I bought one of those (actually because it was in their cheapie bin: paid $50 from memory). They do not cut very square, due to the slop in all the clamps &...
G'day everybody. I've recently obtained the build your own sports car for 250 quid book, and I'm interested in doing that. I'm starting with a totally clean...
There are a number of issues and everybody seems to have differing views, probably best to find out if you have an engineer in your town who can assess your...
Hey Brendan, Welcome. The best thing for you to do (IMO) is to read up as much as you can on this forum and www.ozclubbies.com. Then, once you have a good idea...
Brendan I’m only a beginner myself. Just tack welded the lower chassis section yesterday. There are as many variation of what you have just said as people...
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Good morning Brendan, Welcome aboard my friend, you need to get yourself a good cup of tea/coffee and sit back and read like a hungry beaver gnawing through...
Hi Brendan, Have a look at my website www.adelgigs.com/clubman.shtml for Aussie information, it covers most of what you have asked. It is a little outdated in...
I send some time stuffing around with type of thing for switch and warning light lables There are some commercial transparencies type papers suitable for laser...
Thanks for all the information folks. I will do some experiments in the near future. I am lucky in that I have acess to a "State of the Art" colour laser...
Mate, you underestimate the time it will take to build a decent IRS. I am on my third year (started around new years), and plan to have it finished by this...
G'day Ciaran, thanks for that information. Is that the Toyota 4AGE engine? They seem to be very popular, but are they still legal to use? And where would I...
Hi, I suggest you start downloading & reading the old emails from this group & others like it. It is a bit of drudgery, but well worth the effort. I 'clipped'...
G'day Patrick, Couldn't agree more, my build has a way to go yet and is probably only exceeded in length here in Oz by Tricky Hargraves. Tricky and I also have...
Little bells went off in my brain then. You're not saying the liteace diff is magnesium, are you? (would be nice, but I'm not holding my breath) Dave King...
In sunny Qld you will be limited to engines from about mid 2003 and they must have been installed in a car physically sold here, not the same engine from an...
Tony, Don't get too excited, the magnesium diff was a Winter speedway diff from the US, available for very many beer tokens. The SA Liteace diff is just...
Good day all. I’m welding up the lower frame of the chassis and I’m planning to use the pintara diff that has an offset to the drivers side. So I need to...
Hi Patrick Done the vertical firewall and the horizontal bit that comes out to the rear of the engine bay in one piece and made the ends of the footwell...
Ciaran Top rear wishbone goes 1.25 kg on the bathroom scales, complete with nylon inner bushes and crush tubes and rod ends on the outer end Graham Lewis ... ...
Hi Brendan I'll leave engine advice up to others , probably the simplest way to go is plus 100 using Cortina stuff both ends (overcomes dramas with stud...
Hi all I am still getting all the info i can find. have not decied on what motor to use yet Had a look at the stalker http://www.angelfire.com/biz6/stalkerv6/ ...
Sevens have been built with things like the alloy 3.5 rover engines, but realistically a 2litre Turbo Nissan or similar would eat one of these for breakfast....
