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 guru
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| posted on September 10th, 2010 at 05:06 PM |
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DUDE!!! You work faster than I can read!
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| posted on September 10th, 2010 at 09:13 PM |
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I must say that I luv your TIG trolley
And the buggy build is looking great also
Cheers
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| posted on September 11th, 2010 at 10:30 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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DUDE!!! You work faster than I can read!
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I guess that is a good thing as I want to drive faster than you run ....
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| posted on September 11th, 2010 at 10:31 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Flintstones
I must say that I luv your TIG trolley
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Cheers sadly it isn't finished yet either... one day soon I hope to sheet it and add the draws etc and then paint it .
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| posted on September 11th, 2010 at 11:03 PM |
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Well after recovering from the shock of giving up my dream to run PDM's I got back to work.
As I am too povo to have a set of slip rollers and to lazy to drive to Custom Vee Dub and use theirs I had to use the pan brake to bend up the tunnel
cover plates. These are made from 3mm mild steel and are part of my re-enforcing plan to make up for the loss of strength from removing the rear
torsion bars.
So I folder one up in 10mm increments and drilled an access hole which will get a cover later.
I then got distracted by some buggy owner in a bobcat digging out for my shed extension .... cool ... thanks Mick.
So once the excitement of a Bobcat had was over I got back into putting on my front hubs only to find they didn't fit my wheels as they had a 5/8"
stud and not a 12mm like I needed. So I ended up driving into Custom Vee Dub anyway to use their Press to get the studs out and get some bolts in
until I could get some 12mm studs made to suit.
Once all this was over I fitted the wheels and checked my turning circle with shocks out on full compression.
Ok so once that was done I got distracted again talking to a mate of mine who is also putting a Subaru Gearbox in his Beetle. Ended up pulling his
box down a little and showing him what was needed. Was good to catch up so didn't mind losing some time.
BUT the show must go on and the engine was on the build schedule to be out TODAY .. so..
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after he left out she came .... cool ....
Once it was out I needed to confirm in the sump was going to be an issue or not. Easiest way to do this was put a gearbox on it and take some
measurements. Now I knew with the box in the car the bottom of the CV drive flange was 75mm from the bottom of the rear fork.
So I set it up level and on the concrete and took a measurement. It was 120mm so that meant the sump would hang down 45mm below the rear forks if the
box sat flat. Luckily I didn't set it up flat so when I allowed for the angle I set the CV flanges came in at 95mm so only 20mm, I can live with
that.
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| posted on September 12th, 2010 at 08:33 PM |
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Well what a day ...... I didn't get much time on the buggy as I had to make some spider webs to keep the ducks out of the pond.
Anyway I rushed out to the shed early as I was very keen to get the engine and gearbox into the Buggy so I could take some measurements and see where
it would all sit in real life.
In my setup it will all work well. BUT ... if you had a VW gearbox then it would be too low. As the H6 doesn't have a normal removable sump you would
end up with around 100mm under your pan which is to much.
In my setup but moving the box around, cutting some fibreglass and modifying some mounts I ended up with 40mm under the sump from the bottom of the
rear forks. Not perfect but doable.
My wiring schematics for the H6 arrived as well so I started looking through them and the good news was that they match the loom in the car I have
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| posted on September 12th, 2010 at 08:45 PM |
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Oh I did get one other thing done, I picked up one of these ....
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| posted on September 12th, 2010 at 09:44 PM |
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What is "one of these"?
Looking good so far
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 09:38 AM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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What is "one of these"?
Looking good so far
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Not 100% sure yet but the guy I got it off said it was a real bargain 
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 10:12 AM |
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MX5....or S2000 ??
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 10:18 AM |
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I'm with you Craig on S2000... mainly cos of the headlight mounting area...
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 11:12 AM |
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Plenty of room in there for an intercooler and hairdryer Brad
Reversed gears for Subaru transmissions.
Fit a Subaru 5 speed to your rear engined car
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| posted on September 13th, 2010 at 11:19 AM |
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It is an NB MX5, well it was before I got it now it is on the way to the pool room.
Todd, lets see if your R&P holds the stock H6 before we go planning upgrades...
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 07:27 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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I'm with you Craig on S2000... mainly cos of the headlight mounting area...
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Well the headlight surround has left the shed, it was in the way and I wanted to sweep ..
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 10:06 PM |
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It will look a lot better with the MX5 windscreen  .
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 10:39 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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It will look a lot better with the MX5 windscreen .
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It would but how much effort would it take to get an MX5 windscreen onto a Beach buggy ? There are not even close to the right width.
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| posted on September 14th, 2010 at 11:01 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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| Quote: | Originally
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It will look a lot better with the MX5 windscreen .
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It would but how much effort would it take to get an MX5 windscreen onto a Beach buggy ? There are not even close to the right width.
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Hahahaaa......
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 10:58 AM |
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hmmm... looks like a good engine cradle to support that H6 :P
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 12:57 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Brad
| Quote: | Originally
posted by Craig Torrens
It will look a lot better with the MX5 windscreen .
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It would but how much effort would it take to get an MX5 windscreen onto a Beach buggy ? There are not even close to the right width.
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OK, me confused... if you're not using the windscreen out of it, what's it for ??? Didn't appear to be a dash in the cut, and I thought you'd
settled on the outback dash anyways....
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 02:01 PM |
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Brad .... you are MAD !!! |
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 02:05 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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OK, me confused... if you're not using the windscreen out of it, what's it for ??? Didn't appear to be a dash in the cut, and I thought you'd
settled on the outback dash anyways....
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All information has been suspended pending enough Manx Club members getting of their butts and posting on the manx club forum.
http://www.manxclub.org/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=10185#...
Updates are worth the wait and, Dave .. all will become very clean soon enough
Lets just say I am itchy from a heap of update dust ...
anyway back to the shed .... Oops I mean Office
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 02:41 PM |
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Clear as mud, I reckon
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 04:38 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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| Quote: | Originally
posted by Sides
OK, me confused... if you're not using the windscreen out of it, what's it for ??? Didn't appear to be a dash in the cut, and I thought you'd
settled on the outback dash anyways....
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All information has been suspended pending enough Manx Club members getting of their butts and posting on the manx club forum.
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Perhaps they just don't care...
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 06:05 PM |
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I'dd be guessing Brad is using the firewall of the MX5 as plug for the new firewall of the Iguana so as to make the a/c fit easier and not encroach
on passengers foot room
Don't let body work get in the way of real suspension travel
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 08:14 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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Perhaps they just don't care...
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You may well be correct, I guess time will tell.
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| posted on September 15th, 2010 at 10:43 PM |
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Time will tell???
Who can keep up?
There must be a 'mini-me' doing a second shift in the shed.
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| posted on September 20th, 2010 at 09:31 PM |
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| Quote: | Originally
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Perhaps they just don't care...
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Well for anyone who does the build it back up and going over on the Manx Club Forum. MX5 front clip is on etc .
http://www.manxclub.org/index.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&t=18
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