Project "tatties" He's A Clubman You Know! by AndyMiniMad.

3 minute(s) of a 35 minute read

A quick update!!!


Ive done bugger all!!

The Weekend was awfull...Only managed to set two times...both the same at 2 mins 30... We had problems with the webber under fueling. I had to walk into the stage twice to rescue the car..diving into bushes and trees as the faster cars whooshed by..but a quick adjustment of the float height on the service stop cured the problem..we then set two pretty good times before the diff packed up!! Rally sport can be quite frustrating when the car wont work!!

I did manage to change the height of Tatties on the spit.....He spins round much better now that ive got the centre of gravity sorted..

6-4-2012

Finally got motivated to go to the cave today and fire up the grinder!! And BANG!!! It blew up..cooling fan for the motor disintegrated and took the gear box with it...so off to B&Q for a new one....and now I cant be arsed again!! .... maybe after tea!!

Well I never went back to the cave...but I did go to the mini meeting....And thanks to Tyke..I now have a 3.76 diff to fit..Should help a lot on hill climbs and sprints...cheers Nigel!!, Im defo going to the cave tomorrow night for some grinding..

6-5-2012

Well tonight I was well motivated for a bit of grinding..First job was to cut off the A panel...look what was hiding underneith!!

 

The A panel is normaly bent around the door hinge post...There was no metal here!! The A panel was just floating!! tacked at the top and bottom only...Not good..



And so I had to remove the rusty mess that was the old Flitch panel!!



And then It was time to very carefully remove the wing...I was bricking it..but it was easy enough to remove and no damage to the wing..



I had already removed the rusty and bent passenger floor pan..so now Tatties looks like this..



Im gutted that im having to remove so much metal...err (rust) from this car...I really thought it was a solid shell...But I supose its just as well im finding it all now rather than when im belting round a track!! and things start to fall apart!!

This is what I found under the over sill..



3 old sills and the old door step...So loads more grinding needed to get rid of all the crap..