Another rust combat

[aseem]

Roland. Looks like you have american tail lenses with red turn signals insead of orange. Will they pass inspection in Switzerland?

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by aseem

Roland. Looks like you have american tail lenses with red turn signals insead of orange. Will they pass inspection in Switzerland?

Depends on the controller. Cars with oem red ones (like american cars, Mustang etc..) are allowed, but cars like mine are not. The thing is does he know?

Had no problems yet, but if so I have the orange ones somewhere

[Kozmo930]

LOL... I own a grey market car , I personally like the orange ones . Have not had problems yet with mine here ..... just like the euro look

Kozmo

[proffighter]

A month ago I wanted to mount the oil tank, but it did not fit!

Some little checking gave me the answer. One of the previous owners hat an accident (or two) however, the tank was deformed, but only the latch. If you don't know you don't see, bent to a Z. Tried to straithen, but no chance without damage the tank, too thin the material and only spot welded. As the rear upper corner was heavy deformated anyway regardless it was still seal, I wanted a new tank.

Said and done. Thanks to tadman here who sold me one for a reasonable price. Powdercoated and here it is:




Further I got back some parts from nickelplating. Most are fine, some like the hinge axxis and little parts of door lock were that bad (looked like heavy corrosion) I have to made new...




And finally the highlight of the week:

Homemade front hood lock. Only the two levers and springs stayed stock (besides the drilling, you know me) Rest is aluminum, anodized of course and POM for the bushes:







PS: You may notice on the second pic, that bedstop for the latch RH is slightly deformated. This happend after ten times release due the hammering force of the latch. Will replace this with a SS one for more strength compared to the aluminum...

[cmccuist]

Roland, can you post a picture of your machine shop?

So many really well fabricated parts. I'd really like to see the set up.

Thanks!

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by cmccuist

Roland, can you post a picture of your machine shop?

So many really well fabricated parts. I'd really like to see the set up.

Thanks!

Yes I can, but there is not much to show. I have a small lathe with milling crosstable etc...




I have probably the smallest workshop here



To be honest, some work I made I did in the workshop of my latest occupation, mostly milling on a big drill machine with crosstabel (no CNC) because of easier to do than at home due the smaller tools.

Here is my anodizing station on the balcony, where I do also the sawing:



All in all not much, most made with handtools and time, but this way it's low price and I am indipendent.

[cmccuist]

That is amazing the variety of shapes and the precision that you are getting with just a lathe.

Really impressive.

Thanks Roland!

[proffighter]

As said before, some parts were damaged/useless by plating. Parts were mostly for the door lock mechanism:




So I made them out of high strength aluminum (what else). This way I save some more weight too! Further I used Plastidip (not the spraycan) for the first time (red circles). Went out really nice so far, if it's durable, then perfect.

[Kozmo930]

Totally amazed at your work , takes a lot of thought to come up with what you have accomplished . Waiting patiently to see this thing rolling ...

Kozmo

[proffighter]

Well, little time since I posted some news here... Not that much done, at least nothing worth to show.

Anyway, started to reassemble the doors. New covers look nice and fit well. The Aluminum door hinges look nice too. To save some more weight, I made the linkage for the door opener out of aluminum. The leather door stop is same as earlier, only the nut and shims are alu now.




And a little pre-view of my work on the seat rails (sliders?)

[RarlyL8]

Good lord man, at what point is structural integrity compromised? The first time you get on boost the car may wrap around the flywheel, ha!

[proffighter]

Originally Posted by RarlyL8

Good lord man, at what point is structural integrity compromised? The first time you get on boost the car may wrap around the flywheel, ha!

I do not make compromise in structural strength in general. I only do where it does not lead to danger to my health. In fact, sometimes I increase strength, with the cage for example. The only real lost of safety I have due the FG bumpers without anything behind...

Concerning the seat rails, I made my thoughts about. Finally I had to say, the weakest point here are even after add the slots still the two M6 (factory size) Bolts each side to bolt it down to the chassis and the FIA approved aluminum lateral consoles. Further most of the force will be taken by the four-point harness.

[RarlyL8]

Just yankin' your chain, I was visioning project creep turning your car into a turbocharged cheese grader, ha! If a floppy fiberglass bodied outlaw class stock car is safe then yours should be a tank.

[Spenny_b]

Originally Posted by RarlyL8

......then yours should be a tank.

Good Lord man, don't tell him that!!! He'll get a complex, followed by visits to the Shrink, and then no updates! No!!!!

[Ken911]

When i was 15 the kid down the street and I put a small block chevy out of his brothers' vette in a Chevy Vega. After we got it running we took it out on the street and punched it. The torque twisted the body enough to break the windshield. We had cut a big chunk out of the firewall to make room for the bell housing on the tranny. I've been wondering if something like that will happen to this car with all the extra power along with the swiss cheese body. hope not it's an awesome build.

[proffighter]

Look at the thread. I did not cut anything off the body that is structural. IN fact I made the opposite:

- Made some welding seams on several areas where only spots have been.
- Fit some Rear strut tower re-inforcements
- Additional sheets around the rear articulation point (outside where TB's are)
- Fit cage, strut bar
- removed rain gutter and welded through (some say it makes the roof area stiffer)
- Wevo rear swaybar consoles

I did not made any weight saving on the body shell, cut only things away that are not used anymore and are not structural like heating tubes in the rockers, brackets for rear seats, etc...

The only structural thing I removed are the lateral impact bars in the doors and fit some aluminum hinges, what I compensate with the cage.

[proffighter]

Sometimes it's just arghh...

Bought some RS door handles for a reasonable price from a fellow pelican. So far so good. Then I thought, ok let's replace the steel profil inside with an aluminum one. Therefore I removed the leather, rubber clamping section thing and made one out of alu as planed:




But now the trouble began. I was not aible to refit the cover because of it's weird concept. It's a leather sheet, clamped between the rubber part, once turned around and then clamped on the metal bar. Sounds easy, but I just did not could, always loose or slipped out, tried glue, no success. After an evening trying and cursing I went a different way, very simple and the result looks better than expected. I only fitted the two clamping pieces and slipped a transparent shrinking hose over it. Heated and tada, a nice handle is born

How do you like?



Of course the bolts and nuts are aluminum as well...

[Flieger]

Those guys clearly haven't been paying attention to the thread. Drill on, Roland!

[Ken911]

I've been paying attention just would hate see anything bad happen to such a beautiful build. like a latch failing and a hood sailing off any way it's a beautiful car looking forward to you first trip around the track. When I found out that a stock targa top will only live at speeds below 150mph that was a butt puckering ride. That was an expensive ride had to get the shredded top rebuilt and then go find a hard top lol.

[Kozmo930]

Originally Posted by Flieger

Those guys clearly haven't been paying attention to the thread. Drill on, Roland!

+1 Roland .... DRILL ON !
Love the handles by the way
Kozmo