Managed a bit of progress towards getting the handbrake sorted. I have the same setup as jools is using on his car, which modifies the existing handbrake to drive the piston in the cylinder. First a bit of fabrication to create the pivot point from a bit of 1.6mm zintec sheet. Two halves welded together.... Continue Reading →
Well over the last week or so I have found bits of time to work on the dash, managing to reduce the weight by chopping out unnecessary bits, removing double skinned sections and hole sawing here and there. No where as near as Dean's attempts, but I do want it to look standard from the... Continue Reading →
Thursday night I was quite busy and didn't have much time, but decided I had just enough to finish up the EPAS work. Oh, how wrong could I be. I needed to press fit the inner bearing race onto the machine top hat. This was simple enough, just a case of getting the parts lined... Continue Reading →
About to become exceptinoally busy with work which will put a dampner on much progress in the coming month or so and as a result I am trying to make a bit of a push on the car. I suspect the biggest development is to finally decide the direction for the build, which is now... Continue Reading →
Well had a bit of time away and a chance to get perspective and decide what I wanted to do with the car. Came back with a bit more enthusiasm and then tonight managed to get a good few hours working on the car. Fabricated up some mounting points for the retaining straps that are... Continue Reading →
Found a bit of time to dress down the welds on the rear cross member and then weld on the final parts wihich are part of the reinforcements for the rear suspension mounts... Next step is to clean this section up and get it painted.
So bit of progress in the last month... moving further back under the car I didn't like the look of this: So chopped it out... Then decided that the bottom of the box section also needed to be repaired, so chopped that and welded in a repair section. Finally finished the welding off tonight. Getting... Continue Reading →
Finished the Fuel Cell Framing last week and it's now in a base coat of POR15. Since then I've been doing some tidying up elsewhere on the shell, such as removing the studs that had held on the fusebox. The heads of these are real rust traps in the wheel arches so there was some... Continue Reading →
The North West regional members of the 106 Rallye Register meet the first Monday of each month at the Honey Bee in Wilmslow. It's always a nice chance to catch up with other owners and talk cars. We some times even turn up in Rallyes.
The end of the Corsa steering column needs to be supported and due to the modifications I've had to source a needle bearing to fit the job. It's taken ages because the first supplier turned out not to have any stock despite saying that they did and the second managed to fudge the order and... Continue Reading →
A little bit of tidying up to make things symmetrical. The section chopped out to make way for the fuel cell was cannabalised to provide the patch piece. Most difficult thing was getting the measurements right! Welded in Having removed the rear section and main hoopd, the roll cage is now fully out so I... Continue Reading →
Headed home to Norfolk for a weekend of carpentry and decided to take the Rallye. It's the first time I've driven a Rallye on the familiar country roads around our house since I had the Series 1 and it was a good laugh to get out and about a few times in the car. The... Continue Reading →
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