alternative GTB
 

Hi

Your comments on the rear wings of my 275 are fair, but it looks better with recent photos:

http://www.madabout-kitcars.com/foru...t=5477&page=16

Good to be on holiday, but there's still a lot of finishing to be done.

I'm back from a hiatus with a much needed update. Firewall and tunnel construction
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Wire wheeled the floor pans while I was in there
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I made the tunnel area purposefully high to make the stabbing the engine in easier.
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tight fit
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To finish the firewall I'm still unsure if I want to seam weld and dress all the welds or just tack it every inch or so and neatly mask and seam seal.

I have some progress on getting the car steering again and I finally started on the rear axle upgrade as well.
The steering column and wheel are from a saturn vue with power assist (obviously). It was really straight forward to fit up. I forgot to document how I did the mounting brackets but it was very simple.
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I was able to use the factory firewall grommit as luck would have it it

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The shaft already had a splined to 3/4"dd joint where it attached to the steering rack on the saturn. It was also the perfect length and that made it easy to connect to the stainless steering shaft material I purchased. I am going to anchor the section of steering shaft that runs parallel to the inside of the frame rail using a 3/4" heim joint. I will weld a threaded bung in the frame and the heim will thread in to that. It will also allow the steering shaft to be pushed off the frame rail a little bit as well. You can see there is some interference with the joint and the frame rail close to where it comes through the firewall.

Next I have started on the rear axle. As I may have mentioned earlier it is out of a late 90s ford explorer. Disk brake 3.73 gears, 31 spline axles. It was originally 59.5" but by cutting down the driver's side axle tube and using another passenger axle I could make it 56.5" to match the front axle width.
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no turning back now...
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Using a little angle iron on either side allowed me to keep everything true while I tacked it up. I used a straight edge on the axle tube all the way around the circumference to double check as well.
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Now I can move on to fitting it up in the car with adjustable link bars and brackets.

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Throwing this in here because I thought it was a neat photo.

Great work as always

Wow. Great work indeed.

It’s a bit like Project binky without the shite jokes (see YouTube for binky )

Dave

Thanks Red and Dave,

I've got sucked into that binky show now!

Enjoy binky :)

I'm lovin' your beautiful welds. :cool:

Keep up the good work, Paul. :)

Thank you Paul!

I took the car to a friend's shop who does roll cages and traded him some welding work for this. *We bent and tacked some 1 *5/8" down bars to connect the A pillars to the frame rails. * It's surprising how much this changes the look of the car at it's current state. *Even though these bars will not likely be seen once the body is on I'm pleased with the design, clearance, and finished look. * It also gives me something to build the radiator and bumper*support from- I'm thinking I may make that removable so the engine is easier to remove and install later. *I will be finishing the welds on the down bars soon and will seal up and epoxy prime the front end, firewall and floors. *There's a little surface rust starting to develop, especially after transporting the car in this humidity, and I want to nip that*in the bud before it gets out of control. **


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Nice. :cool:

A little update here, A lot has been going on for me but I have some progress to report. Doors have been cut down and roughly mocked up. I will need to build back the jams and door frames.

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A friend scanned a scale model I have and is working on scaling and figuring out how to slice into 2d sections so I can build the buck from it. I have a few ideas how to translate the sections to wire, either using a projector, plotting it on paper, or CNC in cardboard or plywood. This part doesn't have to be pretty as long as it's accurate. The nose and tail sections will likely be CNC'd in foam to capture all the detail.

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I'm hoping the wire buck might turn out something like this

https://i.imgur.com/E1VG5dx.jpg

Fantastic update as usual. Loving this build

:hail:

Thank you JG!

Wow... WOW... beautiful work!!

This thread might help:

https://www.rodsnsods.co.uk/forum/ga...dy-buck-313330

Good luck, Paul. :)