Did some fabrication. Made this. Side by side comparison with old and new: Tidied up the main panel. Lightened and swaged. Those who have looked closely will know the panel is not symmetrical due to the design around the rad. It turns out the aluminium plates are also not positioned equally, so I have redrilled... Continue Reading →
Stu loaned his spacial tool to me so I could crack on with a part of the project I have been wanting to get to for months. The slam panel on the car was not in the best of condition. Nice from afar but far from nice. The elements had taken their toll and the... Continue Reading →
Seeing as the battery won't fit above the gearbox mount anymore... Quite pleased with how that came out...
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
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 →
Rallye Project 