NIKE 55's G46 BUILD...
 

I am starting this thread and I assume Nigel will continue it....

We have finally started this car ! Big apology publicly to Nigel for the delays ...I got sidetracked by the Cordite projects and he has been very patient...

Last week we did this to Nigels running , driving , driven down to us Scimitar !

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...k/DSC02213.jpg

http://i5.photobucket.com/albums/y18...k/DSC02215.jpg

now work begins with a bit of welding , some tidying up and then the fitment of his body , framework etc...

Wow, it already looks like a drag strip pick-up.

Hmmm... now there's a thought...wish I knew a Hot Rod building company that could throw a 55 Buick front end and a pick up rear body, then paint it black with red/yellow flames on the fenders....(maybe next time round)

Thanks for the photos Gary, when I saw them my first thoughts were 'Oh my god what I have done!!' but now looking forward to putting 8 months of thought / ideas / comments from this forum / car shows / historical photos into context over the next few months / years?
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loads of photos please. my car is almost in the same state at the moment. I just need to sort the brakes, electrics and get the engine running. I will be using this thread as a reference guide.

Is the donar se5 or se5a donar?
 

The heater bulkheads are different.
Maybe a photo in that area would help
Cheers
HM

Once I get back down to Poole with my trusty Canon will try and post a better photo, in the meantime this is what an SE5 engine bay looks like before surgery....


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There should of course be an obligatory 'before and after' photo of the vehicle being converted: so here goes:-


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(...and a shot of the loon that owns it in a flying helmet sitting amongst the wreckage of a once complete vehicle - that's not going to happen on this thread...!)

BORING!!!!!

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Nice registration number. Decent looking donor too.

Looks like the. Rear chasis is missing, but the petrol filler moulding retained.
Chairman tech have you dumped the rear chasis section also?
Hm:spy:

Our chassis is complete as I think Nike55 is in the photo above. Chassis has to be complete and uncut for the re-body to pass the inspection is my understanding

I presume a bolt on bumper/tow bar rail does not count as chasis in the same wayt the front bumper bracketry is not required?
Hm

The donor was top notch mechanically albeit the bodywork was flawed to the point of needing £2k -£3k spent on it - hence my immediate deposit to Gary when I heard about the G46 at the Exeter show last year

The reg number stayed with the owner as he wanted £3k for it ..

I rcv'd a less interesting reg number with the vehicle but I will be going for a non prefix / suffix number eventually.

No, it's all there as required.

The only bit(s) missing were the rear wiper / washer and the faired over 'grills' in the rear quarter panels. (I've no idea why....perhaps with the green stripes it was a go-faster mod.....)

....well not until I get Gary to bond the new body to the Scimitar!

Still waiting to see a finished G46... Any progress?

Sorry, nothing that I can report upon. The Scimitar's mortal remains are with Gary who is still to produce the body and bond it onto the chassis after some minor welding and I await further updates in due course (as they say), and I hope to post something 'as and when'.

I understand that there are positive developments within the Sammio organisation regarding G46 model type production which I am currently unable to comment upon.

I guess I should set down my G46 philosophy somewhere.

Ahh, a mission statement. Where would we be without mission statements?

Objectives, Appraisals, Town hall meetings, Open Forum, Client Feedback, SLA's, KPI's, Customer Focus Groups, Continuous Professional Development...

- anything to get in the way of the supply of the core product and to keep the HR and accountancy empires employed.

I think I read somewhere (so unsure if it's true) that during Henry Ford's tenure he employed no accountants and that no internal audits were ever undertaken.

...feels so good I've left those behind.

Picture taken from the Sammio Safe Systems of Working Manual.


I'm still alive, therefore it was safe.

...ah PPE, Risk Assessments, COSHE, RIDDOR....


You must have been wearing a High Viz Jacket, Hard hat & boots and undertaken a tool box briefing or you would have been killed..

Ha ha. Loving the manually adjustable renewable resource chassis securing ram.

Latest Update.

....nothing (much).

Latest Update.

....body currently being made

Pop back next week.

Adios

G46 Update..
 

Christmas came early this year and the body has now been produced :faint:

My informant advises that the bonding of the body / chassis will take place shortly..

(...probably on the evening of the next full moon at the same time as a Chicken is devoured with a flagon or two of mead and a virgin is sacrificed upon the alter of the twin exhausts - er actually hold that last bit, I'll need the virgin myself when I'm re-wiring in order to sacrifice her to Lucas, The Prince of Darkness.)

So long as the body doesn't go on backwards.....

Nike55 - Great news. :cool:

I'm sure things will start to pick up quickly now.

Cheers, Paul. :)

Great news indeed, now come on, let's see a finished G46! :becky:

I get mine soon too!

How did you get your body home?

Will it fit on the back of a pick up truck?

So how are you going to mount the body onto your scooter donors? by some form of home made frame and then linking the scooters together for dual engine power?


This is a G46 build so it "could" happen! :)

Anything could happen - but I will have to ask Lancelot to do a couple of bits on the body before I arrange transport for the beast.

(Thinks: 'Now need to clear shed of two dead Land Rovers...')

Scooter? I've got Blackbird* in bits so could always fit the engine from that (or two).

(*Honda not Lockheed).

Hmm, SR71 powered Sammio, now there's an ambitious concept, and you could strap half a dozen Raytheon AIM9 motors to the sides for a bit of extra oomph away from the traffic lights.

aaaahh RATO.....

Erm, lost me on this one I'm afraid so I googled RATO - http://www.google.co.uk/search?q=rat...w=1366&bih=643

Still none the wiser...

JATO is an acronym for jet-fuel assisted take off. It is a system for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

The term is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for Rocket-Assisted Take Off (or, in RAF parlance, RATOG for Rocket-Assisted Take Off Gear).

JATO is an acronym for jet-fuel assisted take off. It is a system for helping overloaded aircraft into the air by providing additional thrust in the form of small rockets.

The term is used interchangeably with the (more specific) term RATO, for Rocket-Assisted Take Off (or, in RAF parlance, RATOG for Rocket-Assisted Take Off Gear).

i liked your rats though!

Ahh, makes sense now. Google didn't throw that up and none of the RAF aircraft I worked on ever had rocket assistance for take off, although the Tornados could have done with it to get them off the ground during the day in the middle east. :angel:

RATO - Helps fat birds fly http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aqAPRWMkuv8

Yip, it was the same for us in the Nimrod - even with 13,000 yard runway at sealevel in Iraq using power against brakes, we had to go with significantly less than max fuel just to make it off the ground....still it meant the sorties were shorter.

I remember one of my old engineers telling us about the JATO on the 8 sqn Shakletons - "4 turning, 2 burning" must have made the take off roll....interesting

I was on the Jag OCU at Lossiemouth from '82 to '86 working from the 'pan next to 8 Squadron's Shacks. Their ground crew tee shirts had the slogan 'eight screws are better than two blow jobs' if I recall. I enjoyed my time at Lossie even though it was a long way from anywhere else - I once drove for seventeen hours solid in the winter to get home to Essex to see my parents. I had a slightly different hairstyle then too :mullet: Happy days...

Ah.......nostalgia!

The '20,000 Rivets Flying in Close Formation', (AKA Avro Shackleton) had four Rolls Royce V12 Griffon engines (most RR piston engines were named after birds of prey - Kestrel, Vulture, Eagle, Merlin (No - not the wizard!), producing 1,960 hp (2,345 hp with water-methanol injection) and on the MR3 version two 2,700lb thrust Armstrong Siddeley Viper engines buried in the nacelles.

The Shackleton, when so configured, could fly on the two Vipers only. Its party piece at a Farnborough air show (or two) was to take off and fly a circuit returning with one engine feathered, then another circuit when a second engine was feathered, and so on until after the last circuit when the the aircraft returned over the airfield with all engines feathered, flying only on the Vipers. Much consternation at first from lovingly gullible crowd - probably only spoiled by a knowing 10 year old.

Jet Assisted Take Off is one thing but the solid fuel propellant Rocket Assisted Take Off is something else. Especially when it concerns a 'Zero Launch Length' F104 Starfighter! :angel:

http://www.militaryimages.net/photop...tarfighter.jpg

Ah yes, the flying coffin. The original design for the F104 included a downward firing ejection seat. Really useful given that most crashes happen on the runway. :angel: