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Jan 15, 2011 12:55:59 GMT
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just read the thread, excellent project and read, enjoyed that ! ;D
just out of interest how strong is the rear diff from the XJ6, ie how much bhp/lbs/ft can it take ? i ve heard they a quite beefy
all the best
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95 clio 16V - modded track/road car
95 clio Williams 2 - restored to standard
95 TVR Griff 500 - Taraka engine upgrade
MNR Vortx (kit car) - busa power
Chevette SR20 engine
MK2 Escort GM LS1
Chevette XE (building)
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Em
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Jan 16, 2011 21:29:12 GMT
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Good skills. You can't beet a bit of home brew engineering! Cheers Mate! Bit of a necessity really, can't afford to farm anything out! THIS IS ORSUMZ !!! Loving your work here. Gonna be a very impressive machine when it's done. Thanks Fella, much appreciated! Looking good The bigger welder should be far more suitable for the chassis work you're doing, I remember when I got mine, and realised just how curse word the old welder really was and how much more I could do with the new one ;D Keep it up Cheers Sowen! Yeah, it’s making a great deal of difference! (Found my mask was starting to melt while I was welding the other day; creates rather more heat than the old Cebora…!) just read the thread, excellent project and read, enjoyed that ! ;D just out of interest how strong is the rear diff from the XJ6, ie how much bhp/lbs/ft can it take ? I ve heard they a quite beefy all the best Fin Thanks Fin! Yeah, I gather they’re pretty brute! Don’t have an exact number, but the 5.3 litre Jaguar V12 engine made around 300 BHP I think and ‘Pop’ Browns reckon that once overhauled, they’re “easily able to handle an American small block”. Can’t see my Rover bothering it too much! Cheers, Em.
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Jan 17, 2011 11:57:29 GMT
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Just caught up with the whole build. Excellent work, and well done on persevering through all the problems!
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Need more!
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Just caught up with this, what a brilliant project ;D ;D ;D
Keep the updates coming mate!!
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meltedcheese
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Enjoyed every minute of that write up so, def getting bookmarked. Always had a bit of a soft spot for the old 13/60's, never had one myself but there is always time Fab work is coming on by the page, keep up the good work!
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Em
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Thanks for the encouraging words Gents! BenzBoy – Thanks mate, appreciated! xgenerator – Heh heh, I’m trying, I’m trying…! Oldbus – Thanks fella! Will keep ‘em coming, although they won’t be at the pace you update! meltedcheese – Thanks dude, glad you enjoyed it! (Go on, get a Herald, you know you want one…!) Blimey, it’s been a fair old while since I last updated this! And that’s because it’s been a fair old while since I actually did any work on it…! This weekend however, I did! Now that I’ve got the back axle in, (well almost…) it’s time to start thinking about attaching the rear half of the body. To facilitate this, I’ve cut out the rear wing. As you do… I’ve also acquired new rear valence and a pair of quarter valences. When I come to make the boot floor I’m going to make it a little deeper than it came from the factory (not much carrying space in a Herald!), but I don’t want it hanging down below the valences so need to get them mounted to see how much room I have to play with. My plan to mount the back of the body is to run two lengths of box section from the rear of the diff mount toward the back, and connect those to a section hidden inside the dead space in the valence. I’ll run a lip along the top of this that will to attach to the lip of the boot lid seal. Only thing is the lip around the boot is curved ever so slightly, so I cut about a dozen three-sided cuts into a length of box section so that it would bend like this. Then with the valence clamped to it, tacked it up… And then welded it properly… And then ground it down. Took the best part of Saturday to do this! Can’t tell you how sick I am of hack-sawing and grinding! The really annoying thing is that it’s too curved; I reckon the tack welds contracted as they cooled, and even though I had it clamped to the valence, it pulled itself out of shape. It’s not too bad and is gonna have to do ‘cos I can’t face making it all over again! Spent some time cutting some steel to form the ‘flange’ that the boot seal lip is going to attach to but forgot to photograph that… Now on to the B posts. With the wing off I was able to get in with the wire brush on the grinder and clean up in here a bit. Plan here is to run a bit if box section vertically off the chassis rails and tie this into the B post, along with a triangulated brace. This is all part of my plan to have the Best Shutlines on a Herald, Ever!™. This should also ensure a degree of rigidity, something conspicuously lacking in a standard Herald…. Inside of the B post curves a bit too… So I had to do the same Cut/Weld/Grind routine again… To get this, which fits a treat. You’ll have to take my word for it for the moment, as I forgot to photograph it in-situ. Before I can weld the riser onto the chassis, I’ll need to position the doors so that they’re right in relation to the windscreen frame. (They’re just roughed for now.) The means the rear body come off again and saw me spend ages faffing around with half a dozen door hinges trying to make one good one out of a box of knackered ones…. And that’s about it for this update. Not much to show for two good days in the garage, is it?! Cheers, Em.
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Mar 14, 2011 10:23:33 GMT
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That last pic....phwoar! ;D
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Koos
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Mar 14, 2011 17:58:23 GMT
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That last pic....phwoar! ;D ^ This I'd roll it like that. --Phil
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Mar 14, 2011 20:13:32 GMT
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You're the man, inspirational as always!
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Mar 14, 2011 21:21:09 GMT
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this is really good work. I'm gonna be jelous of your shut lines tho.
Fav bit of all this thread so far must be the grommit comments, keep them coming.
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Em
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Mar 16, 2011 13:12:44 GMT
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That last pic....phwoar! ;D That last pic....phwoar! ;D ^ This I'd roll it like that. --Phil Thanks Fellas, does seem a bit of a shame to cover all that IRSness up, doesn’t it?! this is really good work. I'm gonna be jelous of your shut lines tho. Fav bit of all this thread so far must be the grommit comments, keep them coming. Thanks mate, time will tell how the shutlines work out… Heh heh, Gromit’s my sternest critic... Unexpected mid-week update!Despite saying above that I wasn’t going to mess with the rear body mounting bar any more, the fact that it’s a little bit out just bugs me, so I thought I’d see if it can be “adjusted”… Here’s the problem, there’s too much ‘bow’ in it meaning the valence doesn’t quite meet at the ends. It’s only a little over half an inch out but it just doesn’t want to meet up. Although the valence could be pulled into shape it starts to ‘tuck under’ which will just make more complications further down the line. So a more brutal approach is called for. First I marked out the natural curve of the valence on a bit of left over bench timber… …and after cutting a couple more slots to allow the bar to bend, clamped the sucker down tight! With a couple of tack welds in situ, a quick check revealed we’re still in good shape, so I welded it up properly. Annoyingly, when I released the clamps, the damn thing ‘sprung’ back to something like its previous shape. Another quick check revealed that although it’s not 100% perfect, it’s a great deal better. I’m REALLY not doing it again this time! And here we are, back where we were on Saturday evening. It’s fun this car building, isn’t it…..?! Cheers! Em.
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Last Edit: Mar 21, 2011 22:39:27 GMT by Em
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Mar 16, 2011 13:17:57 GMT
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Great updates!
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Mar 16, 2011 15:54:08 GMT
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how about... putting it on the floor, and jumping on it a bit? Not exactly "precision", but should easily get that small bit of curvature that you're after!
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You're like a crazy backyard genius!
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Em
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Mar 21, 2011 19:05:31 GMT
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Cheers BB! how about... putting it on the floor, and jumping on it a bit? Not exactly "precision", but should easily get that small bit of curvature that you're after! Heh heh, tried that, wouldn’t budge! (Tried sticking a length of 1 inch box in the end and tugging on it in the vice, nearly pulled the bench of the wall…!) Sussed it now, see below… Despite promising that I wasn’t going to mess with this bit again, I, er, did. I’m now completely bored of it, as is Gromit and I’m sure you too. However, it’s right now. Third time’s a charm, eh?! Here it is with a length of plate that will be the lip that welds to the boot lip. So the next step is to chop out what little remains of the original Triumph floor. My lip is going to go inside of the Triumph one.. Which means these strengthening plates need to go. These are lovely little rust traps... …as proven by the other side. The last vestiges of Triumph floor are consigned to the skip. What’s left of the rear "tub" is now very wobbly! Here’s what was lurking underneath the O/S strengthening plate… …while happily the N/S wasn’t quite so bad. Next I drilled my homemade lip to match the Herald one and bolted it on. And clamped on the mounting bar. This gets in the way of the axle stands so I had to hang the body from the rafters. Once I was happy it was all on the level… …I tacked the bar on… …and checked the valence still fitted over it. It did. Phew. Before I can extend the chassis backwards to meet the rear mounting bar, the B post supports need to be welded into the posts themselves and then onto the chassis. This needs to be done before the wings go on, so it seems like a good time to prep the wing mounting areas. With the remains of the rear body upside down, the old lip comes off without too much drama… …and not too much repair work to do. Happy days. Didn’t bother to take a pictures of the rest ‘cos when you’ve seen one rotten wing you’ve seen ‘em all, but the other side all came off fairly easily and revealed fairly sound metal underneath, so the the next step is to flip it over again and weld it to the chassis. More on that later. Cheers! Em.
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Mar 21, 2011 19:56:13 GMT
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excellent and really motivating updated, thankyou!
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Mar 25, 2011 15:34:30 GMT
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This is fantastic! Love it! Need more updates though... Did anyone see the Stag V8 engined herald in PPC recently?
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Em
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Mar 31, 2011 12:07:46 GMT
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excellent and really motivating updated, thankyou! Ah, you’re most very welcome, Sir! This is fantastic! Love it! Need more updates though... Did anyone see the Stag V8 engined herald in PPC recently? Thanks mate, I’m doing me best here! Yeah, I saw that, very nicely done I thought. I like the idea of ‘keeping it in the family’ and having TRIUMPH on the rocker covers. (To that end, I bought these a while back…) There was also a Capri with a Sprintex-blown RV8 in the Walker’s Workshop section too…. Not much progress to report really this time, spent most of the weekend in the garage but it was more ‘preparing the ground’ type stuff than tangible progress. Still… Made another post to anchor the B pillar to the chassis, after all the palaver with the rear mount I was relived that this was the same shape after welding as it was before. Clamping the two together probably helped! Here’s the happy couple together. Also made a pair of these, which will attach to the rear mount… And a couple of these, that connect to the chassis. So all I need to make is the sections that connect the two together, and the rear half of the body is on! Of course this means being very, very happy that the B post is in the right position… So it’s on with the “new” wings that have been in storage since about 1993, I think. Bought these from John Kipping it was so long ago! Gap doesn’t look terribly even here… You can see it’s tighter at the top and bottom than it is in the middle. Clearly, my door is knackered so these measurements are a little academic at the moment. No point in gapping the B pillar to a door that’s gonna change, so I’d best get some door skins on order… Cheers, Em.
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Mar 31, 2011 12:51:57 GMT
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'kin gorgeous!
Are you keeping the cosmics on it?
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Em
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Mar 31, 2011 15:24:41 GMT
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Thanks mate! Yeah, I am. I've always had my heart set on a set of American Racing Equipment Torq Thrust Ds, but I’ve been talked out of it by some of the folks on here, mostly Seth, Paul H and Johnny 69... Should probably update my avatar to suit.... They’re right though, you put a wheel like that on a car and it kinda ‘becomes’ something else; more of a hot rod, whereas the feel I’m aiming for is Works Project Special; all British Leyland bits and broadly period-correct (the blower obviously scuppers this look!). The sort of car someone working at BL in ’68 could have put together after-hours for a giggle. Been trying to find some info on the Kenilworth Dragster, a prototype Vitesse that Harry Webster used as transport, but can’t seem to turn much up, but that’s kind of my inspiration on this. Going to try and carry the theme through into the engine area; when you open the bonnet it should be all Lucas, Girling and Smiths rather than Tilton, Samco and Ripspeed. We’ll see how I get on with that…..
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