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Old 26th May 2015, 07:41
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That wooden buck would have helped me a lot!! ;-)
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Old 30th May 2015, 12:21
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Today I built the inner CV joints.
I have 2010 corolla drive shafts as they fit the wheel hubs.

My aim with all this stuff is to keep the match up as simple as possible.
I was not sure about how to marry up to the 01E audi box as the corolla has a splined shaft on its CV to go into their gearbox.

The other day I was working on a mid 2000 VW golf and I noticed the inner CV and flange was separate, somehow it was jointed I am presuming welded.

I went to the steel supplier and grabbed 4 bollard caps.

First thing was to make the base , I used a 50 cap to centre the SS cap that I have machined to a ring.
Once centered I clamped the SS ring and removed the 50.
I weld the SS ring on the inside, this becomes the locator on the 01E flanges.

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I chopped the shaft of the end of the toyota CV, this leaves a 40mm dia spigot.
I then machined the center of the large disk to 40mm.

I machined a ring out of some steam pipe ,this fits between the main disk and the CV.
I tacked everything then put it in the lathe to check it then welded.

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Old 30th May 2015, 12:30
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The ring is welded to the base of the tripod joint and around the ring base.
It has a total of 550mm of weld.

I did some destruction testing prior to see if the CV material is not to brittle.
I hit it with a large hammer and also in the press, it survived.

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Old 1st June 2015, 08:20
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Impressive Jim! Many thanks for showing this great detail work!
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Old 20th June 2015, 04:11
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Awesome work Jim.
Came across this on NZ's Trademe website. He's advertised it before, but now its at NZ$25,000 - including a fitted Ferrari 575 V12 with 3,800km on the clock (to a Subaru WRX STI gearbox). The Saker has been around for years with many kits sold internationally and very successfully raced.

http://www.trademe.co.nz/motors/spec...-824497912.htm







(I hope those photo links work)
cheers
Ross in NZ (actually in Sydney next week!)
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Old 22nd June 2015, 11:41
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Nice work.
That Subaru box will be a problem.
Very cheap with that engine.

Jim
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Old 29th August 2015, 22:48
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ted on the chassis.
It is 1.6 5005 alloy sheet.
I made 3 members out of 50 x 25 x 1.6 ERW

the 2 at ther front are for the suspension and the rear the engine and suspension frame couples to it.

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Old 29th August 2015, 22:56
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The sheet work starts at the floor and I just worked up.
If I can see the back of a panel I use solid aircraft rivets, on other areas I use structural rivets alloy and steel.

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Old 29th August 2015, 23:08
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Inner panels are to add strength from the front to the cabin seating area.
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This box panel attaches to the end of the rear frame then to the inner sill panel.

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The floor stiffners I made some tooling to get a low hat profile.
I then punch and swage the holes.

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The stiffners are solid riveted to the floor using universal head aircraft rivets.

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Old 29th August 2015, 23:22
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Between the two front frames an inner panel is riveted in.

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Up the center of the floor I am installing the center board. this reduces the open area of the floor and adds rigidity to the chassis as a whole.
I have offset the foot well section over to the left by 25mm to give the driver more foot room.

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Old 29th August 2015, 23:30
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The side pontoons I made a jig to cut the panels out using a trimmer (router).
I need them all the same.
I also use a ply jig to form the radius folds so they all match up when fitted.

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Thats it for the moment when I progress further I will put up more.

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Old 30th August 2015, 22:10
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Jim - This really is a very high skilled build.

Thanks for sharing and good luck, Paul.
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Old 31st August 2015, 11:42
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Thanks Paul
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Old 1st September 2015, 07:49
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Speechless!!!!
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Old 12th September 2015, 12:44
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I have done some more over the last 2 weeks.

I got all the back bone in and the seats.
Next stage will be the dash structure.

The seats required stiffeners on the under side.
I made a simple die to press the hat shape.

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Old 12th September 2015, 12:53
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fitting up one side then I just reversed it for the left.

Doing a prep with prekote before painting.

Fitted seat belt mounts to the frame before installing the panels.

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Old 12th September 2015, 12:58
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painted and installed.

It came in so far at 40.2 kg, I would expect the completed tub be under 50kg

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Old 12th September 2015, 13:10
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The chassis has a structure for the screen and doors and dash to mount to but it is really part of the main structure.

I used the tube set in the correct location to run some flat strips to get some patterns to start with.

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Old 12th September 2015, 13:20
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Then made the parts off the patterns.

4 more panels to go then detail work and paint.

Thats all for know
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Old 16th October 2015, 20:22
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Fantastic work Jim!
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