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Post by h5ngs on Jan 4, 2013 22:48:18 GMT
Looking good, some good attention to detail, i really need to get started back on my build. Keep it up.
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 13, 2013 21:01:02 GMT
Next Update. So had a limited amount of time this weekend. This was spent finishing off the idea borrowed from Trident on the rear wishbones. Got the boy involved in tack welding the 'cover plates' to the wishbone. Just need to weld them up, send to the shot blaster and then powder coater. First two pictures shows the 'cover plate' in position. Had to add a small section of tube in order to allow access to the bottom shock mounting bolt.   Not a bad effort considering  Nice to get some help and hopefully another skill learnt  |
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Post by trident on Jan 14, 2013 11:35:36 GMT
Lovin your work John.... They will look great once they are finished especially with your colour scheme. Here's one of mine finished in silver powder coating and with the Energy Suspension bushes fitted. Hope you don't mind me posting it in your build thread. I really like the idea with the tube... wish I'd thought of doing that as well now.   |
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 14, 2013 21:05:07 GMT
Hi Mate.. Honoured to have your build photos here. I'm thinking the silver looks awesome  I actually thought you had used a piece of tube on yours. I just happened to ask at the fabrication shop where I go for off cuts and they had some exactly the right diameter. As my grit blasting and powder coating will have about a two week lead time I planning on starting on assembling my front suspension once I've finished welding the back wishbones and they are off being sorted. On a different note, I was thinking of spraying the insides of the wishbones with a protection wax before I assemble them. Tool Station do a rattle can of spray wax for £3.48. Should be able to spray it up though the various holes in the wishbones before assembly to help coat and protect the insides. I'm guessing the powder coating won't have good coverage inside the wishbones. Maybe its a bit of over kill as its not going to be in daily use or used when there's salt on the road but its a small costs compared to the investment in powder coating. Its easy to do with the wishbones off the car. Welcome anybody's thoughts on this  |
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Post by stubbers on Jan 14, 2013 21:34:10 GMT
Sounds like a good idea, may be worth mentioning it to the powder coating company in case they acid dip the parts first like mine did. Dont know if it would effect it but would hate for you to have wax oil in your lovely shiny powder coat.
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Post by trident on Jan 14, 2013 22:41:35 GMT
Sounds like a good idea, may be worth mentioning it to the powder coating company in case they acid dip the parts first like mine did. Dont know if it would effect it but would hate for you to have wax oil in your lovely shiny powder coat. Rich I think John is talking about his front wishbones that have already been sprayed and coated etc... Any protection is better than nothing and for £3.48 it going to cost nothing at all. Sounds like a good idea to me. I'll have to look into that myself. Looking forward to seeing them once they are all coated. I'm still having an issue with the coating on my top front wishbone with the grease leaking in the oven from the top of the ball joint, even though it's been wiped out with the dust covers removed etc..... I think if they were black it wouldn't show but as they are silver there is some staining coming through still. The powder coating company I'm using in Southampton is very good though and have said they will get it sorted, they even did a couple of other small bits for free. Keep up the good work mate and the updates coming. Looking forward to you revealing your next modification to the world.   |
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 19, 2013 17:20:15 GMT
Hi all, bit cold today for the garage  Anyway the misses allowed me to use the dining room table to fit my suspension bushes. I'm using Energy Suspension bushes from FreakyParts. Would defo recommend these bad boys, they went in with easy. The grease you get with them helps, as does the fact I'd left them by a radiator to warm up. So bushes already to go with the front wishbones.  Having done this I couldn't resist the garage. So first job was to spray the inside of the lower wishbones with protection wax. Used the stuff in the next photo, think the cold temperature helped it go off. Its interesting stuff, comes out quite runny allowing you to flood the inside space and turn the wishbone all around so it flows to all the extremities. Definitely worth doing before fitting the wishbones.  Next I attacked the subframe fitting the steering rack and lower wishbones and hubs. New ball joints and track rod ends and new bolts where possible. Just about to fit the upper wishbones and found the I hadn't got round to cleaning and painting the long top bolts  Getting to cold anyway, so only got this far today.   Last photo, the PPF production line, not quite to Mazda standards ;D  |
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Post by Wayne Bale on Jan 19, 2013 18:13:16 GMT
love it. i like the idea of painting the lower arms a different colour. I can see a fantastic moggers meet coming up this year (United Kingdom) with so, so many builds underway and what seems to be quicker build times! I think a exocet with black panels and all the same colour chasis and working parts would be different to the norm!
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 20, 2013 1:57:46 GMT
Hi so this was our suspension concept.  |
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Post by h5ngs on Jan 20, 2013 10:55:59 GMT
Looking good cracking work too love the colours, what frame colour are you planning?
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 20, 2013 14:55:59 GMT
Cheers, At the mo the plan is orange to match the wishbones. However I am seriously thinking of going down the paint route rather than powder. I'm kicking around a dual colour theme on the frame so paint gives me this option.
This may mean priming it when I pick it up so to keep it from going rusty during the build.
I assume when you get your frame it's pretty clean with no rust, can anyone tell if this is correct ?
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 24, 2013 20:55:37 GMT
Rear wishbones back from powder coater, so bush fitting time.  Close up of modified wishbone  Then back in garage to re unite the Engine and front Subframe. Had to build myself a temporary lifting frame for the engine. (I'm to tight to buy an engine hoist and also no room to keep it)  Having fitted the engine, new clutch, input shaft seal and then fit the gearbox box and add all the camber bolts.   Next job is to fit the new clutch slave cylinder, paint the Diff and reassembly this to the rear subframe. Maybe by next weekend I will have a complete PPF ready to start fitting brakes and fuel/brake lines. The list of jobs just goes on and on but very satisfying |
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Post by welshy1 on Jan 24, 2013 22:48:46 GMT
Looking good, some decent progress, one thing the fuel and brake lines are attached to the kit car not the ppf unless your doing it a different way.
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Post by jgilbert on Jan 26, 2013 23:11:29 GMT
As I haven't got my kit yet this might be a silly question but can the fuel and brake lines be attached to the PPF instead of the Exocet frame ??
Just seems the obvious time to do it as I can get easy access to the PPF now. Was planning of using stainless braided brake lines and running it along the PPF and then across the diff and using flexible fuel line.
Any advice welcome, thanks.
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Post by welshy1 on Jan 27, 2013 10:15:49 GMT
As I haven't got my kit yet this might be a silly question but can the fuel and brake lines be attached to the PPF instead of the Exocet frame ?? Just seems the obvious time to do it as I can get easy access to the PPF now. Was planning of using stainless braided brake lines and running it along the PPF and then across the diff and using flexible fuel line. Any advice welcome, thanks. Ive not seen anyone do it can't think of any reason not to but most secure to the side of the floor bars. |
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