I have designed and had made, due to time constraints, some chopper wheels. These will allow me to monitor all the wheel speeds independently. The fronts will bolt, via a spacer which is to be made, directly to the front axles, whereas the rear are tacked to the CV’s
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‘Chopper’ Wheels
Monday, March 23rd, 2009
Final (ish) Fitting Of The Column
Monday, October 20th, 2008For some random reason, after finishing the engine, or at least as far as I could go anyway, I then decided to look at semi final fitting the column. Obviously everything needs to come off the chassis when I paint it, but the front ally work did not have any holes in it for the column to go through. So I attached the ally with a couple of cliquos (amazingly useful things), and drilled through the lower bush chassis mounts to mark the ally.
Steering Wheel
Monday, October 20th, 2008As I have mentioned before I am going to use flappy paddles on the back of the wheel to operate the gearbox. After doing the column, it was sort of progressive to sort out the steering wheel. My first issue were the paddles themselves. Well, that’s a bot mean to the paddles really, it was more that I have selected one of the smallest steering wheels available, so that fat bodgers like me can actually fit in the car, but this meant that when I held the paddle blocks on the back of the wheel I couldn’t fit my hands around the rim as the paddles were in the way. I contacted Neil and he said he could make me some smaller paddles to bolt on, as they are carbon bolt on bits you can have them any size you like, but that as a one off they might be quite expensive. I therefore decided to trim mine down and see if I could make them fit. If not I could always make ally ones myself.
Internal Ignition Switch
Sunday, January 27th, 2008Continuing the theme of switches and alike, the next job on the list was to mount the internal ignition switch. I made the little bracket below from some offcut steel sheet we had lying around. It wasn’t really very stiff so I added the returns you can see. To weld it to the chassis I drilled three M9, (the nearest drill bit to me at the time), holes into the upper part and then welded through.
On a lighter note it was the first outing of the sparkly new auto dimming welding mask. We used to have one before but I broke and we never bothered to replace it as we had an old fashioned perma dark one. I have to say it makes it much easier, especially if your hands shake like mine and you end up trying to spark up in the middle of the air!!
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Switch Panel
Sunday, January 27th, 2008I have bent up a simple switch panel. It may end up being too small as I cram more electronics into the car, but hopefully the way I have done it will mean it is pretty easy to fold up another larger sheet. It will hopefully stand up to being bashed in the heat of the moment, but we shall have to see..
