Another Wreck, another Race Car.....

Project's slowed a little whilst I accumulate funds for engine components.

Meanwhile I'm trying to knock off all the chores, the little stuff that takes more time than it should.

I lobbed the 16v and a spare box in the bay so I could figure out some stuff.

I decided against the recommended routing of the CAE shifter cables as I've read the less bends the better.

As this isn't a street driven car I can lose the slack in the cabin.

I also did some welding on the exhaust manifold to include the o2 sensor bung. I needed to have it in the car to see where it would fit.

Now the manifold is sorted I can send it out for ceramic coating.

I'll need to fab a heat shield for that steering boot.

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Haven't bothered doing much adjustment to the shifter. This was just to locate the firewall holes.

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There's a bit of slack in the shifter cables, I think I'll hold them down to the floor with some sort of clamp.

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Installed the remote for the kill switch. I had to make a spanner to do the effing nut up under there.

Cable enters the cabin via a grommet directly below the handle.

Haven't figured out a final position for the main kill switch yet.

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I'm not planning on using a dizzy so here's the beginnings of a blank off plate.

I made it in 2 pieces because that's the scraps I had lying about.

Not going to buy a billet for a little thing like that.

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Geoff Hale donated some stub axle spacers to the cause.

"Some assembly required."

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I managed to find an original Rallye Racing decal online from Germany.

Top decal is the original below it is a reproduction I made from it in vinyl.

Now that I've done the artwork I'm going to scale a pair of the to fit the headlights nicely.

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Great work Pete!

Love the shifter and pedal set up, looks so cool.
Awsome work.

this is coming along very nicely!!!

Made some parts.

I needed some clamps to hold stuff to the rollcage so I made some from some 16mm aluminum plate.

Here's some pictures in no particular order.

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Local wildlife helping out again.

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Bit of cleaning up to do at this stage, you'll see what they're for in a post or two.

Got around to finishing off attaching the throttle throttle cables to the pedal box.

This is a delicate little job, that bit is only 3mm diameter.

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Put a flat on the pedal shaft for the grub screw to lock onto.

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This is the part that attaches the cable to the pedal. I really hate unreliable throttle linkages, this is probably over engineered.

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Cables coming into the engine bay.

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And the pedal box back in the footwell.

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Good stuff, mate. Looking very nice.

I see you bought some machines, Pete. Nice work. Had the mill long?

Another quick job, I mounted up the rear view mirror.

This came with rollbar mounting clamps but I couldn't use them as there's not enough room between the bar and the windscreen frame to use them.

So rather than use the included clamps I made up a couple of new ones that bolt into a couple of nutserts I put into the bodywork.

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Here's the bracket I knocked up from some 5mm aluminium angle.

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Brackets installed.

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Super wide angle 17" mirror from Joes Racing.

The view is crazy wide you can see out of the doors!

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Originally Posted by Preen59

Good stuff, mate. Looking very nice.

I see you bought some machines, Pete. Nice work. Had the mill long?

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Not long, trying to remember all the stuff I forgot in TAFE 20 years ago. :-)

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Originally Posted by Peter Jones

Not long, trying to remember all the stuff I forgot in TAFE 20 years ago. :-)

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Nice. Mill is next on my list, mate. I know the feeling- Hard enough remembering the stuff you did 2 weeks ago! haha.