Bagged Bunny

[GeorgeMK1]

Wow, seams extreme. I've seen these pedal boxes fitted on with no dramas, for eg. Revnits blue mk1 runs this box and 3 mc's with the reservoir in the rain tray mate? But I do realise ill need to move things around and modify it a bit.

The plan is to run Wilwoods remote compact mc's, they are about 4" but should fit. How did you find out what bore and stroke you needed to fit your application?

[GeorgeMK1]

With yesterday being a public holiday here in Vic and being super sunny i got to work. Welded up some more holes for the old brake system, and finished the other side of the chassis notch too.

I really strived to get the C notch as clean as possible, and im shocked with myself haha it looks just about OEM from the visable side. Ive decided to leave the other side chunky to keep the strength and rigidity.
















Also picked up a dash and steering coloumn as i didnt have any from Matt (hiho). Will need to find the dash vents and other goodies, but i needed a dash to see where i could mount the m/c reservoir. It will be tucked under the driver side air vent.





Oh and also ground down the chassis leg mo-hawk thingo. Will be welding in plates to block that off soon
I noticed if you weld it straight away it seams to burn through. So what i did was go very low AC and put blobs of welds all over it. Then grind it down, so its a bit thicker than it was before and weld with higher AC over that now thicker platform of small blobs.

[Ben J]

Good stuff man, keep at it!

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[paintz]

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Also picked up a dash and steering coloumn as i didnt have any from Matt (hiho). Will need to find the dash vents and other goodies, but i needed a dash to see where i could mount the m/c reservoir. It will be tucked under the driver side air vent.


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George, I got some spare dash vents out of a series 2 dash. You after anything else. Got a box of bits. If you pay postage you can have them. Cant be arsed trying to sell them now. Ill have a look at what else i got mate. Got a series 2 fuse board also i think.

[GeorgeMK1]

Pm'd mate!

Got a little progress past few days. Managed to make a template to block off the chassis leg part, looks really easy but had me thinking for days a way to get a proper flush look.

Also really need some opinions on this, I've gotten some 2.5mm 100mm wide sheet and bent (it was a ****ing mission to bend) it to shape around firewall, as much as I could. Plan is to use this as a base to frame up the pedal box. Do you guys reckon there will be much movement? Im scared if I body fill in the bay and firewall, that it may crack under pressure if there is movement. I doubt it, but am fishing for opinions/experience.










Also, may have just purchased the air tanks I need! Thats all for now, got work work in the morning ....

[sports racer]

That part of the body has enough bends to be structurally strong. Add that together with your brackets which spread the load over a wide area and there shouldn't be a problem. Remember, the only time you are going to put great force on the pedal assembly is when you do a panic stop and stand on the brakes. If you drive like me then that only happens a few times a year.

Cheers and keep up the great work.

Paul

[paintz]

[QUOTE=GeorgeMK1;1008224]Pm'd mate!

Send me your address. Found the dash vents.

Ill post them down.

[Jarred]

I'd look at doing some sort of bracket to support the pedal assy.

to test. push the fire wall near where you're thinking of mounting it. (I mean really push, remember you're not going to have assisted brakes, and your legs are stronger than your arms, probably).

If the firewall flexes, I'd look at putting in some support, or bracket.
Since you're doing all this work, and have the car stripped etc, may as well do it now (if it needs it) than pulling everything apart and doing it again later.

[Stiggy_21]

Awesome work George!!

As Jrad said, test the area for strength where the brakes are being mounted, it never hurts to over engineer somethings.. unless you weld a 20mm plate onto the firewall, but that's just stuupid.

[GeorgeMK1]

That part of the body has enough bends to be structurally strong. Add that together with your brackets which spread the load over a wide area and there shouldn't be a problem. Remember, the only time you are going to put great force on the pedal assembly is when you do a panic stop and stand on the brakes. If you drive like me then that only happens a few times a year.

Cheers and keep up the great work.

Paul

Yeah I don't think there will be any issues too, Paul. I will hardly be really smashing the brakes at all, however I actually found that part of the body pretty weak. Its got very think sheet metal, and when welding my base plates in - it actually warped it!

I'd look at doing some sort of bracket to support the pedal assy.

to test. push the fire wall near where you're thinking of mounting it. (I mean really push, remember you're not going to have assisted brakes, and your legs are stronger than your arms, probably).

If the firewall flexes, I'd look at putting in some support, or bracket.
Since you're doing all this work, and have the car stripped etc, may as well do it now (if it needs it) than pulling everything apart and doing it again later.

Had a friend come past as and told him to give it a few good pushes as you said, and it felt pretty sturdy, couldn't feel any movement Thanks for the tip ol' mate Bachmann!

Didnt have much on tonight and thought I'd try my hand at this pedal assembly business. Had an idea to build a second foundation over the first foundation using 25mm tubing.

It took hours and hours of measuring, cutting, bending, tacking, grounding and so forth to get it perfect.




Both little brackets



Measured, drilled and angled brackets for the pedals




Annnndd here's the result. Its all been tacked only as it is late and I've got a big day at work. Its all pretty snug in there, but it fits and the steering coloumn clears it. The clutch hits the column when fully down, so I will work to adjust that. I will weld everything up tomorrow and finish off the rest of the brackets to support it - I'll go a little crazy with brackets just to be sure it doesn't move. Got a really good accomplishment feel, as this was pretty hard to do personally. More tomorrow