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Sept 17, 2018 19:28:27 GMT
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Thank you for the interest chaps. At this point we're still in the winter of 2014/15 I installed the radiator where it seemed happy with straight rubber hoses at the bottom. However when I started fitting the front sheet metal I had to lower the rad. The reason for the confusion? The rad is out of the same F1 Ford pick up as the engine and box. I later ended up making some funky little step downs to lower the rad but I cant find any pics. TBH at the time I was grafting so hard on the car and work and being a father to two under three years olds that I wasn't really documenting properly. The step downs were basically some steel tube machined down with a lip to keep the hose clip on, at either end of a short section of box section then I capped off the ends of the box section. The original square gauges were just plain lovely but they were broken and 6V I built this car 12V. SO I cut the old square parts out welded a new section in and used a hole saw to cut the four boring new round holes. Skimmed Primed I used aerosol Ford brown to match the crappy original paint. Which I later in day light realised was actually grey and surface rust.
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Sept 17, 2018 20:30:29 GMT
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Loving this. The details esp.
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Sept 18, 2018 21:39:52 GMT
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Thank you. I left off somewhere in the winter of 2014-15. We're still there. The clutch on these is a bit odd as it's not cable or hydraulic. It acts directly on the release bearing fork through a push rod. I struggled to get the pedal to return so I had to create some kind of spring arrangement. I used a cut down combi spanner as a way of making an eyelet and a spring from an old deckchair. I couldn't work out why it was such a big deal when people fitted dual exhausts on flat-head powered 40's sedans. Then I tried to run the exhaust down the drivers side. The bloody thing has to run through the same point in the chassis as where the clutch pedal pushes through. This took some weird turns and I'm still not too happy with the cut outs I had to put in the pipe to clear the chassis rail and the pedal. But hey ho you do what you need. Chop up a load of pipe. Start miging it up. Grind it back. Stuck it on a bit of pipe that made all twists and turns. Edit I just realised thats the header I did the same thing on the front of the system in order to get round the steering box. I used the headers that came with the engine they were meant for the Ford F1 it all came from. The passenger side was fine, however the drivers side I had to chop up and rebuild in a shape that would work on this little lovely. I used oval flanges at either end. But I've never managed to get the blighters to seal 100% Here you can see the notch I had to create to let the clutch pass through. The rest of the system was made out of odds and ends I had laying around and this box of bends. At this point we needed an interior. We bought a big sheet of thin ply cut it to fit and then my wife painted these murals she copied off a brown paper bag.They then got a lot of clear varnish to try and smooth it all down a bit. I have glossed over an aweful lot of stuff. But I'll try and stick that in later. I'm not finished yet but here's a pic that I rather like from the night before my nieces wedding.
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Last Edit: Sept 18, 2018 21:48:27 GMT by moreismore: I forgot I did the cut n shut pipe thing on the header and the front of the system.
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brachunky
Scotland
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Sept 18, 2018 21:54:22 GMT
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Great read just before bed! Will be keeping an eye on this (BTW, I too cannot do the image drag & drop and also can only post pics on a reply so yer not alone )
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Sept 18, 2018 22:02:06 GMT
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Great read just before bed! Will be keeping an eye on this (BTW, I too cannot do the image drag & drop and also can only post pics on a reply so yer not alone ) Thanks that makes me feel better. I've ended up clicking and saving on my facebook pics to save them on my laptop and then put them on here. It makes it worth when I get appreciative replies though so thanks. And yup it is bedtime for me.
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Sept 19, 2018 14:07:16 GMT
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loving the build up p.s looking at that secondary where its notched by the clutch lever, if you are dodging parts you can safely oval one side of round tube, as in crush flat one side to a D shape, or both sides to oblong (while not decreasing its overall cross sectional flow area) and it wont interfere with its performance what so ever. (source: Graham bells 4 stroke performance tuning).
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Last Edit: Sept 19, 2018 14:13:26 GMT by darrenh
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Sept 27, 2018 16:54:01 GMT
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So in the last exciting installment we had started on the interior which had been vastly improved initially by the removal of the rats nest. I had always wanted a Mexican blanket interior. I'm a sucker for bright colours. Under those blankets is some old carpet cable tied to the springs then some inch thick foam cable tied over that. One day I'll get it all done properly but remember I was trying to get this car built from a rolling shell to drive-able asap. My wife cut and sewed some of the blankets as I really didn't want them falling off and hanging out the door. I had, had 4 of them sent to nick when the car was in the states. For the back seat we kept the blankets whole as one day we'll finish the seat and can use them as 'er blankets again. This was my daughter trying them out. She was ten days old when I made the deal to buy it so I reckon this is about March 2015. My son still loves these seat only he's not quite as small now. Front seats done too. Then it was on the road. It took about a year and 6 weeks roughly which was pretty impressive I thought. My first real Journey was from Braintree up to the Jesters party in long Sutton. Both water pumps were leaking it had no wipers and the carb was shot. But man it was fun. Although the return trip on the Sunday in the rain was terifying and on the list of jobs to do before Pendine 2015 was to fit wipers new water pumps and sun visors. In the pic above we had gone to Tescos to buy Bourbon.
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Sept 27, 2018 18:43:22 GMT
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Simply put.
This is such a feel good thread.
Love your car.
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So I left off with the car finally on the road getting ready for the big trip to Wales. I have to say I was very nervous of driving all the way from Braintree to the far side of Wales but it was something I really wanted to do. Before we went I had to add my race number. The VHRA run on the race numbers on your membership number I read the instructions and it said the numbers should be as big as possible so I took that literally and got out the One shot. We booked a hotel for the Thursday night at a services on the M4. Everything was going swimmingly we were about ten miles from the services travelling through a load of road works when I heard a plink plink plink from the engine bay. This got steadily worse until I had to pull over. Then I discovered the mechanical fan bearing had died and the fan was flapping around like a witches tit. There was no proper hard shoulder it was getting dusk the car was mat green and it had my wife and two young kids in it. So I pressed on to the hotel pulled in and killed the motor. The obvious thing to do would be to remove the mechanical fan but on these engines the fan and alternator share a bracket but have separate belts. I couldn't get into it at that time of night in a hotel carpark so I put a shout out on members only forum and by the next morning my mate Steve had delivered an electric fan. However the nearside front tyre had gone down over night and I had already decided to get recovered to Pendine. So on the lorry it went and I at least saved a fortune in fuel. Then we were there. Only two pics for that first trip to Pendine. Next to a cool little french streamliner. After a weekend of hammering down the beach...Oh o.k I was worried about killing the engine so I pootled down the beach on these runs. We then drove all the way home no dramas. What fun it was too.
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Thats a great looking car. Easily one of the best looking models ever. The beach shot with the streamliner really shows just how tiny it is.
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I guess you could call it a wing and a prayer starting out like that with no guarantees....just a calculated semi risk....
of course something went awry...but you handled it quite well, I would say...
I'm getting my 2 vehicles ready for some long distance driving this month too and it is always full of test drives and listening until that day comes when you just hop in and go!.....
the car is looking great, by the way...very well done.
JP
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I know its spelled Norman Luxury Yacht, but its pronounced Throat Wobbler Mangrove!
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