27-04-2020, 07:08 PM
Devised a winch so I can get the car back into the garage up the slope unaided... thankfully allows me to work in natural light.
Found a spring! I can now see the design of the IRS subframe, which attaches to the remains of the chassis extension. My plan is to remove the front section of the subframe and add extra bolts into the rear 5", perhaps with a strengthening bar along the whole underside of the extension. As there are two other attachment points to the rear of the car (via the roll cage) and there is are multitude of strengtheners under the chassis too... seems safe.
Any safety problem about spring top being completely uncovered for use?
The handbrake may get in the way of a proposed prop change (its presently got a carden block and flexi after presumably being asset-stripped in the past). Has anyone experience of hydraulic handbrakes? i.e. can they plumb into standard minor backplate-type conversion system which operates on all wheels? Or else may need to find extremely short cables to allow a more modern style of handbrake just above the torque tube.
Also wondering whether a Nippy gearlever would work on this, or if dash is too extensive/low.
Found a spring! I can now see the design of the IRS subframe, which attaches to the remains of the chassis extension. My plan is to remove the front section of the subframe and add extra bolts into the rear 5", perhaps with a strengthening bar along the whole underside of the extension. As there are two other attachment points to the rear of the car (via the roll cage) and there is are multitude of strengtheners under the chassis too... seems safe.
Any safety problem about spring top being completely uncovered for use?
The handbrake may get in the way of a proposed prop change (its presently got a carden block and flexi after presumably being asset-stripped in the past). Has anyone experience of hydraulic handbrakes? i.e. can they plumb into standard minor backplate-type conversion system which operates on all wheels? Or else may need to find extremely short cables to allow a more modern style of handbrake just above the torque tube.
Also wondering whether a Nippy gearlever would work on this, or if dash is too extensive/low.