Don't start me on the old school scrapyards! Formative years for me, with my Dad when he raced Stock Cars, we virtually lived in them!
Back to the GT40. Martin brought the new rear wishbones up today and we have been fettling and fiddling all day!!!! The original issue was that my chassis wheelbase was too long for the Tornado body and we had come up with a cunning plan which involved redesigning and fabricating some new wishbones with rose joints to allow us to move the suspension forward and centre the rear wheels in the arches.
We eventually got there! It was quite a fiddle. As we all know, when you go off piste a bit there are always consequences!!!!! We struggled initially to get clearance on the chassis for the new wishbones and then to get the hub carrier to sit right in the alignment we wanted. But eventually we got it there. Camber and Toe all sorted. We did have to adjust the hub carrier a bit and I still need to remake the lower tie rod mounting on to the hub carrier but I will do that when I disassemble everything for painting. It all works, that's the main thing!
New wishbone installed, driveshaft seems Ok
And below, we have a wheel in the centre of the arch!! Sorted!
The other thing I have been fiddling with today (before Martin arrived) are the filler caps. Got these beauties from Tornado. They fit the body (or the body is designed for them)
I cut out some 2mm stainless with a plasma cutter to make the fixing plate and to weld in the filler pipe to go down to the tank. I want to keep the flexible bit as short as possible
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