BEAVIS' White Track Car

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:16 pm

Looks good to me, if it does the job then that's a result.
What welder did you use to do the Alu.?

speed · Postby **speed** » Mon Sep 12, 2016 11:30 pm

You've gotta be happy with that for a first attempt!

Also want to know what sort of tig.

Cheers!

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Postby **beavis** » Sat Sep 17, 2016 12:20 am

smy0003 wrote:Looks good to me, if it does the job then that's a result.
What welder did you use to do the Alu.?

speed wrote:You've gotta be happy with that for a first attempt!
Also want to know what sort of tig.
Cheers!

It's a BOC Smootharc AC/DC, chinese made Tig, bought it from my local BOC for a reasonable price... well for an amateur like me.

Postby **beavis** » Sun Sep 18, 2016 4:47 pm

A couple of weeks ago I spent a weekend making these new flat carbon/fibreglass door trims to replace the previous CF ones which were too bulky for these gutted doors.
I wanted a simple flat panel, with a neat door pull and opener. The previous door trim opener was just a bit of electrician wire, and there was no door pull at all. So pretty much anything was better than what I had before.

The trim is mounted with 7 hex head M6 bolts. I riveted on these aluminium tabs and threw a rivnut in them

The interior door handle you may have noticed in the first pic is simply some aluminum tube bolted to the inner side of the exterior door handle. Pushing on the tube from inside the car will push the exterior door handle out. But, its simple and no fancy/complicated latch mechanisms required. Hand looks far too dirty for an IT nerd.

I'll finish off the top edge that meets the window with some sort of trim - haven't worked that out yet.
The door pulls were some random blue strap I had lying around. Opening the door is now as easy as pushing your thumb on the alloy tube and out the door pops.

Next thing on the to-do list is to start on sanding and painting the new fastback roof...

Postby **beavis** » Mon Sep 26, 2016 3:43 pm

In case you're not a subscriber of my channel on YouTube, or you just missed it, I have a collection of new videos coming out, here's episode 1

Staaahp · Postby **Staaahp** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 3:15 am

Thoroughly enjoying this new turbo build video series, good stuff :mrgreen:

Postby **beavis** » Fri Sep 30, 2016 11:10 am

Thanks Staaahp

Next episode is out!

ninerwfo · Postby **ninerwfo** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 4:49 pm

Hey Beavis, been following your youtube vids - only complaint is there are not enough. And enjoying the bling from your custom swaybar link ends - thanks.
Was just wondering about your previous cf door cards - would they fit a standard door, and might you be interested in passing them on for some cash?

Brad.

Postby **beavis** » Tue Oct 04, 2016 7:46 pm

ninerwfo wrote:Hey Beavis, been following your youtube vids - only complaint is there are not enough. And enjoying the bling from your custom swaybar link ends - thanks.
Was just wondering about your previous cf door cards - would they fit a standard door, and might you be interested in passing them on for some cash?
Brad.

Thanks Brad

My only complaint with making videos is some of them take a LOOONG time to put together. :wink:

Regarding the old door cards, they were made to specifically made to fit over the standard (bare) NB door, however they're already spoken for. David has moulds for them though so IF you can convince him, he could make you brand new ones.

smy0003 · Postby **smy0003** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 8:09 pm

beavis wrote:
Thanks Brad My only complaint with making videos is some of them take a LOOONG time to put together.

Loving the vids as well, far, far better than most of the MX5 vids on youtube which seemingly have tens of thousands of subs.

Postby **beavis** » Wed Oct 05, 2016 9:37 pm

And they usually get hits because words like "STANCE" ...or... "ZERO F*CKS GIVEN" ...or... "HAGGARD" were in the title.
None of these things particularly interest me, they are 'wasteful' (if you get what I mean) and none of them really respect what the MX5 is.

Postby **beavis** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 12:21 pm

Fastback Part 1
Over the last few weekends I've been doing my least favourite thing, body work. Bleah.

The new roof needs to be sanded, holes filled, painted, windows installed, and finally mounted. I've started on the boot section first, filled all the little pinholes and imperfections.

After many hours fillling and sanding with 120grit, this is where it ended up. You may have noticed the hole right in the middle where the third brake light usually lives.

This is the quick latch mount I've gone with.... It has a socket which hooks into a bolt with a spherical end. To remove the boot I just need to push the button and the whole thing pops backwards.
It's a larger size normally for mounting things like bonnets/hoods, but a single latch in the middle here seems to work well.
These apparantly can support upwards of 80kg which should be more than enough considering the boot weighs about 5% of that.

bruce · Postby **bruce** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 3:20 pm

Your car has a date!

Postby **Okibi** » Sun Oct 16, 2016 10:05 pm

Looks nice, been wanting to get the smaller version of those catches to design a way to quickly remove the front bumper.

Postby **beavis** » Mon Oct 17, 2016 6:38 pm

Okibi wrote:Looks nice, been wanting to get the smaller version of those catches to design a way to quickly remove the front bumper.

The genuine 'quiklatch' brand are real expensive... I bought these ones online for less. but they are still sturdy. I accidentally bought about 4 times what I need so perhaps I will need to mount the front bar with these too