Well after a couple of days swinging the grinder and stoking up the Mig I have got the main part of the chassis together. I spent most of yesterday working on laying out the floor tubes and the outline of the transmission tunnel.
My cunning plan is to run the fuel lines through the tubes on the left hand side of the base of the transmission tunnel and the brake line and rear of the car wiring through the one on the right. This has necessitated some minor revisions to the tube layout (so the longitudinal tubes are continuous ) but I now have it all laid out and tacked together.
I want to have the heavy battery cited as low as possible to make the center of gravity as low as possible . to achive this I have shortened the passenger side footwell by about ten inches and teh battery will now reside down in what was perviously wasted space.
I had a strole of luck finding a piece of 100 x 100 x 3mm RHS as my plan is to put two sections in place of the 1oo x 1oo pieces of 3mm plate at the top of the rear shock mountings this will allow me to mount the seat belt retractors in a more desirable position and provide a good posotion to attach the rollover bar hopefully with a conceled fixing ( a single M12 bolt from below on each side ) this will also raise the real deck a little which should improve the proportions of the car and give a little more space in the boot as well.
I will post some pictures later today after i have done some more welding Today I plan to make the framing for the dash and scuttle
Cheers Comrades
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