metal
Not updated here in a while as not much progress as I'd like has been made in the last three weekends as they have been write offs with DIY jobs (rebuild the boundary fence, then re-roof the kitchen, finally re-tile the shower), but have made some headway as per below: Patched Final bits to sort... Continue Reading →
Rallye Project 