The first job on the assembly was to mount the floor. I have decided to both rivet and glue the panel for added stiffness. After spending an age drilling the paint out of all the rivet holes the first major job was to key the paint surface ready for the glue. I did this with a scotch pad as you can see below. I had thought about not painting all of the surfaces that would be glued but this was going to cause more problems than it was worth!
Posts Tagged ‘Chassis’
Floor On
Monday, June 8th, 2009
The Chassis is Painted!
Monday, June 8th, 2009Well, the painter stuck to his word, in fact he actually did it cheaper than he said, and the chassis is back! You can see below that the colour match is pretty good, apparently its Izuzu orange or something (I have the code), to the panels, but I think the camera has bleached it a bit!
Paint
Monday, June 1st, 2009Well not much to report. I did get the chassis down to Brands Hatch though, and after the meeting it was then taken down to the paint shop. They have promised that it will be down for this weekend. It would be good it it was as I really want to get on with the rebuild. I cant wait to see what it looks like as up until now it has always been covered in dirt, swarf, grinding dust or no paint at all. I took down a door to get a reasonable colour match, I dont want to pay for an especially mixed paint, and this will mean colour matching in the future would be more difficult, but the closest colour chips will be fine!
It feels quite strange not having the car in the shop at home. Not veryoften do we have to get work done outside but painting is one of those few times. We dont have the equipment to do it and the mess it would make would be extreme!
So I spent a few hours on Sunday cleaning and tidying. The amount of grinding dust on the floor was horrific, although I think some was filler dust from the 935 rebuild! I just need to work out a plan for assembly now, although I am sure I will end up struggling at some point!
*UPDATE* Just spoken to the painter and I should be getting the chassis back on Sunday, fingers crossed
Ready For Paint
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009As the title suggests the chassis is now ready for paint.
Chain Guard
Tuesday, May 26th, 2009The rules for some championships state that I need to have a chain guard. Not really sure why as no-one can reach round and put their fingers in it when your driving along, and the chain wont really break through the cage I have around it and then through the body, but rules are rules! However what it will do is catch all the crud from the chain and stop it making a mess, so for that reason alone I think its worthwhile!
As normal, out with the cardboard and guess what I thought looked suitable. The rules say it has to go down at least as far as the axle centre line, but, as you can see, for my design, it makes more sense to go down a little further.
